Frances McDormand
Joel Coen
Frances McDormand♋︎︎ CancerSun
Joel Coen♐︎︎ SagittariusSun
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Four aspects, all trines, and not one of them tight.

Uniformly easy

Cross-aspects
37

Frances McDormand and Joel Coen compatibility

↓ Below: all 37 contacts named, with orbs

Birth data: X

No birth time on record, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.

Note on this rating: Birth data via astrotheme.com (Frances_McDormand), 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

Frances McDormand’s Neptune and Joel Coen’s Jupiter are 0.23 degrees from an exact square.

Square · Hard · orb 0.23° · tightest of 37 contacts

Frances McDormand’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

Frances McDormand ↓ × Joel Coen →

25 of the 37 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 25 are in the grid. A boxed cell is within one degree. The other 12 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.

Frances McDormand, filled ringJoel Coen, outlined ring

Frances McDormand inner ring, Joel Coen outer ring, with the contacts inside one degree drawn. 2 of them are between Sun and Pluto; the rest involve bodies that are not on either ring.

All 37 contacts, in four layers

Within one degree

3 of 37

The 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.

Personal planets

15 of 37

A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.

  • Frances McDormand's Mars conjunction Joel Coen's Jupiter1.54°
  • Frances McDormand's Pluto opposition Joel Coen's Mars1.69° · Hard
  • Frances McDormand's Uranus trine Joel Coen's Sun1.82° · Soft
  • Frances McDormand's Saturn conjunction Joel Coen's Sun2.57°
  • Frances McDormand's Venus trine Joel Coen's Mercury2.64° · Soft
  • Frances McDormand's Neptune trine Joel Coen's Mars3.21° · Soft
  • Frances McDormand's Mars conjunction Joel Coen's Uranus3.82°
  • Frances McDormand's Mars square Joel Coen's Neptune3.99° · Hard
  • Frances McDormand's Sun trine Joel Coen's Neptune4.46° · Soft
  • Frances McDormand's Venus trine Joel Coen's Venus4.78° · Soft
  • Frances McDormand's Sun trine (mutual) Joel Coen's Mars4.99° · Soft
  • Frances McDormand's Mars trine (mutual) Joel Coen's Sun5.69° · Soft
  • Frances McDormand's Venus trine Joel Coen's Saturn5.26° · Soft
  • Frances McDormand's Pluto square Joel Coen's Mercury5.50° · Hard
  • Frances McDormand's Venus conjunction Joel Coen's Uranus7.15°

Shared generation

8 of 37

Jupiter 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.

  • Frances McDormand's Pluto sextile (mutual) Joel Coen's Neptune1.16° · Soft
  • Frances McDormand's Neptune sextile (mutual) Joel Coen's Pluto3.11° · Soft
  • Frances McDormand's Pluto conjunction Joel Coen's Pluto1.60°
  • Frances McDormand's Neptune square Joel Coen's Uranus2.51° · Hard
  • Frances McDormand's Neptune conjunction Joel Coen's Neptune2.68°
  • Frances McDormand's Jupiter sextile Joel Coen's Uranus3.76° · Soft
  • Frances McDormand's Uranus conjunction Joel Coen's Jupiter5.41°
  • Frances McDormand's Uranus conjunction Joel Coen's Uranus7.69°

Chiron and the lunar nodes

11 of 37

A 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 11 are the rest.

  • Frances McDormand's Chiron square Joel Coen's Venus1.43° · Hard
  • Frances McDormand's Jupiter trine Joel Coen's Chiron1.59° · Soft
  • Frances McDormand's Chiron square Joel Coen's Saturn1.91° · Hard
  • Frances McDormand's North node conjunction Joel Coen's Venus3.48°
  • Frances McDormand's North node conjunction Joel Coen's Mercury3.94°
  • Frances McDormand's North node conjunction Joel Coen's Saturn3.96°
  • Frances McDormand's Sun opposition Joel Coen's North node3.99° · Hard
  • Frances McDormand's Neptune square Joel Coen's Chiron4.69° · Hard
  • Frances McDormand's Venus opposition Joel Coen's Chiron4.97° · Hard
  • Frances McDormand's Chiron square Joel Coen's Mercury5.99° · Hard
  • Frances McDormand's Mars opposition Joel Coen's Chiron6.00° · Hard

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

Every contact in this chart is a trine, which is unusual. Venus trine Venus, Venus trine Mercury, and Sun trine Mars running in both directions. That describes a pairing with no hard edges anywhere the engine can see: compatible taste, compatible thinking, and drive that meets identity easily from either side.

