Paul McCartney
Ringo Starr
Paul McCartney♊︎︎ GeminiSun
Ringo Starr♋︎︎ CancerSun
Bandmates

Mars conjunct Mars at a quarter degree

Locked tempo

Cross-aspects
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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr compatibility

↓ Below: all 32 contacts named, with orbs

Birth data: DD

Sources conflict on the birth time. No recorded verification, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.

Note on this rating: Birth time 00:05, Rodden A (from memory or autobiography) via astrotheme.com, 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

Paul McCartney’s Uranus and Ringo Starr’s Pluto are 0.01 degrees from an exact sextile.

Sextile · Soft · orb 0.01° · tightest of 32 contacts

Paul McCartney’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

Paul McCartney ↓ × Ringo Starr →

24 of the 32 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 24 are in the grid. A boxed cell is within one degree. The other 8 contacts involve Chiron and the lunar nodes and are listed below, 1 of them in the tight layer.

A cell is a plain glyph. The aspect it names is a Codex Link in the sentences above.

Paul McCartney, filled ringRingo Starr, outlined ring

Paul McCartney inner ring, Ringo Starr 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 32 contacts, in four layers

Within one degree

7 of 32

The contacts closest to exact, whichever bodies they involve. 1 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.

  • Paul McCartney's Uranus sextile Ringo Starr's Pluto0.01° · Soft
  • Paul McCartney's Saturn sextile Ringo Starr's Mercury0.04° · Soft
  • Paul McCartney's Mars conjunction Ringo Starr's Mars0.23°
  • Paul McCartney's Uranus sextile Ringo Starr's Mars0.29° · Soft
  • Paul McCartney's Chiron square Ringo Starr's Saturn0.46° · Hard
  • Paul McCartney's Mars conjunction (mutual) Ringo Starr's Pluto0.51°
  • Paul McCartney's Pluto conjunction Ringo Starr's Mercury0.94°

Personal planets

13 of 32

A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.

  • Paul McCartney's Pluto conjunction (mutual) Ringo Starr's Mars2.02°
  • Paul McCartney's Neptune square Ringo Starr's Venus2.29° · Hard
  • Paul McCartney's Jupiter conjunction Ringo Starr's Venus2.35°
  • Paul McCartney's Mars conjunction Ringo Starr's Mercury2.73°
  • Paul McCartney's Saturn sextile Ringo Starr's Mars2.93° · Soft
  • Paul McCartney's Sun conjunction Ringo Starr's Venus3.12°
  • Paul McCartney's Uranus sextile Ringo Starr's Mercury3.25° · Soft
  • Paul McCartney's Sun square Ringo Starr's Neptune3.27° · Hard
  • Paul McCartney's Venus sextile Ringo Starr's Sun3.93° · Soft
  • Paul McCartney's Venus trine Ringo Starr's Neptune4.42° · Soft
  • Paul McCartney's Mercury square Ringo Starr's Neptune4.52° · Hard
  • Paul McCartney's Venus conjunction Ringo Starr's Saturn6.02°
  • Paul McCartney's Venus conjunction Ringo Starr's Uranus6.29°

Shared generation

5 of 32

Jupiter 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.

  • Paul McCartney's Neptune trine Ringo Starr's Uranus2.23° · Soft
  • Paul McCartney's Pluto conjunction Ringo Starr's Pluto2.30°
  • Paul McCartney's Saturn sextile Ringo Starr's Pluto3.21° · Soft
  • Paul McCartney's Neptune conjunction Ringo Starr's Neptune4.09°
  • Paul McCartney's Uranus conjunction Ringo Starr's Uranus7.06°

Chiron and the lunar nodes

7 of 32

A birth date places these too, and they are not drawn in the grid above. The 1 inside one degree are in the tight layer; these 7 are the rest.

