Four contacts, and only one of them counts
Mars only
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel compatibility
↓ Below: all 4 aspects named, with orbs
No birth time on record, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.
Note on this rating: Date confirmed independently via Wikidata (P569, precision to the day) and English Wikipedia; birthplace recorded as Forest Hills, Queens, New York. No reliable birth time is on public record, so none is asserted here.
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
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel'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, Mercury to Mars | QUINCUNX 0.68° |
| Thick line, Mercury to Sun | CONJUNCTION 0.72° |
| House ring, not drawn | |
Why they click
Simon's Mercury sits on Garfunkel's Sun at seven tenths of a degree, near enough to exact, and it scores nothing. Sun to Mercury is not one of the five pairings the engine tracks, so the tightest contact between these two charts is visible on the page and absent from every category.
Why they clash
Friction is the only category with anything behind it, at 77, on the two Marses meeting within five degrees. Identity, communication, attraction and values all return 30, the figure the engine gives when the two planets in question make no angle at all. Four aspects between the charts, and a reading built on one of them.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 23.1° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
Snake and Snake 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.
Shared history
Shared life events
The Sound of Silence reaches number one
An overdubbed remix released without the duo's knowledge tops the Billboard Hot 100 and pulls them back together after they had already split.Source ↗
9 passages · 2 charts
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Aug 21, 1965 – May 14, 1966 · 266 days
Paul Simon
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron trine Moonslow
- Saturn trine Mercuryslow
- Neptune trine Midheavenslow
- Uranus sextile Moonslow
- Pluto sextile Moonslow
- Uranus sextile Midheavenslow
- North Node opposition Venusfast
Editorial note · Saturn trine Mercury
Saturn trine fifth-house Mercury formed seven days before the song hit number one, anchoring their creative voice with lasting authority.
Art Garfunkel
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Saturn trine Sunslow
- Jupiter trine Mercuryfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Art Garfunkel, 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 formed an exact trine to the Sun 3 days after the milestone, anchoring the chart in a rare power window of lasting professional authority.
Bridge over Troubled Water is released
Their final studio album together, and the one that ended the partnership.Source ↗
6 passages · 2 charts
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Dec 21, 1969 – Mar 3, 1970 · 72 days
Paul Simon
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron trine Venusslow
- Neptune conjunction Venusslow
- North Node trine Mercuryfast
Art Garfunkel
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Pluto square Venusslow
- Uranus opposition Marsslow
- North Node trine Sunfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Art Garfunkel, 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 Venus
Pluto squared Venus 27 days before the release, framing the album's emotional depth and the intense creative strains between Simon and Garfunkel.
The Concert in Central Park
A free reunion concert played to roughly half a million people in New York.Source ↗
5 passages · 2 charts
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Jul 2 – Dec 7, 1981 · 158 days
Paul Simon
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron sextile Midheavenslow
- Pluto square Midheavenslow
- Jupiter opposition Marsfast
- Jupiter conjunction Ascendantfast
Editorial note · Pluto square Midheaven
Pluto squared the first-house Midheaven 79 days before the show, marking a power window that reshaped public standing ahead of the historic concert.
Art Garfunkel
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Saturn opposition Marsslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Art Garfunkel, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Saturn opposition Mars
Arriving four days after the historic concert, Saturn opposition Mars reflected the grueling physical toll and underlying creative friction of the reunion.
Frequently asked
Are Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 4 cross-aspects, the tightest at 0.68° and 0.72°. 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 Simon and Art Garfunkel 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 conjunction mean between two charts?
A conjunction puts two placements at nearly the same degree, so their energies blend into one signal rather than two. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel have 3 conjunction 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.