Ten contacts, and three categories still read below thirty
Busy and quiet at once
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy compatibility
↓ Below: all 10 aspects named, with orbs
No birth time on record, so houses and the rising sign are not shown.
Note on this rating: Date and birthplace confirmed independently via Wikidata (P569/P19, precision to the day) and English Wikipedia. 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
and 5 more, to 4.28°Collapse
The overlap
Two charts, laid over each other
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy'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, Sun to Mars | QUINCUNX 1.01° |
| Thin line, Venus to Mars | TRINE 1.34° |
| House ring, not drawn | |
Why they click
This is close to the busiest cross-chart the engine can produce: ten aspects across four bodies, with every planet in each chart touching something in the other. Attraction reads 81 on Laurel's Mars squaring Hardy's Venus, and friction 79 on the two Marses meeting within four and a half degrees.
Why they clash
Volume is not the same as weight. Identity reads 22, values 24 and communication 39, all three on quincunxes, and the first two sit below the 30 the engine returns when it finds nothing at all. A quincunx allows only three degrees before it stops counting, so a contact two and a half degrees wide is nearly out of range even while it still shows on the page.
What each system says
Twelve systems, two people
The Suns are 147.1° apart, close enough to feed the identity category above.
Tiger and Dragon 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
Putting Pants on Philip is released
The first film in which the two are billed as a team rather than sharing a cast list.Source ↗
7 passages · 2 charts
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Sep 8, 1927 – Feb 27, 1928 · 172 days
Stan Laurel
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Uranus trine Marsslow
- Neptune square Marsslow
- Jupiter square Sunfast
- Jupiter trine Venusfast
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Stan Laurel, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Uranus trine Mars
Uranus formed a trine to Mars 38 days before the film's release, marking an energized window of creative momentum that primed their iconic comedic partnership.
Oliver Hardy
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Chiron trine Mercuryslow
- Neptune opposition Venusslow
- Uranus sextile Sunslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Oliver Hardy, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Uranus sextile Sun
Peaking 7 days after the release during a potent power window, Uranus sextile the Sun signaled fresh creative chemistry and electric vitality for the duo.
The Music Box wins the first short film Oscar
The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is awarded for the first time, to the pair carrying a piano up a staircase.Source ↗
7 passages · 2 charts
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Jul 21, 1932 – Mar 18, 1933 · 240 days
Stan Laurel
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Chiron sextile Venusslow
- Saturn sextile Marsslow
- Pluto conjunction Venusslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Stan Laurel, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Saturn sextile Mars
Saturn sextile Mars peaked six days after the Oscar win, affirming the disciplined physical comedy that earned lasting industry respect.
Oliver Hardy
Birth time estimated · Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars contacts only
- Chiron square Venusslow
- Chiron opposition Marsslow
- Chiron trine Sunslow
- Saturn conjunction Sunslow
Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven contacts are not shown for Oliver Hardy, and no house is named — those depend on a birth time recorded to the minute, and this one is an estimate.
Editorial note · Saturn conjunction Sun
Saturn conjunct the Sun peaked 46 days before the win, marking a heavy transit window that crystallized industry respect ahead of the Oscar.
Frequently asked
Are Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy astrologically compatible?
Their charts make 10 cross-aspects, the tightest at 1.01° and 1.34°. 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 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy 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. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have 4 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.