Venus trine Venus holds the centre while Mercury takes hits from every side.
Shared taste
Barack Obama and Michelle Obama compatibility
↓ Below: all 37 contacts named, with orbs
No birth time on record, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.
Note on this rating: Birth date and place from Wikipedia; birth time undocumented — Rodden X pending Astro-Databank check.
This page compares the nine bodies a birth date alone can place, Sun through Pluto, and lists the Chiron and lunar node contacts alongside them. The Moon is drawn as the span it could have moved through and is scored in nothing here; the ascendant axis and the house ring are left out by design, not by omission, so nothing on this page is scored against a birth time it cannot trust.
The overlap
Where the two charts touch
Barack Obama’s Sun and Michelle Obama’s Jupiter are 0.03 degrees from an exact trine.
Michelle Obama’s birth time is not exact, so the Moon is not scored and the ascendant axis and house ring are not drawn for either chart. Sun through Pluto move at most about two degrees in a day, so every contact below is the same whatever the time.
Sun through Pluto, one chart on each axis
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| Planet | Sun | Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sun Trine Jupiter | Sun Square Neptune | |||||||
| Mercury | Mercury Opposition Sun | Mercury Quincunx Mercury | Mercury Quincunx Venus | Mercury Opposition Mars | |||||
| Venus | Venus Opposition Mercury | Venus Trine Venus | Venus Quincunx Mars | ||||||
| Mars | Mars Trine Sun | Mars Quincunx Saturn | |||||||
| Jupiter | Jupiter Conjunction Sun | Jupiter Conjunction Mars | |||||||
| Saturn | Saturn Conjunction Sun | Saturn Conjunction Mars | |||||||
| Uranus | Uranus Quincunx Sun | Uranus Opposition Venus | Uranus Opposition Saturn | ||||||
| Neptune | Neptune Sextile Mercury | Neptune Square Mars | Neptune Sextile Uranus | ||||||
| Pluto | Pluto Trine Mercury | Pluto Opposition Venus | Pluto Conjunction Uranus | Pluto Conjunction Pluto |
25 of the 37 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 25 are in the grid. A boxed cell is within one degree. The other 12 contacts involve Chiron and the lunar nodes and are listed below, 3 of them in the tight layer.
A cell is a plain glyph. The aspect it names is a Codex Link in the sentences above.
Barack Obama inner ring, Michelle Obama outer ring, with the contacts inside one degree drawn. 3 of them are between Sun and Pluto; the rest involve bodies that are not on either ring.
All 37 contacts, in four layers
Within one degree
6 of 37The contacts closest to exact, whichever bodies they involve. 3 of these are Chiron or lunar node contacts, so they are named here and are not in the grid above. Tightest first, which is the only order that holds for every pair.
- Barack Obama's Sun trine Michelle Obama's Jupiter
- Barack Obama's Mars quincunx Michelle Obama's Saturn
- Barack Obama's Chiron sextile Michelle Obama's Mercury
- Barack Obama's Sun quincunx Michelle Obama's Chiron
- Barack Obama's North node quincunx Michelle Obama's Sun
- Barack Obama's Mercury opposition Michelle Obama's Mars
Personal planets
18 of 37A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.
- Barack Obama's Saturn conjunction Michelle Obama's Sun
- Barack Obama's Uranus quincunx Michelle Obama's Sun
- Barack Obama's Venus trine Michelle Obama's Venus
- Barack Obama's Venus quincunx Michelle Obama's Mars
- Barack Obama's Mercury quincunx Michelle Obama's Venus
- Barack Obama's Pluto trine Michelle Obama's Mercury
- Barack Obama's Mercury quincunx Michelle Obama's Mercury
- Barack Obama's Jupiter conjunction Michelle Obama's Mars
- Barack Obama's Venus opposition Michelle Obama's Mercury
- Barack Obama's Mars trine Michelle Obama's Sun
- Barack Obama's Neptune sextile Michelle Obama's Mercury
- Barack Obama's Jupiter conjunction Michelle Obama's Sun
- Barack Obama's Sun square Michelle Obama's Neptune
- Barack Obama's Uranus opposition Michelle Obama's Venus
- Barack Obama's Neptune square Michelle Obama's Mars
- Barack Obama's Mercury opposition Michelle Obama's Sun
- Barack Obama's Pluto opposition Michelle Obama's Venus
- Barack Obama's Saturn conjunction Michelle Obama's Mars
Shared generation
4 of 37Jupiter through Pluto on both sides. Born 2 years apart, these two have their outer planets in nearly the same degrees, so anyone born near them shares most of this group. Listed because it is real, kept apart because it says little about the pair.
