Mercury at the centre of everything, at angles that will not sit still.
Wired through words
Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain compatibility
↓ Below: all 6 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: Astro-Databank 19:20.
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 5.09°Collapse
The overlap
Two charts, laid over each other
Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain'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.
| Thin line, Mercury to Sun | QUINCUNX 0.17° |
| Thick line, Mercury to Mars | SQUARE 0.18° |
| House ring, drawn | |
Why they click
Five of the six contacts here involve Mercury, which makes this a pairing wired through language. Sun trine Mercury at 0.81 degrees is the easy one: one chart's identity meeting the other's way of thinking without resistance. Mercury trine Venus adds warmth to that same channel. When a synastry concentrates this heavily on one planet, the relationship tends to live in how the two of them talk, write and think at each other rather than in anything quieter.
Why they clash
The same Mercury emphasis carries the strain. Mercury quincunx Sun sits at 0.17 degrees, close to exact, and Mercury square Mars at 0.18 is just as tight. Two contacts that precise, both hard, put constant pressure on the exchange. Venus square Mercury and Mars square Mercury repeat it from the other side. Every category scores at the floor, so the engine is not finding depth in either direction here. What it does find is concentrated almost entirely on the wire between them.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 135.8° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
Dragon and Goat are in neither the trines nor the clashes.
Guna Milan: 25 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.
25 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
Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain marry
8 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Nov 15, 1991 – Jun 4, 1992 · 202 days
Courtney Love
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune opposition Sunslow
- Uranus opposition Sunslow
- Pluto trine Moonslow
- Chiron conjunction Mercuryslow
Editorial note · Pluto trine Moon
Pluto trined her first-house Moon one day after the wedding, marking their marriage with a potent surge of emotional intensity and personal transformation.
Kurt Cobain
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune sextile Mercuryslow
- Uranus sextile Mercuryslow
- Neptune trine Ascendantslow
- Chiron square Marsslow
Editorial note · Neptune trine Ascendant
Neptune trined the Ascendant from the fourth house 57 days after the wedding, casting an idealistic, romantic glow over their newly established domestic life.
Frequently asked
Are Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 6 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.17° and 0.18°. 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. Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain have 3 square 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.