Born: July 9, 1956, 11:17 AM local time, Concord, California, USA. Source: Astro-Databank, Rodden rating AA.
The AA rating means the birth time comes from a birth certificate or an equally solid record, so the rising sign, the Midheaven and the houses below can be read at face value. Open Tom Hanks's chart on Astrolas to follow along.
One cluster runs this chart. The Sun and Mercury sit together in fCancer, and RVenus, retrograde, sits in Gemini. All three land in the 10th house, the part of the chart the Astrolas library ties to career, reputation and public standing. Venus goes further and sits almost on the Midheaven itself.
That lines up with a career built almost entirely in public view. Hanks has worked in film for more than four decades, carrying two Academy Awards for Best Actor and a reputation as one of the most dependable faces in American film.
Sun and Mercury in Cancer, in the 10th house
The Sun sits at 17ยฐ29' Cancer, and Mercury sits at 5ยฐ47' Cancer, both in the 10th house.
The library's Cancer Sun describes a deep sensitivity guided by intuition, strongly driven by needs for security and lasting connection, with a persistent will once a goal is set. Mercury in the same sign reads as an emotionally attuned mind, quick to pick up on the mood in a room and the kind of memory that holds on to detail. In the 10th house, the Sun's reading centers on hard work rewarded with recognition, career and status, often paired with a natural pull toward leadership, and a caution against shining at the expense of others rather than working alongside them. Mercury's reading for the same house points to a career built on communication and knowledge, with the flexibility to take on more than one role and win goodwill with people who hold status.
Hanks won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice in a row, for Philadelphia in 1993 and Forrest Gump in 1994, and the work since has leaned on the same combination the library names: emotion read clearly across a huge audience, carried by exactly the kind of communication Mercury points to.
Venus retrograde in Gemini, conjunct the Midheaven
Venus sits at 22ยฐ50' Gemini, retrograde, in the 10th house, 2ยฐ08' from the Midheaven, a conjunction tight enough to count as one of the defining contacts in the chart.
The library reads Venus in Gemini as love built on curiosity and conversation, suited to someone who needs a partner who can also hold their intellectual interest, with income drawn from more than one source. Retrograde in the 10th house, it says ambition develops on an inner rhythm rather than a straight climb, with career questions worked out slowly and a tendency toward caution rather than open self-promotion, pointing toward work in art or communication built on subtlety rather than on asking for recognition. The aspect to the Midheaven reads as a favorable start in a public career, one that moves faster than most, with the warning not to lean on charm and communication alone, and a reminder that relationships with people who hold influence matter as much as talent.
Hanks married actress Rita Wilson in 1988. His own path into that career moved in stages: television work on Bosom Buddies in the early 1980s, then film comedy, long before the dramatic roles that won him his Oscars.
Moon in Leo, in the 11th house
The Moon sits at 9ยฐ52' gLeo, in the 11th house.
The library reads the Leo Moon as warm, direct and quick to connect, with a personality that draws attention in a crowd and leadership instincts that work especially well in group projects. In the 11th house, it describes close friends treated like family, often inside a club or organization where the person takes a leadership role, with a gift for bringing people together.
Hanks has kept long collaborations running for decades, with directors including Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard, and voiced Woody across the Toy Story franchise from 1995 to 2019, a role inside one of the most durable ensembles in American film. He has also hosted Saturday Night Live many times, a format built on performing live for a crowd.
Mars in Pisces, in the 6th house, tightest aspect in the chart
Mars sits at 17ยฐ20' cPisces, in the 6th house.
The library describes Mars in Pisces as action blended with emotion and imagination, highly sensitive to the people around it, with a rich creative and artistic side and a tendency to absorb other people's moods. In the 6th house, the reading shifts toward daily work: strong initiative expressed quietly rather than loudly, a fast pace that is hard for others to match, and the best results arriving when the person sticks with a project from start to finish.
