Betty Williams
Betty Williams (born May 22, 1943, Belfast, United Kingdom; died 2020), was a Northern Irish peace activist. Williams's honours include Nobel Peace Prize and Carl von Ossietzky Medal.
Betty Williams’s zodiac sign was Taurus or Gemini (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.How compatible are you with Betty Williams?
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Betty’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
—
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Your planetary stone, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Betty, according to the stars
How Betty wants to be loved
Betty wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Betty gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Betty creates
How Betty makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Betty 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: Betty is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Betty slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Betty's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Betty Williams at a glance
Taurus or Gemini Sun
Betty Williams was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Betty Williams was born on May 22, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Betty Williams's birth date, May 22, 1943, 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 Williams' date-only chart is Uranus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
Betty’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Betty Williams, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 12° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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.
stableSuntrineNeptune0.6° to 1.5° orb
Betty’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranussextilePluto0.8° orb
Betty’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.1° to 2.6° orb
Betty’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus1.8° to 2.4° orb
Betty’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.6° to 3.2° orb
Betty’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMercurysextilePluto2.6° to 3.2° orb
Betty’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune2.7° to 3.5° orb
Betty’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionUranus3.5° to 4.4° orb
Betty’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableMarstrineJupiter3.8° to 4.4° orb
Betty’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileMars4.0° to 4.2° orb
Betty’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableUranustrineNeptune5.0° to 5.1° orb
Betty’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 12.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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.
⚷ ChironLeo 23°44′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Betty performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresTaurus 18°52′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Betty is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosCancer 6°30′ (moves 0.92° 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. Betty is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaLeo 9°59′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Betty at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 29°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Betty guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.5°
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. ☿ Mercury13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Betty is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Saturn, UranusThree 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.
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Betty Williams, 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 22, 1943, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Betty Williams, 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 Q157690, 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 Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Betty Williams at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.
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Quick answers about Betty Williams’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Betty Williams?
- Betty Williams was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Goat.
- What was Betty Williams's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 22, 1943 birth.
- What time was Betty Williams 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 Williams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the May 22, 1943 birth date.
- What was Betty Williams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 22, 1943 birth date.
- Where was Betty Williams's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Betty Williams's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
