Tom Cruise Zodiac Sign & Birth Chart
Tom Cruise is a Cancer, born July 3, 1962.
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Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
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Birth chart quick facts
- Sun
- Cancer
- Moon
- Moon in Leo
- Rising
- Virgo
- Chinese zodiac
- Tiger
- BaZi day master
- Water
- Birth time
- 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
- Birthplace
- Syracuse, United States
Western + Eastern: Cancer Sun symbolism alongside the Chinese zodiac and BaZi day master. Birth date source: Wikidata.
East meets West. Tom Cruise's Cancer Sun offers the Western astrological lens, while the Chinese zodiac Year of the Tiger adds a year based cycle and Water names the BaZi day stem symbolism. These systems use different calendars and interpretive traditions, so this page places their keywords side by side as complementary cultural frameworks rather than treating them as interchangeable calculations.
Based on 12:00 default
BaZi day follows the 23:00 convention; someone born after 23:00 may have a different day element.
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Fire placements
Based on the 10 classic placements in this chart.
Tropical zodiac · Geocentric · True node · Placidus houses
About Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise is an American actor and film producer, born on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, United States.
Tom Cruise's Sun sign is Cancer, a Water sign in astrology.
Their chart is calculated for 12:00 local time in Syracuse because the exact birth time is not public.
Planet placements
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
| Planet | Sign | Degree | Retrograde |
|---|---|---|---|
| sun | Cancer | 11.23° | No |
| moon | Leo | 1.09° | No |
| mercury | Gemini | 19.75° | No |
| venus | Leo | 19.28° | No |
| mars | Taurus | 26.10° | No |
| jupiter | Pisces | 12.69° | Yes |
| saturn | Aquarius | 10.02° | Yes |
| uranus | Leo | 27.92° | No |
| neptune | Scorpio | 10.82° | Yes |
| pluto | Virgo | 8.02° | No |
Houses and angles
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
Rising: Virgo
House 1: Virgo · House 2: Libra · House 3: Scorpio · House 4: Sagittarius · House 5: Capricorn · House 6: Pisces · House 7: Pisces · House 8: Aries · House 9: Taurus · House 10: Gemini · House 11: Cancer · House 12: Virgo
Strongest aspects
Sun + Neptune trine · 0.41° orb
Sun (identity) and Neptune (imagination and ideals) form a trine: Their themes flow together, easing the relationship between these functions.
Mercury + Venus sextile · 0.47° orb
Mercury (mind and communication) and Venus (affection and values) form a sextile: Their themes support one another, opening room for the relationship between these functions.
Saturn + Neptune square · 0.80° orb
Saturn (structure and responsibility) and Neptune (imagination and ideals) form a square: Their themes create friction that can drive action around the relationship between these functions.
Uranus + Neptune quintile · 0.89° orb
Uranus (change and independence) and Neptune (imagination and ideals) form a quintile: Their themes link, bringing attention to the relationship between these functions.
Sun + Jupiter trine · 1.46° orb
Sun (identity) and Jupiter (growth and perspective) form a trine: Their themes flow together, easing the relationship between these functions.
Mars + Uranus square · 1.82° orb
Mars (drive and action) and Uranus (change and independence) form a square: Their themes create friction that can drive action around the relationship between these functions.
Elements, modalities & patterns
Elements: Fire 3 · Earth 2 · Air 2 · Water 3
Modalities: Cardinal 1 · Fixed 6 · Mutable 3
Detected patterns: Stellium in Leo · Grand trine
Sun and Moon relationship
The Cancer Sun and Leo Moon do not form a major classical aspect by sign; their themes can still be read together as separate parts of the chart.
These are traditional symbols for reflection, not claims about Tom Cruise's private life.
Placement-by-placement reading
Sun in Cancer
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Sun in the 10th house
Tom Cruise's Sun in Cancer. They become more recognizably themselves by protecting what feels emotionally alive and rooted; this makes care, memory, belonging, and an inner sense of home central to how they pursue a self authored identity.
Tom Cruise's Sun in House 10 touches career, public role, responsibility, and authority. It asks them to make a public contribution with integrity.
Moon in Leo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Moon in the 11th house
Tom Cruise's Moon in Leo. Their emotional system settles by risking visible, wholehearted self expression; this makes creative authorship, warmth, and the right to take up space central to how they pursue emotional safety.
