Sun conjunct Sun inside a degree and a half, with Mercury and Mars crossed.
Same axis
Madonna and Sean Penn 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 (Madonna), 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
Madonna’s Mercury and Sean Penn’s Pluto are 0.16 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
Madonna ↓ × Sean Penn →
| Planet | Sun | Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto | Moon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sun Conjunction Sun | Sun Trine Jupiter | Sun Conjunction Uranus | |||||||
| Mercury | Mercury Conjunction Venus | Mercury Square Mars | Mercury Sextile Neptune | Mercury Conjunction Pluto | ||||||
| Venus | ||||||||||
| Mars | Mars Square Mercury | Mars Trine Venus | Mars Trine Saturn | |||||||
| Jupiter | Jupiter Sextile Sun | Jupiter Sextile Jupiter | ||||||||
| Saturn | Saturn Trine Sun | Saturn Conjunction Jupiter | Saturn Trine Uranus | |||||||
| Uranus | Uranus Conjunction Mercury | Uranus Sextile Mars | Uranus Quincunx Saturn | |||||||
| Neptune | Neptune Conjunction Neptune | Neptune Sextile Pluto | ||||||||
| Pluto | Pluto Conjunction Sun | Pluto Conjunction Pluto | ||||||||
| Moon |
22 of the 36 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 22 are in the grid. A boxed cell is within one degree. The other 14 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.
Madonna inner ring, Sean Penn 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 36 contacts, in four layers
Within one degree
9 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.
- Madonna's Mercury conjunction Sean Penn's Pluto
- Madonna's Uranus quincunx Sean Penn's Saturn
- Madonna's North node sextile Sean Penn's Jupiter
- Madonna's Mars trine Sean Penn's North node
- Madonna's Venus quincunx Sean Penn's Chiron
- Madonna's Sun trine Sean Penn's Jupiter
- Madonna's Uranus conjunction Sean Penn's Mercury
- Madonna's North node sextile Sean Penn's Sun
- Madonna's Mercury sextile Sean Penn's Neptune
Personal planets
11 of 36A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.
- Madonna's Jupiter sextile Sean Penn's Sun
- Madonna's Sun conjunction Sean Penn's Uranus
- Madonna's Sun conjunction Sean Penn's Sun
- Madonna's Uranus sextile Sean Penn's Mars
- Madonna's Mars trine Sean Penn's Saturn
- Madonna's Mars square (mutual) Sean Penn's Mercury
- Madonna's Mercury square (mutual) Sean Penn's Mars
- Madonna's Mercury conjunction Sean Penn's Venus
- Madonna's Mars trine Sean Penn's Venus
- Madonna's Saturn trine Sean Penn's Sun
- Madonna's Pluto conjunction Sean Penn's Sun
Shared generation
6 of 36Jupiter through Pluto on both sides. Born 2 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.
- Madonna's Saturn trine Sean Penn's Uranus
- Madonna's Jupiter sextile Sean Penn's Jupiter
- Madonna's Neptune sextile Sean Penn's Pluto
- Madonna's Pluto conjunction Sean Penn's Pluto
- Madonna's Neptune conjunction Sean Penn's Neptune
- Madonna's Saturn conjunction Sean Penn's Jupiter
Chiron and the lunar nodes
10 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 10 are the rest.
- Madonna's Pluto opposition Sean Penn's Chiron
- Madonna's Chiron opposition Sean Penn's Uranus
- Madonna's Neptune trine Sean Penn's Chiron
- Madonna's North node sextile Sean Penn's Uranus
- Madonna's Saturn square Sean Penn's North node
- Madonna's Jupiter trine Sean Penn's Chiron
- Madonna's Chiron sextile Sean Penn's Jupiter
- Madonna's Chiron opposition (mutual) Sean Penn's Sun
- Madonna's Sun opposition (mutual) Sean Penn's Chiron
- Madonna's Mercury opposition Sean Penn's Chiron
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
Identity is the dominant category by a wide margin, and it rests on Sun conjunct Sun at 1.49 degrees. Two Suns that close describes people working from the same basic material: similar instincts about how to be in a room, similar timing, similar appetite for attention. Mercury conjunct Venus adds warmth to how one of them speaks to the other. Mars trine Venus rounds it out with an easy line between drive and affection.
