Bette Davis
Bette Davis (born April 5, 1908, Lowell, United States; died 1989), was an American actress. Davis's honours include Academy Award for Best Actress, Emmy Award and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Bette Davis’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Monkey, with 
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Bette Davis’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
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Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
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Bette’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
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What the chart says
Bette, according to the stars
Core essence
Bette leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Bette is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Bette processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Bette needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Bette creates
How Bette makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Bette creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Bette is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Bette is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Bette is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Bette's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Bette sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Bette Davis in 15 seconds
Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
Bette Davis's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 5, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Bette Davis was born on April 5, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Bette Davis's birth date, April 5, 1908, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Bette’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bette Davis' date-only chart is Venus conjunction Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Bette Davis combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Bette’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Bette Davis, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Gemini 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.
stableVenusconjunctionMars0.6° to 1.0° orb
Bette’s affections and drive act as one.
stableSunsquareUranus0.8° to 1.8° orb
Bette’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrineSaturn1.5° to 1.6° orb
Bette’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussextileSaturn1.8° to 2.8° orb
Bette’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileUranus2.1° to 3.4° orb
Bette’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquarePluto2.7° to 4.1° orb
Bette’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.8° to 3.4° orb
Bette’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSunsquareNeptune2.9° to 3.9° orb
Bette’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileJupiter3.3° to 4.3° orb
Bette’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMarssextileJupiter4.3° to 4.9° orb
Bette’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.7° orb
Bette’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Bette’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 22°00′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Bette making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 9°52′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Bette is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosCancer 8°17′ (moves 0.95° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Bette is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 11°59′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Bette is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 10°28′ (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. Bette 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.
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Chiron trine Pluto 0.9°
- Ceres square Neptune 2.3°
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°).
Bette’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. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Bette is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Bette’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.
T-square onto Sun · Uranus, Neptune, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.5°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.9°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Bette Davis, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Bette’s family here
One relative of Bette Davis also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Bette’s cards
Every card is computed from April 5, 1908, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Bette Davis, 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
Bette’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q71206, 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 Studio Publicity, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bette Davis at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Bette Davis.
Quick answers about Bette Davis’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Bette Davis?
- Bette Davis was an Aries: born April 5, 1908, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey.
- What was Bette Davis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 5, 1908 birth.
- What time was Bette Davis 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 was Bette Davis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the April 5, 1908 birth date.
- What was Bette Davis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 5, 1908 birth date.
- Where was Bette Davis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Bette Davis's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
