Sun trine Sun and Mars trine Sun, with a single Venus square cutting across.
Easy, unremarkable
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner compatibility
↓ Below: all 5 aspects named, with orbs
No birth time on record, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.
Note on this rating: Birth date 1972-04-17 from Wikidata Q172044 (day precision) and the English Wikipedia article. Birth city Houston, Texas from Wikidata P19. Birth time unknown, so Rodden X and the time is an estimate.
This page compares Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, the four placements a birth date alone can place. Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven are left out here by design, not by omission, so nothing on this page is scored against a birth time it cannot trust.
Cross-aspects
Where the two charts actually touch
The overlap
Two charts, laid over each other
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars are drawn here, the four placements a birth date alone can place with no birth time required. This is a complete chart of what is known, not a partial chart of what is not.
| Thin line, Mercury to Venus | SEXTILE 2.12° |
| Thin line, Mars to Sun | TRINE 2.66° |
| House ring, not drawn | |
Why they click
Four of the five aspects here are soft. Sun trine Sun, Mars trine Sun at 2.66, and two Mercury sextiles reaching Venus and Mars. That combination describes two people who get along without effort: compatible identities, compatible pace, and an easy channel between thinking and both affection and drive.
Why they clash
Venus square Mercury at 3.3 degrees is the lone hard angle, placing affection against the other's way of thinking. Every category sits at or just below the floor, including identity, which lands slightly under it. Soft aspects alone do not lift a score on this scale, because ease is not the same as intensity. This chart reads as comfortable and low-voltage rather than as difficult.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 115.1° apart, close enough to feed the identity category above.
Rat and Rat are in neither the trines nor the clashes.
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.
Guna Milan needs an exact birth time for both people. The Moon changes nakshatra roughly once a day, so an estimated time can place the whole reading in the wrong one, and at least one birth time here isn't exact.
Shared history
Shared life events
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck begin a relationship
10 passages · 2 charts
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Aug 3 – Nov 29, 2004 · 118 days
Ben Affleck
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus trine Moonslow
- Pluto square Midheavenslow
- Chiron sextile Midheavenslow
- Neptune opposition Mercuryslow
- North Node opposition Moonfast
- North Node trine Marsfast
Jennifer Garner
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Neptune trine Marsslow
- Neptune trine Venusslow
- Saturn square Sunslow
- Jupiter opposition Mercuryfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Jennifer Garner, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck marry
8 passages · 2 charts
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Dec 31, 2004 – Dec 26, 2005 · 360 days
Ben Affleck
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto trine Sunslow
- Pluto trine Sunslow
- Chiron square Moonslow
- Jupiter sextile Mercuryfast
- Jupiter square Ascendantfast
- Jupiter square Venusfast
Editorial note · Pluto trine Sun
Arriving 122 days after the wedding, Pluto trine the natal sixth-house Sun marked a powerful period of deep personal restructuring as she settled into daily married life.
Jennifer Garner
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Saturn square Sunslow
- Uranus square Venusslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Jennifer Garner, 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 Sun
Saturn squared the Sun 2 days before the wedding, framing the vows within a powerful window of heavy personal duty and enduring commitment.
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck end their relationship
8 passages · 2 charts
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Dec 31, 2004 – Dec 26, 2005 · 360 days
Ben Affleck
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto trine Sunslow
- Pluto trine Sunslow
- Chiron square Moonslow
- Jupiter sextile Mercuryfast
- Jupiter square Ascendantfast
- Jupiter square Venusfast
Editorial note · Jupiter square Ascendant
Arriving 24 days before the separation, a fourth-house Jupiter square to the Ascendant brought swelling domestic friction to light.
Jennifer Garner
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Saturn square Sunslow
- Uranus square Venusslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Jennifer Garner, 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 Sun
Saturn squared the Sun two days before the breakup, marking a heavy window of reality checks and strained personal identity as the relationship reached its conclusion.
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck divorce
9 passages · 2 charts
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Jul 14 – Dec 19, 2018 · 158 days
Ben Affleck
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto sextile Midheavenslow
- Uranus trine Marsslow
- Saturn sextile Moonslow
- North Node square Moonfast
- Jupiter square Sunfast
Jennifer Garner
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Neptune square Marsslow
- Saturn square Mercuryslow
- Neptune square Venusslow
- North Node trine Mercuryfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Jennifer Garner, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Frequently asked
Are Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 5 cross-aspects, the tightest at 2.12° and 2.66°. 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 Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner 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 trine mean between two charts?
A trine puts two placements in easy relation, a flow that takes little effort to access. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have 2 trine contacts between them, more than any other type.
Sources & further reading
Tight contact, mixed valence
Run the full synastry
This page compares Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, because those are the four that a birth date alone can place. The synastry calculator runs all ten bodies against each other.