Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Sigmund Freud♉︎︎ TaurusSun
Carl Jung♌︎︎ LeoSun
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Mars sextile Sun at six hundredths of a degree

Exact, and all soft

Cross-aspects
35

Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung compatibility

↓ Below: all 35 contacts named, with orbs

Birth data: C

The original source is unknown. No recorded verification, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.

Note on this rating: Rectified from an approximate time; treat the ascendant as uncertain.

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

Sigmund Freud’s Mars and Carl Jung’s Sun are 0.06 degrees from an exact sextile.

Sextile · Soft · orb 0.06° · tightest of 35 contacts

Carl Jung’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

Sigmund Freud ↓ × Carl Jung →

Aspects
PlanetSunMercuryVenusMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptunePluto
SunSun Sextile MercurySun Sextile VenusSun Square UranusSun Conjunction Pluto
MercuryMercury Square SaturnMercury Conjunction Pluto
VenusVenus Trine MarsVenus Opposition JupiterVenus Sextile SaturnVenus Conjunction Neptune
MarsMars Sextile SunMars Quincunx Neptune
JupiterJupiter Trine Sun
SaturnSaturn Opposition MarsSaturn Trine JupiterSaturn Trine Saturn
UranusUranus Sextile VenusUranus Quincunx MarsUranus Square SaturnUranus Square UranusUranus Conjunction Pluto
NeptuneNeptune Trine VenusNeptune Square MarsNeptune Sextile Pluto
PlutoPluto Square SunPluto Conjunction Neptune

26 of the 35 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 26 are in the grid. A boxed cell is within one degree. The other 9 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.

Sigmund Freud, filled ringCarl Jung, outlined ring

Sigmund Freud inner ring, Carl Jung outer ring, with the contacts inside one degree drawn. 3 of them are between Sun and Pluto; the rest involve bodies that are not on either ring.

All 35 contacts, in four layers

Within one degree

6 of 35

The 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.

Personal planets

16 of 35

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

  • Sigmund Freud's Pluto square Carl Jung's Sun1.13° · Hard
  • Sigmund Freud's Sun sextile Carl Jung's Venus1.17° · Soft
  • Sigmund Freud's Sun square Carl Jung's Uranus1.52° · Hard
  • Sigmund Freud's Neptune square Carl Jung's Mars1.52° · Hard
  • Sigmund Freud's Venus sextile Carl Jung's Saturn2.00° · Soft
  • Sigmund Freud's Neptune trine Carl Jung's Venus2.35° · Soft
  • Sigmund Freud's Venus opposition Carl Jung's Jupiter2.40° · Hard
  • Sigmund Freud's Sun sextile Carl Jung's Mercury2.56° · Soft
  • Sigmund Freud's Uranus sextile Carl Jung's Venus3.09° · Soft
  • Sigmund Freud's Mercury square Carl Jung's Saturn3.60° · Hard
  • Sigmund Freud's Jupiter trine Carl Jung's Sun3.74° · Soft
  • Sigmund Freud's Mercury conjunction Carl Jung's Pluto4.28°
  • Sigmund Freud's Venus trine Carl Jung's Mars4.83° · Soft
  • Sigmund Freud's Saturn opposition Carl Jung's Mars6.18° · Hard
  • Sigmund Freud's Venus conjunction Carl Jung's Neptune6.84°
  • Sigmund Freud's Sun conjunction Carl Jung's Pluto7.18°

Shared generation

7 of 35

Jupiter through Pluto on both sides. Born 19 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.

  • Sigmund Freud's Pluto conjunction Carl Jung's Neptune1.40°
  • Sigmund Freud's Uranus conjunction Carl Jung's Pluto2.93°
  • Sigmund Freud's Saturn trine Carl Jung's Saturn3.35° · Soft
  • Sigmund Freud's Uranus square Carl Jung's Saturn3.61° · Hard
  • Sigmund Freud's Neptune sextile Carl Jung's Pluto3.66° · Soft
  • Sigmund Freud's Saturn trine Carl Jung's Jupiter3.75° · Soft
  • Sigmund Freud's Uranus square Carl Jung's Uranus5.78° · Hard

Chiron and the lunar nodes

6 of 35

A 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 6 are the rest.

