Celebrity StarMap · Musician

Bette Davis’s birth chart
Born April 5, 1908 in Lowell at 21:00.
Aries Sun · Gemini Moon · Scorpio rising · Fire · Cardinal
Sun
♈Aries
15° Aries 52'
You start things. Your energy is direct and impatient with delay, and you are most yourself when there is something to go first at. The work of an Aries Sun is finishing what the spark began.
Moon
♊Gemini
16° Gemini 46'
You process feeling by naming it. Talking, writing and switching perspective are how you settle, and silence can make small worries loud. You need people who let you think out loud.
Rising
♏Scorpio
18° Scorpio 25'
You come across as intense and self-contained. People sense that there is more going on than you are saying, and they are right.
Placements
| ☉ | Sun | ♈ 15° Aries 52' | House 5 |
| ☽ | Moon | ♊ 16° Gemini 46' | House 7 |
| ☿ | Mercury | ♓ 20° Pisces 01' | House 4 |
| ♀ | Venus | ♊ 0° Gemini 13' | House 7 |
| ♂ | Mars | ♉ 29° Taurus 16' | House 7 |
| ♃ | Jupiter | ♌ 3° Leo 37' | House 9 |
| ♄ | Saturn | ♈ 2° Aries 09' | House 4 |
| ♅ | Uranus | ♑ 16° Capricorn 48' | House 2 |
| ♆ | Neptune | ♋ 12° Cancer 07' | House 8 |
| ♇ | Pluto | ♊ 22° Gemini 55' | House 8 |
| ☊ | North Node | ♋ 8° Cancer 49' | House 8 |
| ☋ | South Node | ♑ 8° Capricorn 49' | House 2 |
Bette Davis's full reading
Each planet by sign and house. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.
☉Sun in Aries
♈ 15° Aries 52' · fifth house
purpose and vitality
Their sense of purpose comes alive when there is a clear start line. They feel most like themselves pushing into something new, though their energy can burn hot and fade before the finish. It shows up as the project they launch with excitement and then hand off once the routine sets in.
Self-expression, romance and creative play are where they feel most alive, and holding that part of themselves back tends to leave they flat. They need a stage of some kind, even a small and informal one, or their natural warmth has nowhere real to go.
☽Moon in Gemini
♊ 16° Gemini 46' · seventh house
needs and habits
Their daily habits run on conversation and mental stimulation, and they settle by talking a worry through rather than sitting with it quietly. The tension is restlessness when a day has no one to talk to. It shows up as texting a friend the moment something is on their mind, before they have even decided what they think about it.
They feel most themselves inside a close partnership, and they tend to read the emotional temperature of any relationship Bette is in almost constantly and instinctively. Being alone for too long can leave they feeling unmoored, even when nothing is actually wrong.
☿Mercury in Pisces
♓ 20° Pisces 01' · fourth house
mind and voice
They think in images and impressions more than straight lines, and they communicate through metaphor, tone and instinct rather than clean argument. The tension is struggling to explain a conclusion they nonetheles feel certain about. It shows up as knowing something is off before they can say why.
They think a great deal about home, family and where they originally come from, and conversations with family tend to carry more weight for they than they might for others. Their childhood shaped how their mind works in ways Bette is still discovering as an adult.
♀Venus in Gemini
♊ 0° Gemini 13' · seventh house
love and values
They love through conversation, wit and mental connection, and a partner who bores they i harder to stay with than one who challenges they. They value variety and being kept interested. The tension is treating a wandering attention as more serious than it is. It shows up as flirting through banter more naturally than through anything more direct.
Partnership is where they shine, and they naturally seem to know how to make a relationship feel balanced, fair and warm without much conscious effort. They likely draw people toward committed pairing more than toward casual or short-term connection, even when Bette is not trying to.
♂Mars in Taurus
♉ 29° Taurus 16' · seventh house
drive and anger
They act deliberately and stick with a course once they have chosen it, and their anger builds slowly but takes a long time to cool once it arrives. The tension is digging in out of stubbornness rather than conviction. It shows up as needing real provocation to snap, and staying rattled for a while after they do.
