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Bette Davis.

5 April 1908 · 21:00 · Lowell, Massachusetts

Bette Davis's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Gemini, Scorpio rising. Born April 5, 1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts.

About this chart

What is Bette Davis's sun sign?

Bette Davis's sun is in Aries.

What is Bette Davis's moon sign?

Bette Davis's moon is in Gemini.

What is Bette Davis's rising sign?

Bette Davis's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was Bette Davis born?

Bette Davis was born April 5, 1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts.

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The Big Three

The Sun is who you are becoming, the Moon is what you need, the Rising is how you arrive. Read together, they are the working summary of the chart.

Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Gemini is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunAries · 5th house

The self proves itself by what it begins. Direct, competitive, allergic to anything that smells like waiting. The pioneer, the fighter, the one who needs the friction of pushback to feel real. Lesson: you exist before you act. You come alive in what you make. Creativity, play, romance and children are where the self is authored. The house of joy is, for you, the house of identity.

MoonGemini · 7th house

Feeling is processed through language. Comfort comes from talking it out, from reading and conversation. You often need to express an emotion before you know what it is. The shadow is staying in the head to dodge the feeling. Mood is regulated through partnership. The relational mirror shapes how you feel, the need for a partner is strong, and you tend to feel your way through the other.

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RisingScorpio · the doorway

You arrive without explaining yourself. The room feels you before it sees you. People sense weight, something held back, and the gap becomes its own kind of gravity. Your chart ruler is Mars, in Taurus in the 7th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Scorpio rising actually moves through the world.

Your North Star

The lunar nodes are the chart's North Star: not a trait but a direction. The North Node names the unfamiliar growth you are here to move toward; the South Node is what you are leaving.

North NodeCancer · 8th house

The pull is toward Cancer: feeling, care, belonging, letting yourself be held rather than only holding. The familiar groove is Capricorn: control, achievement as identity, carrying it alone. Growth is letting tenderness count as strength.

South NodeCapricorn · 2nd house

The South Node in Capricorn (2nd house) is the opposite shore: the gifts and habits you already over-rely on. It is the comfort zone the chart is asking you to move away from.

Finer detail: element, decan, and degree

Element. The North Node sits in water territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

Chart Ruler

Scorpio rising puts Mars in charge of the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Mars · the chart rulerTaurus · 7th house

The drive is slow, persistent and deliberate, and once it is moving it is hard to stop. Anger is slow to ignite and slow to let go. The shadow is stubbornness in the face of evidence.

Where it drives. The drive plays out in partnership. The partner is often forceful or competitive, conflict can be drawn into relationships, and the work is learning to argue cleanly with intimates.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

Public Face

The Midheaven is not only career; it is the aura you emit in your zone, what a room senses you are for. The IC, opposite it, is the private root that aura grows from.

MC
MidheavenVirgo · the 10th house

With Virgo on the Midheaven, a room senses competence: someone precise, useful, who can actually be relied on to deliver.

IC
ICPisces · the 4th house

With Pisces on the IC, home is porous and restorative: dream-space, compassion, a root that dissolves hard edges.

Planets & Patterns

The planets are the cast: ten drives, each in a sign that colours it and a house that gives it a stage. Read down the roster, then see the aspects (the lines where one planet is locked in conversation with another) and the larger patterns they form together.

Of the ten planets, the weight falls in fire and cardinal signs: will. Passion. Spirit. The energy of action and inspiration.

Every planet, placed

Each planet below carries its one-line job. Tap a row to unfold the full reading, and the fine print where there is any.

The aspects that define you
The patterns they fall into

The Houses

If the planets are the actors, the houses are the twelve rooms they act in. Each room carries a sign on its door, a ruler that ties it to a planet elsewhere in the chart, and sometimes tenants living inside it. Tap any house to open the full reading: the sign, the ruler chain, and who lives there.

Uranus, Neptune & Pluto

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto name the slow forces in your chart. Skip the generation essay for a moment: what matters is which house each one hits in your life. That is where freedom, vision, or deep change stops being abstract and becomes personal. For the long definitions, use the glossary.

