Sun conjunct Venus one way, Mars square Mars the other.
Warm and combative
Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage compatibility
↓ Below: all 4 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 data via astrotheme.com (Laura_Dern), Rodden AA — birth certificate or birth record, 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
Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage'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 Mercury | SEXTILE 1.78° |
| Thin line, Venus to Sun | SEXTILE 2.76° |
| House ring, drawn | |
Why they click
Venus works in both directions here, which is unusual in a four-aspect chart. One Sun sits conjunct the other's Venus at just under three degrees, and the reverse contact, Venus sextile Sun, sits at 2.76. Affection and identity meeting from both sides gives this pairing a genuine mutual warmth rather than one person doing the liking. Mercury sextile Mercury at 1.78 adds an easy line between the two ways of thinking.
Why they clash
Friction is the highest category, and one aspect carries it: Mars square Mars. Two drives at a hard angle means pace and appetite pulling crossways, with no natural division of who leads. Identity, attraction and values all sit at the floor. With only four contacts on the board, this is a narrow chart, and what it does register splits cleanly between easy affection and contested drive.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 34.9° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
Goat and Rabbit are in neither the trines nor the clashes.
Guna Milan: 27 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.
27 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.
Frequently asked
Are Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 4 cross-aspects, the tightest at 1.78° and 2.76°. 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 sextile mean between two charts?
A sextile puts two placements in a supportive relation that usually needs some initiative to activate. Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage have 2 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.