Each one's Mercury sits on the other's Mars
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers compatibility
↓ Below: all 5 aspects named, with orbs
Verified by a birth certificate or official record: full chart shown, including houses and the rising sign.
Note on this rating: Birth certificate, via AstroTheme.
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
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers'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, Mercury to Sun | SQUARE 1.48° |
| Thin line, Sun to Sun | SEXTILE 2.47° |
| House ring, drawn | |
Why they click
The distinctive contact here is reciprocal: his Mercury conjoins her Mars at 6.3 degrees, and his Mars conjoins her Mercury at 5.02. A mutual exchange between the same two planets running both directions is the rarest shape this engine finds, and it describes thinking and doing landing on each other from both sides. Sun sextiles Sun at 2.47 on top of it.
Why they clash
Her Sun takes both of the hard angles: his Mercury squares it at 1.48 degrees and his Venus squares it at 5.83. Identity reads 35 and every other category sits at the floor of 30, so what the charts have between them is concentrated rather than broad. The mutual Mercury and Mars contacts are conjunctions, which press together rather than ease.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 62.5° apart, close enough to feed the identity category above.
Pig and Pig are in neither the trines nor the clashes.
Guna Milan: 31.5 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.
31.5 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
Flying Down to Rio opens at Radio City Music Hall
The first film to pair Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in supporting roles behind Dolores del Rio and Gene Raymond. Their one number together, The Carioca, drew enough response that RKO built the next nine films around them.Source ↗
15 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Jul 4, 1933 – Jun 9, 1934 · 340 days
Fred Astaire
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto square Mercuryslow
- Neptune square Ascendantslow
- Uranus conjunction Mercuryslow
- Chiron trine Midheavenslow
- Saturn sextile Ascendantslow
- Saturn opposition Marsslow
- North Node square Sunfast
- Jupiter opposition Venusfast
Editorial note · Jupiter opposition Venus
The film's premiere brought its entertainment value and public appeal into dynamic interplay, marking a significant moment for its public career.
Ginger Rogers
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto conjunction Sunslow
- Saturn trine Ascendantslow
- Uranus square Sunslow
- Neptune square Ascendantslow
- Jupiter square Sunfast
- North Node conjunction Midheavenfast
- Jupiter trine Midheavenfast
Editorial note · Jupiter square Sun
Jupiter square Sun in house 5 for the film's opening suggested an expansive creative presentation that met dynamic tension upon its release.
Frequently asked
Are Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 5 cross-aspects, the tightest at 1.48° and 2.47°. 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. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have 2 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.