UranusCapricorn · 2nd house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), this planet breaks stale patterns and invents a freer way forward. This is where you cannot stay small or copy the old script. Freedom here is not a mood: it is a requirement.The gift in your 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Capricorn

A generation that breaks down institutions and rebuilds them.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneCancer · 8th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), this planet softens hard edges, opens imagination, and blurs what is fake. This is where you feel more than the room admits, and where vision or fog can both get loud. Clarity here is sacred.The gift in your 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Cancer

An era that dreams of universal belonging, a mystical motherhood, the dissolving of family lines.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoGemini · 8th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), this planet ends what is finished and rebuilds power from the root. This is where life asks you to strip the false layer and keep what is real. Intensity here is information, not a flaw.The gift in your 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Gemini

An era that remakes mind, communication and information, putting language through death and rebirth.

Want the long form? Open Pluto in the glossary →

Wound & Shadow

Chiron is the tender place that becomes medicine. Lilith is the part of you that refuses to perform. Short takes below: for the full wound and shadow maps, open the glossary.

Chiron · the woundAquarius · 3rd house

The wound is belonging: the perpetual outsider, alienated even in a crowd, swinging between blending in and rejecting the room. Difference can feel like exile or like a badge you wear too hard. It plays out most loudly in the 3rd house (mind, words, siblings). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 9th house

Lilith is the part of you that was taught to dim so smaller rooms could stay comfortable. It is the refusal to be loved only for being smaller. The medicine is showing back up at full brightness. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 9th house (belief, travel, meaning): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on fire. Every element has a low expression and a high one: the work is knowing which way you are tilting, and the mantra that walks you back.

At your worst

Burnout and scorched ground. Unchecked, the fire runs on ego and impatience: starting everything, finishing little, mistaking heat for progress and leaving people singed.

The middle ground

The everyday work is pacing. Channel the spark into one or two real things, let them burn slow, and check who is standing in the blast radius before you ignite.

At your best

A genuine source of warmth and momentum. At your best the fire is courage that moves a whole room: you start what others only talk about and you make the brave choice look obvious.

“My fire is a tool, not a verdict: I choose where it burns.”

Full Potential

Leave with five hard lines about yourself. Not a life sentence: a pocket map. Everything above was the chart talking. This is what it says about you.

  1. You carry heat: you can start what other people only discuss.
  2. You are built to begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to act, not to rehearse courage forever.
  4. You need conversation, variety, and a mind that is not caged.
  5. People meet your intensity first: still waters, sharp perception, nothing shallow.

Want the language behind these lines? Browse the glossary → Sun, Moon, Rising, elements, and the slow planets all open there.

Asteria · the chart, wholeThe chart as one person.

Not a list of placements. The balance, the dominant, the spine, and how they bind.

The signature

At a glance, yours is a fire, mutable chart led by the Moon. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a fire-dominant chart, which means you run on enthusiasm, instinct, and the urge to act. You lead with passion and warmth, you initiate easily, and you can struggle to slow down, sit still, or stay patient with the slow and the practical.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is mutable-heavy, which makes you an adapter. You flow with what comes, you adjust easily, and you carry many sides comfortably. The work is in commitment, in choosing a direction and staying long enough for it to become something.

What leads the chart

Your Moon is the loudest force in your chart, which means feeling, instinct, and the inner life run the show. You are lunar, led by emotion and the need for safety more than by logic or will, deeply attuned and deeply sensitive.

The spine, your Big Three

Aries Sun · Gemini Moon · Scorpio rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Gemini is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
31%
Earth
18%
Air
26%
Water
26%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

Stellium in Geminicommon
three or more planets clustered in Gemini: Moon, Pluto, Venus

In your chart, Moon, Pluto, Venus gather in Gemini. A stellium in Gemini concentrates the chart on mind, language, and the need to connect dots. You think and talk in high volume: information, curiosity, and dual tracks are where life keeps packing itself.

gift

Tremendous focus through Gemini: you can become unusually skilled where that sign lives in your life.

difficulty

So much Gemini energy can crowd the rest of the chart. Watch for obsession with that theme, or for the planets inside the cluster blurring into one loud voice.

release point

Balance a Gemini stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Gemini is also a discharge valve.

T-Square · apex Suncommon
an opposition under pressure from Sun (Neptune, Sun, Uranus)

In your chart, Neptune, Sun, Uranus form a T-square with Sun at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Libra, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Sun: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Sun can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Libra, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

Asteria · the geometryThe tightest aspects between your planets.

