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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Tiger, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Thelma’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
No documented birth time exists for Thelma Ritter, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Taurus 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.
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
Thelma’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusoppositionPluto3.8° to 3.9° orb
Thelma’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.3° to 5.0° orb
Thelma’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMarstrineNeptune5.3° to 6.1° orb
Thelma’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 11°43′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Thelma is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresTaurus 7°14′ (moves 0.29° 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. Thelma is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosAquarius 21°23′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Thelma is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaAries 7°36′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Thelma feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Thelma leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.8°
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°).
Thelma’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. ♅ 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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Thelma is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Thelma’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 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 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.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Thelma Ritter, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Thelma’s cards
Every card is computed from February 14, 1902, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Thelma Ritter, 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
Thelma’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229266, 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 Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Thelma Ritter at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Tiger.
- 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 time was Thelma Ritter 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 Thelma Ritter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the February 14, 1902 birth date.
- What was Thelma Ritter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 14, 1902 birth date.
- 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.
