Sun conjunct Venus one way, Mars square Mars the other.
Warm and combative
Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage compatibility
↓ Below: all 36 contacts named, with orbs
Verified by a birth certificate or official record: full chart shown, including houses and the rising sign.
Note on this rating: Birth data via astrotheme.com (Laura_Dern), Rodden AA — birth certificate or birth record, crediting 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
Laura Dern’s Sun and Nicolas Cage’s Saturn are 0.12 degrees from an exact conjunction.
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 ↓ × Nicolas Cage →
| Planet | Sun | Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto | Moon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sun Conjunction Venus | Sun Conjunction Saturn | Sun Square Neptune | |||||||
| Mercury | Mercury Sextile Mercury | Mercury Opposition Uranus | Mercury Opposition Pluto | |||||||
| Venus | Venus Sextile Sun | Venus Opposition Uranus | Venus Trine Neptune | Venus Opposition Pluto | ||||||
| Mars | Mars Square Mars | |||||||||
| Jupiter | Jupiter Opposition Mars | |||||||||
| Saturn | Saturn Sextile Mars | |||||||||
| Uranus | Uranus Trine Mars | Uranus Quincunx Saturn | ||||||||
| Neptune | Neptune Sextile Mars | Neptune Square Saturn | Neptune Conjunction Neptune | |||||||
| Pluto | Pluto Trine Sun | Pluto Quincunx Venus | Pluto Trine Mars | Pluto Quincunx Saturn | Pluto Sextile Neptune | Pluto Conjunction Pluto | ||||
| Moon |
24 of the 36 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 24 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, 4 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, Nicolas Cage 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 36 contacts, in four layers
Within one degree
6 of 36The contacts closest to exact, whichever bodies they involve. 4 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 Sun conjunction Nicolas Cage's Saturn
- Laura Dern's North node trine Nicolas Cage's Uranus
- Laura Dern's Venus opposition Nicolas Cage's Pluto
- Laura Dern's North node sextile Nicolas Cage's North node
- Laura Dern's North node trine (mutual) Nicolas Cage's Mercury
- Laura Dern's North node sextile Nicolas Cage's Chiron
Personal planets
16 of 36A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.
- Laura Dern's Jupiter opposition Nicolas Cage's Mars
- Laura Dern's Neptune sextile Nicolas Cage's Mars
- Laura Dern's Pluto quincunx Nicolas Cage's Venus
- Laura Dern's Mercury sextile Nicolas Cage's Mercury
- Laura Dern's Uranus trine Nicolas Cage's Mars
- Laura Dern's Saturn sextile Nicolas Cage's Mars
- Laura Dern's Mercury opposition Nicolas Cage's Uranus
- Laura Dern's Venus sextile Nicolas Cage's Sun
- Laura Dern's Sun conjunction Nicolas Cage's Venus
- Laura Dern's Venus opposition Nicolas Cage's Uranus
- Laura Dern's Pluto trine Nicolas Cage's Sun
- Laura Dern's Venus trine Nicolas Cage's Neptune
- Laura Dern's Sun square Nicolas Cage's Neptune
- Laura Dern's Mars square Nicolas Cage's Mars
- Laura Dern's Pluto trine Nicolas Cage's Mars
- Laura Dern's Mercury opposition Nicolas Cage's Pluto
Shared generation
6 of 36Jupiter through Pluto on both sides. Born 3 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 Pluto quincunx Nicolas Cage's Saturn
- Laura Dern's Uranus quincunx Nicolas Cage's Saturn
- Laura Dern's Pluto sextile Nicolas Cage's Neptune
- Laura Dern's Neptune square Nicolas Cage's Saturn
- Laura Dern's Pluto conjunction Nicolas Cage's Pluto
- Laura Dern's Neptune conjunction Nicolas Cage's Neptune
Chiron and the lunar nodes
8 of 36A birth date places these too, and they are not drawn in the grid above. The 4 inside one degree are in the tight layer; these 8 are the rest.
- Laura Dern's Mercury trine (mutual) Nicolas Cage's North node
- Laura Dern's Chiron sextile Nicolas Cage's Mars
- Laura Dern's Venus conjunction Nicolas Cage's Chiron
- Laura Dern's Venus trine Nicolas Cage's North node
- Laura Dern's Mercury conjunction Nicolas Cage's Chiron
- Laura Dern's North node trine Nicolas Cage's Pluto
- Laura Dern's North node trine Nicolas Cage's Sun
- Laura Dern's North node opposition Nicolas Cage's Neptune
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 works in both directions here, which is unusual in a four-aspect chart. One Sun sits conjunct the other's Venus at just under three degrees, and the reverse contact, Venus sextile Sun, sits at 2.76. Affection and identity meeting from both sides gives this pairing a genuine mutual warmth rather than one person doing the liking. Mercury sextile Mercury at 1.78 adds an easy line between the two ways of thinking.
Why they clash
Friction is the highest category, and one aspect carries it: Mars square Mars. Two drives at a hard angle means pace and appetite pulling crossways, with no natural division of who leads. Identity, attraction and values all sit at the floor. With only four contacts on the board, this is a narrow chart, and what it does register splits cleanly between easy affection and contested drive.
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 34.9° 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
27 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.
Frequently asked
Are Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 36 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.12° and 0.48°. 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 trine mean between two charts?
A trine puts two placements in easy relation, a flow that takes little effort to access. Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage have 10 trine contacts between them, more than any other type.
Tight contact, mixed valence
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