Bette Davis

Autobiographer and stage actor · United States · 1908–1989

Aries 15.5° · born April 5, 1908
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Gemini throughout that civil day. Venus crossed from Taurus into Gemini during that day, so its sign is left open. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

The Sun stands at 15.5° Aries, in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best. Of everything the chart can be read for without a birth time, that is the loudest single fact in it.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Lowell—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun's position resolves to 15.5° Aries — deep enough in the second decan (10°–20°) that the Sun, its traditional sub-ruler, colours the reading.

The fast planets

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 19.5° Pisces, Mars was at 29.0° Taurus. Read together: thought steeped in tone and memory; effort banked steadily until it tells.

The angles that hold

Closest first: Venus to Mars, a conjunction with 0.8° of slack. Two bodies in the same degree are not read as neighbours but as a merger: whatever one wants, the other is already funding. Behind it, the Sun square Uranus at 1.3°, and Jupiter trine Saturn at 1.5° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. All of it stands whatever the hour was: each angle was tested from midnight to midnight before it was written down.

The standing structure

Uranus opposes Neptune while both square the Sun. A t-square aims the whole axis at its apex planet; the tradition reads it as the chart’s standing assignment. The Moon makes no major aspect that survives the day; the old reading gives such a planet autonomy — it acts alone, sometimes loudly.

The classical map

The dignity table, which predates the outer planets and only ever spoke for seven, marks four placements here. The Sun in Aries at 15.5° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Mercury in Pisces at 19.5° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Mars in Taurus at 29.0° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Saturn in Aries at 2.1° is in fall. None of this ranks anyone; dignity describes footing, and footing can be worked with.

The shape of the whole

Among the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the elements divide 3 fire, 2 air, 2 water, 2 earth; by modality, 4 cardinal, 3 mutable, 2 fixed. Fire signs carry the scheme’s forward pressure: heat applied early, patience treated as a later skill. Venus crossed from Taurus into Gemini during that day, so its sign is left open. Nothing here ran retrograde — all ten in direct motion that day.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Gemini for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.7° between midnight and midnight. That is quick enough to make the exact degree a neighbourhood rather than an address, and slow enough to leave the sign settled. At the noon reference it stands at 12.1°.

Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes

Source article: Bette Davis · revision 1364106502
Wikidata: Q71206 · revision 2518652800
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1908-04-05 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Lowell, United States · Q49162
Coordinates: 42.6394, -71.3147 · from Lowell
Reference instant: 1908-04-05T17:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.65° · The Moon remained in Gemini throughout that civil day.
Open signs: Venus crossed from Taurus into Gemini during that day, so its sign is left open.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Studio Publicity · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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