Tom Hanks’ birth chart
ActorBorn July 9, 1956, Concord, California, United States
Remembers birthdays, old jokes and who needed help.
- SunCancerThe Protector
- MoonLeoThe Warm Heart
- VenusGeminiThe Charmer
What his chart says about him
Who he is
Sun in Cancer, the Protector
Remembers birthdays, old jokes and who needed help. Loyalty runs deep, and so does the need to belong. His purpose and his drive work together: once he decides on something, he moves on it fast.
The Sun trine Mars (almost exact at 0.2°)
What he needs
Moon in Leo, the Warm Heart
Proud, warm and loyal in feeling. Needs to be appreciated, and makes loved ones feel like stars.
How he loves
Venus in Gemini, the Charmer
Falls for a clever mind. Needs conversation, laughter and variety in love. He loves with depth and loyalty, and the bonds he forms change both people.
Venus sextile Pluto (wide at 4.2°)
How he thinks
Mercury in Cancer, the Remembering Mind
Thinks through feeling and memory. Listens well and remembers exactly how something was said.
What drives him
Mars in Pisces, the Gentle Warrior
Moves by intuition and feeling. Finds strength in service and in standing up for someone else. In love he wants tenderness and a chase at once, and his relationships are rarely calm.
Venus square Mars (wide at 5.5°)
The shape of his chart
In his chart, his feelings, his independence and his intensity (the Moon, Uranus and Pluto) gather in Leo, and that part of life draws his attention first. In his chart, water signs hold the most planets: feeling and intuition.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Tom Hanks was born two days after a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 4% lit, in Leo. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Monday, eighteen days after the June solstice.
Venus retrograde
Venus was retrograde all the day Tom Hanks was born, as it was on 43 days of 1956. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Tom Hanks, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 2014, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1985. The third begins in 2043. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Cancer
You and Tom Hanks
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The chart
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The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
Together, chart beside chart
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What is Tom Hanks’ zodiac sign?
Cancer. Tom Hanks was born on July 9, 1956, with the Sun in Cancer, the Protector. Remembers birthdays, old jokes and who needed help. Loyalty runs deep, and so does the need to belong.
What is Tom Hanks’ Moon sign?
Leo, the Warm Heart. Proud, warm and loyal in feeling. Needs to be appreciated, and makes loved ones feel like stars.
What is Tom Hanks’ rising sign?
The rising sign needs the birth time to the minute, so this page leaves it out: everything on it held all day on July 9, 1956. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Tom Hanks’ Venus sign?
Gemini, the Charmer. Falls for a clever mind. Needs conversation, laughter and variety in love.
How does your chart compare with Tom Hanks’?
Set your chart beside Tom Hanks’ and see how the two meet, area by area: as friends, in love, in how you talk, working together and under one roof. It is free.
Sources and credits
Date and place of birth: Wikidata, and Tom Hanks’ Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Eva Rinaldi from Abbotsford, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (the licence). The file and its full credit.
The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.
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