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Tom Hanks
1956-07-09 at 11:17:00 · Concord, California, USA
11:17 AM in Concord, California on July 9, 1956. Cancer Sun at 17° in the 10th house, Leo Moon at 9° in the 11th house, Virgo Rising at 21°. That birth time gave Tom Hanks one of the most uncomplicated charts you'll see in a top-tier actor's profile... Cancer Sun on the public-career sector, Leo Moon in the community-and-audience house, Virgo Rising doing the careful, technique-focused public face. Three placements in three signs that together produce exactly the public reading Hanks has carried for four decades: the man you trust on screen.
The Cancer Sun in the 10th house is the placement that explains the career better than any specific role. Cancer Sun in the 10th makes the career run through emotional intelligence and family-protective register; the public work is fundamentally about feeling. Hanks's signature roles — Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Saving Private Ryan, Sully, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — all share the same Cancer 10th house signature... characters whose interior is the actual subject of the film, even when the surface is action or comedy or biopic.
Leo Moon at 9° in the 11th house is the emotional anchor in the community sector. Leo Moons regulate through warmth and creative recognition; the 11th house places that need into audience and chosen family. Hanks's famously warm relationship with his audience — the public appearances that consistently delight, the willingness to engage with fans across decades, the visible joy in the work — all read from 11th house Leo Moon doing the warm community work openly.
Virgo Rising at 21° is the public face. Virgo Rising people are perceived as competent, careful, useful. Combined with the Cancer Sun and Leo Moon, the chart produces someone whose first impression is "trustworthy, articulate, decent" — and whose actual interior matches that first impression. Hanks's public reputation for decency, the rare scandal-free career trajectory across forty years in Hollywood, the genuine relationships across the industry... all run from Virgo Rising actually being what it appears to be.
Mercury at 5° Cancer in the 10th alongside the Sun is the verbal style in water register at the career peak. Cancer Mercury speaks through feeling and family register; on the MC, that verbal register is the public communication style itself. Hanks's interview style, the famous Twitter presence, the way he writes (the short story collection Uncommon Type from 2017, the typewriter passion across decades, the recent novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece in 2023)... all run from 10th house Cancer Mercury doing the warm verbal craft the placement is wired for.
Gemini Venus at 22° retrograde in the 10th house is the love and aesthetic signature in air, with the reworking dimension Venus retrograde produces. The long marriage to Rita Wilson (since 1988, almost 40 years, both surviving cancer diagnoses together), the close working relationships with directors (the Tom Hanks-Steven Spielberg combine across multiple films, the Robert Zemeckis collaborations, the Ron Howard partnership), the public commitment to the actor-as-craft-laborer ethic... all run from 10th house Gemini Venus doing the patient partnership work in the career sector.
Pisces Mars at 17° in the 6th house is the protective drive in the daily work sector. Pisces Mars works through intuition and feeling rather than aggression; the 6th house places that energy into routine and craft. The famously meticulous on-set work, the willingness to research roles exhaustively (the years of typewriter restoration that informed Uncommon Type, the Mister Rogers immersion for A Beautiful Day, the astronaut training for Apollo 13), the daily-routine discipline that produces consistent output... all read from 6th house Pisces Mars doing the patient craft work the placement is wired for.
Virgo Jupiter at 0° in the 12th house is the disciplined expansion in the hidden sector. Virgo Jupiter doesn't expand wildly; it expands through precision and detail. The 12th house placement means that detail-work happens behind the scenes. Hanks's writing practice, the typewriter collection (about 250 typewriters as of recent counts), the patient long-form creative work that doesn't make headlines... all run from 12th house Virgo Jupiter doing the quiet detail work the placement requires.
Scorpio Saturn at 26° retrograde in the 3rd house is the structural discipline around communication. Scorpio Saturn does deep work; in the 3rd house, that work shows up in how the person speaks and writes. The famously thoughtful interview style, the willingness to engage with difficult subjects (the Hanks COVID diagnosis in March 2020 that became a public reference point for the pandemic, the visible processing of his son's recovery from addiction, the writing about creative work as a long discipline) all read from 3rd house Scorpio Saturn doing the deep communicative work the placement requires.
