Tom Hulce
Tom Hulce (born December 6, 1953, Detroit, United States), aged 72, is an American actor and producer. Hulce's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Tom Hulce’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Tom
Tom Hulce’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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 1953, Tom came 184th among boys and 6,445th among girls, carried by 1,377 American boys and 5 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Tom’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
5
Soul Urge · freedom
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on T (2) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
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
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1953, 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 Hulce took the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie in 1996, at 43.
Training came by way of University of North Carolina School of the Arts and Interlochen Center for the Arts.
The working life starts in 1975, at 22.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Tom Hulce: People from Plymouth, Michigan, Beloit College alumni and Male actors from Detroit.
Geoffrey Hinton (1947) and Tim Cahill (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Interlochen Center for the Arts and Beloit College
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (1996)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1975
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and Slovene
- Wikipedia editions
- 38
What the chart says
Tom, according to the stars
Core essence
Tom is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Tom is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Tom is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Tom needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Tom wants to be loved
Tom wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Tom and watch them fall for you again.
How Tom creates
How Tom makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Tom creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Tom is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Tom is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Tom fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 night
Dedicate a star to Tom Hulce
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Detroit that night
Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Detroit at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 5.8° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 42.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Detroit at all: they sit past the −47.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
How unusual Tom's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth planets
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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
Tom Hulce's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 6, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Water Snake
Water SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Tom Hulce was born on December 6, 1953, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Tom Hulce's birth date, December 6, 1953, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Tom’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tom Hulce's date-only chart is Mercury square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- No planet falls in Earth signs in this chart.
- Tom Hulce combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Tom’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysquarePluto0.0° to 0.9° orb
Tom’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.3° to 1.1° orb
Tom’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° orb
Tom’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareUranus0.5° to 1.2° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus1.6° to 3.0° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune2.9° to 3.1° orb
stableMarssextilePluto3.0° to 3.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune3.4° to 4.0° orb
stableVenussquarePluto5.7° to 6.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Tom’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 18°48′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 0°45′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 28°40′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 0°08′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 8°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.5°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.2°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.6°
- Chiron square Mars 2.8°
Tom’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Tom’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.4°
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Born in United States
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Born in Snake years
- Alyssa Farah GriffinAmerican political strategist (born 1989)
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Also born on December 6
- Geoffrey Hinton1947
- Tim Cahill1979
- Giannis Antetokounmpo1994
- Andrew Cuomo1957
- Judd Apatow1967
- Ashley Madekwe1981
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Emmy NoetherGerman Jewish mathematician
- Adam SandlerAmerican actor and comedian
- Chris HemsworthAustralian actor
Other Sagittarius Snake charts
- Michael OliseFrench footballer (born 2001)
- Sebastian CroftBritish actor
- Christopher PlummerCanadian actor
- Edward G. RobinsonRomanian-American actor
Other Gilded Seekers
- Conor KennedyAmerican activist, eldest child of RFK Jr and Mary Richardson (1994)
- Bigi Jacksonyoungest son of Michael Jackson
- Spike LeeAmerican filmmaker (born 1957)
- Ilona MaherAmerican rugby player
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Tony ScottBritish film director and producer
- Paul ScofieldBritish actor
- Rosalind RussellAmerican actress
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Tom’s cards
Computed from December 6, 1953. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Tom’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q315039 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. 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, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by BJ Barratt, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tom Hulce at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tom Hulce.
Quick answers about Tom Hulce’s chart
- How old is Tom Hulce?
- Tom Hulce is 72 years old, born December 6, 1953 in Detroit, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Tom Hulce?
- Tom Hulce is a Sagittarius: born December 6, 1953, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Tom Hulce's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 6, 1953 birth.
- What is Tom Hulce's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Tom Hulce's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Tom Hulce's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tom Hulce's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
