Mars lands on the Sun at half a degree, and Mercury sextiles Mars at a fifth.
Tight, narrow
Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum compatibility
↓ Below: all 36 contacts named, with orbs
No birth time on record, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.
Note on this rating: Birth date 1952-10-22 from Wikidata Q106706 (day precision) and the English Wikipedia article. Birth city West Homestead, Pennsylvania 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 Mercury and Jeff Goldblum’s Chiron are 0.19 degrees from an exact sextile.
Jeff Goldblum’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
Laura Dern ↓ × Jeff Goldblum →
| Planet | Sun | Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sun Square Mercury | Sun Square Jupiter | Sun Trine Saturn | Sun Quincunx Uranus | Sun Trine Neptune | Sun Opposition Pluto | |||
| Mercury | Mercury Sextile Mars | ||||||||
| Venus | Venus Trine Mercury | Venus Trine Uranus | |||||||
| Mars | Mars Conjunction Sun | Mars Conjunction Neptune | |||||||
| Jupiter | Jupiter Square Sun | Jupiter Trine Venus | Jupiter Square Neptune | ||||||
| Saturn | Saturn Quincunx Sun | Saturn Trine Venus | |||||||
| Uranus | Uranus Trine Jupiter | ||||||||
| Neptune | Neptune Conjunction Mercury | Neptune Conjunction Venus | Neptune Opposition Jupiter | Neptune Trine Uranus | Neptune Square Pluto | ||||
| Pluto | Pluto Sextile Mercury | Pluto Trine Jupiter | Pluto Sextile Uranus |
25 of the 36 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 25 are in the grid. A boxed cell is within one degree. The other 11 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, Jeff Goldblum 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 36 contacts, in four layers
Within one degree
5 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 Mercury sextile Jeff Goldblum's Chiron
- Laura Dern's Mercury sextile Jeff Goldblum's Mars
- Laura Dern's Sun trine Jeff Goldblum's Neptune
- Laura Dern's Mars conjunction Jeff Goldblum's Sun
- Laura Dern's Chiron quincunx Jeff Goldblum's Pluto
Personal planets
15 of 36A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.
- Laura Dern's Saturn quincunx Jeff Goldblum's Sun
- Laura Dern's Sun opposition Jeff Goldblum's Pluto
- Laura Dern's Sun trine Jeff Goldblum's Saturn
- Laura Dern's Jupiter square (mutual) Jeff Goldblum's Sun
- Laura Dern's Sun square (mutual) Jeff Goldblum's Jupiter
- Laura Dern's Sun quincunx Jeff Goldblum's Uranus
- Laura Dern's Saturn trine Jeff Goldblum's Venus
- Laura Dern's Venus trine Jeff Goldblum's Mercury
- Laura Dern's Jupiter trine Jeff Goldblum's Venus
- Laura Dern's Pluto sextile Jeff Goldblum's Mercury
- Laura Dern's Sun square Jeff Goldblum's Mercury
- Laura Dern's Venus trine Jeff Goldblum's Uranus
- Laura Dern's Neptune conjunction Jeff Goldblum's Venus
- Laura Dern's Mars conjunction Jeff Goldblum's Neptune
- Laura Dern's Neptune conjunction Jeff Goldblum's Mercury
Shared generation
7 of 36Jupiter through Pluto on both sides. Born 14 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 Neptune square Jeff Goldblum's Pluto
- Laura Dern's Pluto sextile Jeff Goldblum's Uranus
- Laura Dern's Pluto trine Jeff Goldblum's Jupiter
- Laura Dern's Jupiter square Jeff Goldblum's Neptune
- Laura Dern's Uranus trine Jeff Goldblum's Jupiter
- Laura Dern's Neptune trine Jeff Goldblum's Uranus
- Laura Dern's Neptune opposition Jeff Goldblum's Jupiter
Chiron and the lunar nodes
9 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 9 are the rest.
- Laura Dern's Pluto quincunx Jeff Goldblum's North node
- Laura Dern's Chiron quincunx Jeff Goldblum's Neptune
- Laura Dern's North node trine Jeff Goldblum's Chiron
- Laura Dern's Sun conjunction Jeff Goldblum's North node
- Laura Dern's North node trine Jeff Goldblum's Mars
- Laura Dern's Chiron trine Jeff Goldblum's Uranus
- Laura Dern's Neptune square Jeff Goldblum's North node
- Laura Dern's North node opposition Jeff Goldblum's Mercury
- Laura Dern's North node conjunction Jeff Goldblum's Jupiter
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
Two contacts here are unusually precise. Mars conjunct Sun sits at 0.54 degrees, one person's drive landing directly on the other's identity, and Mercury sextile Mars at 0.2 degrees is closer still. Venus trine Mercury at 2.94 adds an easy line between affection and thinking. For a four-aspect chart the precision is notable even though the breadth is not.
Why they clash
Every category sits at the floor of the scale. Sun square Mercury is the one hard angle, and at 4.74 degrees it is the widest aspect present. What holds this chart back is absence rather than conflict: no Sun-to-Sun contact, no Venus-to-Venus, no Mars-to-Mars. Both birth times are estimates, so the engine has no angles or houses to work with and is scoring on planetary aspects alone.
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 112.2° 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.
Frequently asked
Are Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 36 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.19° and 0.2°. 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 Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum 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 trine mean between two charts?
A trine puts two placements in easy relation, a flow that takes little effort to access. Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum have 12 trine contacts between them, more than any other type.
Tight contact, mixed valence
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