Three quincunxes: a chart made almost entirely of adjustment.
Never quite settles
Katy Perry and Russell Brand compatibility
↓ Below: all 7 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: Birth data via astrotheme.com (Russell_Brand), Rodden A, from memory or autobiography. Credits 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
and 2 more, to 6.19°Collapse
The overlap
Two charts, laid over each other
Katy Perry and Russell Brand'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 0.75° |
| Thin line, Mars to Sun | QUINCUNX 1.67° |
| House ring, drawn | |
Why they click
Venus trine Mars is the one genuinely easy contact, and it carries most of what the attraction score registers. One chart's capacity for affection meeting the other's drive at a flowing angle gives this pairing its pull. Friction scores second highest of the five categories, which on this scale describes a pairing with real energy in it. The chart is active rather than quiet: something is always being negotiated between these two.
Why they clash
Three of the seven aspects are quincunxes, and two sit under two degrees: Mercury quincunx Sun at 0.75, Mars quincunx Sun at 1.67. A quincunx is the angle of permanent adjustment, two placements that can neither harmonise nor properly conflict. Three of them describes a relationship in constant low-level recalibration. Mars square Mars adds a direct contest of pace on top. Identity, communication and values all sit at the floor, so there is little steady ground beneath the adjusting.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 139.6° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
Rat and Rabbit are in neither the trines nor the clashes.
Guna Milan: 12.5 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.
12.5 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
Katy Perry marries
7 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Jul 29, 2010 – Jan 17, 2011 · 172 days
Katy Perry
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto sextile Sunslow
Editorial note · Pluto sextile Sun
Thirty-nine days before her wedding, Pluto sextile Sun in the second house marked a power window that reinforced her personal authority and core values as she prepared for marriage.
Russell Brand
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn opposition Marsslow
- Uranus trine Venusslow
- Uranus sextile Ascendantslow
- Pluto square Moonslow
- North Node square Moonfast
- Jupiter square Mercuryfast
Editorial note · Uranus sextile Ascendant
A power window was active 21 days before the wedding as Uranus sextiled her second-house Ascendant, highlighting an unconventional personal reinvention.
Frequently asked
Are Katy Perry and Russell Brand astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 7 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.75° and 1.67°. 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 quincunx mean between two charts?
A quincunx puts two placements at an awkward angle with no easy geometric relation, an adjustment rather than a flow or a clash. Katy Perry and Russell Brand have 3 quincunx contacts between them, more than any other type.
Sources & further reading
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.