Oprah Winfrey and Roger Ebert compatibility: Aquarius and Gemini

Where their personal planets meet

Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars move quickly, so these angles belong to Oprah and Roger and to few other pairs.

1. Oprah’s Mercury square Roger’s Venus

   0.2° from exact

   Oprah's Mercury and Roger's Venus are at a hard angle. The reading is of tact and candour pulling in different directions: Oprah says the accurate thing where Roger hoped for the kind one.

2. Oprah’s Mercury trine Roger’s Mercury

   0.9° from exact

   Their Mercuries are at an easy angle, the signature of two people who find each other interesting. Ideas are read as passing between Oprah and Roger without needing translation.

3. Oprah’s Moon trine Roger’s Mars

   1.6° from exact

   Oprah's Moon and Roger's Mars are at an easy angle, read as instinct and action in step. Roger is taken to act on what Oprah feels, often before it has been said.

4. Oprah’s Mars square Roger’s Moon

   1.8° from exact

   Roger's Moon and Oprah's Mars are at a hard angle, a contact astrologers associate with quick tempers and quick reconciliations. Oprah's bluntness is read as landing on Roger's sore spots without any such intention.

5. Oprah’s Mercury opposition Roger’s Moon

   2.6° from exact

   Roger's Moon and Oprah's Mercury are at a hard angle. The reading is of reason arriving when feeling wanted a hearing: Oprah explains where Roger would sooner be understood.

6. Oprah’s Mars opposition Roger’s Venus

   4.2° from exact

   Roger's Venus and Oprah's Mars are at a hard angle. The pull is read as strong and a little restless: what draws them together also keeps them on their toes.

7. Oprah’s Venus opposition Roger’s Mars

   6.0° from exact

   Oprah's Venus and Roger's Mars are at a hard angle. The pull is read as strong and a little restless: what draws them together also keeps them on their toes.

8. Oprah’s Sun opposition Roger’s Mars

   6.1° from exact

   Oprah's Sun and Roger's Mars are at a hard angle, the traditional sign of rivalry and spark in the same breath. Each pushes the other; whether that reads as motivation or as friction depends on the day.

Personal planets and slow ones

One person's quick planet against the other's slow one. The slow planet's place is shared by everyone born around the same time; the meeting is particular to the pair.

1. Oprah’s Moon trine Roger’s Pluto

   0.3° from exact

   Roger's Pluto is at an easy angle to Oprah's Moon, read as depth that does not overwhelm. Roger is taken to strengthen Oprah's emotional life.

2. Oprah’s Moon opposition Roger’s Saturn

   0.7° from exact

   Roger's Saturn is at a hard angle to Oprah's Moon. The tradition reads Roger as seeming to judge or slow Oprah's emotional life, a contact it treats as demanding and durable.

3. Oprah’s Neptune trine Roger’s Sun

   0.9° from exact

   Oprah's Neptune is at an easy angle to Roger's Sun, read as imagination shared: Oprah is taken to lend Roger's sense of self some poetry.

4. Oprah’s Uranus sextile Roger’s Venus

   0.9° from exact

   Oprah's Uranus is at an easy angle to Roger's Venus, read as freshness. Oprah is taken to bring something new to Roger's way of showing affection without upsetting it.

5. Oprah’s Jupiter conjunction Roger’s Mercury

   1.6° from exact

   Oprah's Jupiter sits on Roger's Mercury. Jupiter enlarges what it touches, so Oprah is read as encouraging Roger's way of thinking and giving it room.

6. Oprah’s Moon square Roger’s North Node

   2.1° from exact

   Roger's North Node is at a hard angle to Oprah's Moon, read as Oprah's emotional life pulling across the path the Node describes for Roger.

7 more of this kind between the two charts.