Confirmed by the person or someone close to them: full chart shown, including houses and the rising sign.
Note on this rating: From memory/autobiography, confirmed directly by Oprah Winfrey to astrologer Bob Marks (May 1988); corroborated across independent astrological data sites.
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
Oprah Winfrey’s Mars and Gayle King’s Venus are 0.19 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
Oprah Winfrey ↓ × Gayle King →
| Planet | Sun | Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto | Moon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | ||||||||||
| Mercury | Mercury Square Venus | Mercury Square Saturn | Mercury Opposition Pluto | |||||||
| Venus | ||||||||||
| Mars | Mars Conjunction Venus | Mars Trine Jupiter | Mars Conjunction Saturn | Mars Trine Uranus | Mars Square Pluto | |||||
| Jupiter | Jupiter Square Mars | Jupiter Quincunx Saturn | ||||||||
| Saturn | Saturn Sextile Sun | Saturn Sextile Mercury | ||||||||
| Uranus | Uranus Trine Venus | Uranus Trine Mars | Uranus Conjunction Jupiter | Uranus Trine Saturn | Uranus Conjunction Uranus | |||||
| Neptune | Neptune Square Jupiter | Neptune Square Uranus | Neptune Conjunction Neptune | Neptune Sextile Pluto | ||||||
| Pluto | Pluto Square Venus | Pluto Sextile Neptune | Pluto Conjunction Pluto | |||||||
| Moon |
24 of the 40 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 24 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.
Oprah Winfrey inner ring, Gayle King outer ring, with the contacts inside one degree drawn. 6 of them are between Sun and Pluto; the rest involve bodies that are not on either ring.
All 40 contacts, in four layers
Within one degree
8 of 40The 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.
- Oprah Winfrey's Mars conjunction Gayle King's Venus
- Oprah Winfrey's Chiron sextile Gayle King's Venus
- Oprah Winfrey's Neptune square Gayle King's Uranus
- Oprah Winfrey's Neptune sextile (mutual) Gayle King's Pluto
- Oprah Winfrey's North node sextile Gayle King's Venus
- Oprah Winfrey's Jupiter square Gayle King's Mars
- Oprah Winfrey's Pluto square Gayle King's Venus
- Oprah Winfrey's Saturn sextile Gayle King's Mercury
Personal planets
10 of 40A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.
- Oprah Winfrey's Mercury square Gayle King's Saturn
- Oprah Winfrey's Saturn sextile Gayle King's Sun
- Oprah Winfrey's Mars trine (mutual) Gayle King's Uranus
- Oprah Winfrey's Uranus trine (mutual) Gayle King's Mars
- Oprah Winfrey's Mars square Gayle King's Pluto
- Oprah Winfrey's Uranus trine Gayle King's Venus
- Oprah Winfrey's Mars trine Gayle King's Jupiter
- Oprah Winfrey's Mercury square Gayle King's Venus
- Oprah Winfrey's Mars conjunction Gayle King's Saturn
- Oprah Winfrey's Mercury opposition Gayle King's Pluto
Shared generation
8 of 40Jupiter through Pluto on both sides. Born 10 months 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.
- Oprah Winfrey's Pluto sextile (mutual) Gayle King's Neptune
- Oprah Winfrey's Neptune square Gayle King's Jupiter
- Oprah Winfrey's Jupiter quincunx Gayle King's Saturn
- Oprah Winfrey's Neptune conjunction Gayle King's Neptune
- Oprah Winfrey's Uranus trine Gayle King's Saturn
- Oprah Winfrey's Pluto conjunction Gayle King's Pluto
- Oprah Winfrey's Uranus conjunction Gayle King's Uranus
- Oprah Winfrey's Uranus conjunction Gayle King's Jupiter
Chiron and the lunar nodes
14 of 40A 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.
- Oprah Winfrey's Neptune square (mutual) Gayle King's Chiron
- Oprah Winfrey's Chiron square (mutual) Gayle King's Neptune
- Oprah Winfrey's North node opposition Gayle King's Uranus
- Oprah Winfrey's North node quincunx Gayle King's Pluto
- Oprah Winfrey's Chiron opposition (mutual) Gayle King's Uranus
- Oprah Winfrey's Uranus opposition (mutual) Gayle King's Chiron
- Oprah Winfrey's Chiron quincunx Gayle King's Pluto
- Oprah Winfrey's North node opposition Gayle King's Jupiter
- Oprah Winfrey's North node conjunction Gayle King's Chiron
- Oprah Winfrey's Saturn sextile Gayle King's North node
- Oprah Winfrey's Chiron opposition Gayle King's Jupiter
- Oprah Winfrey's Chiron conjunction Gayle King's Chiron
- Oprah Winfrey's Mars sextile Gayle King's Chiron
- Oprah Winfrey's North node square Gayle King'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
Mars conjoins Venus at an orb of 0.19 degrees, near enough to exact that the engine reads attraction at 99, almost the maximum the scale allows. The category measures Venus and Mars contact rather than romance, and here one chart's drive sits almost precisely on the other's Venus. A single contact this close outweighs a synastry with three times as many looser aspects.
Why they clash
There are only two contacts in total, and the second is Mercury squaring Venus at 4.23 degrees. Identity, communication, friction and values all read at the floor of 30, because four bodies meeting twice cannot fill five categories. What this synastry describes is one very precise point of contact and a great deal of open space around it.
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 32.7° 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.
Shared history
Shared life events
First issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
Winfrey's magazine published its first issue. King had joined the staff as an editor the previous year and later became editor-at-large of its successor, Oprah Daily. The two had been friends since meeting at WJZ-TV in Baltimore in 1976.Source (opens in new tab)
10 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Feb 6 – Jul 1, 2000 · 146 days
Oprah Winfrey
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune sextile Moonslow
- Saturn square Mercuryslow
- Chiron sextile Midheavenslow
- Neptune conjunction Venusslow
- Neptune conjunction Sunslow
Editorial note · Jupiter square Venus
The launch of O Magazine occurred with Jupiter square Venus in house 4, reflecting a dynamic expansion of her personal brand and collaborative values into a public foundation.
No dated window is recorded for this transit, so it isn't among the passages drawn here.
Gayle King
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn sextile Marsslow
- Chiron square Marsslow
- Pluto sextile Moonslow
- Jupiter square Moonfast
- Jupiter opposition Midheavenfast
Editorial note · Saturn square Moon
Saturn's square to the Moon in house 4 marked a period of disciplined effort and emotional adjustments as O Magazine established its foundation.
No dated window is recorded for this transit, so it isn't among the passages drawn here.
Frequently asked
Are Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 40 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.
What does square mean between two charts?
A square puts two placements at a right angle, generating friction that tends to force action. Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King have 10 square contacts between them, more than any other type.
Tight contact, mixed valence
Run the full synastry
This page compares Sun through Pluto, the bodies a birth date alone can place. The synastry calculator runs all ten bodies against each other.