The Sun trines Mars at an orb of 0ยฐ08', the tightest aspect anywhere in the chart. The library doesn't have a text for this exact pair yet, so treat it only as wiring: a direct line between the 10th-house Sun that wants recognition and a Mars that does its best work quietly, inside the daily grind of the 6th house. Hanks has a reputation for heavy preparation, from his physical transformation for Cast Away to boot-camp training before Saving Private Ryan, work that happens long before a camera rolls.
Jupiter conjunct Pluto in the 12th house
Jupiter sits at 0ยฐ22' hVirgo, and Pluto sits at 27ยฐ00' Leo, both in the 12th house, conjunct at an orb of 3ยฐ22'.
The library reads Jupiter in Virgo as intelligence paired with patience, building success step by step rather than in one leap, with real fulfillment found in charitable or community-minded work. Its 12th-house reading adds a spiritual, quiet-minded streak, drawn to medicine or social work, with a caution against relying on luck alone. Pluto in Leo is generational, part of a cohort born between 1937 and 1957 marked by a strong individual drive for status and self-expression. In the 12th house specifically, the library describes an intense inner life, deep insight into other people, and the capacity to be reborn after a quiet personal crisis, suited to healing or research work done out of the public eye. Together, the conjunction reads as a clear vision and a strong push toward change, with will and faith carrying the person through a period of real transformation.
The 12th house sits behind the chart's public face, and Hanks's own work there fits it: directing his first feature, That Thing You Do!, in 1996, and executive producing the war miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) and The Pacific (2010), projects built to honor other people's stories rather than his own.
Saturn retrograde in Scorpio, in the 3rd house
Saturn sits at 26ยฐ31' kScorpio, retrograde, in the 3rd house, almost exactly square Pluto at an orb of 0ยฐ29', the second-tightest aspect in the chart.
The library reads Saturn in Scorpio as resilience paired with intense focus and a steadfast will, suited to management or leadership, with a sharp read on other people's motives and a tendency to close off and carry pressure alone. Retrograde in the 3rd house, it describes someone who learns slowly but retains what they learn for a long time, thinks in careful, systematic steps, and has real organizational skill, but tends to keep that skill quiet rather than show it off, which can create distance from siblings or neighbors. The square to Pluto doesn't have a library text yet, so it stays as wiring, linking this quiet, responsibility-carrying Saturn to the Jupiter-Pluto transformation in the 12th house.
The 3rd house covers communication at close range, and Hanks's own writing fits there: in 2017 he published Uncommon Type, a collection of short stories, after decades of being known mainly for other people's words.
Virgo rising, Gemini Midheaven
The birth record puts the Ascendant at 21ยฐ45' Virgo, the Descendant at 21ยฐ45' Pisces, the Midheaven at 20ยฐ42' Gemini and the IC at 20ยฐ42' Sagittarius.
The Astrolas library doesn't yet have entries for these four placements by themselves. What carries the weight is the Midheaven's sign, Gemini, the same sign holding Venus, anchoring the 10th house that already carries the Sun, Mercury and Venus. The angles echo the same story the planets tell: a chart built around a public career axis.
What the chart adds up to
The chart doesn't explain talent, and it can't account for any single role or performance. What it does show is where the weight sits: three planets and the Midheaven itself packed into the 10th house of career, a Leo Moon that works best inside a group, and a Mars that does its real work quietly, out of sight, in the 6th house.
Open Tom Hanks's chart on Astrolas, find the 10th-house cluster on the wheel, then compare it with a chart you know.
Questions people ask
What is Tom Hanks's rising sign?
Virgo, at 21ยฐ45', based on his AA-rated birth time of 11:17 AM. With an AA rating, the rising sign and the houses built on it can be read with confidence.
What are Tom Hanks's Sun and Moon signs?
His Sun is at 17ยฐ29' Cancer in the 10th house. His Moon is at 9ยฐ52' Leo in the 11th house.
What is the strongest feature of his chart?
The 10th-house cluster: Sun, Mercury and Venus, with Venus conjunct the Midheaven at an orb of 2ยฐ08'. It lines up with a career that has stayed almost entirely in public view for more than four decades.