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Tom Hanks.

9 July 1956 · 11:17 · Concord, Contra Costa County, United States

Tom Hanks's birth chart: Sun in Cancer, Moon in Leo, Virgo rising. Born July 9, 1956 in Concord, Contra Costa County, United States.

About this chart

What is Tom Hanks's sun sign?

Tom Hanks's sun is in Cancer.

What is Tom Hanks's moon sign?

Tom Hanks's moon is in Leo.

What is Tom Hanks's rising sign?

Tom Hanks's Rising (Ascendant) is Virgo.

When and where was Tom Hanks born?

Tom Hanks was born July 9, 1956 in Concord, Contra Costa County, United States.

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The Big Three

The Sun is who you are becoming, the Moon is what you need, the Rising is how you arrive. Read together, they are the working summary of the chart.

Your Sun in Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunCancer · 10th house

The self forms around belonging and care. Sensitive, protective, attuned to emotional currents others miss. The interior life is vast; the shell is real, and so is what it protects. Lesson: belong to yourself first. The self is most fully expressed in public. Career, reputation and legacy carry your identity, and you tend to be known by what you do in the world. The climb is the path.

MoonLeo · 11th house

Feeling is expressive, generous and a little theatrical. There is a need to be seen for it to feel real. The shadow is the demand for an audience; the healed version is being witnessed without performing. Feeling is shared in company. Comfort comes from the chosen family, the emotions move through groups, and there is a deep need to belong to something larger.

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RisingVirgo · the doorway

You arrive with attention. Something in your bearing reads as competent before you have spoken. People feel a careful intelligence in how you take in a room. Your chart ruler is Mercury, in Cancer in the 10th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Virgo rising actually moves through the world.

Your North Star

The lunar nodes are the chart's North Star: not a trait but a direction. The North Node names the unfamiliar growth you are here to move toward; the South Node is what you are leaving.

North NodeSagittarius · 3rd house

The pull is toward Sagittarius: meaning, the wider view, faith, direct first-hand experience. The familiar groove is Gemini: scattered facts, second-hand opinion. Growth is letting the pieces resolve into something you actually believe.

South NodeGemini · 9th house

The South Node in Gemini (9th house) is the opposite shore: the gifts and habits you already over-rely on. It is the comfort zone the chart is asking you to move away from.

Finer detail: element, decan, and degree

Element. The North Node sits in fire territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

Chart Ruler

Virgo rising puts Mercury in charge of the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Mercury · the chart rulerCancer · 10th house

Thought is intuitive and emotional, organised around memory. The mind moves in feelings before it finds words, and the speech carries the emotional weather. The shadow is being unable to separate the facts from the feelings.

Where it drives. The mind is your public signature. The voice is known, and the work often involves writing, speaking, broadcasting or teaching.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

Public Face

The Midheaven is not only career; it is the aura you emit in your zone, what a room senses you are for. The IC, opposite it, is the private root that aura grows from.

MC
MidheavenGemini · the 10th house

With Gemini on the Midheaven, a room senses quickness: someone curious, articulate, good with information and people. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Mercury, Venus) amplify that signal.

IC
ICSagittarius · the 4th house

With Sagittarius on the IC, home is a base camp for meaning: belief, freedom, and a door that opens out.

Planets & Patterns

The planets are the cast: ten drives, each in a sign that colours it and a house that gives it a stage. Read down the roster, then see the aspects (the lines where one planet is locked in conversation with another) and the larger patterns they form together.

Of the ten planets, the weight falls in water and fixed signs: feeling. Intuition. Depth. The energy of the unconscious and the soul.

Every planet, placed

Each planet below carries its one-line job. Tap a row to unfold the full reading, and the fine print where there is any.

The aspects that define you
The patterns they fall into

The Houses

If the planets are the actors, the houses are the twelve rooms they act in. Each room carries a sign on its door, a ruler that ties it to a planet elsewhere in the chart, and sometimes tenants living inside it. Tap any house to open the full reading: the sign, the ruler chain, and who lives there.

Uranus, Neptune & Pluto

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto name the slow forces in your chart. Skip the generation essay for a moment: what matters is which house each one hits in your life. That is where freedom, vision, or deep change stops being abstract and becomes personal. For the long definitions, use the glossary.

