Confirmed by the person or someone close to them: full chart shown, including houses and the rising sign.
Note on this rating: Birth data via astrotheme.com (Russell_Brand), Rodden A, from memory or autobiography. Credits 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
Katy Perry’s Venus and Russell Brand’s Pluto are 0.02 degrees from an exact sextile.
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
Katy Perry ↓ × Russell Brand →
| Planet | Sun | Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto | Moon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sun Square Venus | Sun Conjunction Uranus | ||||||||
| Mercury | Mercury Quincunx Sun | Mercury Quincunx Mars | Mercury Trine Saturn | |||||||
| Venus | Venus Opposition Sun | Venus Trine Mars | Venus Conjunction Neptune | Venus Sextile Pluto | ||||||
| Mars | Mars Quincunx Sun | Mars Square Mars | Mars Square Jupiter | Mars Opposition Saturn | ||||||
| Jupiter | Jupiter Square Mars | Jupiter Square Pluto | ||||||||
| Saturn | Saturn Quincunx Jupiter | Saturn Trine Saturn | ||||||||
| Uranus | Uranus Opposition Sun | Uranus Trine Mars | Uranus Trine Jupiter | Uranus Conjunction Neptune | ||||||
| Neptune | Neptune Opposition Mercury | Neptune Quincunx Venus | Neptune Sextile Uranus | |||||||
| Pluto | Pluto Square Venus | Pluto Conjunction Uranus | ||||||||
| Moon |
26 of the 38 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 26 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.
Katy Perry inner ring, Russell Brand outer ring, with the contacts inside one degree drawn. 5 of them are between Sun and Pluto; the rest involve bodies that are not on either ring.
All 38 contacts, in four layers
Within one degree
6 of 38The 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.
- Katy Perry's Venus sextile Russell Brand's Pluto
- Katy Perry's North node sextile Russell Brand's Venus
- Katy Perry's Saturn quincunx Russell Brand's Jupiter
- Katy Perry's Saturn trine Russell Brand's Saturn
- Katy Perry's Neptune sextile Russell Brand's Uranus
- Katy Perry's Mercury quincunx Russell Brand's Sun
Personal planets
17 of 38A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.
- Katy Perry's Uranus trine Russell Brand's Mars
- Katy Perry's Uranus opposition Russell Brand's Sun
- Katy Perry's Mars quincunx Russell Brand's Sun
- Katy Perry's Neptune quincunx Russell Brand's Venus
- Katy Perry's Mercury quincunx Russell Brand's Mars
- Katy Perry's Jupiter square (mutual) Russell Brand's Mars
- Katy Perry's Mars square (mutual) Russell Brand's Jupiter
- Katy Perry's Mars opposition Russell Brand's Saturn
- Katy Perry's Sun conjunction Russell Brand's Uranus
- Katy Perry's Venus trine Russell Brand's Mars
- Katy Perry's Venus conjunction Russell Brand's Neptune
- Katy Perry's Mars square Russell Brand's Mars
- Katy Perry's Pluto square Russell Brand's Venus
- Katy Perry's Sun square Russell Brand's Venus
- Katy Perry's Mercury trine Russell Brand's Saturn
- Katy Perry's Venus opposition Russell Brand's Sun
- Katy Perry's Neptune opposition Russell Brand's Mercury
Shared generation
4 of 38Jupiter through Pluto on both sides. Born 9 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.
- Katy Perry's Uranus conjunction Russell Brand's Neptune
- Katy Perry's Jupiter square Russell Brand's Pluto
- Katy Perry's Pluto conjunction Russell Brand's Uranus
- Katy Perry's Uranus trine Russell Brand's Jupiter
Chiron and the lunar nodes
11 of 38A 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.
- Katy Perry's Chiron trine Russell Brand's Pluto
- Katy Perry's North node quincunx Russell Brand's Uranus
- Katy Perry's Neptune trine Russell Brand's Chiron
- Katy Perry's Chiron sextile Russell Brand's Mars
- Katy Perry's Chiron opposition Russell Brand's Neptune
- Katy Perry's North node opposition Russell Brand's North node
- Katy Perry's Chiron conjunction Russell Brand's Sun
- Katy Perry's Pluto opposition Russell Brand's Chiron
- Katy Perry's Sun opposition Russell Brand's Chiron
- Katy Perry's Venus conjunction Russell Brand's North node
- Katy Perry's Chiron opposition Russell Brand's North node
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 trine Mars is the one genuinely easy contact, and it carries most of what the attraction score registers. One chart's capacity for affection meeting the other's drive at a flowing angle gives this pairing its pull. Friction scores second highest of the five categories, which on this scale describes a pairing with real energy in it. The chart is active rather than quiet: something is always being negotiated between these two.
Why they clash
Three of the seven aspects are quincunxes, and two sit under two degrees: Mercury quincunx Sun at 0.75, Mars quincunx Sun at 1.67. A quincunx is the angle of permanent adjustment, two placements that can neither harmonise nor properly conflict. Three of them describes a relationship in constant low-level recalibration. Mars square Mars adds a direct contest of pace on top. Identity, communication and values all sit at the floor, so there is little steady ground beneath the adjusting.
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 139.6° 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.
The reading
12.5 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
Katy Perry marries
7 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Jul 29, 2010 – Jan 17, 2011 · 172 days
Katy Perry
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto sextile Sunslow
Editorial note · Pluto sextile Sun
Thirty-nine days before her wedding, Pluto sextile Sun in the second house marked a power window that reinforced her personal authority and core values as she prepared for marriage.
Russell Brand
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn opposition Marsslow
- Uranus trine Venusslow
- Uranus sextile Ascendantslow
- Pluto square Moonslow
- North Node square Moonfast
- Jupiter square Mercuryfast
Editorial note · Uranus sextile Ascendant
A power window was active 21 days before the wedding as Uranus sextiled her second-house Ascendant, highlighting an unconventional personal reinvention.
Frequently asked
Are Katy Perry and Russell Brand astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 38 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.02° 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.
What does opposition mean between two charts?
An opposition puts two placements directly across the chart, a pull between two poles that has to be balanced rather than resolved. Katy Perry and Russell Brand have 9 opposition 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.