Venus sextile Sun at four tenths of a degree, and Mercury under pressure from both sides.
Warm, and pressed
David Bowie and Angela Bowie compatibility
↓ Below: all 45 contacts named, with orbs
No birth time on record, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.
Note on this rating: Birth date 1949-09-25 from Wikidata Q2669959 (day precision) and the English Wikipedia article. Birth city Agios Dometios, Cyprus 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
David Bowie’s Mars and Angela Bowie’s North node are 0.05 degrees from an exact square.
Angela Bowie’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
David Bowie ↓ × Angela Bowie →
| Planet | Sun | Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sun Square Mercury | Sun Conjunction Jupiter | Sun Trine Saturn | Sun Square Neptune | Sun Quincunx Pluto | ||||
| Mercury | Mercury Quincunx Mars | Mercury Trine Saturn | Mercury Opposition Uranus | ||||||
| Venus | Venus Sextile Sun | Venus Quincunx Uranus | |||||||
| Mars | Mars Square Mercury | Mars Conjunction Jupiter | Mars Trine Saturn | Mars Square Neptune | Mars Quincunx Pluto | ||||
| Jupiter | Jupiter Sextile Jupiter | Jupiter Square Pluto | |||||||
| Saturn | Saturn Square Venus | Saturn Conjunction Mars | |||||||
| Uranus | Uranus Trine Mercury | Uranus Trine Neptune | Uranus Sextile Pluto | ||||||
| Neptune | Neptune Conjunction Mercury | Neptune Sextile Mars | Neptune Square Uranus | Neptune Conjunction Neptune | |||||
| Pluto | Pluto Square Venus | Pluto Conjunction Mars | Pluto Sextile Neptune | Pluto Conjunction Pluto |
30 of the 45 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 30 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, 4 of them in the tight layer.
A cell is a plain glyph. The aspect it names is a Codex Link in the sentences above.
David Bowie inner ring, Angela Bowie outer ring, with the contacts inside one degree drawn. 8 of them are between Sun and Pluto; the rest involve bodies that are not on either ring.
All 45 contacts, in four layers
Within one degree
12 of 45The contacts closest to exact, whichever bodies they involve. 4 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.
- David Bowie's Mars square Angela Bowie's North node
- David Bowie's North node sextile Angela Bowie's Mars
- David Bowie's Sun quincunx Angela Bowie's Pluto
- David Bowie's Neptune sextile Angela Bowie's Mars
- David Bowie's Venus sextile Angela Bowie's Sun
- David Bowie's Pluto square Angela Bowie's Venus
- David Bowie's Uranus trine Angela Bowie's Mercury
- David Bowie's Sun square Angela Bowie's North node
- David Bowie's Mars quincunx Angela Bowie's Pluto
- David Bowie's Jupiter sextile Angela Bowie's Jupiter
- David Bowie's Sun square Angela Bowie's Mercury
- David Bowie's North node quincunx Angela Bowie's Venus
Personal planets
15 of 45A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.
- David Bowie's Mars square Angela Bowie's Mercury
- David Bowie's Pluto conjunction Angela Bowie's Mars
- David Bowie's Mars square Angela Bowie's Neptune
- David Bowie's Venus quincunx Angela Bowie's Uranus
- David Bowie's Sun square Angela Bowie's Neptune
- David Bowie's Mercury quincunx Angela Bowie's Mars
- David Bowie's Mercury opposition Angela Bowie's Uranus
- David Bowie's Mercury trine Angela Bowie's Saturn
- David Bowie's Saturn conjunction Angela Bowie's Mars
- David Bowie's Mars trine Angela Bowie's Saturn
- David Bowie's Sun trine Angela Bowie's Saturn
- David Bowie's Sun conjunction Angela Bowie's Jupiter
- David Bowie's Saturn square Angela Bowie's Venus
- David Bowie's Mars conjunction Angela Bowie's Jupiter
- David Bowie's Neptune conjunction Angela Bowie's Mercury
Shared generation
7 of 45Jupiter 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.