UranusLeo · 11th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), this planet breaks stale patterns and invents a freer way forward. This is where you cannot stay small or copy the old script. Freedom here is not a mood: it is a requirement.The gift in your 11th houseIn friends, community, future, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Leo

A generation that revolutionises self-expression, and hands the spotlight to everyone.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLibra · 2nd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), this planet softens hard edges, opens imagination, and blurs what is fake. This is where you feel more than the room admits, and where vision or fog can both get loud. Clarity here is sacred.The gift in your 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Libra

An era that dreams of universal love and harmony as a spiritual practice, the dissolving of relational borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLeo · 12th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), this planet ends what is finished and rebuilds power from the root. This is where life asks you to strip the false layer and keep what is real. Intensity here is information, not a flaw.The gift in your 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Leo

An era that remakes self-expression, celebrity and the heart, putting authorship through death and rebirth.

Want the long form? Open Pluto in the glossary →

Wound & Shadow

Chiron is the tender place that becomes medicine. Lilith is the part of you that refuses to perform. Short takes below: for the full wound and shadow maps, open the glossary.

Chiron · the woundAquarius · 5th house

The wound is belonging: the perpetual outsider, alienated even in a crowd, swinging between blending in and rejecting the room. Difference can feel like exile or like a badge you wear too hard. It plays out most loudly in the 5th house (creativity, romance, play). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCapricorn · 5th house

Lilith is the part of you that built authority because the existing one did not make room. It is competence that will not downplay itself to soothe a threatened room. The medicine is owning what you are in fact good at. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 5th house (creativity, romance, play): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on water. Every element has a low expression and a high one: the work is knowing which way you are tilting, and the mantra that walks you back.

At your worst

Drowning and merging. Unchecked, the water has no edges: it absorbs every mood in the room, keeps old wounds tidal, and loses the self inside other people's needs.

The middle ground

The everyday work is building a shore. Name which feelings are yours, let some things not be your job to fix, and let the depth have a container.

At your best

Deep, accurate empathy. At your best the water is emotional truth: you feel what is really going on, hold others safely, and turn sensitivity into art, care or insight.

“I can feel it all and still know where I end.”

Full Potential

Leave with five hard lines about yourself. Not a life sentence: a pocket map. Everything above was the chart talking. This is what it says about you.

  1. You carry depth: you can feel what is true under the performance.
  2. You are built to hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to protect what is tender and make a real home for it.
  4. You need to feel special to someone real, not only useful.
  5. People meet your precision first: competent, observant, already editing.

Want the language behind these lines? Browse the glossary → Sun, Moon, Rising, elements, and the slow planets all open there.

Asteria · the chart, wholeThe chart as one person.

Not a list of placements. The balance, the dominant, the spine, and how they bind.

The signature

At a glance, yours is a water, mutable chart led by the Sun in Cancer. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a water-dominant chart, which means you run on feeling, intuition, and depth. You sense what others miss, you bond deeply, and you live close to your emotions, though you can get overwhelmed, moody, or lost in what you feel.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is mutable-heavy, which makes you an adapter. You flow with what comes, you adjust easily, and you carry many sides comfortably. The work is in commitment, in choosing a direction and staying long enough for it to become something.

What leads the chart

Your Sun is the loudest force in your chart, which doubles down on identity, will, and the drive to be fully yourself. You are solar, centered on who you are and the need to shine, more than most people are. That force expresses through Cancer, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Cancer key.

The spine, your Big Three

Cancer Sun · Leo Moon · Virgo rising Your Sun in Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
15%
Earth
23%
Air
18%
Water
44%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

Stellium in Leocommon
three or more planets clustered in Leo: Moon, Pluto, Uranus

In your chart, Moon, Pluto, Uranus gather in Leo. A stellium in Leo concentrates the chart on being seen, creating, and leading from the heart. You carry a packed charge of pride and radiance: visibility is not vanity here, it is how the life wants to move.

gift

Tremendous focus through Leo: you can become unusually skilled where that sign lives in your life.

difficulty

So much Leo energy can crowd the rest of the chart. Watch for obsession with that theme, or for the planets inside the cluster blurring into one loud voice.

release point

Balance a Leo stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Leo is also a discharge valve.

Asteria · the geometryThe tightest aspects between your planets.