The chart explains the consensus that Hanks is one of the great working actors of his generation. Cancer Sun for the emotional core. Leo Moon for the audience warmth. Virgo Rising for the daily craft. Cancer Mercury for the warm verbal style. Gemini Venus for the long partnerships. Pisces Mars for the patient drive. Virgo Jupiter for the quiet detail. Scorpio Saturn for the deep communicative work. Each placement reinforces the others. He'll keep working as long as the body holds; the chart was wired for nothing else.
What the Chart Reveals
Interpretations drawn from Tom's natal placements.
☉ Sun in Cancer
Sun in Cancer is undignified by tradition but emotionally formidable. Cardinal Water carries solar drive applied to care. The tenth house is career, public reputation, the long arc of what someone builds and is known for. Sun in Cancer in the 10th builds career on the foundation of genuine care, emotional intelligence, and a protective quality of leadership that makes people feel safe in the chart owner's professional presence.
Lives with this placement produce public identity characterized by warmth, emotional accessibility, and a visible humanity that distinguishes them in professional contexts saturated with polished but remote presentations. The chart owner gets drawn to healthcare, education, real estate, hospitality, social services, kind of any field where genuine care is the primary product. The care extended in professional life is real, and people recognize it.
Anyway. The maturation arrives through letting authentic humanity be visible in the professional persona rather than packaging it as strategic differentiator. It works because it's real. The risk is emotional vulnerability to public criticism affecting the placement beneath the professional surface.
The reputation gets built through years of consistent care.
☽ Moon in Leo
Leo carries the Moon across the chart's collective sector. The eleventh house is friendship, group belonging, the wider social fabric the chart owner participates in. In the 11th, the placement runs the warm emotional register through community.
Lives with this placement build friend groups oriented around visible warmth and shared celebration. The chart owner often becomes the friend who throws the parties, organizes the celebrations, makes sure everyone's special occasions get marked properly. It's not just sociability; it's structural identity expressed through running the chart's collective belonging on the same warm emotional engine the rest of the placement runs on. The shadow is the placement that needs the visible affection from the group to feel actually included.
Over decades the chart owner recognizes that real belonging doesn't require the constant visible celebration. Some friend groups hold through quiet steady presence.
What was the loud celebration becomes also quiet presence.
☿ Mercury in Cancer
Mercury in Cancer runs Cardinal Water into the chart's house of career and public standing. The tenth house is the work shown to the world, the reputation, the arc of what gets built in public. In the 10th, the placement runs the feeling mind up into the career itself.
Lives with this placement tend toward work that tends to people ... care, teaching, hospitality, anything where reading the emotional room is the actual skill. The reputation forms around being the one who notices, who remembers the client's name and the detail that mattered. This isn't being warm at work so much as a public self made of attentiveness, working at the level of identity, not habit. The trouble is the placement that takes the professional setback personally, hears criticism of the work as rejection of the self, and lets the public mood set the inner weather.
What the placement learns is that a reputation built on caring still has to survive the days no one claps, and that the work has to mean something to the worker before the room agrees.
The empathy is what the room remembers. The need for it to approve is what the career has to outgrow.
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Planetary Positions
Rising: Virgo · Midheaven: GeminiCancer
17° · House 10
Leo
9° · House 11
Cancer
5° · House 10
Gemini
22° · House 10℞
Pisces
17° · House 6
Virgo
0° · House 12
Scorpio
26° · House 3℞
Leo
1° · House 11
Libra
27° · House 2
Leo
26° · House 12
Sagittarius
7° · House 3℞
Aquarius
10° · House 5℞
Chart Interpretations
Sun in Cancer is undignified by tradition but emotionally formidable. Cardinal Water carries solar drive applied to care. The tenth house is career, public reputation, the long arc of what someone builds and is known for. Sun in Cancer in the 10th builds career on the foundation of genuine care, emotional intelligence, and a protective quality of leadership that makes people feel safe in the chart owner's professional presence. Lives with this placement produce public identity characterized by warmth, emotional accessibility, and a visible humanity that distinguishes them in professional contexts saturated with polished but remote presentations. The chart owner gets drawn to healthcare, education, real estate, hospitality, social services, kind of any field where genuine care is the primary product. The care extended in professional life is real, and people recognize it. Anyway. The maturation arrives through letting authentic humanity be visible in the professional persona rather than packaging it as strategic differentiator. It works because it's real. The risk is emotional vulnerability to public criticism affecting the placement beneath the professional surface. The reputation gets built through years of consistent care.
