Betty White’s birth chart
Born 17 January 1922, in Oak Park, Illinois. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Capricorn Sun · Moon in Virgo or Libra
Betty White’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
17 January 1922 was a Tuesday: the day Betty White was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Their zodiac sign was Capricorn. The Moon was in Virgo until about 21:20 and in Libra afterwards, so the Moon sign turns on the birth time. Betty died on 31 December 2021, aged 99. StarMap has no verified birth time for Betty, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
By element the count is three air, three water, two earth and one fire, leaving out the Moon, whose sign depends on the birth time. Cardinal signs hold five, fixed signs three and mutable signs one. The tightest aspect is Saturn square Pluto, about 1.0° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Three planets were retrograde: Saturn, Neptune and Pluto. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 26 other people born on 17 January, among them Muhammad Ali, Jim Carrey and Eartha Kitt.
See the sky the day Betty was born: the stars over Oak Park, Illinois, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Betty White’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Capricorn
about 26° Capricorn at midday
A Capricorn Sun endures. Ambition, patience and a dry sense of humour are what tend to carry Betty White up long slopes other people give up on. The placement learns, eventually, that rest is part of the climb.
Moon sign
Virgo or Libra
Virgo until about 21:20, then Libra (local time). Which one depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.
Born before about 21:20: Moon in Virgo
A Virgo Moon feels by fixing. When something is wrong, Betty is likely to look for the practical cause and to calm down by tidying, planning or being useful. The lesson of this Moon is to accept help without a to-do list attached.
Born after about 21:20: Moon in Libra
A Libra Moon feels through relationship. Harmony nearby tends to settle Betty, and conflict, even other people's, can unsettle them. What restores this Moon is beauty, fairness, and one person who truly listens.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over Oak Park, Illinois, at each hour of the day.
Betty White’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Betty yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 17 January 1922, computed for Oak Park, Illinois.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:40 | Libra rising |
| 00:40 to 03:15 | Scorpio rising |
| 03:15 to 05:40 | Sagittarius rising |
| 05:40 to 07:35 | Capricorn rising |
| 07:35 to 08:55 | Aquarius rising |
| 08:55 to 10:05 | Pisces rising |
| 10:05 to 11:15 | Aries rising |
| 11:15 to 12:40 | Taurus rising |
| 12:40 to 14:35 | Gemini rising |
| 14:35 to 16:55 | Cancer rising |
| 16:55 to 19:30 | Leo rising |
| 19:30 to 22:05 | Virgo rising |
| 22:05 to 24:00 | Libra rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 17 January 1922, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 26° Capricorn 52' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Virgo until about 21:20, then Libra |
| Mercury | 10° Aquarius 04' |
| Venus | 21° Capricorn 27' |
| Mars | 12° Scorpio 48' |
| Jupiter | 18° Libra 28' |
| Saturn | 7° Libra 36'℞ |
| Uranus | 7° Pisces 18' |
| Neptune | 15° Leo 04'℞ |
| Pluto | 8° Cancer 39'℞ |
| North Node | 11° Libra 50' |
| South Node | 11° Aries 50' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Betty White’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Betty White’s private life.
With the Sun in Capricorn, Betty White is likely to find purpose in building a reputation and a structure that will outlast them, with a vitality that is steady rather than showy. The trap can be measuring their worth by output alone. They may well work through tiredness instead of naming it, until someone else has to point it out.
Moon in Virgo or Libra
Virgo until about 21:20, then Libra
needs and habits
Born before about 21:20: Moon in Virgo
The Moon in Virgo runs towards order, and a messy space or an unfinished list can unsettle Betty's mood more than most people would guess. Small, useful tasks are calming. The trouble can start when Betty's own needs become another chore to get right instead of something to enjoy.
Born after about 21:20: Moon in Libra
A Libra Moon needs harmony in the immediate surroundings to feel settled day to day, and a tense conversation nearby can throw off Betty's whole afternoon. Comfort comes from pleasant company and pleasant spaces. The habit to watch is smoothing things over before they have worked out what they want.
In Betty's chart, Mercury in Aquarius describes thinking that is original and a step removed from convention, and communication that works best through ideas rather than small talk. The stubborn streak is holding a position out of principle after the evidence has moved on. In a group, this is the person who asks the question nobody else thought to ask.
For Betty, Venus in Capricorn means loving in a measured, committed way and valuing stability, ambition and someone to build a life with. The trap is treating a relationship like a project to manage rather than let unfold. With this Venus, love comes out more easily as providing and planning than as words said out loud.
In Betty's chart, Mars in Scorpio acts with focus and intensity, and its anger, when it surfaces, tends to be controlled, cutting and hard to forget. The risk with this Mars is holding on to a grievance well past its useful life. A calm exterior gives little warning before a sharp response.
Jupiter in Libra
18° Libra 28' at midday
growth and excess
In Betty's chart, Jupiter in Libra suggests growth through partnership and a gift for bringing people together. Excess here looks like pleasing people so broadly that every expectation becomes a commitment. Someone with this Jupiter is often the connector whose introductions and events other people benefit from more than they realise.
For Betty, Saturn in Libra means discipline built around relationships, and fairness and commitment are trusted slowly. The doubt is overthinking whether a partnership is truly equal. With time, people with this Saturn tend to become the ones others rely on to negotiate and to keep things fair.
Uranus in Pisces
7° Pisces 18' at midday
freedom, generational
Betty has Uranus in Pisces in common with a generation. That generation transforms spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries that earlier ones kept firm. In one person it may be noticed as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.
Neptune in Leo
15° Leo 04' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Betty alone. It dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. The trace of it in one person is a pull towards performance as a way of feeling real.
Pluto in Cancer
8° Cancer 39' at midday ℞
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Betty to an era rather than describing one person. Those born in it live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. What an individual may carry is intensity around belonging and who counts as family.
Aspects in Betty White’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Saturn square Pluto
about 1.0° at midday
Saturn square Pluto sets the need for control against the instinct for transformation, and Betty White may grip a structure most tightly at the very moment it needs to change. Each old form that is let go leaves a strength behind that is more real than the grip was.
Mars square Neptune
about 2.3° at midday
Under this square, drive can dissolve into confusion or self-doubt just when clarity matters most, especially around goals that involve other people's expectations. It helps Betty to separate the plan itself from the feeling of overwhelm that surrounds it.
Mercury trine Saturn
about 2.5° at midday
Betty's thinking has discipline behind it, which gives them a clear, methodical way of working through ideas. With Mercury trine Saturn, conclusions can be trusted because they have usually been tested already, often more thoroughly than anyone nearby realises.
Mercury square Mars
about 2.7° at midday
With Mercury square Mars, thought and impulse can clash, and sharp words get said before Betty has fully thought them through. The remedy is a short pause between the thought and the sentence, which changes very little except the outcome.
Venus square Jupiter
about 3.0° at midday
Under this square, Betty's generosity can run past what is sustainable, whether in time, affection or promises made in a warm moment. The warmth is sincere; the work is matching it to a scale that can be kept up over the months that follow the excitement, not only the first one.
Jupiter sextile Neptune
about 3.4° at midday
Inspired ideas are within Betty's reach without any loss of footing, since possibility and imagination are gently linked by this sextile. The optimism is soft and workable, useful for keeping a project hopeful without letting it drift far from what is real.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Uranus trine Plutoabout 1.3°
- Mars trine Plutoabout 4.2°
- Mercury opposition Neptuneabout 5.0°
- Sun conjunction Venusabout 5.4°
- Mars trine Uranusabout 5.5°
Capricorn Suns born within 2 years of Betty White
Also born on 17 January
How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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