Why they clash

Every category sits at or just below the floor, and the reason is the same thing that makes the chart pleasant. Trines ask nothing and generate nothing, and all four here are wide, between 2.4 and 5.5 degrees. There is no square, no opposition, no conjunction and no quincunx. On this scale that reads as a genuinely frictionless pairing that the engine cannot find much to say about.

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.

Western astrology

Frances McDormandCancer Sun
Joel CoenSagittarius Sun

The Suns are 155.2° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.

Chinese zodiac

Frances McDormandRooster
Joel CoenHorse

Rooster and Horse are in neither the trines nor the clashes.

Numerology

Frances McDormandLife Path 33
Joel CoenLife Path 5

Tarot birth cards

Frances McDormandThe Lovers
Joel CoenThe Hierophant

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

19841 AprilMarriage

Frances McDormand and Joel Coen marry

5 passages · 1 chart

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Oct 4Apr 1Sep 28

Oct 4, 1983 – Sep 28, 1984 · 360 days

Frances McDormand

Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only

  1. Pluto trine Sunslow0.00°1/3Mar 15
  2. Pluto square Marsslow0.00°1/2Oct 4
  3. Pluto square Marsslow0.01°2/2Dec 10
  4. Chiron sextile Marsslow0.03°2/2Apr 29
  5. Neptune opposition Sunslow0.27°1/2Apr 3

Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Frances McDormand, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.

Editorial note · Pluto trine Sun

Seventeen days before the wedding, Pluto trine Sun brought an empowering surge that deepened her personal foundation for marriage.

Joel Coen

Editorial note · Jupiter conjunction Ascendant

Jupiter crossed her Ascendant in the first house 10 days before the wedding, marking a power window of personal joy and expanded horizons as she entered marriage.

Bands are drawn against a ±180-day window centred on the event date. Passages that run past the window carry an open cap. Marked ■ = slow-planet contact.

199724 MarchAward

69th Acdmy wrds

9 passages · 2 charts

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Dec 14Mar 24Jul 2

Dec 14, 1996 – Jul 2, 1997 · 200 days

Frances McDormand

Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only

  1. Chiron trine Sunslow0.01°1/2Jan 25
  2. Chiron square Marsslow0.01°1/2Mar 17
  3. Neptune opposition Marsslow1.26°1/2May 2
  4. North Node square Sunfast0.01°1/2Jan 9

Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Frances McDormand, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.

Joel Coen

Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown

  1. Uranus sextile Sunslow0.01°1/2Mar 7
  2. Uranus square Midheavenslow0.01°1/2Jul 2
  3. Saturn square Ascendantslow0.03°2/2Mar 24
  4. Pluto conjunction Sunslow1.31°1/2Mar 9
  5. Jupiter square Venusfast0.07°1/3Apr 4

Bands are drawn against a ±100-day window centred on the event date. Passages that run past the window carry an open cap. Marked ■ = slow-planet contact.

200113 FebruaryAward

73rd Academy Awards (Nominations Announced)

8 passages · 2 charts

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Aug 17Feb 13Aug 12

Aug 17, 2000 – Aug 12, 2001 · 360 days

Frances McDormand

Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only

  1. Uranus trine Mercuryslow0.01°2/3Jan 10
  2. Jupiter sextile Marsfast0.00°2/2Jan 21

Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Frances McDormand, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.

Joel Coen

Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown

  1. Neptune sextile Sunslow0.00°2/2Aug 17
  2. Saturn square Marsslow0.02°2/2Mar 21
  3. Chiron sextile Marsslow0.03°1/3Feb 13
  4. Saturn opposition Mercuryslow1.16°2/2Jan 25
  5. Saturn trine Moonslow1.42°1/1Jan 25
  6. North Node trine Venusfast0.00°1/1Jan 26

Bands are drawn against a ±180-day window centred on the event date. Passages that run past the window carry an open cap. Marked ■ = slow-planet contact.

What does square mean between two charts?How much does an orb under one degree actually change a reading?

Frequently asked

Are Frances McDormand and Joel Coen astrologically compatible?

Their charts make 37 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.23° and 0.6°. 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 Frances McDormand and Joel Coen 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 conjunction mean between two charts?

A conjunction puts two placements at nearly the same degree, so their energies blend into one signal rather than two. Frances McDormand and Joel Coen have 11 conjunction contacts between them, more than any other type.

Sources & further reading

Sources

Wikidata claim (Q13595311)Wikidata · wikidata.orgStructured claim behind the marriage date shown on this page.
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Tight contact, mixed valence

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