Tom Welling
Tom Welling (born Thomas Joseph Welling; April 26, 1977, Putnam Valley, United States), aged 49, is an American actor, director, and model. Welling is best known for Professionals, The Winchesters and Lucifer. Welling's honours include Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor Action.
Tom Welling’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Tom
Tom Welling’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
The SSA recorded 285 American boys named Tom in 1977: 480th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Tom’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Thomas Joseph Welling, not the name they published under.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on T (2) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
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
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
White · Blush · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1977, 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
Melania Trump (1970) and Arno Allan Penzias (1933) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
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.
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 boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
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 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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: 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 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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Welling
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Putnam Valley 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 Putnam Valley that night
Computed for 41.34°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Putnam Valley at 9 p.m. that evening, 89.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
Putnam Valley sits at 41.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Putnam Valley on any night.
The Moon, 55% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 13° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Thomas Joseph Welling
- Known as
- Tom Welling
- Born in
- Putnam Valley, United States
- Lives in
- Los Angeles · Vancouver
Wikidata records Los Angeles and Vancouver as Tom Welling's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Tom Welling: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Tom's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
T-square onto Saturn · Five planets retrograde · 1 unaspected planet
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 SunComfort first, then everything else.
Tom Welling's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 26, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Tom Welling was born on April 26, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Tom Welling's birth date, April 26, 1977, 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 Welling's date-only chart is Saturn square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Tom Welling combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Tom’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° Leo 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
stableSunsquareMoon0.1° to 6.5° orb
Tom’s core identity grinds against their feelings.
stableSaturnsquareUranus0.2° to 0.3° orb
Tom’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.9° orb
Tom’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.0° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.2° to 2.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus2.5° to 2.9° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.3° to 3.6° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn3.4° to 4.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.6° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto3.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.6° to 7.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Tom’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°45′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 28°06′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 13°27′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 8°09′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 0°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Mercury 0.8°
- Ceres opposition Mars 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.2°
- Eros square Pluto 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Sun 1.9°
Tom’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
6 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Tom’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Sun, Uranus, SaturnAn 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.
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.6°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 2.0°
More people like Tom
Other actors
- Alek Wek1977
- Liv Tyler1977
- Robin Thicke1977
- Edward Furlong1977
- Orlando Bloom1977
- Melanie Lynskey1977
Born in United States
- Jennifer MeyerAmerican jewellery designer
- Elisabeth HasselbeckAmerican television personality and talk show host (born 1977)
- Sarah PinskerAmerican science fiction author
- Maria Dahvana HeadleyAmerican writer and translator
- Tamar BraxtonAmerican singer
- Tom CottonAmerican politician and army officer (born 1977)
More charts like Tom’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Odette AnnableAmerican actress
- Sasha AlexanderAmerican actress
- Dianna AgronAmerican actress
Born in Snake years
- Ed AsnerAmerican actor
- Agnese NanoItalian actress
- Sonia BergamascoItalian actress
Also born on April 26
- Melania Trump1970
- Arno Allan Penzias1933
- Channing Tatum1980
- Jordana Brewster1980
- Kevin James1965
- Jemima Kirke1985
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Priscilla PresleyAmerican actress and businesswoman
- Denise RichardsAmerican actress
- Djimon HounsouBeninese actor
Other Taurus Snake charts
- Melanie LynskeyNew Zealand actress (born 1977)
- Jennifer MeyerAmerican jewellery designer
- John OliverBritish-American comedian and television host
- Emma NavarroUS American tennis player
Other Tidal Lightkeepers
- Zhou GuanyuChinese racing driver
- Sean GiambroneAmerican actor
- Robert FinkeAmerican swimmer
- Choi SanSouth Korean singer (1999-)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Derek HoughAmerican dancer
- Brooke HoganAmerican singer and television personality
- Tim GunnAmerican actor and fashion consultant
From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
Tom’s cards
Computed from April 26, 1977. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Tom’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q200261 (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 John Manard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tom Welling at Wikipedia, IMDb and Instagram.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tom Welling.
Quick answers about Tom Welling’s chart
- How old is Tom Welling?
- Tom Welling is 49 years old, born April 26, 1977 in Putnam Valley, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Tom Welling?
- Tom Welling is a Taurus: born April 26, 1977, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Tom Welling's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 26, 1977 birth.
- How tall is Tom Welling?
- Tom Welling is 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Tom Welling's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Tom Welling's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Tom Welling's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tom Welling's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
