Tom Hanks

The chart was calculated by Astrian's engine using NASA JPL DE441 ephemerides, sub-arcsecond precision. Timezone: Pacific Daylight Time (America/Los_Angeles, UTC −7).

Saturn at 26°30' Scorpio retrograde squares Pluto at 26°59' Leo, orb 0°29' — the second-tightest aspect in the chart. Saturn governs structure, limitation, endurance, and the weight of accumulated responsibility. Pluto governs transformation, depth, the encounter with power at its most irreducible. The square is a dynamic aspect that forces engagement between two principles that do not naturally accommodate each other.

Saturn in Scorpio carries its own double intensity: the planet of limitation in the sign of depth and extremity. Pluto in Leo carries the generational signature of this cohort — creative authority subjected to transformation — but at the personal level, Pluto's proximity to the late degrees of Leo gives it concentrated force. The square between them introduces a structural tension between endurance and transformation, between the demand to sustain form and the demand to let it be remade.

### The Jupiter-Neptune-Pluto triangle

Three outer planets form a connected pattern. Neptune at 27°38' Libra sextiles Pluto at 26°59' Leo (0°39') — a generational aspect, but unusually tight here. Jupiter at 0°22' Virgo sextiles Neptune (2°44') and conjoins Pluto across the Leo-Virgo cusp (3°23'). The three bodies create a triangular configuration linking expansion (Jupiter), imagination and ideal (Neptune), and transformative depth (Pluto) in a pattern of mutual cooperation.

Jupiter's conjunction with Pluto — even at 3°23' and crossing signs — connects the expansive, amplifying principle with Plutonian depth. The tradition reads Jupiter-Pluto contacts as configurations where growth is not superficial but penetrating, and where reach and depth reinforce rather than oppose each other. Neptune's sextile to both adds the dimension of the imaginative and the ideal — expansion and depth operating through a veil of aesthetic sensitivity.

### Venus retrograde in Gemini

Venus at 22°49' Gemini retrograde does not form close major aspects with the other planets, but its retrograde status deserves mention. Venus governs aesthetics, social connection, and the sense of value. In Gemini, Venus operates through language, curiosity, and the pleasure of verbal exchange. A retrograde Venus in the tradition is read as an internalized aesthetic processing — the sense of beauty and connection works inward before it expresses outward, and there is a quality of reconsidering, of returning to earlier valuations.

The planetary pattern here is read as a symbolic portrait, not a causal explanation. No planet caused, predicted, or determined any event or characteristic.

Astrology is a symbolic language with 2,500 years of literature. The reading above is interpretive, not explanatory.

His collaboration with Steven Spielberg became the defining professional partnership of his career. Saving Private Ryan (1998) cast him as Captain John Miller, a schoolteacher-turned-infantry-officer in Normandy; the role required him to carry the film's moral center through sequences of extreme violence without losing the audience's trust. Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017) continued the partnership across genres.

In parallel, he voiced Woody the cowboy in the four Toy Story films (1995–2019), the most commercially successful animated franchise in history. He produced and starred in Cast Away (2000), losing fifty-five pounds during production. He played Walt Disney in Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Captain Richard Phillips in Captain Phillips (2013), and Fred Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019).

He married the actress Samantha Lewes in 1978; they divorced in 1987. They had two children: Colin Hanks (born 1977, also an actor) and Elizabeth Ann Hanks (born 1982). In 1988 he married the actress and producer Rita Wilson. They have two sons: Chet Hanks (born 1990) and Truman Hanks (born 1995). He became a Greek citizen in 2020 through Wilson's Greek heritage.

He published a collection of short stories, Uncommon Type (2017), and a novel, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece (2023). He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2014.

By 2025, he had been nominated for six Academy Awards and won two. His films have grossed more than $10 billion worldwide. He remains one of the highest-grossing actors in cinema history and one of the most publicly trusted figures in American cultural life.