Sun trine Sun and Mars trine Sun, with a single Venus square cutting across.
Easy, unremarkable
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner compatibility
↓ Below: all 38 contacts named, with orbs
No birth time on record, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.
Note on this rating: Birth date 1972-04-17 from Wikidata Q172044 (day precision) and the English Wikipedia article. Birth city Houston, Texas from Wikidata P19. Birth time unknown, so Rodden X and the time is an estimate.
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
Ben Affleck’s Uranus and Jennifer Garner’s Uranus are 0.35 degrees from an exact conjunction.
Jennifer Garner’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
Ben Affleck ↓ × Jennifer Garner →
| Planet | Sun | Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sun Trine Sun | ||||||||
| Mercury | Mercury Sextile Venus | Mercury Sextile Mars | Mercury Quincunx Jupiter | ||||||
| Venus | Venus Square Mercury | Venus Opposition Jupiter | Venus Quincunx Neptune | ||||||
| Mars | Mars Trine Sun | Mars Square Saturn | Mars Square Neptune | ||||||
| Jupiter | Jupiter Trine Sun | Jupiter Square Mercury | Jupiter Square Pluto | ||||||
| Saturn | Saturn Conjunction Venus | Saturn Conjunction Mars | Saturn Trine Uranus | ||||||
| Uranus | Uranus Trine Venus | Uranus Trine Mars | Uranus Conjunction Uranus | ||||||
| Neptune | Neptune Trine Mercury | Neptune Opposition Saturn | Neptune Conjunction Neptune | Neptune Sextile Pluto | |||||
| Pluto | Pluto Quincunx Sun | Pluto Opposition Mercury | Pluto Trine Saturn | Pluto Conjunction Pluto |
27 of the 38 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 27 are in the grid. A boxed cell is within one degree. The other 11 contacts involve Chiron and the lunar nodes and are listed below, 2 of them in the tight layer.
A cell is a plain glyph. The aspect it names is a Codex Link in the sentences above.
Ben Affleck inner ring, Jennifer Garner 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 38 contacts, in four layers
Within one degree
5 of 38The contacts closest to exact, whichever bodies they involve. 2 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.
- Ben Affleck's Uranus conjunction Jennifer Garner's Uranus
- Ben Affleck's Pluto trine (mutual) Jennifer Garner's North node
- Ben Affleck's Pluto conjunction Jennifer Garner's Pluto
- Ben Affleck's Mars quincunx Jennifer Garner's North node
- Ben Affleck's Venus opposition Jennifer Garner's Jupiter
Personal planets
18 of 38A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.
- Ben Affleck's Jupiter trine Jennifer Garner's Sun
- Ben Affleck's Uranus trine Jennifer Garner's Mars
- Ben Affleck's Neptune trine Jennifer Garner's Mercury
- Ben Affleck's Mercury sextile Jennifer Garner's Venus
- Ben Affleck's Uranus trine Jennifer Garner's Venus
- Ben Affleck's Mercury quincunx Jennifer Garner's Jupiter
- Ben Affleck's Venus quincunx Jennifer Garner's Neptune
- Ben Affleck's Mars trine Jennifer Garner's Sun
- Ben Affleck's Pluto quincunx Jennifer Garner's Sun
- Ben Affleck's Mercury sextile Jennifer Garner's Mars
- Ben Affleck's Venus square Jennifer Garner's Mercury
- Ben Affleck's Pluto opposition Jennifer Garner's Mercury
- Ben Affleck's Mars square Jennifer Garner's Saturn
- Ben Affleck's Mars square Jennifer Garner's Neptune
- Ben Affleck's Saturn conjunction Jennifer Garner's Mars
- Ben Affleck's Sun trine Jennifer Garner's Sun
- Ben Affleck's Jupiter square Jennifer Garner's Mercury
- Ben Affleck's Saturn conjunction Jennifer Garner's Venus
Shared generation
6 of 38Jupiter through Pluto on both sides. Born 4 months 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.