  • Paul McCartney's Chiron square Ringo Starr's Jupiter1.74° · Hard
  • Paul McCartney's Mercury trine Ringo Starr's North node3.02° · Soft
  • Paul McCartney's Venus sextile Ringo Starr's Chiron3.03° · Soft
  • Paul McCartney's Chiron sextile Ringo Starr's North node3.37° · Soft
  • Paul McCartney's North node trine Ringo Starr's Jupiter3.71° · Soft
  • Paul McCartney's North node trine Ringo Starr's Saturn5.92° · Soft
  • Paul McCartney's Chiron conjunction Ringo Starr's Mercury6.91°

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 sits conjunct Mars at 0.23 degrees, scoring 99. Two drives in the same place moving at the same rate: a bassist and a drummer with their Mars within a quarter of a degree. Paul's Sun is conjunct Ringo's Venus at 3.12 and his Venus sextiles Ringo's Sun in return, so warmth travels in both directions. Every aspect in this pair is a conjunction or a sextile, with nothing oppositional anywhere in it.

Why they clash

The Mars conjunction that makes them work also removes the gap. Two drives at 0.23 degrees have no differential, so there is no natural division of labor and no one instinctively hanging back. Paul's Mars conjunct Ringo's Mercury at 2.73 puts that same drive directly onto the other's speech. Beyond it, contact is thin: no Sun to Sun, no Mercury to Mercury, no Venus to Venus, and attraction, communication and identity all rest on the baseline of 30.

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.

Western astrology

Paul McCartneyGemini Sun
Ringo StarrCancer Sun

The Suns are 18.4° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.

Chinese zodiac

Paul McCartneyHorse
Ringo StarrDragon

Horse and Dragon are in neither the trines nor the clashes.

Numerology

Paul McCartneyLife Path 22
Ringo StarrLife Path 1

Tarot birth cards

Paul McCartneyThe Emperor
Ringo StarrWheel of Fortune

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.

Films together

Groups

Shared history

Shared life events

19647 FebruaryCareer Milestone

The Beatles arrive in the United States

Departed Heathrow for New York, beginning the British Invasion.Source (opens in new tab)

5 passages · 2 charts

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Dec 17Feb 7Mar 30

Dec 17, 1963 – Mar 30, 1964 · 104 days

Paul McCartney

Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only

  1. Saturn trine Sunslow0.01°1/1Feb 21
  2. Neptune opposition Venusslow0.77°1/2Feb 19

Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Paul McCartney, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.

Editorial note · Saturn trine Sun

Fourteen days after the arrival, Saturn trine Sun cemented this massive breakthrough into enduring cultural authority.

Ringo Starr

Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown

  1. Chiron trine Sunslow0.03°2/3Mar 9
  2. Pluto sextile Sunslow0.45°1/1Dec 17
  3. Jupiter square Sunfast0.08°3/3Feb 1

Editorial note · Chiron trine Sun

Thirty-one days after the arrival, Chiron trine the 12th-house Sun deepened the cultural impact of Beatlemania during a major power window.

Bands are drawn against a ±52-day window centred on the event date. Passages that run past the window carry an open cap. Marked ■ = slow-planet contact.

19649 FebruaryCareer Milestone

The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show

US TV debut watched by ~73 million; the start of American Beatlemania.Source (opens in new tab)

5 passages · 2 charts

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Dec 17Feb 9Apr 3

Dec 17, 1963 – Apr 3, 1964 · 108 days

Paul McCartney

Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only

  1. Saturn trine Sunslow0.01°1/1Feb 21
  2. Neptune opposition Venusslow0.77°1/2Feb 19

Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Paul McCartney, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.

Editorial note · Saturn trine Sun

Saturn trined the Sun 12 days after the broadcast, crystallizing the breakthrough into enduring professional authority.

