No birth time on record, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.
Note on this rating: Birth date 1948-10-06 from Wikidata Q2960346 (day precision) and the English Wikipedia article, which agree. Birth city Belfast from Wikidata P19. Country recorded as United Kingdom: Wikidata's P17 on Belfast returns "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland", the pre-1922 state, which is wrong for a 1948 birth. Birth time unknown, so Rodden X and the time is an estimate.
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
Sting’s Saturn and Frances Tomelty’s North node are 0.77 degrees from an exact quincunx.
Frances Tomelty’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
Sting ↓ × Frances Tomelty →
| Planet | Sun | Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sun Conjunction Sun | Sun Conjunction Neptune | |||||||
| Mercury | Mercury Square Uranus | ||||||||
| Venus | Venus Sextile Mercury | Venus Conjunction Venus | Venus Conjunction Saturn | Venus Sextile Uranus | |||||
| Mars | Mars Conjunction Venus | Mars Square Mars | Mars Trine Jupiter | Mars Conjunction Saturn | Mars Sextile Uranus | ||||
| Jupiter | Jupiter Opposition Sun | Jupiter Opposition Neptune | |||||||
| Saturn | Saturn Conjunction Sun | Saturn Square Uranus | Saturn Conjunction Neptune | ||||||
| Uranus | Uranus Square Sun | Uranus Square Neptune | |||||||
| Neptune | Neptune Conjunction Sun | Neptune Conjunction Neptune | Neptune Sextile Pluto | ||||||
| Pluto | Pluto Square Mars | Pluto Trine Jupiter | Pluto Conjunction Pluto |
25 of the 36 contacts fall between Sun and Pluto, and all 25 are in the grid. A boxed cell is within one degree. The other 11 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.
Sting inner ring, Frances Tomelty outer ring, with the contacts inside one degree drawn. 1 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
2 of 36The 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.
- Sting's Saturn quincunx Frances Tomelty's North node
- Sting's Uranus square Frances Tomelty's Sun
Personal planets
16 of 36A personal planet on either side. These are the contacts that describe these two people rather than their birth years.
- Sting's Venus conjunction Frances Tomelty's Saturn
- Sting's Pluto square Frances Tomelty's Mars
- Sting's Mars conjunction Frances Tomelty's Venus
- Sting's Mercury square Frances Tomelty's Uranus
- Sting's Venus sextile Frances Tomelty's Mercury
- Sting's Mars sextile Frances Tomelty's Uranus
- Sting's Venus sextile Frances Tomelty's Uranus
- Sting's Venus conjunction Frances Tomelty's Venus
- Sting's Jupiter opposition Frances Tomelty's Sun
- Sting's Mars conjunction Frances Tomelty's Saturn
- Sting's Sun conjunction (mutual) Frances Tomelty's Neptune
- Sting's Neptune conjunction (mutual) Frances Tomelty's Sun
- Sting's Sun conjunction Frances Tomelty's Sun
- Sting's Mars trine Frances Tomelty's Jupiter
- Sting's Mars square Frances Tomelty's Mars
- Sting's Saturn conjunction Frances Tomelty's Sun
Shared generation
8 of 36Jupiter through Pluto on both sides. Born 3 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.
- Sting's Uranus square Frances Tomelty's Neptune
- Sting's Pluto trine Frances Tomelty's Jupiter
- Sting's Neptune sextile Frances Tomelty's Pluto
- Sting's Jupiter opposition Frances Tomelty's Neptune
- Sting's Pluto conjunction Frances Tomelty's Pluto
- Sting's Saturn square Frances Tomelty's Uranus
- Sting's Neptune conjunction Frances Tomelty's Neptune
- Sting's Saturn conjunction Frances Tomelty's Neptune
Chiron and the lunar nodes
10 of 36A 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 10 are the rest.
- Sting's Venus trine Frances Tomelty's North node
- Sting's Chiron trine Frances Tomelty's Venus
- Sting's Pluto square Frances Tomelty's Chiron
- Sting's Sun quincunx Frances Tomelty's North node
- Sting's Chiron opposition Frances Tomelty's Uranus
- Sting's Chiron trine Frances Tomelty's Saturn
- Sting's North node trine Frances Tomelty's Mercury
- Sting's Chiron conjunction Frances Tomelty's Jupiter
- Sting's Mars square Frances Tomelty's Chiron
- Sting's North node opposition Frances Tomelty's Saturn
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
This scores higher overall than any other pairing in the corpus, and the reason is how much of the chart is in conjunction. Sun meets Sun, Venus meets Venus, and Mars meets the other Venus at 1.5 degrees. Conjunctions merge rather than aspect: identity with identity, taste with taste, drive with affection. Attraction and values both score in the eighties and above, which is unusual. Most pairings light one of those and leave the other at the floor.
Why they clash
Mars square Mars is the counterweight, and at 5.97 degrees it is the widest contact here, so it reads as a background rub rather than a defining contest. Friction still lands mid-scale. Communication sits at the floor with no Mercury-to-Mercury contact at all, so for all the merging this chart does elsewhere, the two of them have no natural channel for talking it through. Strong fusion, thin wiring.
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 4.8° 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
Sting and Frances Tomelty marry
10 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Nov 3, 1975 – Oct 28, 1976 · 360 days
Sting
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto sextile Ascendantslow
- Uranus sextile Venusslow
- Chiron trine Marsslow
- Saturn sextile Mercuryslow
- Pluto conjunction Sunslow
- North Node square Ascendantfast
- Jupiter square Ascendantfast
Editorial note · Pluto conjunction Sun
Pluto conjoined his third-house Sun 49 days after the wedding, signaling a core identity shift and intense personal transformation following the marriage.
Frances Tomelty
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto contacts only
- Uranus conjunction Mercuryslow
- Neptune sextile Sunslow
- Chiron trine Venusslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Frances Tomelty, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Neptune sextile Sun
Arriving 196 days after the wedding, a Neptune sextile to the Sun deepened the marriage with idealism and spiritual devotion during a powerful window of growth.
Sting and Frances Tomelty divorce
Wikidata P26 claim on Q483203, P582 end time qualifier at year precision.
nothing in force
No dated transit window covers this date in the charts of Sting and Frances Tomelty.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
Frequently asked
Are Sting and Frances Tomelty astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 36 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.77° and 0.99°. 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 Sting and Frances Tomelty 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. Sting and Frances Tomelty have 12 conjunction contacts between them, more than any other type.
Sources & further reading
Tight contact, mixed valence
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