Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks (born Thomas Jeffrey Hanks; July 9, 1956, Concord, United States, 11:17), aged 70, is an American actor and film producer. Notable films include Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile and Catch Me If You Can. Hanks's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and Academy Award for Best Actor.
Tom Hanks’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Tom
Tom Hanks’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Tom in the U.S.?
#2206
US rank in 2025
~140,370
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1956, Tom came 161st among boys and 4,148th among girls, carried by 1,914 American boys and 10 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Tom’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Thomas Jeffrey Hanks, not the name they published under.
33
Expression · lifting other people
9
Soul Urge · meaning
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on T (2) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Tom’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1956, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Tom apart
Tom Hanks took the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in 1989, at 33.
The classrooms behind this chart: Skyline High School and Chabot College.
The working life starts in 1977, at 21.
On the family side, Tom Hanks was born to Janet Marylyn Frager and Amos Mefford Hanks, married Rita Wilson and raised 4 children.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Tom Hanks: Actors from Concord, California, California State University, Sacramento, alumni and American people of British descent.
Courtney Love (1964) and O. J. Simpson (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Skyline High School, Chabot College and California State University, Sacramento
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016), Academy Award for Best Actor (1995) and AFI Life Achievement Award (2002)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1977
- Citizenship
- United States and Greece
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 136
What the chart says
Tom, according to the stars
Core essence
Tom feels the room before entering it. The core of Tom is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Tom, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Tom needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Tom needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Tom wants to be loved
Tom wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Tom like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Tom creates
How Tom makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Tom creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Tom is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Tom is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Tom leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Tom slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Tom's birth date. Working below.
Where Tom sits
Six lines
Tom’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Tom Hanks
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Concord on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Concord at 11:17, Tom Hanks’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Concord that night
Computed for 37.98°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Concord was Capella, in Auriga, 82.0° up.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 38.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −52.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at new moon, 4% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -61° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Thomas Jeffrey Hanks
- Known as
- Tom Hanks
- Born in
- Concord, United States
- Lives in
- Los Angeles · Oakland
Wikidata records Los Angeles and Oakland as Tom Hanks's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
Against Concord, Shared Places reads Los Angeles as strongly supportive for this chart: 80 of 100, 9th of 168 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Santiago, Chile, at 94.
Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.
What Tom's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 丑.
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Self
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 3/5
Emotional authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · 3-planet stellium in Leo · Venus retrograde
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Tom Hanks's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time.
What Cancer means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Tom Hanks was born on July 9, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Tom Hanks's birth date, July 9, 1956, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Tom’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Tom Hanks' timed chart: Venus in the 10th house, Mars in the 7th house and Jupiter in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Tom Hanks' timed chart is Sun trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Moon, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Tom Hanks combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Tom’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SuntrineMarsseparating · 0.1° orb
Tom’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
SaturnsquarePlutoseparating · 0.5° orb
Tom’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 0.6° orb
Tom’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
JupitersextileNeptuneseparating · 2.7° orb
JupiterconjunctionPlutoseparating · 3.4° orb
JupitersquareSaturnseparating · 3.8° orb
UranussquareNeptuneseparating · 4.0° orb
VenussextilePlutoseparating · 4.2° orb
VenustrineNeptuneseparating · 4.8° orb
SaturntrineUranusseparating · 5.1° orb
VenussquareMarsapplying · 5.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Tom’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 10°15′ · House 6
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 17°11′ · House 8
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 5°07′ · House 6
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 25°32′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 24°11′ · House 5
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Sun 0.3°
- Chiron opposition Moon 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Hygiea square Neptune 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Ascendant 2.4°
Tom’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
Configurations in Tom’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Moon, Uranus, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.7°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Moon biquintile Mars 1.5°
Tom’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virgo | Mercury in Cancer, house 11 | Jupiter | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Gemini, house 10 | Neptune | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 12 | Saturn | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Virgo, house 1 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Scorpio, house 3 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Leo, house 12 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 2 | Mars | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Pisces, house 7 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Gemini, house 10 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Cancer, house 11 | Venus | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Leo, house 12 | Sun, Mercury | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Cancer, house 11 | Moon, Uranus, Pluto | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on July 9
- Courtney Love1964
- O. J. Simpson1947
- Lindsey Graham1955
- Jack White1975
- Marc Andreessen1971
- Pamela Reif1996
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Woody HarrelsonAmerican actor
- Geoffrey RushAustralian actor
- Aleister CrowleyEnglish occultist
Other Cancer Monkey charts
- Jennette McCurdyAmerican writer and former actress
- Melissa RauchAmerican actress, model, and comedian
- Scott DixonNew Zealand race car driver
- Wayde van NiekerkSouth African sprinter
Other Radiant Strategists
- James FarleyAmerican actor
- Holly HunterAmerican actress (born 1958)
- Lena NymanSwedish actress
- Sarah VowellAmerican author, journalist, singing songs and social commentator
Other Virgo risings with documented times
- Michel Temer24th Vice-President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 and 37th President of Brazil from 2016 to 2019
- Hugh HefnerAmerican businessman and magazine publisher
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- Patrick SwayzeAmerican actor, producer, singer and dancer
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Jim HoaglandAmerican journalist
- Robert Lewis TaylorAmerican author
- Lanford WilsonAmerican playwright
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Tom’s cards
Computed from July 9, 1956. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Tom’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2263 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Eva Rinaldi from Abbotsford, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tom Hanks.
Quick answers about Tom Hanks’s chart
- How old is Tom Hanks?
- Tom Hanks is 70 years old, born July 9, 1956 in Concord, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Tom Hanks?
- Tom Hanks is a Cancer: born July 9, 1956, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time.
- What is Tom Hanks's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 9, 1956 birth.
- What time was Tom Hanks born?
- 11:17 local time in Concord, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Tom Hanks's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 11:17 birth time in Concord, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Tom Hanks?
- Tom Hanks is 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Tom Hanks's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Tom Hanks's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 10°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Tom Hanks's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 24°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tom Hanks's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
