Beth Henley
Beth Henley (born May 8, 1952, Jackson, United States), aged 74, is an American writer and actor b. 1952. Henley's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Oppenheimer Award.
Beth Henley’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Dragon, with 
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Beth Henley’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Beth in the U.S.?
#3405
US rank in 2025
~159,755
Americans share it since 1880
1961
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Beth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Blush · Soft pink
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What the chart says
Beth, according to the stars
Core essence
Beth is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Beth is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Beth wants to be loved
Beth wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Beth is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Beth creates
How Beth makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Beth builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Beth is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Beth is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Beth runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Beth's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Beth sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Beth Henley at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Beth Henley's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 8, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Beth Henley was born on May 8, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Beth Henley's birth date, May 8, 1952, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Beth’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Beth Henley's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Beth Henley combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Beth’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Beth Henley, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMoonoppositionVenus0.0° to 8.0° orb
Beth’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMoonoppositionJupiter0.0° to 7.9° orb
Beth’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.5° orb
Beth’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquarePluto0.6° to 1.6° orb
Beth’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusoppositionMars1.7° to 3.3° orb
Beth’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune1.9° to 3.1° orb
Beth’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.9° to 2.0° orb
Beth’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrinePluto2.4° to 3.6° orb
Beth’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.5° to 3.5° orb
Beth’s affections and growth act as one.
stableMarstrineUranus3.0° to 3.4° orb
Beth’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.2° to 5.8° orb
Beth’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Beth’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 12°15′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Beth is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresTaurus 2°45′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Beth is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosLeo 3°44′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Beth loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaAries 28°46′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Beth feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 4°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Beth is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.8°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.2°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.4°
- Eros square Venus 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.2°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.6°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Beth’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♀ Venus12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Beth is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Beth’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Venus, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Beth Henley, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Beth’s cards
Every card is computed from May 8, 1952, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Beth Henley, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Beth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q438676, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Beth Henley at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Beth Henley.
Quick answers about Beth Henley’s chart
- How old is Beth Henley?
- Beth Henley is 74 years old, born May 8, 1952 in Jackson, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Beth Henley?
- Beth Henley is a Taurus: born May 8, 1952, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon.
- What is Beth Henley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 8, 1952 birth.
- What time was Beth Henley born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Beth Henley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the May 8, 1952 birth date.
- What is Beth Henley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 8, 1952 birth date.
- Where is Beth Henley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Beth Henley's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
