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, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Beth
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 1884
1961
its peak year
The SSA recorded 2,360 American girls named Beth in 1952: 146th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Beth’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on B (2) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Beth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Beth apart
Enrique Iglesias (1975) and David Attenborough (1926) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Beth sits
Six lines
Beth’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Beth Henley
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Jackson on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Jackson that night
Computed for 32.30°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Jackson was Zosma, in Leo, 78.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
Jackson sits at 32.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Jackson at all: they sit past the −57.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 14° below the horizon, Moon up and 99% lit at full moon.
How unusual Beth's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Taurus · Mars retrograde · A leaning bowl
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Libra or Scorpio 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
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
stableVenusoppositionMars1.7° to 3.3° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune1.9° to 3.1° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto2.4° to 3.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableMarstrineUranus3.0° to 3.4° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.2° to 5.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 12°15′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 2°45′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 3°44′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 28°46′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 4°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Beth’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Beth’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 1.6°
More people like Beth
Other actors
- Kaoru Kobayashi1951
- Reginald VelJohnson1952
- Beverly D'Angelo1951
- John Megna1952
- Jean Smart1951
- John Goodman1952
Born in United States
- John CornynAmerican politician and attorney (born 1952)
- John GoodmanAmerican actor
- Jacqui BanaszynskiAmerican journalist and academic
- Joel BrinkleyAmerican journalist
- Harvey WeinsteinAmerican film producer and sex offender (born 1952)
- Eileen McNamaraAmerican journalist and academic
More charts like Beth’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Ruth Prawer JhabvalaGerman-born British-American author
- Paul LynchIrish writer (born 1977)
- Peter CareyAustralian novelist (born 1943)
Born in Dragon years
- Juan Manuel SanabriaUruguayan association football player
- Felix NmechaGerman association football player
- Dan NdoyeSwiss association football player (born 2000)
Also born on May 8
- Enrique Iglesias1975
- David Attenborough1926
- Pat Cummins1993
- Trisha Paytas1988
- Stephen Amell1981
- Olivia Culpo1992
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Jimmy ChooMalaysian Chinese fashion designer
- Jack AntonoffAmerican songwriter, singer and record producer
- Nick CannonAmerican rapper, actor, and comedian
Other Taurus Dragon charts
- LizzoAmerican singer and rapper
- Behati PrinslooNamibian model
- Chloe KimAmerican snowboarder
- RemaNigerian singer-songwriter and rapper
Other Evergreen Guardians
- Roy Franklin NicholsAmerican historian
- Thomas L. MobleyAmerican Kentucky senator and Kentucky poet laureate
- Samuel R. DelanyAmerican author and literary critic (born 1942)
- Marjorie LiuAmerican writer
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Caroline GoodallEnglish actress
- Bonnie HuntAmerican actress and comedian
- Gloria SwansonAmerican actress
From the journal: Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated · Is Western astrology outdated?
Beth’s cards
Computed from May 8, 1952. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Beth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q438676 (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 PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Beth Henley 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 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.
- 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 is Beth Henley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Beth Henley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