Partnership can bring out both their passion and their temper in equal measure, and conflict with people close to they tend to be direct rather than quietly avoided. Bette is drawn to partners who can genuinely match their intensity instead of shrinking from it.
♃Jupiter in Leo
♌ 3° Leo 37' · ninth house
growth and excess
They grow through creative confidence and a willingness to take up space. The overreach is overselling their own contribution or expecting more credit than a situation calls for. It shows up as a natural showmanship that lifts a room, and occasionally a story that grows a little in the retelling.
This is Jupiter's natural home, and travel, higher learning and big philosophical questions genuinely excite they more than almost anything else in life. Bette is the person most likely to say yes to the unplanned trip or the ambitious degree without much hesitation.
♄Saturn in Aries
♈ 2° Aries 09' · fourth house
discipline and doubt
They build discipline around learning to act with patience instead of pure impulse, and the doubt shows up as second-guessing whether they moved too fast or not fast enough. It shows up as a slow-earned confidence in their own initiative that finally arrives once they stop rushing every decision.
Home and family responsibilities have likely weighed on they from a fairly early age, and building a stable home may have taken real, deliberate and sustained effort. The security they eventually create there means more precisely because of how much work it actually took.
♅Uranus in Capricorn
♑ 16° Capricorn 48' · second house
freedom, generational
Shared by everyone born in this span, this placement marks a generation that dismantles and rebuilds old institutions and authority structures. Personally, it can show up as scepticism toward systems that ask for trust without having earned it.
Their relationship with money and values tends to shift unexpectedly over time, and conventional ideas about what counts as worth rarely satisfy they for very long. They may find real security in unconventional ways of earning or valuing things that most people would overlook entirely.
♆Neptune in Cancer
♋ 12° Cancer 07' · eighth house
imagination, generational
Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who idealise home and family, often carrying a wider cultural nostalgia for a version of belonging that may never have quite existed. Personally, it can show up as a soft-focus longing for a childhood home.
Intimacy for they can feel like dissolving the usual boundaries with another person, for better and sometimes for worse, and Bette is sensitive to what goes unsaid between they. Real trust asks they to stay reasonably grounded rather than merge completely and lose their own outline.
♇Pluto in Gemini
♊ 22° Gemini 55' · eighth house
power, generational
Shared by everyone born in this span, this placement marks a generation that transforms communication and collective thought itself, often through upheavals in how information is controlled and shared. Personally, it can show up as an intense relationship with what counts as truth.
This is Pluto's natural home, and questions of trust, power and what is truly shared between people matter enormously to they, more than to most. Bette is drawn to understanding what most people are frankly too afraid to look at directly, even about themselves.
Aspects
How the planets in Bette Davis's chart talk to each other, tightest first.
Sun sextile Moon
0.9° separating
Their goals and their instincts get along, offering a gentle opening to build confidence when they choose to use it. A little intentional effort turns this ease into real, lasting self-assurance that holds up even when a day goes sideways.
Sun square Uranus
0.9° applying
Their identity keeps bumping against a need to break from convention, which can look like sudden changes of direction that surprise the people around they. The lesson is choosing their disruptions rather than letting restlessness choose them for they.
Venus conjunction Mars
1.0° separating
Their affections and their drive are closely linked, so wanting something and pursuing it feel like the same impulse. This gives they real romantic and creative energy, and the edge is letting the wanting last past the initial chase.
Jupiter trine Saturn
1.5° applying
Their optimism and their discipline reinforce each other, letting they pursue big goals with real, steady follow-through. Growth for they tend to be gradual and durable rather than sudden and fragile, the kind of progress that tends to survive a genuinely difficult year.
- Venus sextile Saturn1.9°
- Mars sextile Saturn2.9°
- Mercury square Pluto2.9°
- Mercury sextile Uranus3.2°
- Moon square Mercury3.2°
- Venus sextile Jupiter3.4°
- Sun square Neptune3.7°
- Mars sextile Jupiter4.4°
- Uranus opposition Neptune4.7°
- Moon conjunction Pluto6.2°
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Birth data: Wikidata, Astro-Databank (From memory). Confidence A. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
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