Sources conflict on the birth time. No recorded verification, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.
Note on this rating: Birth time 15:00, Rodden DD (conflicting sources) via astrotheme.com. Treat angle-based placements with caution.
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
Elizabeth Taylor’s Uranus and Richard Burton’s Saturn are 0.04 degrees from an exact quincunx.
Richard Burton’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
Elizabeth Taylor ↓ × Richard Burton →
| Planet | Sun | Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sun Square Mercury | Sun Sextile Venus | |||||||
| Mercury | Mercury Square Mercury | Mercury Sextile Venus | |||||||
| Venus | Venus Quincunx Sun | Venus Square Jupiter | Venus Quincunx Saturn | Venus Square Pluto | |||||
| Mars | Mars Square Mercury | Mars Sextile Venus | Mars Trine Mars | Mars Opposition Neptune | |||||
| Jupiter | Jupiter Square Sun | Jupiter Square Saturn | |||||||
| Saturn | Saturn Square Mars | ||||||||
| Uranus | Uranus Quincunx Sun | Uranus Square Jupiter | Uranus Quincunx Saturn | Uranus Square Pluto | |||||
| Neptune | Neptune Square Mercury | Neptune Trine Venus | |||||||
| Pluto | Pluto Trine Sun | Pluto Opposition Jupiter | Pluto Trine Saturn | Pluto Trine Uranus | Pluto Conjunction Pluto |
26 of the 39 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 26 are in the grid. A boxed cell is within one degree. The other 13 contacts involve Chiron and the lunar nodes and are listed below, 1 of them in the tight layer.
A cell is a plain glyph. The aspect it names is a Codex Link in the sentences above.
Elizabeth Taylor inner ring, Richard Burton outer ring, with the contacts inside one degree drawn. 7 of them are between Sun and Pluto; the rest involve bodies that are not on either ring.
All 39 contacts, in four layers
Within one degree
8 of 39The contacts closest to exact, whichever bodies they involve. 1 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.
- Elizabeth Taylor's Uranus quincunx Richard Burton's Saturn
- Elizabeth Taylor's Venus quincunx Richard Burton's Saturn
- Elizabeth Taylor's Neptune square Richard Burton's Mercury
- Elizabeth Taylor's Sun square Richard Burton's Mercury
- Elizabeth Taylor's Venus quincunx Richard Burton's Sun
- Elizabeth Taylor's Mercury square Richard Burton's Mercury
- Elizabeth Taylor's Uranus quincunx Richard Burton's Sun
- Elizabeth Taylor's Chiron trine Richard Burton's Jupiter
Personal planets
12 of 39A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.
- Elizabeth Taylor's Venus square Richard Burton's Jupiter
- Elizabeth Taylor's Saturn square Richard Burton's Mars
- Elizabeth Taylor's Mars sextile Richard Burton's Venus
- Elizabeth Taylor's Pluto trine Richard Burton's Sun
- Elizabeth Taylor's Jupiter square Richard Burton's Sun
- Elizabeth Taylor's Neptune trine Richard Burton's Venus
- Elizabeth Taylor's Venus square Richard Burton's Pluto
- Elizabeth Taylor's Sun sextile Richard Burton's Venus
- Elizabeth Taylor's Mercury sextile Richard Burton's Venus
- Elizabeth Taylor's Mars trine Richard Burton's Mars
- Elizabeth Taylor's Mars square Richard Burton's Mercury
- Elizabeth Taylor's Mars opposition Richard Burton's Neptune
Shared generation
7 of 39Jupiter through Pluto on both sides. Born 6 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.
- Elizabeth Taylor's Uranus square Richard Burton's Jupiter
- Elizabeth Taylor's Pluto trine Richard Burton's Uranus
- Elizabeth Taylor's Pluto opposition Richard Burton's Jupiter
- Elizabeth Taylor's Jupiter square Richard Burton's Saturn
- Elizabeth Taylor's Uranus square Richard Burton's Pluto
- Elizabeth Taylor's Pluto trine Richard Burton's Saturn
- Elizabeth Taylor's Pluto conjunction Richard Burton's Pluto
Chiron and the lunar nodes
12 of 39A birth date places these too, and they are not drawn in the grid above. The 1 inside one degree are in the tight layer; these 12 are the rest.
- Elizabeth Taylor's Chiron opposition Richard Burton's Sun
- Elizabeth Taylor's North node quincunx Richard Burton's Neptune
- Elizabeth Taylor's North node quincunx Richard Burton's Mars
- Elizabeth Taylor's Saturn opposition Richard Burton's North node
- Elizabeth Taylor's Chiron opposition Richard Burton's Saturn
- Elizabeth Taylor's North node trine Richard Burton's North node
- Elizabeth Taylor's Chiron sextile Richard Burton's Uranus
- Elizabeth Taylor's North node conjunction Richard Burton's Uranus
- Elizabeth Taylor's Pluto square Richard Burton's Chiron
- Elizabeth Taylor's Saturn square Richard Burton's Chiron
- Elizabeth Taylor's Chiron square Richard Burton's Neptune
- Elizabeth Taylor's Venus conjunction Richard Burton'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
Communication is by far the strongest category here, and the aspects behind it are unusually tight: Sun square Mercury at 0.46 degrees, Mercury square Mercury at 0.64, Venus quincunx Sun at 0.54. Three contacts inside a single degree is rare. Mars trine Mars adds a genuinely easy line, a shared sense of pace. What this describes is a pair who are always in contact, always mid-exchange, rarely quiet with each other.
