Sextiles and trines nearly all the way down, with Mars the one crossed wire.
Easy on paper
John Mayer and Taylor Swift compatibility
↓ Below: all 6 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 05:26, Rodden DD (conflicting or unverified sources) via astrotheme.com (John_Mayer). Treat houses and angles as unavailable; read planets and aspects only.
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 6.63°Collapse
The overlap
Two charts, laid over each other
John Mayer and Taylor Swift'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 Sun | SEXTILE 0.44° |
| Thin line, Sun to Sun | SEXTILE 1.38° |
| House ring, not drawn | |
Why they click
This is the smoothest aspect list of the set. Sun sextile Sun at 1.38 degrees, Mercury sextile Sun at 0.44, Venus trine Venus, Venus sextile Mars, Mars trine Mars at 1.5. Five of the six contacts are soft angles, and several are tight. Attraction scores highest of the five categories, with Venus trine Venus and Venus sextile Mars both feeding it. On this scale that reads as a pairing where liking each other required very little effort from either side.
Why they clash
Mars opposite Venus is the one hard contact, and at 6.63 degrees it is the widest aspect on the board, so it carries less weight than the tight sextiles around it. Friction still lands mid-scale, which suggests the drive of one meeting the affection of the other is where whatever tension exists collects. Communication sits at the floor with no Mercury-to-Mercury contact at all. Easy chemistry, and no particular channel for talking about it.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 58.6° apart, close enough to feed the identity category above.
Snake and Snake 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
50th Annual Grammy Awards
6 passages · 2 charts
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Aug 14, 2007 – Aug 8, 2008 · 360 days
John Mayer
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Neptune trine Mercuryslow
- Pluto square Venusslow
- Neptune trine Sunslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for John Mayer, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Neptune trine Sun
Neptune trined the Sun 185 days after the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, marking a power window that cast a lasting glow of creative prestige over the achievement.
Taylor Swift
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Neptune sextile Sunslow
- Jupiter conjunction Mercuryfast
- North Node square Marsfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Taylor Swift, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Neptune sextile Sun
Neptune sextiled the Sun four days before the ceremony, infusing this Grammy win with a sense of elevated artistic grace.
52nd Annual Grammy Awards
6 passages · 2 charts
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Aug 4, 2009 – Jul 30, 2010 · 360 days
John Mayer
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Uranus trine Marsslow
- North Node square Mercuryfast
- North Node square Sunfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for John Mayer, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · North Node square Sun
The North Node square Sun, occurring 76 days before the ceremony, signaled a tense realignment of identity ahead of this major Grammy milestone.
Taylor Swift
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Neptune square Marsslow
- Chiron square Marsslow
- Uranus square Sunslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Taylor Swift, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Uranus square Sun
Sixty days before the ceremony, Uranus squaring the Sun marked a volatile power window that disrupted the artist's public identity ahead of Grammy night.
54th Annual Grammy Awards
4 passages · 1 chart
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Jan 13 – Mar 13, 2012 · 60 days
John Mayer
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
Nothing was within orb for John Mayer on this date.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for John Mayer, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Taylor Swift
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Pluto conjunction Mercuryslow
- Uranus sextile Venusslow
- Saturn square Venusslow
- Jupiter square Venusfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Taylor Swift, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Saturn square Venus
Four days before the Grammy Awards, Saturn square Venus brought a sober, heavy tone to this major career power window.
Frequently asked
Are John Mayer and Taylor Swift astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 6 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.44° and 1.38°. 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 John Mayer and Taylor Swift 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 sextile mean between two charts?
A sextile puts two placements in a supportive relation that usually needs some initiative to activate. John Mayer and Taylor Swift have 3 sextile 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.