Moon in Leo in House 11
Leo carries the Moon across the chart's collective sector. The eleventh house is friendship, group belonging, the wider social fabric the chart owner participates in. In the 11th, the placement runs the warm emotional register through community. Lives with this placement build friend groups oriented around visible warmth and shared celebration. The chart owner often becomes the friend who throws the parties, organizes the celebrations, makes sure everyone's special occasions get marked properly. It's not just sociability; it's structural identity expressed through running the chart's collective belonging on the same warm emotional engine the rest of the placement runs on. The shadow is the placement that needs the visible affection from the group to feel actually included. Over decades the chart owner recognizes that real belonging doesn't require the constant visible celebration. Some friend groups hold through quiet steady presence. What was the loud celebration becomes also quiet presence.
Mercury in Cancer runs Cardinal Water into the chart's house of career and public standing. The tenth house is the work shown to the world, the reputation, the arc of what gets built in public. In the 10th, the placement runs the feeling mind up into the career itself. Lives with this placement tend toward work that tends to people ... care, teaching, hospitality, anything where reading the emotional room is the actual skill. The reputation forms around being the one who notices, who remembers the client's name and the detail that mattered. This isn't being warm at work so much as a public self made of attentiveness, working at the level of identity, not habit. The trouble is the placement that takes the professional setback personally, hears criticism of the work as rejection of the self, and lets the public mood set the inner weather. What the placement learns is that a reputation built on caring still has to survive the days no one claps, and that the work has to mean something to the worker before the room agrees. The empathy is what the room remembers. The need for it to approve is what the career has to outgrow.
Venus in Gemini runs Mutable Air into the chart's house of career and public standing. The tenth house is the work shown to the world, the reputation, the arc of what gets built in public. In the 10th, the placement runs the charming, verbal heart up into the career itself. Lives with this placement charm in public through words and quick wit ... the reputation forms around being clever, likeable, good with people, the kind of public presence that works a room and remembers everyone's name. Careers in communication, media, sales, and connection suit it. It's not just being personable at work; it's structural identity expressed through a public self that wins through charm and talk. Turned shadow, it's the placement that spreads across many appealing directions and masters none, charming in every room and known for depth in none. What the placement learns, over time, is that charm opens the door and substance keeps the room, and that the second one asks for the depth the variety was avoiding. The charm wins the introduction. The depth is what turns the introduction into a reputation.
Mars in Pisces runs Mutable Water through the chart's sector of work and health. The sixth house is the job, the body, the daily routine, the texture of how the days get spent. In the 6th, the placement runs the compassionate, diffuse drive through the daily grind. Lives with this placement work best when the work serves something it believes in ... the drive energized by compassion, art, or service and drained by the meaningless task, the energy intuitive and inconsistent, enormous when inspired and absent when not, a real difficulty with the rigid grind and the assertive demands of the ordinary job. It works from the heart or not at all. Being sensitive at work is the easy read. The structural one is a drive whose force depends on meaning and inspiration. The shadow is the placement whose work energy is unreliable and easily depleted, that cannot assert itself or set boundaries, that absorbs the workplace's stress into the body, and drifts or escapes when the daily demand exceeds the inspiration. The slow lesson is the structure that carries the work through the uninspired stretches, and the boundary that keeps the compassion from draining the body dry. What was the drive that only ran on inspiration becomes the steadiness that works whether the muse shows or not.
