Tom Skerritt
Tom Skerritt (born August 25, 1933, Detroit, United States), aged 93, is an American actor. Skerritt's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Mary Pickford Award.
Tom Skerritt’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Water Rooster, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Tom
Tom Skerritt’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical 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
The SSA recorded 1,425 American boys and 10 girls named Tom in 1933: 117th among boys and 2,850th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Tom’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
11
Soul Urge · insight
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on T (2) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
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
22 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Tom apart
Tim Burton (1958) and Claudia Schiffer (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Tom, according to the stars
Core essence
Tom notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Tom is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Tom wants to be loved
Tom wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Tom gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Tom creates
How Tom makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Tom creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Tom is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Tom is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Skerritt
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: Vega of Lyra, within 4.0° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
Detroit sits at 42.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 25% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 17° down.
How unusual Tom's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Pluto · 1 planet at a critical degree
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Tom Skerritt's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 25, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Tom Skerritt was born on August 25, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Structure for the many.
Tom Skerritt's birth date, August 25, 1933, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Tom’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tom Skerritt's date-only chart is Sun sextile Mars, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Tom Skerritt combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Tom’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonoppositionUranus0.1° to 7.3° orb
Tom’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.1° to 2.8° orb
Tom’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsextileMars2.2° to 2.5° orb
Tom’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableJupitersextilePluto2.6° to 2.8° orb
stableUranussquarePluto3.2° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.8° to 5.5° orb
stableSuntrineUranus4.3° to 5.3° orb
stableMarssquarePluto5.3° to 5.9° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 4.4° to 16.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Tom’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 3°58′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 22°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 26°02′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 25°49′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 23°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Jupiter 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.9°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.1°
- Eros trine Uranus 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 1.8°
- Chiron square Sun 1.9°
- Ceres square Pluto 2.0°
Tom’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Tom’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Jupiter, NeptuneThree 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.
T-square onto Pluto · Mars, Uranus, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.5°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Venus quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Mercury quintile Mars 1.4°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 2.0°
More people like Tom
Other character actors
- Sean Connery1930
- Ben Kingsley1943
- Cher1946
- Philip Seymour Hoffman1967
- Jason Lee1970
Born in United States
- Cormac McCarthyAmerican novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
- Fred WillardAmerican actor and comedian
- Gene WilderAmerican actor
- Richard WernickAmerican composer
- Carol BurnettAmerican actress, comedian and singer (born 1933)
- Harve PresnellAmerican actor and singer
More charts like Tom’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Suryakumar YadavIndian cricketer
- Ryan MooreBritish jockey
- Esteban OconFrench racing driver
Born in Rooster years
- Dana PriestAmerican journalist
- Willa CatherAmerican writer
- Kenneth R. WeissAmerican journalist
Also born on August 25
- Tim Burton1958
- Claudia Schiffer1970
- Blake Lively1987
- Alexander Skarsgård1976
- Salif Keita1949
- Rachel Bilson1981
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Tyrel DodsonAmerican football linebacker
- Tershawn WhartonAmerican football defensive tackle
- Stetson BennettAmerican football player (born 1997)
Other Virgo Rooster charts
- Angie EverhartAmerican actress and model
- Jennifer HudsonAmerican singer, actress, model and spokesperson
- Rachel HunterNew Zealand model and actress
- Charles KelleyAmerican musician
Other Tidal Explorers
- Sean CombsAmerican rapper and producer
- ValentinoItalian fashion designer
- Roberto CavalliItalian fashion designer
- Colleen HooverAmerican author
Famous people with Life Path 22
- Cristian RomeroArgentine association football player (born 1998)
- Saša KalajdžićAustrian association football player
- Ruben VargasSwiss association football player
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Tom’s cards
Computed from August 25, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
22 · Master Builder☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Tom’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q320093 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tom Skerritt at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tom Skerritt.
Quick answers about Tom Skerritt’s chart
- How old is Tom Skerritt?
- Tom Skerritt is 93 years old, born August 25, 1933 in Detroit, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Tom Skerritt?
- Tom Skerritt is a Virgo: born August 25, 1933, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Tom Skerritt's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 25, 1933 birth.
- What is Tom Skerritt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What is Tom Skerritt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Tom Skerritt's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tom Skerritt's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Uranus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
