Communication scores 96, and every route it travels is a square.
Talks constantly
Middle of the range for contact across 93 pairs charted (29–86, median 41).
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton compatibility
↓ Below: all 8 aspects named, with orbs
Sources conflict on the birth time. No recorded verification, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.
Note on this rating: Birth time 15:00, Rodden DD (conflicting sources) via astrotheme.com. Treat angle-based placements with caution.
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 3 more, to 5.26°
Category shape
Five categories, one chart each
Communication
MERCURY × MERCURY
talks in sync, from Elizabeth Taylor's Mercury square Richard Burton's Mercury
96
Friction
MARS × MARS
friction point, from Elizabeth Taylor's Mars trine Richard Burton's Mars
36
Attraction
VENUS × MARS
live spark, from Elizabeth Taylor's Mars sextile Richard Burton's Venus
35
Identity
SUN × SUN
No aspect inside orb. Their core identities read independently of each other here.
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
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars are drawn here, the four placements a birth date alone can place with no birth time required. This is a complete chart of what is known, not a partial chart of what is not.
| Thick line, Sun to Mercury | SQUARE 0.46° |
| Thin line, Venus to Sun | QUINCUNX 0.54° |
| House ring, not drawn | |
Why they click
Communication is by far the strongest category here, and the aspects behind it are unusually tight: Sun square Mercury at 0.46 degrees, Mercury square Mercury at 0.64, Venus quincunx Sun at 0.54. Three contacts inside a single degree is rare. Mars trine Mars adds a genuinely easy line, a shared sense of pace. What this describes is a pair who are always in contact, always mid-exchange, rarely quiet with each other.
Why they clash
A square is a hard angle, so scoring 96 on communication does not mean the talking is comfortable. It means the channel is wide open and abrasive. Mercury square Mercury in particular reads as two minds that engage constantly and rarely settle. Identity and values both sit at the floor, so the constant exchange is not resting on a shared sense of who they are or what matters. On this scale, that is a pairing that talks its way through everything, including the parts that do not resolve.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 109.6° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
Monkey and Ox are in neither the trines nor the clashes.
Shared history
Shared life events
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton remarry
Their second marriage, in Botswana, sixteen months after the first ended. It lasted less than a year.Source ↗
Aug 19 – Dec 1, 1975 · 104 days
Elizabeth Taylor
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus trine Marsslow
- Neptune square Mercuryslow
- Neptune square Sunslow
- Jupiter conjunction Venusfast
Editorial note · Uranus trine Mars
The public remarriage of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton embodied the harmonious, unconventional drive of Uranus trine Mars in house 10.
Richard Burton
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Chiron opposition Marsslow
- Neptune conjunction Mercuryslow
Editorial note · Neptune conjunction Mercury
The Neptune conjunction Mercury transit for their remarriage reflected an idealistic or dreamlike quality in their renewed commitment.
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Richard Burton, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Frequently asked
Are Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 8 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.46° and 0.54°. 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.
Why isn't there a house ring on the chart above?
At least one of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton doesn't have a curated, non-estimated birth time, so a house placement would be a guess. This page only shows what a birth date alone can place.
What does square mean between two charts?
A square puts two placements at a right angle, generating friction that tends to force action. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton have 3 square contacts between them, more than any other type.
Sources & further reading
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.