Attraction scores 73, and three quincunxes keep it from settling.
Charged, unsettled
Low in the range for contact across 93 pairs charted (29–86, median 41).
Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton compatibility
↓ Below: all 5 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 date 1955-08-04 from Wikidata Q202735 (day precision) and the English Wikipedia article. Birth city Hot Springs, Arkansas from Wikidata P19. Birth time unknown, so Rodden X and the time is an estimate.
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
Category shape
Five categories, one chart each
Attraction
VENUS × MARS
live spark, from Laura Dern's Mars square Billy Bob Thornton's Venus
73
Communication
MERCURY × MERCURY
talks in sync, from Laura Dern's Mercury quincunx Billy Bob Thornton's Mercury
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
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
Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton'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, Venus to Mars | QUINCUNX 1.84° |
| Thin line, Venus to Sun | QUINCUNX 2.25° |
| House ring, drawn | |
Why they click
Attraction is by far the strongest category, and the contacts feeding it are the Venus and Mars pairings: Venus quincunx Mars at 1.84, Mars square Venus at 4.12, Sun opposite Mars at 5.84. Hard angles between Venus and Mars are the classic signature of charge rather than comfort. On this scale the chart reads as a pairing with real pull in it, none of it the restful kind.
Why they clash
Three of the five aspects are quincunxes, including Mercury to Mercury at 2.32. A quincunx is the angle of permanent adjustment, and having one sit between the two Mercuries means the exchange itself never quite lands. Communication scores lowest of the five as a result. Identity, friction and values all sit at the floor. Strong charge, thin foundation, and a constant working-around in how the two of them talk.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 170.1° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
Goat and Goat are in neither the trines nor the clashes.
Frequently asked
Are Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 5 cross-aspects, the tightest at 1.84° and 2.25°. 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. Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton have 3 quincunx 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.