Tom Cruise's Moon in House 11 touches friendship, groups, collective projects, and the future. It asks them to place this energy in a community that can use it.
Mercury in Gemini
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mercury in the 9th house
Tom Cruise's Mercury in Gemini. Their mind becomes clear by staying curious and making unexpected connections; this makes questions, language, and a lively exchange of perspectives central to how they pursue a way to understand and articulate experience.
Tom Cruise's Mercury in House 9 touches belief, study, travel, publishing, and meaning. It asks them to test faith through lived experience.
Venus in Leo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Venus in the 11th house
Tom Cruise's Venus in Leo. Love and self worth deepen by risking visible, wholehearted self expression; this makes creative authorship, warmth, and the right to take up space central to how they pursue love, ease, and self worth.
Tom Cruise's Venus in House 11 touches friendship, groups, collective projects, and the future. It asks them to place this energy in a community that can use it.
Mars in Taurus
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mars in the 9th house
Tom Cruise's Mars in Taurus. Their drive becomes clean by building slowly enough for trust to grow; this makes embodiment, enduring value, and patient commitment central to how they pursue a clear route for desire and anger.
Tom Cruise's Mars in House 9 touches belief, study, travel, publishing, and meaning. It asks them to test faith through lived experience.
Jupiter in Pisces
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Jupiter in the 6th house · Retrograde
Tom Cruise's Jupiter in Pisces. Growth becomes meaningful by making room for mystery without losing contact with reality; this makes imagination, empathy, creativity, and permeable awareness central to how they pursue growth and a meaningful horizon.
Tom Cruise's Jupiter in House 6 touches work, health, service, habits, and maintenance. It asks them to turn this energy into sustainable practice. Retrograde turns their Jupiter's growth inward. They expand through reflection and re-evaluated belief, not through external validation. Their confidence is self-built, not borrowed.
Saturn in Aquarius
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Saturn in the 5th house · Retrograde
Tom Cruise's Saturn in Aquarius. Maturity develops by remaining loyal to an original mind under social pressure; this makes freedom, innovation, friendship, and a future facing vision central to how they pursue earned security and authority.
Tom Cruise's Saturn in House 5 touches creativity, romance, play, children, and visible joy. It asks them to risk authorship and pleasure. Retrograde makes their Saturn's authority self-defined. The rules they actually live by are the ones they tested themselves, not the ones they were handed. Mastery here comes from the inside out.
Uranus in Leo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Uranus in the 11th house
Tom Cruise's Uranus in Leo. Freedom becomes real by risking visible, wholehearted self expression; this makes creative authorship, warmth, and the right to take up space central to how they pursue freedom from a false script.
Tom Cruise's Uranus in House 11 touches friendship, groups, collective projects, and the future. It asks them to place this energy in a community that can use it.
Neptune in Scorpio
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Neptune in the 2nd house · Retrograde
Tom Cruise's Neptune in Scorpio. Their sensitivity becomes creative by choosing depth over appearances and honesty over control; this makes intimacy, emotional courage, and the capacity to regenerate central to how they pursue a lived connection to imagination and compassion.
Tom Cruise's Neptune in House 2 touches resources, skill, money, and self worth. It asks them to build value that survives changing circumstances. Retrograde turns their Neptune's imagination inward. Their inner world runs deeper than what they show, and their sensitivity works best as a private compass, not a performance.
Pluto in Virgo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Pluto in the 12th house
Tom Cruise's Pluto in Virgo. Transformation begins by making life more workable through attention and craft; this makes discernment, useful skill, and faithful refinement central to how they pursue truth beneath fear, attachment, and power.
Tom Cruise's Pluto in House 12 touches solitude, dreams, unconscious patterns, and compassion. It asks them to reflect until this energy becomes conscious.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Tom Cruise's rising sign?
Tom Cruise's Rising sign is Virgo, calculated for 12:00 unless an exact birth time is public.
What is Tom Cruise's birth time?
No exact time is public, so this page uses 12:00 local time as the default.
Is Tom Cruise a Cancer?
Yes. Tom Cruise's Sun sign is Cancer in the chart shown here.
How we calculate. Planet signs use the Timing natal chart engine (Swiss Ephemeris based). When an exact birth time is not public, the chart is calculated for 12:00 local time on the birth date, including Rising, houses, and angles; these placements can differ at another time. Publicly sourced birth times are marked reported, unverified.
Updated September 2026
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