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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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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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.

How common is the name Betty in the U.S.?

#1113

US rank in 2025

~1,004,857

Americans share it since 1880

1930

its peak year

The SSA recorded 6,639 American girls and 9 boys named Betty in 1917: 34th among girls and 2,753rd among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Betty’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

7

Soul Urge · understanding

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on B (2) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 5: tact against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Betty’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

The record

What sets Betty apart

Golda Meir (1898) and James Brown (1933) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Betty sits

Six lines

Betty’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Betty

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Betty

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Betty

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Betty

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Betty

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Betty

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Betty’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 77.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 22.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Brooklyn that night

Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Brooklyn was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 77.9° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.

Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brooklyn on any night.

The Moon, 90% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 20° below the horizon.

How unusual Betty's chart is

Chart pattern score

66 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Taurus · 2 planets at a critical degree · A bowl chart

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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Betty Comden in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Slow 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.

What Taurus means →

Fire Snake

Says less than it knows.

Betty Comden was born on May 3, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 8

Turns effort into standing.

Betty Comden's birth date, May 3, 1917, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Betty’s chart

Betty’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.1° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.6° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.9° orbVenus fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.3° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 2.8° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.9° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.1° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.7° orbSun in Taurus · 12°40′☉12°Moon in Libra · 2°08′☽2°Mercury in Taurus · 29°20′☿29°Venus in Taurus · 14°36′♀14°Mars in Aries · 29°05′♂29°Jupiter in Taurus · 16°53′♃16°Saturn in Cancer · 24°59′♄24°Uranus in Aquarius · 23°27′♅23°Neptune in Leo · 2°13′♆2°Pluto in Cancer · 2°45′♇2°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableMarssquareNeptune2.8° to 3.5° orb

  • stableMarssextilePluto3.3° to 4.0° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter3.8° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn3.8° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus5.8° to 5.9° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus6.5° to 6.7° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune7.2° to 7.3° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 28°26′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 8°39′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 21°15′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 6°57′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 19°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Mercury 0.9°
  • Eros square Uranus 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.9°

Betty’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Betty’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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Betty’s cards

Computed from May 3, 1917. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Scholar

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Betty’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q175078 (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.

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The same Betty Comden 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 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.
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 was Betty Comden's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Betty Comden's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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