One Mercury, and every contact runs through it
Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker compatibility
↓ Below: all 32 contacts named, with orbs
Confirmed by the person or someone close to them: full chart shown, including houses and the rising sign.
Note on this rating: From memory or autobiography, contributed by Lois Rodden, via AstroTheme.
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
Ronnie Corbett’s North node and Ronnie Barker’s Mars are 0.11 degrees from an exact opposition.
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
Ronnie Corbett ↓ × Ronnie Barker →
| Planet | Sun | Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto | Moon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sun Opposition Jupiter | Sun Trine Uranus | ||||||||
| Mercury | Mercury Square Sun | Mercury Sextile Mercury | Mercury Trine Venus | Mercury Conjunction Saturn | Mercury Trine Neptune | |||||
| Venus | Venus Trine Pluto | |||||||||
| Mars | Mars Sextile Jupiter | Mars Trine Uranus | ||||||||
| Jupiter | Jupiter Square Mercury | Jupiter Square Mars | Jupiter Conjunction Pluto | |||||||
| Saturn | Saturn Square Uranus | |||||||||
| Uranus | Uranus Conjunction Uranus | |||||||||
| Neptune | Neptune Conjunction Venus | Neptune Conjunction Neptune | ||||||||
| Pluto | Pluto Square Mercury | Pluto Square Mars | Pluto Conjunction Pluto | |||||||
| Moon |
20 of the 32 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 20 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, 3 of them in the tight layer.
A cell is a plain glyph. The aspect it names is a Codex Link in the sentences above.
Ronnie Corbett inner ring, Ronnie Barker outer ring, with the contacts inside one degree drawn. 3 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
6 of 32The contacts closest to exact, whichever bodies they involve. 3 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.
- Ronnie Corbett's North node opposition Ronnie Barker's Mars
- Ronnie Corbett's Jupiter conjunction Ronnie Barker's Pluto
- Ronnie Corbett's Mars sextile Ronnie Barker's Jupiter
- Ronnie Corbett's North node opposition Ronnie Barker's Mercury
- Ronnie Corbett's Sun quincunx Ronnie Barker's North node
- Ronnie Corbett's Saturn square Ronnie Barker's Uranus
Personal planets
14 of 32A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.
- Ronnie Corbett's Pluto square Ronnie Barker's Mars
- Ronnie Corbett's Sun trine Ronnie Barker's Uranus
- Ronnie Corbett's Mercury conjunction Ronnie Barker's Saturn
- Ronnie Corbett's Mercury trine Ronnie Barker's Venus
- Ronnie Corbett's Pluto square Ronnie Barker's Mercury
- Ronnie Corbett's Jupiter square Ronnie Barker's Mars
- Ronnie Corbett's Mercury sextile Ronnie Barker's Mercury
- Ronnie Corbett's Venus trine Ronnie Barker's Pluto
- Ronnie Corbett's Jupiter square Ronnie Barker's Mercury
- Ronnie Corbett's Sun opposition Ronnie Barker's Jupiter
- Ronnie Corbett's Mercury square Ronnie Barker's Sun
- Ronnie Corbett's Mercury trine Ronnie Barker's Neptune
- Ronnie Corbett's Neptune conjunction Ronnie Barker's Venus
- Ronnie Corbett's Mars trine Ronnie Barker's Uranus
Shared generation
3 of 32Jupiter through Pluto on both sides. Born 15 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.
- Ronnie Corbett's Pluto conjunction Ronnie Barker's Pluto
- Ronnie Corbett's Uranus conjunction Ronnie Barker's Uranus
- Ronnie Corbett's Neptune conjunction Ronnie Barker's Neptune
Chiron and the lunar nodes
9 of 32A birth date places these too, and they are not drawn in the grid above. The 3 inside one degree are in the tight layer; these 9 are the rest.
- Ronnie Corbett's Chiron conjunction Ronnie Barker's Chiron
- Ronnie Corbett's Sun quincunx Ronnie Barker's Chiron
- Ronnie Corbett's North node trine (mutual) Ronnie Barker's Saturn
- Ronnie Corbett's Saturn trine (mutual) Ronnie Barker's North node
- Ronnie Corbett's Mars square Ronnie Barker's Chiron
- Ronnie Corbett's Chiron conjunction Ronnie Barker's North node
- Ronnie Corbett's Mars square Ronnie Barker's North node
- Ronnie Corbett's Saturn trine Ronnie Barker's Chiron
- Ronnie Corbett's North node square Ronnie Barker's Pluto
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
All three contacts in this synastry originate from the same Mercury. It trines Venus at 2.77 degrees, sextiles the other Mercury at 3.71, and squares the Sun at 4.9. A chart pairing that routes everything through a single planet is unusual, and here that planet is the one governing speech and wordplay.
Why they clash
Three contacts and an overall reading of 29, which sits below the floor of 30 the engine returns when it detects nothing at all. Communication reads 23, also below that floor, despite a real Mercury sextile being present. Identity, attraction, friction and values sit at the floor exactly, because a single planet cannot fill five categories.
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 70.1° 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
18.5 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
The Two Ronnies first airs on BBC1
The sketch show that paired Corbett and Barker for sixteen years began broadcasting. The two had already worked together on The Frost Report, and the new programme built around their contrast in stature and delivery.Source (opens in new tab)
13 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Oct 12, 1970 – Oct 7, 1971 · 360 days
Ronnie Corbett
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto trine Moonslow
- Saturn square Ascendantslow
- Pluto square Mercuryslow
- Uranus sextile Sunslow
- Chiron trine Sunslow
- Saturn opposition Venusslow
- North Node square Venusfast
- North Node opposition Ascendantfast
Editorial note · Pluto trine Moon
The debut of The Two Ronnies saw a harmonious transformation in their public appeal, impacting their shared resources and value.
Ronnie Barker
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune sextile Sunslow
- Neptune sextile Sunslow
- Neptune square Venusslow
- North Node trine Marsfast
- North Node trine Mercuryfast
Editorial note · Pluto sextile Midheaven
The Two Ronnies' debut marked a powerful opportunity for public career transformation through their collaborative work.
No dated window is recorded for this transit, so it isn't among the passages drawn here.
Frequently asked
Are Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 32 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.11° and 0.16°. 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. Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker have 9 square contacts between them, more than any other type.
Tight contact, mixed valence
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