Mars does all the talking
Live spark
Paul McCartney and George Harrison compatibility
↓ Below: all 6 aspects named, with orbs
Sources conflict on the birth time. No recorded verification, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.
Note on this rating: Birth time 00:10, Rodden A (from memory or autobiography) via astrotheme.com, 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
and 1 more, to 7.42°Collapse
The overlap
Two charts, laid over each other
Paul McCartney and George Harrison's Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars are drawn here, the four placements a birth date alone can place with no birth time required. This is a complete chart of what is known, not a partial chart of what is not.
| Thin line, Venus to Mars | TRINE 2.79° |
| Thin line, Mars to Venus | TRINE 3.14° |
| House ring, not drawn | |
Why they click
Venus trines Mars at 2.79 degrees and Mars trines Venus at 3.14, a matched pair of trines running both directions between the same two planets. Reciprocal contacts like these are the most balanced thing in this synastry, and they put attraction at 41 while the other categories stay flat.
Why they clash
Four of the six contacts involve one chart's Mars, including an opposition to Mercury at 7.42 degrees and a quincunx to Sun at 3. Sun also squares Venus at 3.04. With drive touching nearly everything and communication reading at the floor of 30, this is a pairing that moves before it discusses.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 110.8° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
Horse and Goat are in neither the trines nor the clashes.
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.
Guna Milan needs an exact birth time for both people. The Moon changes nakshatra roughly once a day, so an estimated time can place the whole reading in the wrong one, and at least one birth time here isn't exact.
Films together
Groups
Shared history
Shared life events
The Beatles arrive in the United States
Departed Heathrow for New York, beginning the British Invasion.Source ↗
4 passages · 2 charts
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Nov 27, 1963 – Apr 19, 1964 · 144 days
Paul McCartney
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Saturn trine Sunslow
- Neptune opposition Venusslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Paul McCartney, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Saturn trine Sun
Fourteen days after the arrival, Saturn trine Sun cemented this massive breakthrough into enduring cultural authority.
George Harrison
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune square Midheavenslow
- Jupiter trine Midheavenfast
The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show
US TV debut watched by ~73 million; the start of American Beatlemania.Source ↗
4 passages · 2 charts
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Nov 27, 1963 – Apr 23, 1964 · 148 days
Paul McCartney
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Saturn trine Sunslow
- Neptune opposition Venusslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Paul McCartney, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Saturn trine Sun
Saturn trined the Sun 12 days after the broadcast, crystallizing the breakthrough into enduring professional authority.
George Harrison
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune square Midheavenslow
- Jupiter trine Midheavenfast
Order of the British Empire 1965
6 passages · 2 charts
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Feb 10 – Oct 12, 1965 · 244 days
Paul McCartney
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Neptune opposition Venusslow
- Saturn square Mercuryslow
- Saturn sextile Venusslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Paul McCartney, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Saturn square Mercury
Saturn squared Mercury 16 days after the award, grounding the public honor in serious scrutiny during a weighty power window.
George Harrison
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron sextile Marsslow
- Neptune square Midheavenslow
- Jupiter trine Mercuryfast
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released
Released in the UK; widely regarded as their creative peak.Source ↗
14 passages · 2 charts
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Mar 17 – Aug 4, 1967 · 140 days
Paul McCartney
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Pluto square Mercuryslow
- Pluto trine Venusslow
- Chiron square Sunslow
- Uranus trine Venusslow
- Uranus square Mercuryslow
- Jupiter conjunction Marsfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Paul McCartney, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Uranus square Mercury
Three days after the release, Uranus square Mercury peaked in a potent power window, reflecting an electric surge of avant-garde ideas and sonic experimentation around the album.
George Harrison
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus trine Marsslow
- Chiron conjunction Venusslow
- Saturn sextile Mercuryslow
- Neptune sextile Marsslow
- Jupiter square Ascendantfast
- Jupiter trine Venusfast
- Jupiter square Moonfast
- North Node sextile Sunfast
Editorial note · Saturn sextile Mercury
Arriving four days after the release during a powerful window, Saturn sextile Mercury in the fifth house anchored the album's playful creativity into lasting cultural structure.
The Beatles break up
Paul McCartney announces his departure, effectively ending the band.Source ↗
8 passages · 2 charts
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Oct 27, 1969 – Sep 22, 1970 · 330 days
Paul McCartney
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Pluto square Sunslow
- Pluto square Sunslow
- Neptune trine Marsslow
- Jupiter square Marsfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Paul McCartney, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Pluto square Sun
Arriving 138 days after the split, Pluto square Sun marked a grueling power window that finalized the permanent destruction of the group's shared identity.
George Harrison
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune trine Venusslow
- Saturn square Mercuryslow
- Jupiter conjunction Moonfast
- Jupiter conjunction Ascendantfast
Editorial note · Saturn square Mercury
Five days after the split, Saturn square Mercury in the 7th house marked a somber, definitive mental seal on the end of their partnership.
43rd Academy Awards (Nominations Announced)
6 passages · 2 charts
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Nov 10, 1970 – Jun 8, 1971 · 210 days
Paul McCartney
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Neptune trine Marsslow
- Saturn conjunction Venusslow
- Pluto square Sunslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Paul McCartney, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Pluto square Sun
Pluto squared the Sun 105 days after the nominations, signaling a high-stakes power window that transformed personal status and industry visibility in the wake of the announcement.
George Harrison
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn square Midheavenslow
- Neptune square Sunslow
- Jupiter square Sunfast
Editorial note · Neptune square Sun
Peaking 11 days after the nomination announcement, Neptune square the second-house Sun within a power window cast an illusory, dreamlike aura over material acclaim and artistic valuation.
43rd Academy Awards
8 passages · 2 charts
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Jan 9 – Jul 20, 1971 · 192 days
Paul McCartney
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Neptune trine Marsslow
- Pluto square Sunslow
- North Node square Venusfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Paul McCartney, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Pluto square Sun
Pluto squared the Sun 54 days after the ceremony, marking a high-stakes window of intense public reckoning and identity transformation following the award.
George Harrison
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron sextile Mercuryslow
- Uranus trine Mercuryslow
- Saturn trine Marsslow
- Neptune square Sunslow
- Jupiter square Sunfast
Editorial note · Neptune square Sun
Neptune squared the Sun 40 days before the Oscars, dissolving illusions around self-worth and shaping this power window.
Frequently asked
Are Paul McCartney and George Harrison astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 6 cross-aspects, the tightest at 2.79° and 3.14°. 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.
Why isn't there a house ring on the chart above?
At least one of Paul McCartney and George Harrison doesn't have a curated, non-estimated birth time, so a house placement would be a guess. This page only shows what a birth date alone can place.
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. Paul McCartney and George Harrison have 2 quincunx contacts between them, more than any other type.
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.