Confirmed by the person or someone close to them: full chart shown, including houses and the rising sign.
Note on this rating: Astro-Databank 19:20.
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
Courtney Love’s Mercury and Kurt Cobain’s Sun are 0.17 degrees from an exact quincunx.
Both birth times are exact, so the Moon joins Sun through Pluto on both axes, and every contact also carries the house it falls in on the other person’s chart. The ascendant axis and the house ring are drawn.
Sun through Pluto plus the Moon, one chart on each axis
Courtney Love ↓ × Kurt Cobain →
| Planet | Sun | Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto | Moon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sun Trine Mercury | Sun Sextile Pluto | ||||||||
| Mercury | Mercury Quincunx Sun | Mercury Trine Venus | Mercury Square Mars | Mercury Conjunction Jupiter | Mercury Trine Saturn | |||||
| Venus | Venus Square Mercury | Venus Square Uranus | Venus Square Pluto | |||||||
| Mars | Mars Square Mercury | Mars Square Pluto | ||||||||
| Jupiter | Jupiter Sextile Mercury | Jupiter Trine Uranus | Jupiter Opposition Neptune | Jupiter Trine Pluto | ||||||
| Saturn | Saturn Conjunction Sun | Saturn Trine Mars | ||||||||
| Uranus | Uranus Opposition Sun | |||||||||
| Neptune | Neptune Trine Mercury | |||||||||
| Pluto | Pluto Opposition Mercury | Pluto Conjunction Pluto | ||||||||
| Moon |
22 of the 36 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 22 are in the grid. A boxed cell is within one degree. The other 14 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.
Courtney Love inner ring, Kurt Cobain outer ring, with the contacts inside one degree drawn. 5 of them are between Sun and Pluto; the rest involve bodies that are not on either ring.
All 36 contacts, in four layers
Within one degree
8 of 36The 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.
- Courtney Love's Mercury quincunx Kurt Cobain's Sun
- Courtney Love's Mercury square (mutual) Kurt Cobain's Mars
- Courtney Love's Chiron conjunction Kurt Cobain's Mercury
- Courtney Love's Jupiter trine Kurt Cobain's Pluto
- Courtney Love's North node trine Kurt Cobain's Sun
- Courtney Love's North node trine Kurt Cobain's Mars
- Courtney Love's Venus square Kurt Cobain's Pluto
- Courtney Love's Sun trine Kurt Cobain's Mercury
Personal planets
14 of 36A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.
- Courtney Love's Mars square (mutual) Kurt Cobain's Mercury
- Courtney Love's Jupiter sextile Kurt Cobain's Mercury
- Courtney Love's Venus square Kurt Cobain's Mercury
- Courtney Love's Sun sextile Kurt Cobain's Pluto
- Courtney Love's Saturn conjunction Kurt Cobain's Sun
- Courtney Love's Saturn trine Kurt Cobain's Mars
- Courtney Love's Venus square Kurt Cobain's Uranus
- Courtney Love's Mercury trine Kurt Cobain's Saturn
- Courtney Love's Neptune trine Kurt Cobain's Mercury
- Courtney Love's Mars square Kurt Cobain's Pluto
- Courtney Love's Mercury trine Kurt Cobain's Venus
- Courtney Love's Uranus opposition Kurt Cobain's Sun
- Courtney Love's Mercury conjunction Kurt Cobain's Jupiter
- Courtney Love's Pluto opposition Kurt Cobain's Mercury
Shared generation
3 of 36Jupiter through Pluto on both sides. Born 3 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.
- Courtney Love's Jupiter trine Kurt Cobain's Uranus
- Courtney Love's Jupiter opposition Kurt Cobain's Neptune
- Courtney Love's Pluto conjunction Kurt Cobain's Pluto
Chiron and the lunar nodes
11 of 36A 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 11 are the rest.
- Courtney Love's Chiron opposition Kurt Cobain's Pluto
- Courtney Love's Uranus trine Kurt Cobain's North node
- Courtney Love's Pluto trine Kurt Cobain's North node
- Courtney Love's North node square Kurt Cobain's Saturn
- Courtney Love's Venus square Kurt Cobain's Chiron
- Courtney Love's Chiron opposition Kurt Cobain's Uranus
- Courtney Love's North node square Kurt Cobain's Venus
- Courtney Love's Neptune opposition Kurt Cobain's North node
- Courtney Love's Chiron conjunction Kurt Cobain's Chiron
- Courtney Love's Chiron trine Kurt Cobain's Neptune
- Courtney Love's Chiron conjunction Kurt Cobain's Venus
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
Five of the six contacts here involve Mercury, which makes this a pairing wired through language. Sun trine Mercury at 0.81 degrees is the easy one: one chart's identity meeting the other's way of thinking without resistance. Mercury trine Venus adds warmth to that same channel. When a synastry concentrates this heavily on one planet, the relationship tends to live in how the two of them talk, write and think at each other rather than in anything quieter.
Why they clash
The same Mercury emphasis carries the strain. Mercury quincunx Sun sits at 0.17 degrees, close to exact, and Mercury square Mars at 0.18 is just as tight. Two contacts that precise, both hard, put constant pressure on the exchange. Venus square Mercury and Mars square Mercury repeat it from the other side. Every category scores at the floor, so the engine is not finding depth in either direction here. What it does find is concentrated almost entirely on the wire between them.
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 135.8° 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.
The reading
25 of 36
Two things stated plainly rather than left silent: Varna and Vashya use a directional rule from traditional bride/groom roles, applied here in the order the two people are listed on this page rather than assigning either role. Bhakoot dosha's most common cancellation, matching rashi lords, is applied; Nadi dosha carries no cancellation here, though same-nakshatra-different-pada is sometimes cited elsewhere as easing it. Mangal (Kuja) dosha is a separate check and isn't part of this reading.
Shared history
Shared life events
Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain marry
8 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Nov 15, 1991 – Jun 4, 1992 · 202 days
Courtney Love
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune opposition Sunslow
- Uranus opposition Sunslow
- Pluto trine Moonslow
- Chiron conjunction Mercuryslow
Editorial note · Pluto trine Moon
Pluto trined her first-house Moon one day after the wedding, marking their marriage with a potent surge of emotional intensity and personal transformation.
Kurt Cobain
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune sextile Mercuryslow
- Uranus sextile Mercuryslow
- Neptune trine Ascendantslow
- Chiron square Marsslow
Editorial note · Neptune trine Ascendant
Neptune trined the Ascendant from the fourth house 57 days after the wedding, casting an idealistic, romantic glow over their newly established domestic life.
Frequently asked
Are Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 36 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.17° and 0.18°. 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 trine mean between two charts?
A trine puts two placements in easy relation, a flow that takes little effort to access. Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain have 12 trine contacts between them, more than any other type.
Sources & further reading
Tight contact, mixed valence
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