The closest conversations in the chart: where two planets sit at an exact angle and never stop talking. Tightest orb first; these are the loudest.

Sun trine Marsorb 0.14°

In you, the Sun flows together with Mars, bringing together your core identity and will and your drive and how you assert yourself. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Saturn square Plutoorb 0.48°

In you, Saturn grinds against Pluto, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your relationship to power and deep change. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.65°

In you, Neptune works easily with Pluto, bringing together your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse and your relationship to power and deep change. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Jupiter sextile Neptuneorb 2.72°

In you, Jupiter works easily with Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Jupiter conjunction Plutoorb 3.37°

In you, Jupiter is fused with Pluto, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your relationship to power and deep change. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Asteria · flow & frictionGifts & Challenges

Every chart runs on flow and friction. The gifts are where the energy already moves easily; the challenges are where it meets resistance: the places that ask for effort and pay it back as range and strength.

This chart runs on an even mix of flow and friction: real ease in some places, real effort in others, and range that comes from holding both.

Where it flows
Mercury trine Vertexorb 0.1°

A natural, flowing ease: Mercury and Vertex feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Sun trine Marsorb 0.1°

A natural, flowing ease: Sun and Mars feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.7°

An easy, available link: Neptune and Pluto feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Moon trine North Nodeorb 2.3°

A natural, flowing ease: Moon and North Node feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Saturn sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 2.4°

An easy, available link: Saturn and Black Moon Lilith feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Jupiter sextile Neptuneorb 2.7°

An easy, available link: Jupiter and Neptune feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Where it works
Moon opposition Chironorb 0.4°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Moon and Chiron never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Saturn square Plutoorb 0.5°

A productive friction: the pull between Saturn and Pluto never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Jupiter in detriment in Virgouphill

Jupiter runs uphill in Virgo, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

North Node square Vertexorb 1.6°

A productive friction: the pull between North Node and Vertex never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun square Part of Fortuneorb 3.3°

A productive friction: the pull between Sun and Part of Fortune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Neptune square Black Moon Lilithorb 3.6°

A productive friction: the pull between Neptune and Black Moon Lilith never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

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Chart data for Tom Hanks
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun17°28' Cancer10th house·
Moon9°51' Leo11th house·
Mercury5°47' Cancer10th housechart ruler
Venus22°50' Gemini10th houseretrograde
Mars17°20' Pisces6th house·
Jupiter0°21' Virgo12th housedetriment
Saturn26°30' Scorpio3rd houseretrograde
Uranus1°39' Leo11th house·
Neptune27°38' Libra2nd house·
Pluto26°59' Leo12th house·
Chiron10°14' Aquarius5th houseretrograde
North Node7°31' Sagittarius3rd houseretrograde
South Node7°31' Gemini9th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith24°04' Capricorn5th house·
Part of Fortune14°08' Libra1st house·
Vertex5°55' Pisces6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercurytrinevertex0.14°applying
suntrinemars0.14°separating
moonoppositionchiron0.38°separating
saturnsquarepluto0.48°separating
neptunesextilepluto0.65°applying
north-nodesquarevertex1.61°applying
moontrinenorth-node2.33°separating
saturnsextilelilith2.44°applying
jupitersextileneptune2.72°separating
chironsextilenorth-node2.72°separating
sunsquarepart-of-fortune3.33°separating
jupiterconjunctionpluto3.37°separating
neptunesquarelilith3.57°applying
jupitersquaresaturn3.85°separating
chirontrinepart-of-fortune3.90°separating
uranussquareneptune4.01°separating
moonsextilepart-of-fortune4.28°applying
venustrineneptune4.81°separating
saturntrineuranus5.14°separating
venussquaremars5.50°applying
jupiteroppositionvertex5.56°applying
uranustrinenorth-node5.88°applying
sunoppositionlilith6.59°applying
jupiterbiquintilelilith0.29°separating
uranusquintilepart-of-fortune0.49°applying
marssesquiquadrateuranus0.68°separating
saturnsemisextileneptune1.13°separating
jupitersemisquarepart-of-fortune1.21°separating
venusquincunxlilith1.23°separating
jupitersemisextileuranus1.29°applying
moonbiquintilemars1.47°applying
north-nodesemisquarelilith1.54°separating
mercuryquincunxnorth-node1.74°applying