The closest conversations in the chart: where two planets sit at an exact angle and never stop talking. Tightest orb first; these are the loudest.

Sun sextile Moonorb 0.90°

In you, the Sun works easily with the Moon, bringing together your core identity and will and your emotional needs and instincts. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Sun square Uranusorb 0.93°

In you, the Sun grinds against Uranus, bringing together your core identity and will and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Venus conjunction Marsorb 0.96°

In you, Venus is fused with Mars, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your drive and how you assert yourself. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Jupiter trine Saturnorb 1.47°

In you, Jupiter flows together with Saturn, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Venus sextile Saturnorb 1.94°

In you, Venus works easily with Saturn, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Asteria · flow & frictionGifts & Challenges

Every chart runs on flow and friction. The gifts are where the energy already moves easily; the challenges are where it meets resistance: the places that ask for effort and pay it back as range and strength.

This chart runs on an even mix of flow and friction: real ease in some places, real effort in others, and range that comes from holding both.

Where it flows
Uranus trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.7°

A natural, flowing ease: Uranus and Part of Fortune feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Sun sextile Moonorb 0.9°

An easy, available link: Sun and Moon feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Pluto trine Chironorb 0.9°

A natural, flowing ease: Pluto and Chiron feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Sun exalted in Arieslifted

Sun is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Jupiter trine Saturnorb 1.5°

A natural, flowing ease: Jupiter and Saturn feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Venus sextile Saturnorb 1.9°

An easy, available link: Venus and Saturn feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Where it works
Saturn in fall in Ariesstrained

Saturn works against the grain in Aries. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Moon square Part of Fortuneorb 0.7°

A productive friction: the pull between Moon and Part of Fortune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun square Uranusorb 0.9°

A productive friction: the pull between Sun and Uranus never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Saturn square Vertexorb 1.5°

A productive friction: the pull between Saturn and Vertex never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Mercury in detriment in Piscesuphill

Mercury runs uphill in Pisces, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

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Chart data for Bette Davis
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun15°52' Aries5th houseexaltation
Moon16°46' Gemini7th house·
Mercury20°01' Pisces4th housedetriment
Venus0°13' Gemini7th house·
Mars29°16' Taurus7th housedetriment, chart ruler
Jupiter3°37' Leo9th house·
Saturn2°09' Aries4th housefall
Uranus16°48' Capricorn2nd house·
Neptune12°07' Cancer8th house·
Pluto22°55' Gemini8th house·
Chiron22°00' Aquarius3rd house·
North Node8°49' Cancer8th houseretrograde
South Node8°49' Capricorn2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith10°23' Leo9th house·
Part of Fortune17°31' Virgo10th house·
Vertex0°41' Cancer8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
uranustrinepart-of-fortune0.71°applying
moonsquarepart-of-fortune0.74°applying
sunsextilemoon0.90°separating
plutotrinechiron0.91°applying
sunsquareuranus0.93°applying
venusconjunctionmars0.96°separating
jupitertrinesaturn1.47°applying
saturnsquarevertex1.47°separating
venussextilesaturn1.94°applying
mercuryoppositionpart-of-fortune2.50°separating
marssextilesaturn2.89°applying
mercurysquarepluto2.91°applying
mercurysextileuranus3.21°separating
moonsquaremercury3.24°applying
neptuneconjunctionnorth-node3.30°separating
venussextilejupiter3.40°applying
sunsquareneptune3.75°separating
uranusoppositionneptune4.68°separating
moontrinechiron5.24°applying
plutosquarepart-of-fortune5.41°separating
suntrinelilith5.48°separating
moonconjunctionpluto6.15°applying
sunsquarenorth-node7.05°separating
moonquincunxuranus0.03°separating
venussemisextilevertex0.46°applying
sunsemisquarevenus0.65°applying
marsquintilelilith0.88°separating
jupitersemisquarepart-of-fortune1.11°separating
mercurysesquiquadratejupiter1.39°separating
marssemisextilevertex1.42°applying
north-nodesemisextilelilith1.57°separating
venussesquiquadrateuranus1.58°applying
sunsemisquaremars1.60°separating
sunquincunxpart-of-fortune1.64°applying
neptunesemisextilelilith1.73°applying
chironsesquiquadratenorth-node1.81°applying
moonsemisquarejupiter1.85°applying
mercurysemisextilechiron1.99°applying