- Ben Affleck's Jupiter square Jennifer Garner's Pluto
- Ben Affleck's Neptune opposition Jennifer Garner's Saturn
- Ben Affleck's Neptune conjunction Jennifer Garner's Neptune
- Ben Affleck's Neptune sextile Jennifer Garner's Pluto
- Ben Affleck's Saturn trine Jennifer Garner's Uranus
- Ben Affleck's Pluto trine Jennifer Garner's Saturn
Chiron and the lunar nodes
9 of 38A birth date places these too, and they are not drawn in the grid above. The 2 inside one degree are in the tight layer; these 9 are the rest.
- Ben Affleck's North node trine (mutual) Jennifer Garner's Pluto
- Ben Affleck's Chiron opposition (mutual) Jennifer Garner's Uranus
- Ben Affleck's Uranus opposition (mutual) Jennifer Garner's Chiron
- Ben Affleck's Neptune sextile Jennifer Garner's North node
- Ben Affleck's North node square Jennifer Garner's Sun
- Ben Affleck's Chiron conjunction Jennifer Garner's Chiron
- Ben Affleck's Chiron sextile Jennifer Garner's Mars
- Ben Affleck's Mercury trine Jennifer Garner's Chiron
- Ben Affleck's North node conjunction Jennifer Garner's North node
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
Four of the five aspects here are soft. Sun trine Sun, Mars trine Sun at 2.66, and two Mercury sextiles reaching Venus and Mars. That combination describes two people who get along without effort: compatible identities, compatible pace, and an easy channel between thinking and both affection and drive.
Why they clash
Venus square Mercury at 3.3 degrees is the lone hard angle, placing affection against the other's way of thinking. Every category sits at or just below the floor, including identity, which lands slightly under it. Soft aspects alone do not lift a score on this scale, because ease is not the same as intensity. This chart reads as comfortable and low-voltage rather than as difficult.
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 115.1° apart, close enough to feed the identity category 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
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck begin a relationship
nothing in force
No dated transit window covers this date in the charts of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck marry
8 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Dec 31, 2004 – Dec 26, 2005 · 360 days
Ben Affleck
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto trine Sunslow
- Pluto trine Sunslow
- Chiron square Moonslow
- Jupiter sextile Mercuryfast
- Jupiter square Ascendantfast
- Jupiter square Venusfast
Editorial note · Pluto trine Sun
Arriving 122 days after the wedding, Pluto trine the natal sixth-house Sun marked a powerful period of deep personal restructuring as she settled into daily married life.
Jennifer Garner
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only
- Saturn square Sunslow
- Uranus square Venusslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Jennifer Garner, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Saturn square Sun
Saturn squared the Sun 2 days before the wedding, framing the vows within a powerful window of heavy personal duty and enduring commitment.
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck end their relationship
8 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Dec 31, 2004 – Dec 26, 2005 · 360 days
Ben Affleck
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto trine Sunslow
- Pluto trine Sunslow
- Chiron square Moonslow
- Jupiter sextile Mercuryfast
- Jupiter square Ascendantfast
- Jupiter square Venusfast
Editorial note · Jupiter square Ascendant
Arriving 24 days before the separation, a fourth-house Jupiter square to the Ascendant brought swelling domestic friction to light.
Jennifer Garner
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only
- Saturn square Sunslow
- Uranus square Venusslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Jennifer Garner, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Saturn square Sun
Saturn squared the Sun two days before the breakup, marking a heavy window of reality checks and strained personal identity as the relationship reached its conclusion.
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck divorce
nothing in force
No dated transit window covers this date in the charts of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
Frequently asked
Are Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 38 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.35° and 0.35°. 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 Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner 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 trine mean between two charts?
A trine puts two placements in easy relation, a flow that takes little effort to access. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have 11 trine contacts between them, more than any other type.
Sources & further reading
Tight contact, mixed valence
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