Mars meets Venus at a fifth of a degree
Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King compatibility
↓ Below: all 2 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, confirmed directly by Oprah Winfrey to astrologer Bob Marks (May 1988); 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
Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King'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.
| Thick line, Mars to Venus | CONJUNCTION 0.19° |
| Thick line, Mercury to Venus | SQUARE 4.23° |
| House ring, drawn | |
Why they click
Mars conjoins Venus at an orb of 0.19 degrees, near enough to exact that the engine reads attraction at 99, almost the maximum the scale allows. The category measures Venus and Mars contact rather than romance, and here one chart's drive sits almost precisely on the other's Venus. A single contact this close outweighs a synastry with three times as many looser aspects.
Why they clash
There are only two contacts in total, and the second is Mercury squaring Venus at 4.23 degrees. Identity, communication, friction and values all read at the floor of 30, because four bodies meeting twice cannot fill five categories. What this synastry describes is one very precise point of contact and a great deal of open space around it.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 32.7° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
Snake and Horse 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.
Shared history
Shared life events
First issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
Winfrey's magazine published its first issue. King had joined the staff as an editor the previous year and later became editor-at-large of its successor, Oprah Daily. The two had been friends since meeting at WJZ-TV in Baltimore in 1976.Source ↗
10 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Feb 6 – Jul 1, 2000 · 146 days
Oprah Winfrey
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune sextile Moonslow
- Saturn square Mercuryslow
- Chiron sextile Midheavenslow
- Neptune conjunction Venusslow
- Neptune conjunction Sunslow
Editorial note · Jupiter square Venus
The launch of O Magazine occurred with Jupiter square Venus in house 4, reflecting a dynamic expansion of her personal brand and collaborative values into a public foundation.
No dated window is recorded for this transit, so it isn't among the passages drawn here.
Gayle King
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn sextile Marsslow
- Chiron square Marsslow
- Pluto sextile Moonslow
- Jupiter square Moonfast
- Jupiter opposition Midheavenfast
Editorial note · Saturn square Moon
Saturn's square to the Moon in house 4 marked a period of disciplined effort and emotional adjustments as O Magazine established its foundation.
No dated window is recorded for this transit, so it isn't among the passages drawn here.
Frequently asked
Are Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 2 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.19° and 4.23°. 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. Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King have one square between them.
Minimal contact
See what a wider lens finds
This page compares Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, because those are the four that a birth date alone can place. With this few cross-aspects between the two, a midpoint chart is often the more informative object.