  • Sigmund Freud's Saturn sextile Carl Jung's Chiron1.15° · Soft
  • Sigmund Freud's North node conjunction Carl Jung's Chiron2.09°
  • Sigmund Freud's Chiron opposition Carl Jung's Sun2.38° · Hard
  • Sigmund Freud's Chiron square Carl Jung's Neptune2.64° · Hard
  • Sigmund Freud's North node trine Carl Jung's Mars2.94° · Soft
  • Sigmund Freud's Mars opposition Carl Jung's North node7.56° · 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

Freud's Mars sextiles Jung's Sun at 0.06 degrees, about as close to exact as an aspect gets. His drive meets the younger man's identity at an easy angle: encouragement that arrives as recognition. Freud's Sun sextiles Jung's Venus at 1.17 and his Mercury at 2.56, so three separate soft contacts run from Freud's chart into Jung's. All four aspects in the pair are soft. Nothing here is abrasive.

Why they clash

For two men whose entire association was conversation, there is no Mercury to Mercury contact at all. No Sun to Sun either, no Venus to Venus, no Mars to Mars. Every category sits at or just under the no-contact baseline, and the highest, attraction at 28, is a wide Venus trine Mars that scores below the floor. The traffic is one-directional: Freud's planets reach Jung's, and almost nothing returns. A pairing with no hard aspects also has no structure for disagreement.

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.

Sigmund FreudTaurus Sun
Carl JungLeo Sun

The Suns are 77° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.

Sigmund FreudDragon
Carl JungPig

Dragon and Pig are in neither the trines nor the clashes.

Sigmund FreudLife Path 4
Carl JungLife Path 9

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

19073 MarchOther

First meets Carl Jung in Vienna

Freud and Jung met for the first time at Freud's home in Vienna and talked for thirteen hours virtually without pause, beginning a six-year collaboration that ended in estrangement.Library of Congress, 'The Red Book of Carl G. Jung' exhibition; Smithsonian Magazine, 'When Freud Met Jung'

14 passages · 2 charts

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Sep 4Mar 3Aug 30

Sep 4, 1906 – Aug 30, 1907 · 360 days

Sigmund Freud

Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown

  1. Pluto sextile Midheavenslow0.00°1/1Jul 2
  2. Chiron square Sunslow0.01°1/2Mar 24
  3. Neptune trine Ascendantslow0.01°2/3Apr 25
  4. Uranus sextile Ascendantslow0.01°1/2Jan 27
  5. Chiron trine Moonslow0.01°1/2Feb 27
  6. Saturn square Moonslow0.04°2/2Feb 13
  7. Saturn sextile Sunslow0.06°2/2Feb 26
  8. Jupiter square Marsfast0.00°2/2Apr 6
  9. North Node sextile Marsfast0.03°1/1Dec 13

Editorial note · Saturn sextile Sun

Five days before the meeting, Saturn sextile fourth-house Sun marked a period for cementing vital intellectual alliances.

Carl Jung

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

  1. Pluto opposition Marsslow0.00°1/1Jan 2
  2. Saturn trine Venusslow0.00°1/1Mar 8
  3. Pluto opposition Marsslow0.36°1/2Mar 7
  4. Uranus opposition Mercuryslow1.06°1/3Apr 18
  5. North Node conjunction Sunfast0.03°1/1Dec 13

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

Editorial note · Pluto opposition Mars

Four days after their initial meeting, Pluto opposing Mars signaled an intense, catalytic collision of two formidable psychological wills.

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

Frequently asked

Are Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung astrologically compatible?

Their charts make 35 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.06° and 0.12°. 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 Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung 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 sextile mean between two charts?

A sextile puts two placements in a supportive relation that usually needs some initiative to activate. Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung have 8 sextile 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.