- David Bowie's Uranus sextile Angela Bowie's Pluto
- David Bowie's Pluto sextile Angela Bowie's Neptune
- David Bowie's Neptune conjunction Angela Bowie's Neptune
- David Bowie's Jupiter square Angela Bowie's Pluto
- David Bowie's Uranus trine Angela Bowie's Neptune
- David Bowie's Pluto conjunction Angela Bowie's Pluto
- David Bowie's Neptune square Angela Bowie's Uranus
Chiron and the lunar nodes
11 of 45A birth date places these too, and they are not drawn in the grid above. The 4 inside one degree are in the tight layer; these 11 are the rest.
- David Bowie's North node square Angela Bowie's Saturn
- David Bowie's Saturn trine Angela Bowie's Chiron
- David Bowie's Chiron trine Angela Bowie's Uranus
- David Bowie's Uranus sextile Angela Bowie's North node
- David Bowie's Venus conjunction (mutual) Angela Bowie's Chiron
- David Bowie's Chiron conjunction (mutual) Angela Bowie's Venus
- David Bowie's North node trine Angela Bowie's Neptune
- David Bowie's Pluto trine Angela Bowie's North node
- David Bowie's Chiron square Angela Bowie's Mars
- David Bowie's Neptune opposition Angela Bowie's North node
- David Bowie's North node opposition Angela Bowie'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 sextile Sun at 0.4 degrees is the closest and friendliest contact here, one person's capacity for affection meeting the other's identity at an easy angle and almost exactly. In a four-aspect chart that single precise sextile carries most of what is comfortable between these two.
Why they clash
Mercury takes pressure from both directions: squared by one Sun at 0.95 degrees and by the other Mars at 1.46, with a quincunx running back the other way. Thinking is the point of strain in this pairing, and it is strained tightly. Every category sits at the floor, so despite three contacts inside a degree and a half the engine does not read any dimension as strong.
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 105.5° 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
David Bowie and Angela Bowie marry
11 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Oct 15, 1969 – Aug 21, 1970 · 310 days
David Bowie
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron square Mercuryslow
- Chiron trine Moonslow
- Uranus square Mercuryslow
- Chiron trine Midheavenslow
- Saturn square Moonslow
- Saturn trine Mercuryslow
- Neptune conjunction Venusslow
- Jupiter square Moonfast
- Jupiter square Ascendantfast
Editorial note · Saturn square Moon
120 days before the wedding, Saturn squaring his second house Moon marked a heavy emotional window that tested his personal security.
Angela Bowie
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only
- Neptune sextile Sunslow
- North Node trine Venusfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Angela Bowie, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Neptune sextile Sun
Sixteen days before their wedding, Neptune sextile Sun shaped an idealistic power window that elevated his romantic devotion into a shared creative myth.
David Bowie and Angela Bowie divorce
5 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Aug 12, 1979 – Aug 6, 1980 · 360 days
David Bowie
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron trine Mercuryslow
- Jupiter trine Mercuryfast
- North Node square Venusfast
Editorial note · North Node square Venus
Fifty-five days before the divorce, the North Node squared seventh-house Venus, highlighting fate-driven turning points and fundamental realignments in his marital commitments.
Angela Bowie
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only
- Chiron square Marsslow
- Chiron opposition Venusslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Angela Bowie, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Chiron opposition Venus
Arriving 66 days after the divorce, Chiron opposition Venus reflected the lingering emotional wounds and personal healing required after the formal end of their marriage.
Frequently asked
Are David Bowie and Angela Bowie astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 45 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.05° and 0.14°. 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 David Bowie and Angela Bowie 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. David Bowie and Angela Bowie have 12 square contacts between them, more than any other type.
Sources & further reading
Tight contact, mixed valence
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