Mars square Mercury at half a degree, inside a chart of mostly hard angles.
Talks, and grates
Low in the range for contact across 93 pairs charted (29–86, median 41).
Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow compatibility
↓ Below: all 7 aspects named, with orbs
Confirmed by the person or someone close to them: full chart shown, including houses and the rising sign.
Note on this rating: Birth data via astrotheme.com (Brad_Pitt), Rodden A — From memory or autobiography, crediting Lois Rodden / Astro-Databank.
This page compares Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, the four placements a birth date alone can place. Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven are left out here by design, not by omission, so nothing on this page is scored against a birth time it cannot trust.
Cross-aspects
Where the two charts actually touch
and 2 more, to 5.52°
Category shape
Five categories, one chart each
Communication
MERCURY × MERCURY
talks in sync, from Brad Pitt's Mercury square Gwyneth Paltrow's Mercury
63
Attraction
VENUS × MARS
live spark, from Brad Pitt's Venus trine Gwyneth Paltrow's Mars
31
Values
VENUS × VENUS
shared values, from Brad Pitt's Venus quincunx Gwyneth Paltrow's Venus
29
Identity
SUN × SUN
No aspect inside orb. Their core identities read independently of each other here.
None
Friction
MARS × MARS
No aspect inside orb. No built-in friction point shows up between the two Mars placements.
None
Scores rank how close a contact is to exact, not how well two people get along. A high friction score means the two Mars are in tight aspect, which is information, not a warning.
The overlap
Two charts, laid over each other
Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow's Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Moon are drawn here, along with the house ring and ascendant axis both charts support. This is a complete chart of what is known, not a partial chart of what is not.
| Thick line, Mars to Mercury | SQUARE 0.58° |
| Thick line, Sun to Mars | SQUARE 1.93° |
| House ring, drawn | |
Why they click
Communication is the highest category, and two trines carry what ease exists here: Sun trine Venus and Venus trine Mars, both wide but real. Seven aspects is a dense chart, so these two charts touch at many points even though most of those points are hard angles rather than soft ones.
Why they clash
Mars square Mercury at 0.58 degrees is the tightest contact and the most pointed: drive meeting thinking at a right angle, close to exact. Around it sit Sun square Mars, Mars square Sun, Mercury square Mercury and a Venus quincunx Venus. Five hard angles out of seven. Identity, friction and values all rest at or just below the floor, so the density of contact is not translating into any category the engine reads as strong.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 80.9° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
Rabbit and Rat are in neither the trines nor the clashes.
Frequently asked
Are Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 7 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.58° and 1.93°. Astrology does not score a relationship out of a hundred, and the number on this page counts how much contact two charts make, not how well two people do.
What does square mean between two charts?
A square puts two placements at a right angle, generating friction that tends to force action. Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow have 4 square contacts between them, more than any other type.
Tight contact, mixed valence
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This page compares Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, because those are the four that a birth date alone can place. The synastry calculator runs all ten bodies against each other.