No birth time on record, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.
Note on this rating: Date and birthplace confirmed independently via Wikidata (P569/P19, precision to the day) and English Wikipedia. No reliable birth time is on public record, so none is asserted here.
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
Lucille Ball’s Venus and Desi Arnaz’s Saturn are 0.31 degrees from an exact sextile.
Desi Arnaz’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
Lucille Ball ↓ × Desi Arnaz →
| Planet | Sun | Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sun Quincunx Sun | Sun Opposition Mercury | Sun Quincunx Mars | Sun Opposition Uranus | |||||
| Mercury | Mercury Opposition Sun | Mercury Opposition Mars | |||||||
| Venus | Venus Sextile Saturn | Venus Quincunx Uranus | |||||||
| Mars | Mars Sextile Sun | Mars Sextile Mars | |||||||
| Jupiter | Jupiter Trine Sun | Jupiter Trine Mars | Jupiter Opposition Jupiter | Jupiter Square Neptune | Jupiter Trine Pluto | ||||
| Saturn | Saturn Square Mercury | Saturn Square Uranus | |||||||
| Uranus | Uranus Opposition Saturn | Uranus Opposition Neptune | |||||||
| Neptune | Neptune Quincunx Mercury | Neptune Conjunction Saturn | Neptune Quincunx Uranus | ||||||
| Pluto | Pluto Trine Venus | Pluto Conjunction Pluto |
24 of the 39 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 24 are in the grid. A boxed cell is within one degree. The other 15 contacts involve Chiron and the lunar nodes and are listed below, 0 of them in the tight layer.
A cell is a plain glyph. The aspect it names is a Codex Link in the sentences above.
Lucille Ball inner ring, Desi Arnaz 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 39 contacts, in four layers
Within one degree
2 of 39The contacts closest to exact, whichever bodies they involve. 0 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.
- Lucille Ball's Venus sextile Desi Arnaz's Saturn
- Lucille Ball's Saturn square Desi Arnaz's Mercury
Personal planets
13 of 39A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.
- Lucille Ball's Pluto trine Desi Arnaz's Venus
- Lucille Ball's Mercury opposition Desi Arnaz's Mars
- Lucille Ball's Mercury opposition (mutual) Desi Arnaz's Sun
- Lucille Ball's Sun opposition (mutual) Desi Arnaz's Mercury
- Lucille Ball's Neptune quincunx Desi Arnaz's Mercury
- Lucille Ball's Sun quincunx Desi Arnaz's Sun
- Lucille Ball's Sun quincunx Desi Arnaz's Mars
- Lucille Ball's Mars sextile Desi Arnaz's Sun
- Lucille Ball's Venus quincunx Desi Arnaz's Uranus
- Lucille Ball's Mars sextile Desi Arnaz's Mars
- Lucille Ball's Jupiter trine Desi Arnaz's Mars
- Lucille Ball's Jupiter trine Desi Arnaz's Sun
- Lucille Ball's Sun opposition Desi Arnaz's Uranus
Shared generation
9 of 39Jupiter through Pluto on both sides. Born 6 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.
- Lucille Ball's Neptune quincunx Desi Arnaz's Uranus
- Lucille Ball's Saturn square Desi Arnaz's Uranus
- Lucille Ball's Neptune conjunction Desi Arnaz's Saturn
- Lucille Ball's Uranus opposition Desi Arnaz's Saturn
- Lucille Ball's Jupiter opposition Desi Arnaz's Jupiter
- Lucille Ball's Pluto conjunction Desi Arnaz's Pluto
- Lucille Ball's Jupiter square Desi Arnaz's Neptune
- Lucille Ball's Jupiter trine Desi Arnaz's Pluto
- Lucille Ball's Uranus opposition Desi Arnaz's Neptune
Chiron and the lunar nodes
15 of 39A birth date places these too, and they are not drawn in the grid above. The 0 inside one degree are in the tight layer; these 15 are the rest.
