Attraction scores 73, and three quincunxes keep it from settling.
Charged, unsettled
Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton compatibility
↓ Below: all 5 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 date 1955-08-04 from Wikidata Q202735 (day precision) and the English Wikipedia article. Birth city Hot Springs, Arkansas from Wikidata P19. Birth time unknown, so Rodden X and the time is an estimate.
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
Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton'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, Venus to Mars | QUINCUNX 1.84° |
| Thin line, Venus to Sun | QUINCUNX 2.25° |
| House ring, drawn | |
Why they click
Attraction is by far the strongest category, and the contacts feeding it are the Venus and Mars pairings: Venus quincunx Mars at 1.84, Mars square Venus at 4.12, Sun opposite Mars at 5.84. Hard angles between Venus and Mars are the classic signature of charge rather than comfort. On this scale the chart reads as a pairing with real pull in it, none of it the restful kind.
Why they clash
Three of the five aspects are quincunxes, including Mercury to Mercury at 2.32. A quincunx is the angle of permanent adjustment, and having one sit between the two Mercuries means the exchange itself never quite lands. Communication scores lowest of the five as a result. Identity, friction and values all sit at the floor. Strong charge, thin foundation, and a constant working-around in how the two of them talk.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 170.1° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
Goat and Goat are in neither the trines nor the clashes.
Guna Milan: 32 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.
32 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
Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton begin a relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q220901, P580 start time qualifier at year precision.
4 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Jul 23, 1996 – Jun 12, 1997 · 324 days
Laura Dern
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune square Marsslow
- Chiron conjunction Marsslow
- Pluto square Moonslow
Billy Bob Thornton
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- North Node sextile Venusfast
Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton end their relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q220901, P582 end time qualifier at year precision.
11 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Jul 5, 1998 – Jun 30, 1999 · 360 days
Laura Dern
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto square Mercuryslow
- Neptune square Marsslow
- Saturn opposition Marsslow
- North Node opposition Sunfast
- Jupiter square Midheavenfast
Billy Bob Thornton
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus square Midheavenslow
- Pluto trine Mercuryslow
- Neptune opposition Venusslow
- Uranus opposition Sunslow
- Uranus opposition Mercuryslow
- Uranus opposition Sunslow
Frequently asked
Are Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 5 cross-aspects, the tightest at 1.84° and 2.25°. 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. Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton have 3 quincunx 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.