Tom Reiss
Tom Reiss (born May 5, 1964, New York City, United States), aged 62, is an American author, historian, and journalist (b. 1964). Reiss's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, prix du Guesclin and PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.
Tom Reiss’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Dragon, with 
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Tom Reiss’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Tom’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Tom, according to the stars
Core essence
Tom is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Tom is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
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 grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Tom builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Tom is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Tom is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Tom gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Tom's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Tom sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Tom Reiss's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 5, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Tom Reiss was born on May 5, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Tom Reiss's birth date, May 5, 1964, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Tom’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tom Reiss' date-only chart is Jupiter trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Tom Reiss combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Tom’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Tom Reiss, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableJupitertrineUranus0.2° to 0.5° orb
Tom’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextileMars0.7° to 0.8° orb
Tom’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSunoppositionNeptune0.8° to 1.8° orb
Tom’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.0° to 1.5° orb
Tom’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.8° to 2.0° orb
Tom’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb
Tom’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.8° to 3.4° orb
Tom’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrinePluto3.0° to 4.0° orb
Tom’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineUranus3.3° to 3.6° orb
Tom’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars3.4° to 4.5° orb
Tom’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb
Tom’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineSaturn5.7° to 6.3° orb
Tom’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Tom’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironPisces 17°50′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Tom absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 7°03′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Tom caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosGemini 0°29′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Tom is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaGemini 1°54′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Tom needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 12°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Tom leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.8°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.1°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.3°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.4°
- Hygiea square Saturn 1.8°
- Chiron sextile Sun 2.7°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Tom’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Tom is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Tom’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.6°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 1.4°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Tom Reiss, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Dragon years
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Tom’s cards
Every card is computed from May 5, 1964, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Tom Reiss, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Tom’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4392713, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Aventurina King, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tom Reiss at Wikipedia and tomreiss.com.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Tom Reiss.
Quick answers about Tom Reiss’s chart
- How old is Tom Reiss?
- Tom Reiss is 62 years old, born May 5, 1964 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Tom Reiss?
- Tom Reiss is a Taurus: born May 5, 1964, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon.
- What is Tom Reiss's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 5, 1964 birth.
- What time was Tom Reiss born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Tom Reiss's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the May 5, 1964 birth date.
- What is Tom Reiss's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 5, 1964 birth date.
- Where is Tom Reiss's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tom Reiss's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
