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Beverly Sills

Beverly Sills (born May 25, 1929, Brooklyn, United States; died 2007), was an American operatic soprano. Sills served as chairperson. Sills's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Women's Hall of Fame and Kennedy Center Honors.

Beverly Sills’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Beverly Sills’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Healer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

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

#1018

US rank in 2025

~383,193

Americans share it since 1880

1953

its peak year

The SSA recorded 5,862 American girls and 114 boys named Beverly in 1929: 39th among girls and 553rd among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Beverly’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

1

Soul Urge · independence

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on B (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Beverly’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia

Ivory · Lilac · Terracotta

The record

What sets Beverly apart

Ian McKellen (1939) and Cillian Murphy (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Beverly, according to the stars

Core essence

Beverly is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Beverly needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

How Beverly wants to be loved

Beverly wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Beverly creates

How Beverly makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Beverly 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: Beverly 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Beverly is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Beverly fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Beverly's birth date. Working below.

Where Beverly sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Beverly

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Beverly

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Beverly

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Beverly

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

PracticalVisionary
Beverly

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Beverly

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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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.

Beverly’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 82.8° 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, 18.7° 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, 82.8° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.

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

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Brooklyn at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 7° below the horizon, Moon down and 94% lit at waning gibbous.

How unusual Beverly's chart is

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

Grand trine

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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Gemini Sun

Never finishes a book. Reads everything.

Beverly Sills's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 25, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Earth Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

Beverly Sills was born on May 25, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 6

Care is the whole job.

Beverly Sills's birth date, May 25, 1929, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Beverly’s chart

Beverly’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.3° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.4° orbMoon fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1.7° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 2.2° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.8° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.9° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.4° orbSun in Gemini · 3°56′☉3°Moon in Sagittarius · 27°15′☽27°Mercury in Gemini · 22°10′☿22°Venus in Aries · 25°06′♀25°Mars in Leo · 6°56′♂6°Jupiter in Taurus · 25°51′♃25°Saturn in Sagittarius · 28°56′ · retrograde♄℞28°Uranus in Aries · 10°18′♅10°Neptune in Leo · 28°40′♆28°Pluto in Cancer · 16°48′♇16°

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

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableMoonconjunctionSaturn0.1° to 7.6° orb

    Beverly’s feelings and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune0.2° to 0.3° orb

    Beverly’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune2.7° to 2.9° orb

    Beverly’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunsextileMars2.8° to 3.2° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus2.8° to 3.1° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus3.1° to 3.6° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune3.3° to 3.8° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn3.6° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune4.8° to 5.7° orb

  • stableUranussquarePluto6.5° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn6.6° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire6 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Beverly’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 11°25′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 10°00′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 25°25′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 4°14′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 0°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Venus 0.3°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 0.3°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Saturn 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.8°
  • Hygiea trine Mars 2.7°

Beverly’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Beverly’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Venus, Saturn, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury quintile Uranus 0.1°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 0.2°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.5°
  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.8°
  • Mars quintile Jupiter 0.9°

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Beverly’s cards

Computed from May 25, 1929. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Healer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Beverly’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q235517 (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 Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Beverly Sills 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 Beverly Sills.

Quick answers about Beverly Sills’s chart

What zodiac sign was Beverly Sills?
Beverly Sills was a Gemini: born May 25, 1929, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Beverly Sills's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 25, 1929 birth.
What was Beverly Sills's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Beverly Sills's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Beverly Sills's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Beverly Sills's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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