Confirmed by the person or someone close to them: full chart shown, including houses and the rising sign.
Note on this rating: Birth date 1955-08-04 from Wikidata Q202735 (day precision) and the English Wikipedia article. Birth city Hot Springs, Arkansas from Wikidata P19. Birth time unknown, so Rodden X and the time is an estimate.
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
Laura Dern’s North node and Billy Bob Thornton’s Mercury are 0.32 degrees from an exact square.
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
Laura Dern ↓ × Billy Bob Thornton →
| Planet | Sun | Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto | Moon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sun Opposition Mars | Sun Trine Neptune | Sun Opposition Pluto | |||||||
| Mercury | Mercury Quincunx Mercury | |||||||||
| Venus | Venus Quincunx Sun | Venus Quincunx Mars | Venus Quincunx Jupiter | Venus Trine Saturn | ||||||
| Mars | Mars Square Venus | Mars Square Uranus | Mars Conjunction Neptune | Mars Sextile Pluto | ||||||
| Jupiter | Jupiter Conjunction Venus | Jupiter Conjunction Uranus | Jupiter Square Neptune | |||||||
| Saturn | Saturn Trine Uranus | Saturn Quincunx Neptune | Saturn Quincunx Pluto | |||||||
| Uranus | ||||||||||
| Neptune | Neptune Trine Uranus | Neptune Square Pluto | ||||||||
| Pluto | ||||||||||
| Moon |
20 of the 36 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 20 are in the grid. A boxed cell is within one degree. The other 16 contacts involve Chiron and the lunar nodes and are listed below, 2 of them in the tight layer.
A cell is a plain glyph. The aspect it names is a Codex Link in the sentences above.
Laura Dern inner ring, Billy Bob Thornton outer ring, with the contacts inside one degree drawn. 1 of them are between Sun and Pluto; the rest involve bodies that are not on either ring.
All 36 contacts, in four layers
Within one degree
3 of 36The contacts closest to exact, whichever bodies they involve. 2 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.
- Laura Dern's North node square Billy Bob Thornton's Mercury
- Laura Dern's Mars square Billy Bob Thornton's Uranus
- Laura Dern's North node square Billy Bob Thornton's Jupiter
Personal planets
12 of 36A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.
- Laura Dern's Venus trine Billy Bob Thornton's Saturn
- Laura Dern's Venus quincunx Billy Bob Thornton's Mars
- Laura Dern's Venus quincunx Billy Bob Thornton's Sun
- Laura Dern's Venus quincunx Billy Bob Thornton's Jupiter
- Laura Dern's Mercury quincunx Billy Bob Thornton's Mercury
- Laura Dern's Mars sextile Billy Bob Thornton's Pluto
- Laura Dern's Mars conjunction Billy Bob Thornton's Neptune
- Laura Dern's Mars square Billy Bob Thornton's Venus
- Laura Dern's Sun trine Billy Bob Thornton's Neptune
- Laura Dern's Sun opposition Billy Bob Thornton's Pluto
- Laura Dern's Sun opposition Billy Bob Thornton's Mars
- Laura Dern's Jupiter conjunction Billy Bob Thornton's Venus
Shared generation
7 of 36Jupiter 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.
- Laura Dern's Jupiter square Billy Bob Thornton's Neptune
- Laura Dern's Saturn trine Billy Bob Thornton's Uranus
- Laura Dern's Saturn quincunx Billy Bob Thornton's Pluto
- Laura Dern's Neptune square Billy Bob Thornton's Pluto
- Laura Dern's Saturn quincunx Billy Bob Thornton's Neptune
- Laura Dern's Jupiter conjunction Billy Bob Thornton's Uranus
- Laura Dern's Neptune trine Billy Bob Thornton's Uranus
Chiron and the lunar nodes
14 of 36A birth date places these too, and they are not drawn in the grid above. The 2 inside one degree are in the tight layer; these 14 are the rest.
- Laura Dern's North node square Billy Bob Thornton's Sun
- Laura Dern's Jupiter quincunx Billy Bob Thornton's North node
- Laura Dern's Chiron square Billy Bob Thornton's North node
- Laura Dern's Uranus square Billy Bob Thornton's North node
- Laura Dern's Chiron quincunx Billy Bob Thornton's Neptune
- Laura Dern's Saturn square Billy Bob Thornton's North node
- Laura Dern's Chiron quincunx Billy Bob Thornton's Pluto
- Laura Dern's Mars square Billy Bob Thornton's Chiron
- Laura Dern's Mars sextile Billy Bob Thornton's North node
- Laura Dern's North node opposition Billy Bob Thornton's Saturn
- Laura Dern's North node square Billy Bob Thornton's Mars
- Laura Dern's Chiron trine Billy Bob Thornton's Uranus
- Laura Dern's Jupiter opposition Billy Bob Thornton's Chiron
- Laura Dern's Pluto square Billy Bob Thornton'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
Attraction is by far the strongest category, and the contacts feeding it are the Venus and Mars pairings: Venus quincunx Mars at 1.84, Mars square Venus at 4.12, Sun opposite Mars at 5.84. Hard angles between Venus and Mars are the classic signature of charge rather than comfort. On this scale the chart reads as a pairing with real pull in it, none of it the restful kind.
Why they clash
Three of the five aspects are quincunxes, including Mercury to Mercury at 2.32. A quincunx is the angle of permanent adjustment, and having one sit between the two Mercuries means the exchange itself never quite lands. Communication scores lowest of the five as a result. Identity, friction and values all sit at the floor. Strong charge, thin foundation, and a constant working-around in how the two of them talk.
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 170.1° 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
32 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
Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton begin a relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q220901, P580 start time qualifier at year precision.
nothing in force
No dated transit window covers this date in the charts of Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton end their relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q220901, P582 end time qualifier at year precision.
nothing in force
No dated transit window covers this date in the charts of Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
Frequently asked
Are Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 36 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.32° and 0.7°. 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. Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton have 13 square contacts between them, more than any other type.
Tight contact, mixed valence
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