Same drive, opposite poles: Mars meets Mars while Venus faces Venus.
High friction
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo compatibility
↓ Below: all 5 aspects named, with orbs
Sources conflict on the birth time. No recorded verification, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.
Note on this rating: Birth time 19:30, Rodden DD (conflicting sources) via astrotheme.com, 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
The overlap
Two charts, laid over each other
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo'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 Mercury | TRINE 1.51° |
| Thick line, Mars to Mars | CONJUNCTION 4.69° |
| House ring, not drawn | |
Why they click
Mars conjunct Mars is the standout. Two people whose drive runs at the same tempo and reaches for the same kind of thing, which shows up as a pair who work rather than rest. Mercury trine Mercury at one and a half degrees supports it: thinking that meets easily, ideas that need little translation. Values scores second highest of the five categories. Where this pairing agrees, it agrees at the level of what the work is for.
Why they clash
Friction is the highest category, and the reason sits next to the Mars conjunction rather than against it. Shared drive with no difference in direction means two people pushing into the same space. Venus opposes Venus and Mars opposes the other Sun, so affection and will both arrive across a gap. Identity and attraction both sit at the floor of the scale, which on a chart this active suggests the pull here is not romantic ease. It is two independent centres of gravity holding position.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 153.6° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
Dog and Goat 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
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera marry
8 passages · 2 charts
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Feb 22, 1929 – Feb 17, 1930 · 360 days
Diego Rivera
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Pluto opposition Marsslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Diego Rivera, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Frida Kahlo
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron sextile Sunslow
- Neptune square Moonslow
- Chiron trine Marsslow
- Saturn opposition Venusslow
- Saturn trine Ascendantslow
- Uranus square Sunslow
- Uranus square Marsslow
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera divorce
5 passages · 2 charts
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Jul 6, 1939 – Mar 8, 1940 · 246 days
Diego Rivera
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Chiron opposition Marsslow
- Pluto trine Mercuryslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Diego Rivera, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Frida Kahlo
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune square Venusslow
- Neptune trine Midheavenslow
- Jupiter sextile Moonfast
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera marry
7 passages · 2 charts
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Aug 24, 1940 – Mar 24, 1941 · 212 days
Diego Rivera
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Pluto trine Mercuryslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Diego Rivera, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Pluto trine Mercury
Pluto trine Mercury 33 days before their remarriage marked a period of intense mental resolve that shaped their renewed union.
Frida Kahlo
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron sextile Moonslow
- Uranus conjunction Midheavenslow
- Uranus square Ascendantslow
- Saturn square Mercuryslow
- Pluto conjunction Mercuryslow
- Jupiter square Mercuryfast
Editorial note · Uranus square Ascendant
Six days before their remarriage, Uranus squaring her Ascendant from the tenth house marked a volatile public shift in how she defined her identity and partnership.
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera divorce
10 passages · 2 charts
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Jul 12, 1953 – Jun 23, 1954 · 346 days
Diego Rivera
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Chiron conjunction Marsslow
- Jupiter opposition Sunfast
- Jupiter opposition Venusfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Diego Rivera, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Frida Kahlo
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto sextile Venusslow
- Pluto square Midheavenslow
- Pluto conjunction Ascendantslow
- Neptune trine Venusslow
- Saturn square Mercuryslow
- Uranus sextile Midheavenslow
- North Node trine Midheavenfast
Frequently asked
Are Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 5 cross-aspects, the tightest at 1.51° and 4.69°. 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 Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo 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. Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo have 3 opposition 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.