Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Sigmund Freud♉︎︎ TaurusSun
Carl Jung♌︎︎ LeoSun
RivalsBest friendsCollaborators

Mars sextile Sun at six hundredths of a degree

Exact, and all soft

Cross-aspects
4
Inside 1.5°
2
Tightest orb
0.06°

Low in the range for contact across 93 pairs charted (29–86, median 41).

Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung compatibility

↓ Below: all 4 aspects named, with orbs

Birth data: C

The original source is unknown. No recorded verification, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.

Note on this rating: Rectified from an approximate time; treat the ascendant as uncertain.

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

Sextile

Sigmund Freud's Mars and Carl Jung's Sun sit 60° apart, off exact by 0.06°.

Orb 0.06°, Near-exact, Soft

Sextile

Sigmund Freud's Sun and Carl Jung's Venus sit 60° apart, off exact by 1.17°.

Orb 1.17°, Near-exact, Soft

All 4, tightest firstSigmund Freud → Carl Jung
Sigmund Freud's Sun sextile Carl Jung's Mercury
Close
2.6°
Sigmund Freud's Venus trine Carl Jung's Mars
Wide
4.8°

Category shape

Five categories, one chart each

Attraction

VENUS × MARS

live spark, from Sigmund Freud's Venus trine Carl Jung's Mars

28

Identity

SUN × SUN

No aspect inside orb. Their core identities read independently of each other here.

None

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

Sigmund Freud, filled ringCarl Jung, outlined ring

Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung'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.

Thin line, Mars to SunSEXTILE 0.06°
Thin line, Sun to VenusSEXTILE 1.17°
House ring, not drawn

Why they click

Freud's Mars sextiles Jung's Sun at 0.06 degrees, about as close to exact as an aspect gets. His drive meets the younger man's identity at an easy angle: encouragement that arrives as recognition. Freud's Sun sextiles Jung's Venus at 1.17 and his Mercury at 2.56, so three separate soft contacts run from Freud's chart into Jung's. All four aspects in the pair are soft. Nothing here is abrasive.

Why they clash

For two men whose entire association was conversation, there is no Mercury to Mercury contact at all. No Sun to Sun either, no Venus to Venus, no Mars to Mars. Every category sits at or just under the no-contact baseline, and the highest, attraction at 28, is a wide Venus trine Mars that scores below the floor. The traffic is one-directional: Freud's planets reach Jung's, and almost nothing returns. A pairing with no hard aspects also has no structure for disagreement.

What each system says

Twelve systems, two people

Western astrology
Sigmund FreudTaurus Sun
Carl JungLeo Sun

The Suns are 77° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.

Chinese zodiac
Sigmund FreudDragon
Carl JungPig

Dragon and Pig are in neither the trines nor the clashes.

Numerology
Sigmund FreudLife Path 4
Carl JungLife Path 9
Tarot birth cards
Sigmund Freudthe_emperor
Carl Jungthe_hermit

Shared history

Shared life events

19073 MarchOther

First meets Carl Jung in Vienna

Freud and Jung met for the first time at Freud's home in Vienna and talked for thirteen hours virtually without pause, beginning a six-year collaboration that ended in estrangement.Library of Congress, 'The Red Book of Carl G. Jung' exhibition; Smithsonian Magazine, 'When Freud Met Jung'

Sep 4Mar 3Aug 30

Sep 4, 1906 – Aug 30, 1907 · 360 days

Sigmund Freud

Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown

  1. Pluto sextile Midheavenslow0.00°1/1Jul 2
  2. Chiron square Sunslow0.01°1/2Mar 24
  3. Neptune trine Ascendantslow0.01°2/3Apr 25
  4. Uranus sextile Ascendantslow0.01°1/2Jan 27
  5. Chiron trine Moonslow0.01°1/2Feb 27
  6. Saturn square Moonslow0.04°2/2Feb 13
  7. Saturn sextile Sunslow0.06°2/2Feb 26
  8. Jupiter square Marsfast0.00°2/2Apr 6
  9. North Node sextile Marsfast0.03°1/1Dec 13

Editorial note · Jupiter square Mars

The first meeting with Carl Jung carried a dynamic, transformative energy, hinting at expansive yet challenging exchanges on deep psychological themes.

Carl Jung

Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only

  1. Pluto opposition Marsslow0.00°1/1Jan 2
  2. Saturn trine Venusslow0.00°1/1Mar 8
  3. Pluto opposition Marsslow0.36°1/2Mar 7
  4. Uranus opposition Mercuryslow1.06°1/3Apr 18
  5. North Node conjunction Sunfast0.03°1/1Dec 13

Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Carl Jung, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.

What does sextile mean between two charts?How much does an orb under one degree actually change a reading?

Frequently asked

Are Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung astrologically compatible?

Their charts make 4 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.06° and 1.17°. 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 Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung 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 sextile mean between two charts?

A sextile puts two placements in a supportive relation that usually needs some initiative to activate. Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung have 3 sextile contacts between them, more than any other type.

Exact, and all soft

Read the relationship as one chart

This page compares Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, because those are the four that a birth date alone can place. With no hard contact between the two, a composite chart, the midpoint of both, often reads clean.