Three quincunxes: a chart made almost entirely of adjustment.
Never quite settles
Low in the range for contact across 93 pairs charted (29–86, median 41).
Katy Perry and Russell Brand 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 (Russell_Brand), Rodden A, from memory or autobiography. Credits 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 6.19°
Category shape
Five categories, one chart each
Friction
MARS × MARS
friction point, from Katy Perry's Mars square Russell Brand's Mars
72
Attraction
VENUS × MARS
live spark, from Katy Perry's Venus trine Russell Brand's Mars
36
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
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
Katy Perry and Russell Brand'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.
| Thin line, Mercury to Sun | QUINCUNX 0.75° |
| Thin line, Mars to Sun | QUINCUNX 1.67° |
| House ring, drawn | |
Why they click
Venus trine Mars is the one genuinely easy contact, and it carries most of what the attraction score registers. One chart's capacity for affection meeting the other's drive at a flowing angle gives this pairing its pull. Friction scores second highest of the five categories, which on this scale describes a pairing with real energy in it. The chart is active rather than quiet: something is always being negotiated between these two.
Why they clash
Three of the seven aspects are quincunxes, and two sit under two degrees: Mercury quincunx Sun at 0.75, Mars quincunx Sun at 1.67. A quincunx is the angle of permanent adjustment, two placements that can neither harmonise nor properly conflict. Three of them describes a relationship in constant low-level recalibration. Mars square Mars adds a direct contest of pace on top. Identity, communication and values all sit at the floor, so there is little steady ground beneath the adjusting.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 139.6° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
Rat and Rabbit are in neither the trines nor the clashes.
Shared history
Shared life events
Katy Perry and Russell Brand marry in Rajasthan
They married in a Hindu ceremony at a tiger sanctuary in Rajasthan, India, after a year together. Brand filed for divorce fourteen months later.Source ↗
Jul 29, 2010 – Jan 17, 2011 · 172 days
Katy Perry
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto sextile Sunslow
Editorial note · Pluto sextile Sun
Pluto sextile her second-house Sun reflected a period of deep personal empowerment and evolving core values during her transformative marital commitment.
Russell Brand
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn opposition Marsslow
- Uranus trine Venusslow
- Uranus sextile Ascendantslow
- Pluto square Moonslow
- North Node square Moonfast
- Jupiter square Mercuryfast
Frequently asked
Are Katy Perry and Russell Brand astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 7 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.75° and 1.67°. 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 quincunx mean between two charts?
A quincunx puts two placements at an awkward angle with no easy geometric relation, an adjustment rather than a flow or a clash. Katy Perry and Russell Brand have 3 quincunx 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.