Mars square Mercury at half a degree, inside a chart of mostly hard angles.
Talks, and grates
Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow compatibility
↓ Below: all 7 aspects 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: Birth data via astrotheme.com (Brad_Pitt), Rodden A — From memory or autobiography, crediting Lois Rodden / Astro-Databank.
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
and 2 more, to 5.52°Collapse
The overlap
Two charts, laid over each other
Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow's Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Moon are drawn here, along with the house ring and ascendant axis both charts support. This is a complete chart of what is known, not a partial chart of what is not.
| Thick line, Mars to Mercury | SQUARE 0.58° |
| Thick line, Sun to Mars | SQUARE 1.93° |
| House ring, drawn | |
Why they click
Communication is the highest category, and two trines carry what ease exists here: Sun trine Venus and Venus trine Mars, both wide but real. Seven aspects is a dense chart, so these two charts touch at many points even though most of those points are hard angles rather than soft ones.
Why they clash
Mars square Mercury at 0.58 degrees is the tightest contact and the most pointed: drive meeting thinking at a right angle, close to exact. Around it sit Sun square Mars, Mars square Sun, Mercury square Mercury and a Venus quincunx Venus. Five hard angles out of seven. Identity, friction and values all rest at or just below the floor, so the density of contact is not translating into any category the engine reads as strong.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 80.9° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
Rabbit and Rat are in neither the trines nor the clashes.
Guna Milan: 14.5 of 36
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.
14.5 of 36 points
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
Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow begin a relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q35332, P580 start time qualifier at year precision.
10 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Jul 5, 1993 – Jun 30, 1994 · 360 days
Brad Pitt
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto sextile Midheavenslow
- Uranus conjunction Venusslow
- Uranus conjunction Moonslow
- Saturn sextile Sunslow
- Chiron trine Marsslow
- Chiron square Ascendantslow
- Jupiter sextile Marsfast
Gwyneth Paltrow
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto sextile Marsslow
- Chiron opposition Ascendantslow
- Chiron square Moonslow
Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow end their relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q35332, P582 end time qualifier at year precision.
9 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Jul 5, 1996 – Jun 30, 1997 · 360 days
Brad Pitt
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune trine Midheavenslow
- Jupiter conjunction Moonfast
- Jupiter trine Midheavenfast
- Jupiter conjunction Venusfast
Gwyneth Paltrow
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune trine Marsslow
- Pluto sextile Sunslow
- Uranus trine Sunslow
- Pluto square Ascendantslow
- North Node conjunction Sunfast
Frequently asked
Are Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 7 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.58° and 1.93°. 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. Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow have 4 square contacts between them, more than any other type.
Tight contact, mixed valence
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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.