Identity scores 90 on a Sun square, and Venus softens all three corners.
Locked together
Middle of the range for contact across 93 pairs charted (29–86, median 41).
Cher and Sonny Bono compatibility
↓ Below: all 6 aspects named, with orbs
Verified by a birth certificate or official record: full chart shown, including houses and the rising sign.
Note on this rating: Birth certificate, cited by Contemporary American Horoscopes via AstroTheme.
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 1 more, to 2.45°
Category shape
Five categories, one chart each
Identity
SUN × SUN
core identity dynamic, from Cher's Sun square Sonny Bono's Sun
90
Attraction
VENUS × MARS
live spark, from Cher's Venus trine Sonny Bono's Mars
48
Communication
MERCURY × MERCURY
No aspect inside orb. This engine finds no direct communication channel between them.
None
Friction
MARS × MARS
No aspect inside orb. No built-in friction point shows up between the two Mars placements.
None
Values
VENUS × VENUS
No aspect inside orb. Their values neither align nor clash by this measure.
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
Cher and Sonny Bono'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, Sun to Mercury | SQUARE 1.14° |
| Thick line, Sun to Sun | SQUARE 1.49° |
| House ring, drawn | |
Why they click
Three Venus trines carry the warmth here: Venus to Sun, Venus to Mercury and Venus to Mars, all inside two degrees. One person's capacity for affection reaches the other's identity, thinking and drive at the easiest angle the engine measures. That is an unusually even spread. Where many pairings have one warm contact, this one has affection touching three separate parts of the other chart, which reads as a bond that is comfortable across several registers at once.
Why they clash
Identity is the top category, and it is built on Sun square Sun at 1.49 degrees. A square between two Suns is the angle of two people who cannot ignore each other and cannot easily merge either. Sun square Mercury repeats it at just over a degree. Communication, friction and values all sit at the floor, so almost nothing outside those Venus trines and the Sun tension is registering. The picture is a strong personal charge with little shared ground underneath it.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 91.5° apart, close enough to feed the identity category above.
Dog and Pig are in neither the trines nor the clashes.
Shared history
Shared life events
Sonny and Cher's divorce is finalized
The divorce ending the marriage at the centre of their act became final in Los Angeles, roughly a year after the couple separated and the third season of The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour collapsed. The two continued to appear together on television afterwards, reuniting on Late Night with David Letterman in 1987.Source ↗
Dec 28, 1974 – Dec 23, 1975 · 360 days
Cher
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto square Ascendantslow
- Chiron sextile Venusslow
- Saturn opposition Moonslow
- North Node opposition Sunfast
- Jupiter square Moonfast
Editorial note · Jupiter square Moon
Jupiter square Moon in house 10 accompanied the public and emotional finalization of Sonny and Cher's divorce.
Sonny Bono
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto conjunction Ascendantslow
- Pluto square Midheavenslow
- Chiron sextile Mercuryslow
- Chiron sextile Sunslow
- Saturn trine Venusslow
- Uranus trine Mercuryslow
- Uranus trine Sunslow
- North Node square Mercuryfast
Frequently asked
Are Cher and Sonny Bono astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 6 cross-aspects, the tightest at 1.14° and 1.49°. 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 trine mean between two charts?
A trine puts two placements in easy relation, a flow that takes little effort to access. Cher and Sonny Bono have 3 trine 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.