Jupiter in Virgo runs Mutable Earth into the chart's hidden house. The twelfth house is the unconscious, the unspoken, the faith that operates without the personality knowing about it. In the 12th, the careful analytical faith runs underground. Lives with this placement carry a hidden, quiet faith expressed as an unconscious drive to serve and improve ... beneath the surface runs a buried compassion that shows up as a need to be useful, a private belief that meaning is found in service, a hidden anxious perfectionism turned toward making things and oneself better. The faith serves in the deep. A hidden modesty is the easy read. The structural one is a buried faith that operates as an unconscious drive to refine and serve. The shadow is the placement whose hidden self criticism shrinks its own deeper faith, that cannot believe in its own larger worth or purpose, that serves unconsciously to outrun a buried sense of not being enough, and is run from beneath by a perfectionism aimed at a self it never finds adequate. The slow lesson is that the buried faith was always larger than the flaws it kept finding, and that the self it served so hard was already worthy unimproved. A quiet hidden faith expressed as endless service, slowly learning that it was always enough, unrefined.
Scorpio is the Fixed Water sign. Saturn here is undignified by tradition but psychologically formidable, the structuring drive applied to depth. The third house is mind, speech, the immediate communication register. Saturn here in the 3rd brings penetrating depth to communication, the placement uninterested in small talk and unwilling to mistake noise for meaning. Lives with this placement want to understand the hidden motivations, the real meaning beneath the surface of what's said. Early communication experiences often involved secrets, power dynamics, or environments where words got used to control rather than connect. It's not just preference for depth; it's the structural inability to engage at the level the placement's seen through. The maturation produces a communication style of remarkable depth and precision. The chart owner becomes the one who asks the questions others are afraid to ask, who speaks the truths others are afraid to say. The placement excels in research, investigation, psychology, fields where insight beneath the surface is the product. What was watchfulness becomes voice.
Uranus in Leo runs Fixed Fire into the chart's house of community, the 11th, which is Uranus's own natural home ... the disruptor in the house it most belongs to, though pulled by the Leo detriment toward wanting the spotlight inside the circle. The eleventh house is friendship, networks, the groups a person moves through, the wider circle. In the 11th, the placement runs the proud, rebellious force through the people it gathers. Lives with this placement gather a circle around bold, creative, individual freedom ... a charismatic pull that draws people to a striking shared cause, friendships built on celebrating each other's uniqueness, a knack for being the vivid center that energizes a group. It rallies the circle with charisma. It's not just being a charismatic friend; it's structural identity expressed through a community that grows through bold individuality and shared creative freedom. Turned shadow, it's the placement that needs to be the star of its own circle, that turns a community of equals into an audience, that disrupts the group when the attention moves to someone else, and mistakes being the center for genuine belonging. What the placement learns, over time, is the freedom to be in a circle without needing to lead it, and the warmth that lets others shine in the group too. The charismatic rallying energy was always the gift. Belonging to a circle without needing to be its star is what makes the connection real.
Neptune in Libra runs Cardinal Air through the chart's resource sector, where the generational dream meets a single person's money and values. The second house is money, possessions, the sense of what is worth having. In the 2nd, the placement runs the dissolving, idealizing force through value and security. Lives with this placement tie money to beauty, relationship, and a dream of the harmonious life ... finances entangled with partnerships and shared ventures, spending guided by an idealized sense of beauty and grace, a value system that prizes harmony and lovely things over hard security. It values beauty and shared ease. Being aesthetic is the easy read. The structural one is resources shaped by relational, idealized values. The shadow is the placement whose finances blur into a partner's or dissolve in the wish to keep things pleasant, that cannot face hard money truths that might cause conflict, that is easily deceived in shared finances by someone it trusts, and mistakes a pleasant financial surface for actual security. The slow lesson is that a fair and clear financial reality matters more than a pleasant one, and that the harmony it protected by not looking was hiding what needed seen. As the blurred shared accounts and the avoided conflicts accumulate, the placement keeps learning that keeping the peace and being secure were never the same thing.
