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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Tom
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
In 1964, 3,292 American boys and 8 girls were registered Tom — 107th among boys and 5,435th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Tom’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
11
Soul Urge · insight
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on T (2) and closes on M (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1964, 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
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography came in 2013, when Tom Reiss was 49.
Study took Tom Reiss to Hotchkiss School and Harvard College.
On Wikipedia the categories read Hotchkiss School alumni, Harvard Advocate alumni and The Harvard Crimson people.
Henry Cavill (1983) and Carlos Alcaraz (2003) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Hotchkiss School, Harvard College and Harvard University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2013), PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography (2013) and prix du Guesclin (2013)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
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. Working below.
Where Tom sits
Six lines
Tom’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Reiss
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 7.5° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 11° below the horizon, Moon down and 39% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Tom's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Taurus
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Aquarius or Pisces 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
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
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.8° to 2.0° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.8° to 3.4° orb
stableSuntrinePluto3.0° to 4.0° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus3.3° to 3.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars3.4° to 4.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn5.7° to 6.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 17°50′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 7°03′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 0°29′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 1°54′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 12°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Tom’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Tom’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.6°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 1.4°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
More people like Tom
Other writers
- Michelle Obama1964
- Anne Applebaum1964
- Donna Tartt1963
- Hoda Kotb1964
- Damon Galgut1963
- Katherine Boo1964
Born in United States
- Crispin GloverAmerican actor
- Melissa GilbertAmerican actress
- Maynard James KeenanAmerican singer
- Stephen ColbertAmerican comedian and writer
- Ian ZieringAmerican actor (born 1964)
- Lenny KravitzAmerican guitarist and singer
More charts like Tom’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Robert PattinsonBritish actor
- Amber HeardAmerican actress
- Sabrina CarpenterAmerican singer-songwriter and actress
Born in Dragon years
- Joachim FrankGerman-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate
- Elie WieselRomanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor
- George Bernard ShawIrish playwright, critic, and polemicist
Also born on May 5
- Henry Cavill1983
- Carlos Alcaraz2003
- Aryna Sabalenka1998
- Hank Green1980
- Adele1988
- Chris Brown1989
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- MalumaColombian singer
- Klay ThompsonAmerican basketball player
- Jon HammAmerican actor
Other Taurus Dragon charts
- Jean-Paul GaultierFrench fashion designer
- Ferruccio LamborghiniItalian industrialist, founder of Automobili Lamborghini
- Nikki ReedAmerican actress
- LizzoAmerican singer and rapper
Other Evergreen Guardians
- Greedy Vance Jr.American football player (born 2001)
- RoséSouth Korean-New Zealand singer (born 1997)
- JoshuaSouth Korean-American singer
- Craig Porter Jr.American basketball player
Famous people with Life Path 3
- James MasonBritish actor
- Robert PatrickAmerican actor
- Burt YoungAmerican actor
From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
Tom’s cards
Computed from May 5, 1964. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Tom’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4392713 (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 Aventurina King, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tom Reiss at Wikipedia and tomreiss.com.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Tom Reiss's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Tom Reiss's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
