Thelma Ritter
Thelma Ritter (born February 14, 1902, Brooklyn, United States; died 1969), was an American actress and vaudevillian. Ritter's honours include Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
Thelma Ritter’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Thelma
Thelma Ritter’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Thelma in the U.S.?
#4745
US rank in 2025
~226,602
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1902, Thelma came 52nd among girls and 1,129th among boys, carried by 1,309 American girls and 6 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Thelma’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
11
Soul Urge · insight
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on T (2) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 9: tact against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Thelma’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Thelma apart
Ángel Di María (1988) and Michael Bloomberg (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Thelma, according to the stars
Core essence
Thelma is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Thelma is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Thelma is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Thelma needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Thelma wants to be loved
Thelma wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Thelma be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Thelma creates
How Thelma makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Thelma creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Thelma is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Thelma is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Thelma leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Thelma 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 Thelma's birth date. Working below.
Where Thelma sits
Six lines
Thelma’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Thelma Ritter
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.2° above the horizon in Auriga.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at first quarter, 44% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.
How unusual Thelma's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · 2 unaspected planets · Venus retrograde
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.
Score your own chart →Thelma Ritter at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
Thelma Ritter's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 14, 1902, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Water Tiger
Water TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Thelma Ritter was born on February 14, 1902, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Thelma Ritter's birth date, February 14, 1902, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Thelma’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Thelma Ritter's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Thelma Ritter combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
Thelma’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Taurus 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
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.0° to 1.2° orb
Thelma’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.2° to 1.8° orb
Thelma’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrineNeptune3.0° to 3.6° orb
Thelma’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineNeptune3.2° to 4.3° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.3° to 5.0° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune5.3° to 6.1° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 2.0° to 15.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 2.3° to 17.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 2.7° to 16.6° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileUranusorb from 4.0° to 5.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 4.5° to 18.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Thelma’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 11°43′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 7°14′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 21°23′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 7°36′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.8°
Thelma’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Thelma’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, 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.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.7°
More people like Thelma
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Born in United States
- Hanson W. BaldwinAmerican journalist
- Gary CooperAmerican actor
- Darryl F. ZanuckAmerican film producer
- Oliver La FargeAmerican novelist, anthropologist
- Mary Wells AshworthAmerican historian
- Virginius DabneyAmerican journalist
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Fellow Aquarius suns
- Kelly RowlandAmerican singer, songwriter and actress
- Lisa Marie PresleyAmerican singer-songwriter
- Natalie ColeAmerican singer
Born in Tiger years
- Stefano GabbanaItalian fashion designer
- Linus SebastianCanadian YouTuber
- Julia KochAmerican socialite and philanthropist
Also born on February 14
- Ángel Di María1988
- Michael Bloomberg1942
- Danai Gurira1978
- Karol G1991
- Freddie Highmore1992
- Stephen A. Schwarzman1947
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Stevie WonderAmerican and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer
- Camilo José CelaSpanish writer
- Robert F. KennedyAmerican politician and lawyer
Other Aquarius Tiger charts
- D’AngeloAmerican musician
- Elizabeth BanksAmerican actress and director
- Phil CollinsEnglish drummer, singer, and songwriter (born 1951)
- Sheryl CrowAmerican musician (born 1962)
Other Steadfast Scholars
- Robert CarradineAmerican actor
- Kristin DavisAmerican actress (born 1965)
- Randall EmmettAmerican film producer and poker player
- Frank GiffordAmerican football player, television sportscaster
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Michael HiltzikPulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Michel duCilleAmerican photojournalist
- Joby WarrickAmerican journalist (born 1960)
From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Thelma’s cards
Computed from February 14, 1902. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Thelma’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229266 (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 Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Thelma Ritter 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 Thelma Ritter.
Quick answers about Thelma Ritter’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Thelma Ritter?
- Thelma Ritter was an Aquarius: born February 14, 1902, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Thelma Ritter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 14, 1902 birth.
- What was Thelma Ritter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Thelma Ritter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Thelma Ritter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Thelma Ritter's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
