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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Bette
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.
How common is the name Bette in the U.S.?
#11103
US rank in 2025
~34,919
Americans share it since 1896
1924
its peak year
Bette ranked 945th in 1908, the year of this birth, with 18 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Bette’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
2
Soul Urge · closeness
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on B (2) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Bette’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1908, 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 Bette apart
Bette Davis took the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1939, at 31.
Training came by way of Cushing Academy.
The working life starts in 1929, at 21.
Cause of death is recorded as breast cancer; the grave is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
The family line: born to Ruth Augusta 'Ruthie' Favor and Harlow Morrell Davis, married William Grant Sherry and Gary Merrill and raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Bette Davis under Deaths from breast cancer in France, MGM Records artists and Actresses from Lowell, Massachusetts.
Pharrell Williams (1973) and Lily James (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Cushing Academy
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actress (1939), AFI Life Achievement Award (1977) and Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress (1977)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actress
- Working from
- 1929
- Cause of death
- breast cancer
- Buried at
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 109
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. Working below.
Where Bette sits
Six lines
Bette’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 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.
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 Bette Davis
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lowell 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 Lowell that night
Computed for 42.64°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Lowell at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 1.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 42.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Lowell on any night.
The Moon, 26% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 28° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Lowell, United States
The death is recorded at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine in 1989.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Bette Davis: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Bette's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Sun · 2 planets at a critical degree · 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.
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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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Monkey means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Gemini 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
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
stableMercurysextileUranus2.1° to 3.4° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto2.7° to 4.1° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn2.8° to 3.4° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter4.3° to 4.9° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 22°00′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 9°52′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 8°17′ (moves 0.95° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 11°59′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 10°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Chiron trine Pluto 0.9°
- Ceres square Neptune 2.3°
Bette’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Bette’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
Bette’s family here
One relative of Bette Davis also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Bette
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Born in United States
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More charts like Bette’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Seth RogenCanadian actor, comedian, and filmmaker
- Kourtney KardashianAmerican media personality, model and businesswoman
- Amancio OrtegaSpanish business tycoon
Born in Monkey years
- Thomas LiptonBritish tea merchant and yacht racer
- Dan CaineU.S. Air Force general
- Ziggy MarleyJamaican reggae musician
Also born on April 5
- Pharrell Williams1973
- Lily James1989
- Sterling K. Brown1976
- Gregory Peck1916
- Spencer Tracy1900
- Ivar Giæver1929
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Chris KleinAmerican actor
- Chad KroegerCanadian rock musician
- Jaime KingAmerican actress and model
Other Aries Monkey charts
- RonaldinhoBrazilian associaton fooball player
- Sadio ManéSenegalese footballer
- Omar SharifEgyptian actor
- Diana RossAmerican singer and actress
Other Gilded Visionarys
- Robert K. MassieAmerican historian
- Constance McLaughlin GreenAmerican historian
- Blair KaminAmerican architecture critic
- Stanley FormanAmerican photographer (born 1945)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Petr ČechCzech footballer
- Rosamund PikeEnglish actress
- Javier MascheranoArgentine association football player and manager
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Bette’s cards
Computed from April 5, 1908. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bette’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q71206 (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 Studio Publicity, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bette Davis at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Bette Davis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Bette Davis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
