One Mercury, and every contact runs through it
Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker 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 or autobiography, contributed by Lois Rodden, via AstroTheme.
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
Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker'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 Venus | TRINE 2.77° |
| Thin line, Mercury to Mercury | SEXTILE 3.71° |
| House ring, drawn | |
Why they click
All three contacts in this synastry originate from the same Mercury. It trines Venus at 2.77 degrees, sextiles the other Mercury at 3.71, and squares the Sun at 4.9. A chart pairing that routes everything through a single planet is unusual, and here that planet is the one governing speech and wordplay.
Why they clash
Three contacts and an overall reading of 29, which sits below the floor of 30 the engine returns when it detects nothing at all. Communication reads 23, also below that floor, despite a real Mercury sextile being present. Identity, attraction, friction and values sit at the floor exactly, because a single planet cannot fill five categories.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 70.1° apart, outside orb of any aspect, which is why identity reads as an empty channel above.
Horse and Snake are in neither the trines nor the clashes.
Guna Milan: 18.5 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.
18.5 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
The Two Ronnies first airs on BBC1
The sketch show that paired Corbett and Barker for sixteen years began broadcasting. The two had already worked together on The Frost Report, and the new programme built around their contrast in stature and delivery.Source ↗
13 passages · 2 charts
Transit detailCollapse
Oct 12, 1970 – Oct 7, 1971 · 360 days
Ronnie Corbett
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto trine Moonslow
- Saturn square Ascendantslow
- Pluto square Mercuryslow
- Uranus sextile Sunslow
- Chiron trine Sunslow
- Saturn opposition Venusslow
- North Node square Venusfast
- North Node opposition Ascendantfast
Editorial note · Pluto trine Moon
The debut of The Two Ronnies saw a harmonious transformation in their public appeal, impacting their shared resources and value.
Ronnie Barker
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune sextile Sunslow
- Neptune sextile Sunslow
- Neptune square Venusslow
- North Node trine Marsfast
- North Node trine Mercuryfast
Editorial note · Pluto sextile Midheaven
The Two Ronnies' debut marked a powerful opportunity for public career transformation through their collaborative work.
No dated window is recorded for this transit, so it isn't among the passages drawn here.
Frequently asked
Are Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 3 cross-aspects, the tightest at 2.77° and 3.71°. 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. Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker 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.