Ringo Starr

Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown

  1. Chiron trine Sunslow0.03°2/3Mar 9
  2. Pluto sextile Sunslow0.45°1/1Dec 17
  3. Jupiter square Sunfast0.08°3/3Feb 1

Editorial note · Chiron trine Sun

Chiron formed a trine to the 12th-house Sun 29 days after the broadcast, marking a powerful window of subtle artistic validation as their explosive debut settled into the cultural subconscious.

Bands are drawn against a ±54-day window centred on the event date. Passages that run past the window carry an open cap. Marked ■ = slow-planet contact.

196512 JuneAward

Order of the British Empire 1965

5 passages · 2 charts

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Feb 10Jun 12Oct 12

Feb 10 – Oct 12, 1965 · 244 days

Paul McCartney

Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only

  1. Neptune opposition Venusslow0.00°1/2Oct 12
  2. Saturn square Mercuryslow1.28°1/2Jun 28
  3. Saturn sextile Venusslow1.38°1/2Jun 28

Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Paul McCartney, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.

Editorial note · Saturn square Mercury

Saturn squared Mercury 16 days after the award, grounding the public honor in serious scrutiny during a weighty power window.

Ringo Starr

Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown

  1. Pluto sextile Sunslow0.01°1/2Mar 19
  2. Chiron conjunction Ascendantslow2.48°1/2Jun 25

Editorial note · Pluto sextile Sun

Eighty-five days before the honor, Pluto sextile the sixth-house Sun marked a potent power window that quietly elevated daily dedication into lasting royal recognition.

Bands are drawn against a ±122-day window centred on the event date. Passages that run past the window carry an open cap. Marked ■ = slow-planet contact.

196726 MayAlbum Release

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released

Released in the UK; widely regarded as their creative peak.Source (opens in new tab)

11 passages · 2 charts

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Feb 13May 26Sep 5

Feb 13 – Sep 5, 1967 · 204 days

Paul McCartney

Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only

  1. Pluto square Mercuryslow0.00°1/2Apr 13
  2. Pluto trine Venusslow0.00°2/3Jul 19
  3. Chiron square Sunslow0.01°2/3Mar 27
  4. Uranus trine Venusslow1.67°2/2May 29
  5. Uranus square Mercuryslow1.78°2/2May 29
  6. Jupiter conjunction Marsfast0.03°2/2Jun 7

Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Paul McCartney, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.

Editorial note · Uranus square Mercury

Three days after the release, Uranus square Mercury peaked in a potent power window, reflecting an electric surge of avant-garde ideas and sonic experimentation around the album.

Ringo Starr

Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown

  1. Chiron square Venusslow0.00°1/2Jun 2
  2. Chiron square Midheavenslow0.01°2/2Sep 5
  3. North Node square Mercuryfast0.01°1/1Jun 25
  4. North Node square Moonfast0.02°1/1Jul 9
  5. Jupiter conjunction Marsfast0.08°2/2Jun 6

Editorial note · Jupiter conjunction Mars

Eleven days after the album's release, Jupiter conjunct Mars in the fifth house amplified the record's bold creative impact and commercial momentum.

Bands are drawn against a ±102-day window centred on the event date. Passages that run past the window carry an open cap. Marked ■ = slow-planet contact.

197010 AprilCareer Milestone

The Beatles break up

Paul McCartney announces his departure, effectively ending the band.Source (opens in new tab)

12 passages · 2 charts

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Oct 12Apr 10Oct 7

Oct 12, 1969 – Oct 7, 1970 · 360 days

Paul McCartney

Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only

  1. Pluto square Sunslow0.00°1/2Aug 26
  2. Pluto square Sunslow0.01°2/2Oct 27
  3. Neptune trine Marsslow1.58°1/2Mar 3
  4. Jupiter square Marsfast0.04°2/3Apr 11

Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Paul McCartney, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.

Editorial note · Pluto square Sun

Arriving 138 days after the split, Pluto square Sun marked a grueling power window that finalized the permanent destruction of the group's shared identity.

