Betty Comden
Betty Comden (born May 3, 1917, Brooklyn, United States; died 2006), was an American librettist, songwriter, actress. Comden's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Tony Award for Best Original Score and Tony Award for Best Musical.
Betty Comden’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Snake, with 
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Betty Comden’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
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US rank in 2025
~1,004,857
Americans share it since 1880
1930
its peak year
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Betty’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Betty, according to the stars
Core essence
Betty 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 Betty 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 Betty wants to be loved
Betty 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 Betty is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Betty creates
How Betty makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Betty creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Betty is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Betty is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Betty gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Betty's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Betty Comden in 15 seconds
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Betty Comden's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 3, 1917, 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.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Betty Comden was born on May 3, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Betty Comden's birth date, May 3, 1917, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Betty’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Betty Comden's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, 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.
- Betty Comden combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Betty’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Betty Comden, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableMoonsquarePluto0.1° to 6.8° orb
Betty’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.8° to 2.1° orb
Betty’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter1.8° to 2.8° orb
Betty’s affections and growth act as one.
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.8° to 3.0° orb
Betty’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableMarssquareNeptune2.8° to 3.5° orb
Betty’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextilePluto3.3° to 4.0° orb
Betty’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter3.8° to 4.6° orb
Betty’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.8° to 4.4° orb
Betty’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMercurysextileSaturn4.3° to 4.4° orb
Betty’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurysquareUranus5.8° to 5.9° orb
Betty’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquareUranus6.5° to 6.7° orb
Betty’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune7.2° to 7.3° orb
Betty’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Betty’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 28°26′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Betty absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresVirgo 8°39′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Betty caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 21°15′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Betty is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 6°57′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Betty is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 19°46′ (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. Betty 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.
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.9°
- Eros square Uranus 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.9°
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°).
Betty’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. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Betty 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 Betty’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, Mercury, 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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.2°
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.3°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.9°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Betty Comden, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Betty’s cards
Every card is computed from May 3, 1917, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Betty Comden, 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
Betty’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q175078, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Betty Comden 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 Betty Comden.
Quick answers about Betty Comden’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Betty Comden?
- Betty Comden was a Taurus: born May 3, 1917, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
- What was Betty Comden's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 3, 1917 birth.
- What time was Betty Comden 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 Betty Comden's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the May 3, 1917 birth date.
- What was Betty Comden's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 3, 1917 birth date.
- Where was Betty Comden's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Betty Comden's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
