Two oppositions, on Mercury and on Mars
Talk and drive
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello compatibility
↓ Below: all 6 aspects named, with orbs
No birth time on record, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.
Note on this rating: Date and birthplace confirmed independently via Wikidata (P569/P19, precision to the day) and English Wikipedia. No reliable birth time is on public record, so none is asserted here.
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 1 more, to 7.97°Collapse
The overlap
Two charts, laid over each other
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello'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 Mars | QUINCUNX 1.77° |
| Thin line, Mars to Mercury | QUINCUNX 2.21° |
| House ring, not drawn | |
Why they click
Communication reads 84 and friction 86, both on oppositions, the two Mercuries three and a third degrees apart and the two Marses under three. Those are the only two of the five tracked pairings with any contact at all, and both are wide enough to be comfortable rather than exact.
Why they clash
Identity, attraction and values all return 30. The Suns make no angle and the Venuses make no angle, and the one Venus contact on the page, Abbott's Venus opposing Costello's Sun, sits nearly eight degrees wide and feeds nothing. Six aspects between the charts, and the reading rests on two of them.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 155.5° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
Rooster and Horse 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
Who is on First goes national on radio
The routine is broadcast on The Kate Smith Hour and becomes the act the pair are known for.Source ↗
7 passages · 2 charts
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Feb 18 – Apr 27, 1938 · 68 days
Bud Abbott
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Neptune conjunction Venusslow
- Saturn opposition Sunslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Bud Abbott, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Saturn opposition Sun
Fourteen days after the national broadcast, Saturn opposed the Sun, anchoring their viral breakthrough into lasting comedy history through a defining power window.
Lou Costello
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Neptune opposition Venusslow
- Chiron square Mercuryslow
- Pluto trine Mercuryslow
- North Node trine Mercuryfast
- Jupiter sextile Marsfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Lou Costello, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Buck Privates is released
The film that turned the pair into the biggest box office draw in America.Source ↗
5 passages · 2 charts
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Aug 4, 1940 – Jul 30, 1941 · 360 days
Bud Abbott
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Pluto square Mercuryslow
- Pluto square Mercuryslow
- Jupiter opposition Mercuryfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Bud Abbott, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Jupiter opposition Mercury
Jupiter opposing Mercury 31 days before the premiere stirred buzzing promotional momentum and high-spirited publicity for the wartime comedy.
Lou Costello
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Neptune opposition Mercuryslow
- Chiron trine Mercuryslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Lou Costello, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Neptune opposition Mercury
Twenty days after the film's release, Neptune opposing Mercury mirrored the wave of escapist humor capturing audiences' imaginations.
Hollywood Walk of Fame 1960
3 passages · 1 chart
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Aug 30, 1959 – Jul 19, 1960 · 324 days
Bud Abbott
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Pluto sextile Mercuryslow
- Pluto sextile Mercuryslow
- Saturn square Marsslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Bud Abbott, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Lou Costello
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
Nothing was within orb for Lou Costello on this date.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Lou Costello, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Frequently asked
Are Bud Abbott and Lou Costello astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 6 cross-aspects, the tightest at 1.77° and 2.21°. 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 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello 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 opposition mean between two charts?
An opposition puts two placements directly across the chart, a pull between two poles that has to be balanced rather than resolved. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello have 4 opposition contacts between them, more than any other type.
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.