Who they were together

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward met in 1953, during the Broadway run of Picnic, and married in 1958. They made 16 films together, as co-stars or with Newman directing, from The Long, Hot Summer (1958) to Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990), among them Rachel, Rachel (1968), the first feature film he directed. They chose to live in Westport, Connecticut, rather than Hollywood, and stayed married until his death in 2008.

The same rising sign

Both were born with Capricorn rising, his at 13 degrees and hers at 11, only two degrees apart. Capricorn rising is reserved, serious and private, and it suits a couple who kept their life away from the Hollywood spotlight. With the same Ascendant, their charts share the same Descendant, the point of partnership, in Cancer: both looked for home and family in a partner.

His Moon, her Sun

The Sun in one chart and the Moon in the other are a classic sign of a lasting match: one person's sense of self meets the other's emotional needs. Newman's Moon is at the first degree of Pisces, and Woodward's Sun is at 8 degrees of Pisces. It works the other way too: Woodward's Moon is in Aquarius, Newman's Sun sign, and she has Mercury and Mars in Aquarius as well. Each of them had the other's Sun or Moon in their own most personal signs.

Venus on the Ascendant

Newman's Venus, at 14 degrees of Capricorn, falls three degrees from Woodward's Ascendant. When one partner's Venus touches the other's Rising sign, the attraction is often immediate and physical, and it tends to show in how they look at each other. Her Saturn, at 9 degrees of Capricorn, sits on his Jupiter: one of the steadying ties astrologers look for in long marriages, where one partner's sense of duty meets the other's generosity.

Compare your own charts

Add your details and someone else's below to see both charts side by side and where they meet. If you have a Moon in your partner's Sun sign, or the same Rising sign, you are in good company.