Born months apart in 1958, and the charts barely speak
Michael Jackson and Prince compatibility
↓ Below: all 3 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: From memory/autobiography (collector: Lois Rodden); corroborated across independent astrological data sites.
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
Michael Jackson and Prince'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 Sun | SEXTILE 0.39° |
| Thin line, Sun to Venus | TRINE 1.69° |
| House ring, drawn | |
Why they click
Venus sextiles Sun at 0.39 degrees and Sun trines Venus at 1.69, two tight soft contacts running in opposite directions between the same two planets. Each chart's warmth reaches the other's identity, which is a real and specific thing even in a synastry this quiet.
Why they clash
Three contacts in total, and every one of the five categories reads at the floor of 30. Sun squares Mercury at 2.05 degrees is the only hard angle. Two charts born under three months apart share a great deal of sky by default, and sharing sky is not the same as making contact.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 79.5° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
Dog and Dog are in neither the trines nor the clashes.
Guna Milan: 21 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.
21 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 Michael Jackson and Prince astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 3 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.39° and 1.69°. 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. Michael Jackson and Prince have one square between them.
Tight contact, mixed valence
Run the full synastry
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.