Synastry aspects
Synastry aspects here cover all 382 combinations people search for, each with how often it turns up between two people by chance.
Arithmetic, not interpretation
Every aspect has a base rate
An aspect is an angle with a tolerance called an orb, so the chance of hitting it at random is simply the size of the window divided by the circle: two times the orb over 360 degrees. Conjunctions and oppositions have one window, the rest have two.
| Aspect | Angle | Orb | Odds by chance | Read as |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conjunction | 0° | ±8° | 4.44% | fusion |
| Sextile | 60° | ±6° | 6.67% | ease |
| Square | 90° | ±8° | 8.89% | friction |
| Trine | 120° | ±8° | 8.89% | flow |
| Opposition | 180° | ±8° | 4.44% | polarity |
| Quincunx | 150° | ±3° | 3.33% | mismatch |
A square lands in 8.89% of random pairings — roughly one couple in eleven, with no meaning attached. A synastry comparison looks at dozens of planet pairs, so finding several aspects is the expected outcome, not a signal. That does not make the readings worthless; it means the interesting question is which aspects are tight rather than which exist.
How the couple figures on each aspect page are counted
The base rate above assumes planets are spread evenly round the zodiac. Real people are not: partners are usually born within a few years of each other, so the slow planets sit in almost the same place in both charts. Each aspect page therefore gives a second figure from our own simulation of 3,000,000 couples: the first partner born on a random date from 1950 to 2000, the second within five years either side, both at a random time of day. Planets come from NASA JPL’s DE440 ephemeris, Chiron and Juno from JPL Horizons, the mean node and Lilith from Meeus’s formulas, and the ascendant, midheaven and vertex are worked out for the latitude of New York. For fast planets the result matches the base rate; for slow ones it can be nothing like it — Neptune sextile Pluto turns up in 52.6% of such couples, Neptune square Pluto in none.
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Two in five involve a slow planet — but only 44 depend on your age gap
Do Pluto and Neptune aspects just describe the age gap?
Only when both planets are slow. Pluto's sign is shared by everyone born within about twenty years, but an aspect needs two planets, and when the other one is fast — the Moon, Venus, Mars, the ascendant — it can sit anywhere in a partner's chart. Venus square Pluto turns up in 8.77% to 9.11% of couples whatever their age gap, from the same year to forty years apart. When both are slow the calendar does decide: Neptune sextile Pluto is in 86.14% of couples born less than a year apart and in none born 6 or more years apart.
Solid: Neptune sextile Pluto, 86.14% of couples born less than a year apart and none from 6 years apart. Dashed: Venus square Pluto, between 8.77% and 9.11% at every gap from 0 to 40 years. One partner born 1950–2000.
Every combination
All 382 combinations
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AstroHot. “Synastry Aspects: All 382, With the Odds of Each.” Accessed October 31, 2026. https://astrohot.com/synastry/aspects/
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