Betty White—the Very Essence of Uranus in Pisces

©5-15-2010 by Donna Cunningham, MSW

 Betty White was guest host on Saturday Night Live for the first time on May 8^th, as ratings soared.   A giant campaign by her fans on Facebook got her the gig—and she didn’t even belong at the time.  (If you missed it and you have On Demand through a cable company, you can still see it for the next few weeks.)

Not bad for an 88 ½ year old lady, she proudly proclaimed. Her age had to mean she has Uranus in Pisces, and looking her up in AstroDataBank, I found it’s part of a Grand Water Trine, with Uranus in the 7^th, Pluto in Cancer in the 11^th, and Mars in Scorpio in the 4^th.

According to her birth record, rated A from memory, she was born on January 17, 1922, at 6:38 PM CST in Oak Park, Il, 41N53; 87W47.  (See her AstroDataBank bio here:  White, Betty. ) Her chart is below:

That Mars-Uranus-Pluto Grand Trine explained something that’s been surprising the last few times I’ve seen her on TV. The lady is raunchy—no, I’d go so far as to say she’s RAW!!!  The first time I noticed it was an appearance on Craig Ferguson. No lightweight at innuendo himself, Craig was visibly shocked at what was coming out of her mouth! (Chloris Leachman, another Uranus in Pisces, also doesn’t seem to care what she says on television.)

Now, I love Betty White—who doesn’t—but back in the day when she and hubby Alan Ludden hosted Password, she seemed like a prim and proper housewife—more like her Moon in Virgo that trines her Sun and Mercury in Capricorn.

A quality of Uranus in Pisces that we’ve seen in her all along is a wacky, ditzy sense of humor. Fey would be the word. She’s actually very smart, but played a befuddled, clueless type in sitcoms like The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Golden Girls.

 These Emmy-winning comedic roles also match her Neptune in Leo (it’s in the 12^th but conjunct the Ascendant), which is in a fixed t-square opposite Mercury in Aquarius  and square that same,  potent Mars in Scorpio.

Still sharp, lively, and full of sass, Betty is completing several planetary cycles that few of us live to see. She had her Uranus return at age 83-84 in 2005-6. While some of you are still bitching, moaning, and dreading your 1^st or 2^nd Saturn return, Betty’s THIRD Saturn return is coming up in October, when Saturn reaches 7° Libra. Another cycle she’s having that few of us will have to worry about is her Pluto opposition to natal Pluto at 8° Cancer.

In fact, the Cardinal t-square we’ve all heard so much about will set off Betty’s natal t-square in Cardinal signs: Saturn at 7° Libra on the cusp of the 2^nd/3^rd, Pluto at 8° Cancer in the 11^th, and Chiron at 9° Aries in the 9^th.

What do I think it means?  She’s already been in the Television Hall of Fame since 1995, so given that the 3^rd (writing) and 9^th (publishing) houses are involved, I’ll rashly predict that she’ll write a book that makes it to #1 on the New York Times Best-Seller List.

More Funny Folks with Uranus in Pisces: Zany and off-beat are words that describe Uranus in Pisces as a signature of comedy. Others with this position—whether out and out comedians or not—include Jonathan Winters, Lenny Bruce,  Harvey Korman, Paul Lynde, Johnny Carson, Steve Allen, Tony Randall, Mickey Rooney, Erma Bombeck, Kaye Ballard and Kurt Vonnegut.

Since Uranus is gearing up to change signs late this month, I’ll be doing a fond send-off for Uranus in Pisces in the days to come. I’ve got a feeling we’re going to miss it.

More articles about Uranus in Pisces on Skywriter:

• Three Things I’ve Loved about Uranus in Pisces  
• The Mars-Uranus Conjunction in Pisces and Children Born with it
• Celebrating the Last–and Future–Uranus in Pisces Generation

More Celebrities’ Charts:  What’s Up with Them?

• Depp’s Darker Roles—Where Do They Show in his Chart?
• Bruce Willis–the Man Who Has Everything Now Has a Second Wife
• Craig Ferguson Marries a Cunningham!
• Clowning Around with Chiron, Robin Williams, and an Eclipse
• Morgan Freeman and Nelson Mandela—Are their Charts Alike?
• 12 Famous People with 12th House Suns
• Things You May Not Know about the 3rd and 12th Houses
• Venus-Uranus Aspects among the Glitterati

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