Verified by a birth certificate or official record: full chart shown, including houses and the rising sign.
Note on this rating: Birth certificate, via AstroTheme.
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
Fred Astaire’s Saturn and Ginger Rogers’s Sun are 0.15 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
Fred Astaire ↓ × Ginger Rogers →
| Planet | Sun | Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto | Moon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sun Sextile Sun | Sun Conjunction Saturn | Sun Sextile Neptune | |||||||
| Mercury | Mercury Square Sun | Mercury Conjunction Mars | Mercury Square Uranus | Mercury Square Neptune | Mercury Sextile Pluto | |||||
| Venus | Venus Square Sun | Venus Square Neptune | ||||||||
| Mars | Mars Conjunction Mercury | |||||||||
| Jupiter | Jupiter Square Mercury | Jupiter Opposition Mars | Jupiter Conjunction Jupiter | Jupiter Square Uranus | Jupiter Trine Pluto | |||||
| Saturn | Saturn Quincunx Sun | Saturn Quincunx Neptune | Saturn Opposition Pluto | |||||||
| Uranus | Uranus Trine Mercury | Uranus Square Venus | ||||||||
| Neptune | Neptune Conjunction Pluto | |||||||||
| Pluto | ||||||||||
| Moon |
22 of the 32 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 22 are in the grid. A boxed cell is within one degree. The other 10 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.
Fred Astaire inner ring, Ginger Rogers 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 32 contacts, in four layers
Within one degree
5 of 32The 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.
- Fred Astaire's Saturn quincunx Ginger Rogers's Sun
- Fred Astaire's Uranus quincunx Ginger Rogers's North node
- Fred Astaire's Uranus square Ginger Rogers's Chiron
- Fred Astaire's Uranus trine Ginger Rogers's Mercury
- Fred Astaire's North node trine Ginger Rogers's Mars
Personal planets
14 of 32A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.
- Fred Astaire's Sun sextile Ginger Rogers's Neptune
- Fred Astaire's Uranus square Ginger Rogers's Venus
- Fred Astaire's Mercury square Ginger Rogers's Sun
- Fred Astaire's Sun conjunction Ginger Rogers's Saturn
- Fred Astaire's Sun sextile Ginger Rogers's Sun
- Fred Astaire's Jupiter square Ginger Rogers's Mercury
- Fred Astaire's Mercury square Ginger Rogers's Neptune
- Fred Astaire's Jupiter opposition Ginger Rogers's Mars
- Fred Astaire's Mercury square Ginger Rogers's Uranus
- Fred Astaire's Mercury sextile Ginger Rogers's Pluto
- Fred Astaire's Venus square Ginger Rogers's Neptune
- Fred Astaire's Mars conjunction (mutual) Ginger Rogers's Mercury
- Fred Astaire's Mercury conjunction (mutual) Ginger Rogers's Mars
- Fred Astaire's Venus square Ginger Rogers's Sun
Shared generation
6 of 32Jupiter through Pluto on both sides. Born 12 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.
- Fred Astaire's Saturn quincunx Ginger Rogers's Neptune
- Fred Astaire's Jupiter conjunction Ginger Rogers's Jupiter
- Fred Astaire's Neptune conjunction Ginger Rogers's Pluto
- Fred Astaire's Jupiter trine Ginger Rogers's Pluto
- Fred Astaire's Saturn opposition Ginger Rogers's Pluto
- Fred Astaire's Jupiter square Ginger Rogers's Uranus
Chiron and the lunar nodes
7 of 32A 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 7 are the rest.
- Fred Astaire's North node opposition Ginger Rogers's Pluto
- Fred Astaire's Jupiter trine Ginger Rogers's Chiron
- Fred Astaire's Jupiter opposition Ginger Rogers's North node
- Fred Astaire's Chiron square Ginger Rogers's Venus
- Fred Astaire's Mars square Ginger Rogers's North node
- Fred Astaire's Chiron square Ginger Rogers's Chiron
- Fred Astaire's Chiron trine Ginger Rogers's Mercury
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
The distinctive contact here is reciprocal: his Mercury conjoins her Mars at 6.3 degrees, and his Mars conjoins her Mercury at 5.02. A mutual exchange between the same two planets running both directions is the rarest shape this engine finds, and it describes thinking and doing landing on each other from both sides. Sun sextiles Sun at 2.47 on top of it.
Why they clash
Her Sun takes both of the hard angles: his Mercury squares it at 1.48 degrees and his Venus squares it at 5.83. Identity reads 35 and every other category sits at the floor of 30, so what the charts have between them is concentrated rather than broad. The mutual Mercury and Mars contacts are conjunctions, which press together rather than ease.
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 62.5° 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.
The reading
31.5 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
Flying Down to Rio opens at Radio City Music Hall
The first film to pair Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in supporting roles behind Dolores del Rio and Gene Raymond. Their one number together, The Carioca, drew enough response that RKO built the next nine films around them.Source (opens in new tab)
15 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Jul 4, 1933 – Jun 9, 1934 · 340 days
Fred Astaire
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto square Mercuryslow
- Neptune square Ascendantslow
- Uranus conjunction Mercuryslow
- Chiron trine Midheavenslow
- Saturn sextile Ascendantslow
- Saturn opposition Marsslow
- North Node square Sunfast
- Jupiter opposition Venusfast
Editorial note · Jupiter opposition Venus
The film's premiere brought its entertainment value and public appeal into dynamic interplay, marking a significant moment for its public career.
Ginger Rogers
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto conjunction Sunslow
- Saturn trine Ascendantslow
- Uranus square Sunslow
- Neptune square Ascendantslow
- Jupiter square Sunfast
- North Node conjunction Midheavenfast
- Jupiter trine Midheavenfast
Editorial note · Jupiter square Sun
Jupiter square Sun in house 5 for the film's opening suggested an expansive creative presentation that met dynamic tension upon its release.
Frequently asked
Are Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 32 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.15° and 0.17°. 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 square mean between two charts?
A square puts two placements at a right angle, generating friction that tends to force action. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have 12 square contacts between them, more than any other type.
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.