Why they clash
A square is a hard angle, so scoring 96 on communication does not mean the talking is comfortable. It means the channel is wide open and abrasive. Mercury square Mercury in particular reads as two minds that engage constantly and rarely settle. Identity and values both sit at the floor, so the constant exchange is not resting on a shared sense of who they are or what matters. On this scale, that is a pairing that talks its way through everything, including the parts that do not resolve.
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 109.6° 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
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor marry
12 passages · 2 charts
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Nov 19, 1963 – Jul 10, 1964 · 234 days
Elizabeth Taylor
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto square Ascendantslow
- Neptune conjunction Moonslow
- Chiron square Ascendantslow
- Uranus opposition Mercuryslow
- Chiron trine Moonslow
- Uranus opposition Sunslow
- Saturn conjunction Marsslow
- North Node trine Sunfast
- North Node trine Mercuryfast
Editorial note · Neptune conjunction Moon
Peaking 81 days after their wedding, Neptune conjunct the eleventh-house Moon cast an idealized, dreamlike glamour over their public bond.
Richard Burton
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only
- Neptune conjunction Sunslow
- Uranus square Mercuryslow
- Saturn trine Marsslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Richard Burton, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Neptune conjunction Sun
Neptune conjunct the Sun 47 days before their wedding set an intoxicating, mythic tone for their union, enveloping the romance in glamorous enchantment well before they tied the knot.
39th Academy Awards (Nominations Announced)
1 passage · 1 chart
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Jan 21 – Mar 22, 1967 · 60 days
Elizabeth Taylor
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
Nothing was within orb for Elizabeth Taylor on this date.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
Richard Burton
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only
- Jupiter square Marsfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Richard Burton, 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 Mars
Jupiter square Mars peaked 20 days before the Oscar nominations, reflecting an intense surge of competitive ambition ahead of the big announcement.
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor divorce
11 passages · 2 charts
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Dec 28, 1973 – Dec 23, 1974 · 360 days
Elizabeth Taylor
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune square Mercuryslow
- Neptune square Mercuryslow
- Neptune square Sunslow
- Neptune square Sunslow
- Saturn trine Mercuryslow
- Saturn trine Sunslow
- Jupiter trine Moonfast
Editorial note · Neptune square Sun
Arriving 95 days after their divorce, Neptune square Sun in the 12th house deepened the sense of disillusionment and dissolved lingering illusions of their shared identity.
Richard Burton
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only
- Pluto square Venusslow
- Pluto square Venusslow
- Neptune conjunction Mercuryslow
- Jupiter trine Sunfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Richard Burton, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Pluto square Venus
Pluto formed a square to Venus 11 days before the divorce, marking a period of intense emotional upheaval and the painful unraveling of their iconic partnership.
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor marry
6 passages · 2 charts
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Aug 19 – Dec 1, 1975 · 104 days
Elizabeth Taylor
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus trine Marsslow
- Neptune square Mercuryslow
- Neptune square Sunslow
- Jupiter conjunction Venusfast
Editorial note · Neptune square Sun
Neptune square the twelfth-house Sun 49 days before their reunion marriage cast an intoxicating, romantic haze over the impending vows.
Richard Burton
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only
- Chiron opposition Marsslow
- Neptune conjunction Mercuryslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Richard Burton, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Neptune conjunction Mercury
Forty-nine days before their second wedding, Neptune conjunct Mercury cast a haze of romantic nostalgia and idealistic promises over their renewed dialogue.
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor divorce
7 passages · 2 charts
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Apr 1 – Nov 25, 1976 · 238 days
Elizabeth Taylor
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune conjunction Ascendantslow
- Chiron sextile Marsslow
- Uranus trine Marsslow
- North Node trine Mercuryfast
- North Node trine Sunfast
Editorial note · Neptune conjunction Ascendant
Neptune met the Ascendant in the 12th house 119 days after the divorce, dissolving old public identities during a powerful window of quiet, inward release.
Richard Burton
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only
- Uranus sextile Venusslow
- Saturn trine Mercuryslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Richard Burton, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Uranus sextile Venus
Occurring 69 days before the divorce, Uranus sextile Venus signaled an awakening toward personal freedom and a mutual release from relational ties.
Frequently asked
Are Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 39 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.04° and 0.07°. 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 Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton 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. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton have 14 square contacts between them, more than any other type.
Sources & further reading
Tight contact, mixed valence
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This page compares Sun through Pluto, the bodies a birth date alone can place. The synastry calculator runs all ten bodies against each other.