Ringo Starr

Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown

  1. Pluto opposition Ascendantslow0.00°1/1Sep 21
  2. Uranus sextile Mercuryslow0.01°2/2Jul 18
  3. Chiron trine Mercuryslow0.02°2/3Mar 9
  4. Pluto square Midheavenslow0.87°1/1Dec 30
  5. Neptune trine Marsslow1.35°1/2Mar 3
  6. Jupiter square Mercuryfast0.01°1/2Mar 14
  7. Jupiter square Moonfast0.03°1/2Mar 28
  8. Jupiter square Marsfast0.05°2/3Apr 13

Editorial note · Pluto square Midheaven

Pluto squared the Midheaven from the 7th house 101 days before the split, marking a high-stakes power window that strained partnerships and heralded a permanent public fracturing.

Bands are drawn against a ±180-day window centred on the event date. Passages that run past the window carry an open cap. Marked ■ = slow-planet contact.

197123 FebruaryAward

43rd Academy Awards (Nominations Announced)

9 passages · 2 charts

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Oct 19Feb 23Jun 30

Oct 19, 1970 – Jun 30, 1971 · 254 days

Paul McCartney

Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only

  1. Neptune trine Marsslow0.00°1/3Jan 18
  2. Saturn conjunction Venusslow0.01°2/2Mar 16
  3. Pluto square Sunslow0.69°2/2Jun 8

Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Paul McCartney, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.

Editorial note · Pluto square Sun

Pluto squared the Sun 105 days after the nominations, signaling a high-stakes power window that transformed personal status and industry visibility in the wake of the announcement.

Ringo Starr

Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown

  1. Neptune trine Marsslow0.00°1/2May 3
  2. Pluto square Midheavenslow0.01°2/2Oct 19
  3. Neptune trine Moonslow0.98°1/2Mar 6
  4. Uranus square Sunslow1.12°1/3Jan 18
  5. Jupiter trine Mercuryfast0.02°1/2Feb 23
  6. Jupiter trine Moonfast0.04°1/3Feb 11

Editorial note · Uranus square Sun

Uranus squared the Sun in the 7th house 36 days before the event, opening a volatile power window of sudden industry disruption that challenged public partnerships ahead of the nominations.

Bands are drawn against a ±127-day window centred on the event date. Passages that run past the window carry an open cap. Marked ■ = slow-planet contact.

197115 AprilAward

43rd Academy Awards

9 passages · 2 charts

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Oct 19Apr 15Oct 10

Oct 19, 1970 – Oct 10, 1971 · 356 days

Paul McCartney

Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only

  1. Neptune trine Marsslow0.00°1/3Jan 18
  2. Pluto square Sunslow0.69°2/2Jun 8
  3. North Node square Venusfast0.09°1/1May 12

Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Paul McCartney, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.

Editorial note · Pluto square Sun

Pluto squared the Sun 54 days after the ceremony, marking a high-stakes window of intense public reckoning and identity transformation following the award.

Ringo Starr

Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown

  1. Neptune trine Marsslow0.00°1/2May 3
  2. Pluto square Midheavenslow0.01°2/2Oct 19
  3. Neptune trine Moonslow0.98°1/2Mar 6
  4. Pluto opposition Ascendantslow1.94°2/2Jun 8
  5. Jupiter trine Moonfast0.01°2/3May 3
  6. Jupiter trine Mercuryfast0.02°1/2Feb 23

Editorial note · Jupiter trine Moon

Peaking 18 days after the awards, a powerful Jupiter trine to the eighth-house Moon extended a period of emotional triumph and shared recognition.

Bands are drawn against a ±178-day window centred on the event date. Passages that run past the window carry an open cap. Marked ■ = slow-planet contact.

What does sextile mean between two charts?How much does an orb under one degree actually change a reading?

Frequently asked

Are Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr astrologically compatible?

Their charts make 32 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.01° and 0.04°. 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 Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr 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 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. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have 13 conjunction 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.

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