No birth time on record, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.
Note on this rating: Birth data via astrotheme.com (Brian_May), Rodden X, crediting Lois Rodden / Astro-Databank.
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
Brian May’s Mars and Roger Taylor’s Neptune are 0.04 degrees from an exact trine.
Neither birth time here is exact, so the Moon is not scored against anything and the ascendant axis and house ring are not drawn. Sun through Pluto move at most about two degrees in a day, so every contact below is the same whatever the time. This is the whole of what a birth date can place, not a sample of it.
Sun through Pluto, one chart on each axis
Brian May ↓ × Roger Taylor →
| Planet | Sun | Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sun Conjunction Sun | Sun Conjunction Mercury | Sun Opposition Jupiter | ||||||
| Mercury | Mercury Opposition Jupiter | ||||||||
| Venus | Venus Square Neptune | ||||||||
| Mars | Mars Trine Neptune | Mars Sextile Pluto | |||||||
| Jupiter | Jupiter Square Pluto | ||||||||
| Saturn | Saturn Conjunction Sun | Saturn Sextile Neptune | Saturn Conjunction Pluto | ||||||
| Uranus | Uranus Quincunx Jupiter | ||||||||
| Neptune | Neptune Square Uranus | Neptune Conjunction Neptune | |||||||
| Pluto | Pluto Sextile Neptune | Pluto Conjunction Pluto |
16 of the 31 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 16 are in the grid. A boxed cell is within one degree. The other 15 contacts involve Chiron and the lunar nodes and are listed below, 5 of them in the tight layer.
A cell is a plain glyph. The aspect it names is a Codex Link in the sentences above.
Brian May inner ring, Roger Taylor outer ring, with the contacts inside one degree drawn. 4 of them are between Sun and Pluto; the rest involve bodies that are not on either ring.
All 31 contacts, in four layers
Within one degree
9 of 31The contacts closest to exact, whichever bodies they involve. 5 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.
- Brian May's Mars trine Roger Taylor's Neptune
- Brian May's Chiron trine Roger Taylor's Uranus
- Brian May's Pluto sextile Roger Taylor's Neptune
- Brian May's Venus square Roger Taylor's Neptune
- Brian May's Chiron square Roger Taylor's Sun
- Brian May's Chiron square Roger Taylor's Mercury
- Brian May's Chiron trine Roger Taylor's Mars
- Brian May's Sun opposition Roger Taylor's Jupiter
- Brian May's North node sextile Roger Taylor's Mercury
Personal planets
5 of 31A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.
- Brian May's Mars sextile Roger Taylor's Pluto
- Brian May's Sun conjunction Roger Taylor's Mercury
- Brian May's Sun conjunction Roger Taylor's Sun
- Brian May's Saturn conjunction Roger Taylor's Sun
- Brian May's Mercury opposition Roger Taylor's Jupiter
Shared generation
7 of 31Jupiter 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.
- Brian May's Jupiter square Roger Taylor's Pluto
- Brian May's Saturn sextile Roger Taylor's Neptune
- Brian May's Uranus quincunx Roger Taylor's Jupiter
- Brian May's Pluto conjunction Roger Taylor's Pluto
- Brian May's Neptune conjunction Roger Taylor's Neptune
- Brian May's Saturn conjunction Roger Taylor's Pluto
- Brian May's Neptune square Roger Taylor's Uranus
Chiron and the lunar nodes
10 of 31A birth date places these too, and they are not drawn in the grid above. The 5 inside one degree are in the tight layer; these 10 are the rest.
- Brian May's Mercury square Roger Taylor's North node
- Brian May's North node square Roger Taylor's Venus
- Brian May's North node sextile Roger Taylor's Sun
- Brian May's North node opposition Roger Taylor's Chiron
- Brian May's Jupiter quincunx Roger Taylor's North node
- Brian May's Chiron sextile Roger Taylor's Saturn
- Brian May's Chiron sextile Roger Taylor's Venus
- Brian May's North node square Roger Taylor's Saturn
- Brian May's North node trine Roger Taylor's Jupiter
- Brian May's Sun square Roger Taylor'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
Brian May's Sun sits within seven degrees of Taylor's Sun and within six and a quarter of Taylor's Mercury. Those are the only two contacts between these charts, and both run from the same planet. Identity reads 65, on the wider of the pair.
Why they clash
Four of the five categories return 30, the figure the engine gives when the two planets in question make no angle at all. May's Mercury, Venus and Mars reach nothing in the other chart, and neither Taylor's Venus nor his Mars is touched. This is about as thin as a reading gets while still having contact.
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 7.2° 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
Bohemian Rhapsody is released
Six minutes with no chorus, released as a single against the record company's judgement.Source (opens in new tab)
9 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Aug 17, 1975 – Jan 14, 1976 · 150 days
Brian May
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only
- Neptune opposition Marsslow
- Chiron square Sunslow
- Pluto square Venusslow
- Jupiter square Mercuryfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Brian May, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Jupiter square Mercury
Eleven days before the release, Jupiter square Mercury marked a power window of audacious creative expansion for Queen's ambitious suite.
Roger Taylor
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only
- Saturn conjunction Sunslow
- Saturn conjunction Mercuryslow
- Uranus square Mercuryslow
- Uranus trine Marsslow
- Uranus square Sunslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Roger Taylor, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Uranus square Sun
Exact 3 days before the release, Uranus square the Sun marked a potent wave of radical nonconformity and shock value for Queen's boldest track.
Frequently asked
Are Brian May and Roger Taylor astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 31 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.04° and 0.11°. 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 Brian May and Roger Taylor 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 square mean between two charts?
A square puts two placements at a right angle, generating friction that tends to force action. Brian May and Roger Taylor have 9 square contacts between them, more than any other type.
Tight contact, mixed valence
Run the full synastry
This page compares Sun through Pluto, the bodies a birth date alone can place. The synastry calculator runs all ten bodies against each other.