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), Chinese zodiac was Water Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Betty
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 21,596 American girls and 89 boys named Betty in 1943: 10th among girls and 677th 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.
8
Expression · direction and scale
6
Soul Urge · being needed
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on B (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
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 · 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 record
What sets Betty apart
Novak Djokovic (1987) and Naomi Campbell (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Betty Williams
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Belfast 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 Belfast that night
Computed for 54.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Belfast was Merak, in Ursa Major, 86.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
From 54.6°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −35.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Belfast on any night.
Sun -11° below the horizon, Moon down and 89% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Betty's chart is
Chart pattern score
61 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Gemini · 2 planets at a critical degree · 1 unaspected planet
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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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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 12° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.6° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto2.6° to 3.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune2.7° to 3.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus3.5° to 4.4° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter3.8° to 4.4° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.0° to 4.2° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.0° to 5.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 23°44′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 18°52′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 6°30′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 9°59′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 29°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.5°
Betty’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Betty’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
More people like Betty
Other peace activists
- Pete Seeger1919
- Mahatma Gandhi1869
Born in United Kingdom
- Jean ShrimptonBritish model and actress
- Malcolm McDowellBritish actor (born 1943)
- Ian McShaneEnglish actor (born 1942)
- J. Michael KosterlitzBritish-American physicist
- Howard JacobsonBritish author and journalist
- Jocelyn Bell BurnellBritish astrophysicist
More charts like Betty’s
Born in Goat years
- Olivia RodrigoAmerican singer and actress (born 2003)
- Hannah BernerAmerican comedian
- Lily CheeAmerican model and actress
Also born on May 22
- Novak Djokovic1987
- Naomi Campbell1970
- Morrissey1959
- Katie Price1978
- Christine Mboma2003
- Emma Chamberlain2001
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- James DonaldBritish actor
- Stephen BoydNorthern Irish actor
- Clark GableAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Ayoub El KaabiMoroccan footballer (born 1993)
- Yvon MvogoSwiss association football player
- Merih DemiralTurkish association football player (born 1998)
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Betty’s cards
Computed from May 22, 1943. Tap to flip.
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Betty’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q157690 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Betty Williams.
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.
- 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 was Betty Williams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Betty Williams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
