Four aspects, all trines, and not one of them tight.
Uniformly easy
Frances McDormand and Joel Coen compatibility
↓ Below: all 4 aspects named, with orbs
No birth time on record, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.
Note on this rating: Birth data via astrotheme.com (Frances_McDormand), Rodden X, 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
Frances McDormand and Joel Coen'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, Venus to Mercury | TRINE 2.39° |
| Thin line, Venus to Venus | TRINE 4.73° |
| House ring, not drawn | |
Why they click
Every contact in this chart is a trine, which is unusual. Venus trine Venus, Venus trine Mercury, and Sun trine Mars running in both directions. That describes a pairing with no hard edges anywhere the engine can see: compatible taste, compatible thinking, and drive that meets identity easily from either side.
Why they clash
Every category sits at or just below the floor, and the reason is the same thing that makes the chart pleasant. Trines ask nothing and generate nothing, and all four here are wide, between 2.4 and 5.5 degrees. There is no square, no opposition, no conjunction and no quincunx. On this scale that reads as a genuinely frictionless pairing that the engine cannot find much to say about.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 155.2° 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
Frances McDormand and Joel Coen marry
5 passages · 1 chart
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Oct 4, 1983 – Sep 28, 1984 · 360 days
Frances McDormand
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Pluto trine Sunslow
- Pluto square Marsslow
- Pluto square Marsslow
- Chiron sextile Marsslow
- Neptune opposition Sunslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Frances McDormand, 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 Sun
Seventeen days before the wedding, Pluto trine Sun brought an empowering surge that deepened her personal foundation for marriage.
Joel Coen
Editorial note · Jupiter conjunction Ascendant
Jupiter crossed her Ascendant in the first house 10 days before the wedding, marking a power window of personal joy and expanded horizons as she entered marriage.
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9 passages · 2 charts
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Dec 14, 1996 – Jul 2, 1997 · 200 days
Frances McDormand
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Chiron trine Sunslow
- Chiron square Marsslow
- Neptune opposition Marsslow
- North Node square Sunfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Frances McDormand, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Joel Coen
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus sextile Sunslow
- Uranus square Midheavenslow
- Saturn square Ascendantslow
- Pluto conjunction Sunslow
- Jupiter square Venusfast
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8 passages · 2 charts
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Aug 17, 2000 – Aug 12, 2001 · 360 days
Frances McDormand
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Uranus trine Mercuryslow
- Jupiter sextile Marsfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Frances McDormand, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Joel Coen
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune sextile Sunslow
- Saturn square Marsslow
- Chiron sextile Marsslow
- Saturn opposition Mercuryslow
- Saturn trine Moonslow
- North Node trine Venusfast
Frequently asked
Are Frances McDormand and Joel Coen astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 4 cross-aspects, the tightest at 2.39° and 4.73°. 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 Frances McDormand and Joel Coen 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. Frances McDormand and Joel Coen have 4 trine contacts between them, more than any other type.
Sources & further reading
Exact, and all soft
Read the relationship as one chart
This page compares Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, because those are the four that a birth date alone can place. With no hard contact between the two, a composite chart, the midpoint of both, often reads clean.