Barbara Bel Geddes
Barbara Bel Geddes (born October 31, 1922, New York City, United States; died 2005), was an American actress. Geddes's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Theatre World Award and Donaldson Awards.
Barbara Bel Geddes’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Barbara
Barbara Bel Geddes’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Barbara in the U.S.?
#968
US rank in 2025
~1,440,831
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1922, Barbara came 40th among girls and 2,816th among boys, carried by 6,272 American girls and 10 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Barbara’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
9
Soul Urge · meaning
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on B (2) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Barbara’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1922, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Barbara apart
Barbara Bel Geddes took the Theatre World Award in 1946, at 24.
Training came by way of Buxton School.
The working life starts in 1947, at 25.
Cause of death is recorded as lung cancer.
On the family side, Barbara Bel Geddes was born to Norman Bel Geddes.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Barbara Bel Geddes: Actresses from Maine, Norman Bel Geddes and People from Northeast Harbor, Maine.
Peter Jackson (1961) and Dunga (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Buxton School
- Awards
- Theatre World Award (1946), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (1980) and Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1952)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Working from
- 1947
- Cause of death
- lung cancer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 47
What the chart says
Barbara, according to the stars
Core essence
Barbara does not do surface. The core of Barbara is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Barbara is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Barbara is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Barbara needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Barbara wants to be loved
Barbara wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Barbara and watch them fall for you again.
How Barbara creates
How Barbara makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Barbara creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Barbara is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Barbara is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Barbara leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Barbara goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Barbara's birth date. Working below.
Where Barbara sits
Six lines
Barbara’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Barbara Bel Geddes
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 12.9° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 98 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
Sun 46° below the horizon, Moon up and 88% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Northeast Harbor, Hancock County in 2005.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Barbara Bel Geddes: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Barbara's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · No Earth planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Barbara Bel Geddes's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 31, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Barbara Bel Geddes was born on October 31, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Barbara Bel Geddes's birth date, October 31, 1922, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Barbara’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Barbara Bel Geddes' date-only chart is Venus square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Earth.
- Barbara Bel Geddes combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Barbara’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 28° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenussquareUranus0.2° to 0.4° orb
Barbara’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareJupiter0.2° to 0.7° orb
Barbara’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.4° to 1.5° orb
Barbara’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableUranustrinePluto1.3° orb
stableSuntrineUranus1.8° to 2.8° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.7° to 2.9° orb
stableSuntrinePluto3.2° to 4.2° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn4.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn4.6° to 5.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.0° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 2.0° to 13.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Barbara’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 14°13′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 5°06′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 5°38′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 26°45′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 3°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Saturn 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.7°
Barbara’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Barbara’s chart
Grand trine · Sun, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 1.0°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 1.6°
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Born in United States
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- Tad MoselAmerican playwright
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- Bea ArthurAmerican actress and comedienne
- Walter M. MillerAmerican fiction writer
- Judy GarlandAmerican actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on October 31
- Peter Jackson1961
- Dunga1963
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- Brian Hallisay1978
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- Paul StarrAmerican political writer
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- Tanner HudsonAmerican football player (born 1994)
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- Keri HilsonAmerican R&B singer
- Kimberly GuilfoyleAmerican attorney and political campaign advisor (born 1969)
- Chris HughesEnglish model, television personality and former footballer
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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Barbara’s cards
Computed from October 31, 1922. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Barbara’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q232421 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Barbara Bel Geddes at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Barbara Bel Geddes.
Quick answers about Barbara Bel Geddes’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Barbara Bel Geddes?
- Barbara Bel Geddes was a Scorpio: born October 31, 1922, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Barbara Bel Geddes's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 31, 1922 birth.
- What was Barbara Bel Geddes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Barbara Bel Geddes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Barbara Bel Geddes's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Barbara Bel Geddes's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