- Lucille Ball's Saturn trine Desi Arnaz's North node
- Lucille Ball's Venus opposition Desi Arnaz's Chiron
- Lucille Ball's North node conjunction Desi Arnaz's Jupiter
- Lucille Ball's Uranus sextile Desi Arnaz's Chiron
- Lucille Ball's North node square Desi Arnaz's Neptune
- Lucille Ball's North node sextile Desi Arnaz's Pluto
- Lucille Ball's Chiron sextile Desi Arnaz's Jupiter
- Lucille Ball's Neptune trine Desi Arnaz's Chiron
- Lucille Ball's Chiron trine Desi Arnaz's Pluto
- Lucille Ball's Neptune opposition Desi Arnaz's North node
- Lucille Ball's Pluto square Desi Arnaz's Chiron
- Lucille Ball's Mars trine Desi Arnaz's North node
- Lucille Ball's Venus trine Desi Arnaz's North node
- Lucille Ball's Chiron conjunction Desi Arnaz's Mars
- Lucille Ball's Chiron conjunction Desi Arnaz's Sun
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 sextiles carry what ease there is here. Mars sextile Sun and Mars sextile Mars describe a shared appetite for activity and a compatible working pace, which is the most cooperative thing this chart offers. Every category sits in the lower third of the scale, so the accurate reading is that the engine finds little strong contact in either direction. Where the two charts do meet, they meet through drive rather than through affection or shared outlook.
Why they clash
The dominant angles are quincunx and opposition. Sun quincunx Sun and Sun quincunx Mars both sit close, and Mercury opposes both Sun and Mars. A quincunx is the angle of permanent adjustment: nothing that resolves, only something worked around. With Mercury on the receiving end of two oppositions, most of that adjustment lands on how the two of them exchange information. Values scores lowest, which places the strain at the level of what each one thinks the point is.
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 152° apart, close enough to feed the identity category 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.
Shared history
Shared life events
Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball marry
6 passages · 2 charts
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Jul 27, 1940 – Apr 5, 1941 · 252 days
Lucille Ball
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus trine Venusslow
- Saturn trine Mercuryslow
- Saturn trine Moonslow
- Jupiter trine Moonfast
- North Node square Moonfast
Editorial note · Saturn trine Moon
Forty-one days after their wedding, Saturn trining the fourth-house Moon grounded their new domestic life in emotional stability during a powerful alignment.
Desi Arnaz
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only
- Saturn sextile Marsslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Desi Arnaz, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Saturn sextile Mars
Saturn sextile Mars formed 22 days before the wedding, reflecting a grounding of passion into practical commitment as the couple prepared to marry.
I Love Lucy premieres on CBS
The series the pair built to keep themselves in the same city, filmed before a live audience on 35mm at their own insistence.Source (opens in new tab)
12 passages · 2 charts
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Apr 18, 1951 – Apr 12, 1952 · 360 days
Lucille Ball
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron sextile Midheavenslow
- Saturn square Moonslow
- Uranus sextile Marsslow
- North Node opposition Mercuryfast
- Jupiter square Moonfast
- North Node sextile Moonfast
Editorial note · Saturn square Moon
On the day of the premiere, Saturn square Moon in the ninth house marked a milestone built on serious creative discipline and professional grit.
Desi Arnaz
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only
- Pluto opposition Mercuryslow
- Chiron sextile Venusslow
- Neptune trine Mercuryslow
- Neptune trine Mercuryslow
- North Node conjunction Sunfast
- North Node conjunction Marsfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Desi Arnaz, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Neptune trine Mercury
Arriving 30 days after the premiere, Neptune trine Mercury brought an imaginative, charming resonance to the show as broadcast audiences embraced its comedic voice.
Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball divorce
7 passages · 1 chart
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Nov 18, 1959 – Oct 19, 1960 · 336 days
Lucille Ball
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron sextile Ascendantslow
- Neptune sextile Moonslow
- Neptune sextile Moonslow
- Pluto trine Ascendantslow
- Uranus square Marsslow
- Jupiter conjunction Ascendantfast
- North Node conjunction Venusfast
Editorial note · Pluto trine Ascendant
Pluto in the eighth house formed a trine to the Ascendant 11 days after the divorce, reflecting a transformative shift in personal identity.
Desi Arnaz
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only
Nothing was within orb for Desi Arnaz on this date.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Desi Arnaz, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Frequently asked
Are Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 39 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.31° and 0.81°. 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 Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz 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 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. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz have 9 opposition 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.