Why they clash
Mercury and Mars square each other in both directions, at 4.30 and 4.18. That is the same argument running two ways: one person's thinking against the other's drive, and then the reverse. Attraction scores lowest of the five, below even the floor the other categories sit at. A Sun conjunction this tight can read as recognition rather than romance, two people who are alike enough to compete for the same ground.
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 1.9° 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.
The reading
30.5 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
Sean Penn and Madonna marry
6 passages · 1 chart
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Jun 9 – Oct 23, 1985 · 136 days
Madonna
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn square Sunslow
- Chiron square Moonslow
- Pluto square Venusslow
- Uranus square Moonslow
- North Node trine Moonfast
- North Node conjunction Marsfast
Editorial note · Saturn square Sun
Saturn squared the third-house Sun 68 days before the wedding, testing their private dialogue during a high-stakes power window that challenged their personal boundaries ahead of the high-profile union.
Sean Penn
Editorial note · Uranus conjunction Ascendant
Ten days before the wedding, Uranus meeting the twelfth-house Ascendant marked a volatile shift in public persona during this high-impact window.
7th Golden Raspberry Awards
13 passages · 2 charts
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Sep 30, 1986 – Sep 25, 1987 · 360 days
Madonna
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto sextile Ascendantslow
- Pluto sextile Ascendantslow
- Neptune trine Ascendantslow
- Saturn trine Sunslow
Editorial note · Saturn trine Sun
Arriving two days after the ceremony during a power window, Saturn trine Sun in the fourth house brought grounding perspective and quiet endurance following the public Razzie recognition.
Sean Penn
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune opposition Moonslow
- Chiron opposition Ascendantslow
- Uranus trine Sunslow
- Neptune opposition Moonslow
- Pluto sextile Venusslow
- Pluto square Mercuryslow
- North Node sextile Marsfast
- North Node trine Mercuryfast
- Jupiter square Moonfast
Editorial note · Uranus trine Sun
Uranus trined the first-house Sun 62 days before the 7th Golden Raspberry Awards, opening a volatile power window of sudden exposure and unpredictable public identity ahead of the ceremony.
Sean Penn and Madonna divorce
nothing in force
No dated transit window covers this date in the charts of Madonna and Sean Penn.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
Madonna and Sean Penn divorce
15 passages · 2 charts
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Mar 18, 1989 – Mar 13, 1990 · 360 days
Madonna
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune trine Moonslow
- Pluto opposition Marsslow
- Saturn trine Ascendantslow
- Chiron sextile Marsslow
- Pluto sextile Moonslow
- Neptune trine Ascendantslow
- Saturn trine Mercuryslow
- Jupiter sextile Ascendantfast
- North Node opposition Sunfast
Editorial note · Neptune trine Ascendant
Neptune trine the Ascendant in the fifth house peaked seven days after the divorce, offering a gentle, creative release for her public persona following the romantic rupture.
Sean Penn
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus square Midheavenslow
- Neptune trine Venusslow
- Pluto square Mercuryslow
- Saturn opposition Moonslow
- North Node opposition Sunfast
- Jupiter conjunction Moonfast
Editorial note · Saturn opposition Moon
Three days before the divorce, Saturn opposing her first-house Moon marked a heavy emotional reckoning that crystallized personal boundaries.
Frequently asked
Are Madonna and Sean Penn astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 36 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.16° and 0.21°. 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 conjunction mean between two charts?
A conjunction puts two placements at nearly the same degree, so their energies blend into one signal rather than two. Madonna and Sean Penn have 9 conjunction contacts between them, more than any other type.
Sources & further reading
Tight contact, mixed valence
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