- Barack Obama's Neptune sextile Michelle Obama's Uranus
- Barack Obama's Pluto conjunction Michelle Obama's Uranus
- Barack Obama's Uranus opposition Michelle Obama's Saturn
- Barack Obama's Pluto conjunction Michelle Obama's Pluto
Chiron and the lunar nodes
9 of 37A birth date places these too, and they are not drawn in the grid above. The 3 inside one degree are in the tight layer; these 9 are the rest.
- Barack Obama's Neptune trine Michelle Obama's North node
- Barack Obama's Neptune trine Michelle Obama's Chiron
- Barack Obama's North node opposition Michelle Obama's Venus
- Barack Obama's Chiron opposition Michelle Obama's Uranus
- Barack Obama's Pluto opposition Michelle Obama's Chiron
- Barack Obama's Chiron conjunction Michelle Obama's Venus
- Barack Obama's North node opposition Michelle Obama's Saturn
- Barack Obama's Chiron trine Michelle Obama's North node
- Barack Obama's Chiron conjunction Michelle Obama's Chiron
Trines and sextiles are soft, squares, oppositions and quincunxes hard. A conjunction depends on which two bodies meet, so it carries no tone here.
Why they click
Venus trine Venus at 1.32 degrees is the anchor, and values scores highest of the five categories because of it. Two Venuses at a trine describes people who want similar things and enjoy similar things without having to negotiate it. Mars trine Sun adds an easy line between one chart's drive and the other's identity. Those two contacts carry most of what is workable here, and both are the flowing kind that ask for no maintenance.
Why they clash
Mercury is involved in five of the eight aspects and almost none of them are easy: opposite Sun, opposite Mars, quincunx Mercury, quincunx Venus, and opposed by Venus from the other side. Communication scores lowest of the five as a result. Three quincunxes across the chart describe a pairing in steady low-level adjustment. Shared taste at the centre, and a constant working-around in how the two of them exchange information.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
This is what comparing two charts system by system looks like: the same birth data on both sides, read against each other one system at a time.
The Suns are 163.9° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
A second tradition
Guna Milan (Ashtakoot)
Guna Milan is the compatibility method used in Vedic matchmaking, traditionally consulted before an arranged marriage. It scores eight factors between two Moon placements on a 36-point scale, shown here as what this one tradition reads: not a verdict, and not averaged with the Western reading above, which may disagree.
Shared history
Shared life events
Michelle Obama and Barack Obama marry
6 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Aug 28 – Nov 8, 1992 · 72 days
Barack Obama
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn opposition Sunslow
- Pluto sextile Marsslow
- Chiron opposition Ascendantslow
- North Node square Marsfast
- Jupiter sextile Midheavenfast
Editorial note · Saturn opposition Sun
Seventeen days before their wedding, Saturn opposing the twelfth-house Sun marked a powerful threshold of lifelong duty and private commitment.
Michelle Obama
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only
- Jupiter trine Sunfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Michelle Obama, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Frequently asked
Are Barack Obama and Michelle Obama astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 37 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.03° and 0.39°. 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 Barack Obama and Michelle Obama 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 opposition mean between two charts?
An opposition puts two placements directly across the chart, a pull between two poles that has to be balanced rather than resolved. Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have 10 opposition contacts between them, more than any other type.
Sources & further reading
Tight contact, mixed valence
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