Pluto in Leo in House 12
Pluto in Leo runs Fixed Fire into the chart's hidden house, where the generational power meets a single person's unconscious. The twelfth house is the unconscious, the unspoken, the force that operates without the personality knowing about it. In the 12th, the intense, willful force runs underground. Lives with this placement carry a buried, powerful will to matter and an unconscious drive for significance ... a deep reservoir of pride and creative power running below awareness, a private hunger to be great the personality may not openly own, a buried need to be seen and to command that operates from the dark. The will to matter runs in the deep. This isn't a hidden pride so much as a buried transformative force that operates beneath awareness, working at the level of identity, not habit. The trouble is the placement whose repressed drive for significance erupts in baffling ways, that unconsciously seeks power or recognition through hidden channels, that carries a buried wound around being seen and valued, and is run from beneath by a hunger to matter it has never owned. What gets clarified slowly is that the buried hunger for significance is safer brought into the light and met than left to drive from the dark, and that an owned need to matter is freed where a hidden one only festers. A hidden hunger to be great, slowly learning that the will to matter it would not claim was driving it until it did.
The North Node in Sagittarius calls toward faith, the big picture, and the courage to trust intuition over endless data, while the South Node in Gemini holds the comfort of cleverness, second guessing, and drowning in scattered detail. The third house is the daily mind, speech, and the immediate world, and this is Gemini's own ground, the house of information where the old scatter is most at home. Here the call to think big lands squarely in the realm of restless mental chatter, which makes the growth both harder and more pointed. Lives with this placement are here to grow toward a mind that seeks meaning, not just data ... toward connecting the dots into a larger truth, speaking with conviction, and trusting understanding over mere cleverness. The pull is real but unfamiliar, because this is the very house where collecting facts feels like home. Learning to think big is the easy read. The structural one is a mind that grows by reaching for meaning. The shadow is the placement that retreats into the Gemini comfort of trivia and clever chatter, that knows a little about everything and avoids the riskier work of understanding something deeply. A mind long lost in scattered facts becomes, in time, a mind that reaches for real meaning.
Chiron in Aquarius carries the wound around fitting in and being the outsider, and the fifth house brings it into romance, creativity, and the instinct to be seen enjoying. In the 5th, the wound around difference shapes creative and romantic self expression. Lives with this placement carry a wound around their creative and romantic self being too unusual to be embraced ... a buried sense that what they create is too strange to be celebrated and that they love in ways too unconventional to be accepted, a tender hesitation to express their genuinely original heart. And from tending that wound grows a gift for freeing others to create and love in their own unconventional ways. It celebrates in others the originality it held back. It's not just carrying a wound; it's structural identity expressed through a wound that becomes the source of a healing gift. Turned shadow, it's the placement whose untended wound either hides its unusual creativity and loves or flaunts its difference defensively, and never tends the fear that its original heart is too strange to be embraced beneath. What heals slowly is the knowledge that its original creativity and love were always worth celebrating, and that being unconventional was never a barrier to joy. The wound around unconventional expression becomes a gift for others. Freeing their originality while finally sharing its own is the healing it slowly grows into.
Ascendant (Rising) in Virgo
Virgo is a Mutable Earth sign, and on the Ascendant it meets the world by noticing it ... the surface is attentive, precise, quietly taking everything in. You come across as thoughtful, modest, competent in a way that understates how capable you actually are. People trust your judgment because it is obvious you see the details they miss. There is a reserve to the presentation, a holding back of the self until the situation has been read. The work is letting the surface relax ... trusting that you are worth meeting before you have proven useful, and that not everything about you needs to be in order first.
Descendant in Pisces
Pisces is a Mutable Water sign, and on the Descendant it draws you toward partners with soul ... empathic, creative, spiritually tuned, the person whose connection reaches past words. You seek a bond with real emotional depth, something close to transcendence. What you are looking for in another is often the boundless tenderness you carry and want met in kind.
Midheaven in Gemini
Gemini is a Mutable Air sign, and on the Midheaven it runs the career through words and connection ... you are drawn to work that lets you talk, write, teach, link one idea to another. The reputation is built on being the one who can explain anything to anyone, who moves easily between worlds. You are known for versatility. The risk is spreading across too many things ... the depth comes from staying with one long enough to master it.
Imum Coeli in Sagittarius
Sagittarius is a Mutable Fire sign, and at the IC it shapes roots of freedom and meaning ... the early home may have involved travel, mixed beliefs, or a pull toward the bigger picture. You recharge through exploration and through making sense of things, the private self needing room and a horizon. Home, for you, is less a place than a direction.
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