Maybe it’s my Scorpio 4th house but family dynamics fascinate me. Most of us use compatibility astrology, or synastry, for romance. It's also really useful to look at relationships with parents, friends, even pets (I would do it with my own cats but I don’t have a clue of their birth info *sobs*.)
Wait, what's synastry?
This is a branch of astrology that highlights the relationships between people. The theory is that our birth charts act almost like ongoing transits to other people in our lives. You can use a variety of techniques to go in depth on this, but even just comparing two birth charts can tell us a lot.
Being a nosey beach, why not start with a very famous and very public family? Some of the best data we have on families is the Kardashian-Jenner clan. So I decided to see how the ultimate momager aligns with each of her famous daughters, using Astro-Databank for verified birth data.
Kim: The golden child
The momager alignment shows up strong between Kris and Kim’s charts. They share a powerful alignment: Kris’s ascendant in Virgo is conjunct Kim’s midheaven and jupiter. Basically, Kris embodies how Kim thinks about her legacy, career, and public life. While Kim's work bless her mom with abundance, ease, and generosity.
But it’s not all easy going for these two. They also have a sign base mars saturn conjunction in Libra. Where Kris can be impulsive and erupt, Kim slows down and wants to create something enduring. It can create a long lasting power struggle between them. Kim’s saturn is in a much stronger overall position. This could mean Kris ultimately loses control to Kim long term.
Kourtney: Friction and limits
Kourtney has a very different experience of her mom. Kourtney and Kris have a lot of oppositions in their synastry. For example, Kris’s moon in Cancer opposes Kourtney’s moon in Capricorn. Kourtney has her mars and mercury in Aries, opposing Kris’s mars and mercury in Libra. It’s like they’re constantly on other sides of the table for everything in their lives. It’s an energetic, but also exhausting alignment.
They also have some very tense Saturn aspects. Kourtney was born with Saturn in Virgo, Kris's rising sign. It’s easy for her to criticize and find fault with the way Kris goes through the world. Kris may feel like nothing she does is going to meet Kourtney expectations. As Saturn has moved into Pisces, opposing Kourtney’s natal Saturn, it seems this tension has turned up in the last year.
They may struggle, but maintain the relationship for Kourtney’s kids. Kourtney has a gorgeous exalted Jupiter at 29 degrees of Cancer in the 5th house of children. Kris was born with the moon at 23 degrees of Cancer. When around Kris, Kourtney may feel like she has the most resources for her kids.
Khloe: An ocean of feelings
This relationship may have evolved the most. In many ways, Khloe challenged her mother a lot early on. This can be seen in Khloe’s powerful 10th house mars at 12 degrees of Scorpio exactly conjunct Kris’s sun.
The intensity between these two runs deep. Khloe’s pluto at 29 degrees of Libra is almost conjunct Kris’s neptune at 28 degrees of Libra. In Kris's 2nd house, Khloe can amplify or help Kris accumulate wealth. It can also create power struggles between Kris’s financial dreams and Khloe’s philosophy or sense in justice. This came up just recently as Khloe pushed back on her mom’s management style.
They might have mended their relationship over through their emotional connections. They both have saturn in Scorpio, sharing a point of view on how and what needs to endure. They also have the sun, venus, and mercury in water signs. They share a focus less on the timestamped details and more on the emotional truths.
Kylie: Dangerously close
Kylie understands her mother in a way I’m not sure the others do. As a Capricorn rising, she also has a practical and grounded rising sign. She also has the moon at 12 degrees of Scorpio, a perfect conjunction to her mother’s sun. Sun moon combos are some of the most powerful alignments for relationship compatibility. It creates an intuitive understanding.
It doesn’t hurt that Kylie has venus and mercury in Virgo. Kris naturally embodies how Kylie likes to communicate and what she finds harmonious. This is fantastic alignment for naturally working well together.
The thing I’m watching for? Kylie has the sun in Leo, a powerful and bright placement. However, her Sun illuminates Kris’s 12th house. At some point Kylie could reveal a part of Kris’s shadow side or undo her mother’s legacy. Kylie was born with saturn in her own 4th house of home, family, and legacy. I wouldn’t be surprised if Kylie ‘undoes’ part of her mother’s legacy during her Saturn return in 2025-2027.
Kendall: Power and money
The dynamic between Kris and Kendall is radically different than her other daughters. It’s true they both are Scorpio suns, but their rising signs don’t aspect each other. They may think alike, but they struggle to understand what the other is really about.
They both happen to light up each other’s 8th house. The 8th house is a place of taxes, debts, and inheritances. Kendall may truly know the financial overlap of her mother as a manager better than the others. For Kris, Kendall may embody how Kris owes her wealth to her daughter’s work, especially as one of the highest paid models in the world.
The most intense aspect of their charts is a venus pluto conjunction at 29 degrees of Scorpio. Pluto venus aspects often bring up power dynamics and control. After all, Pluto dragged Persephone into the underworld to be his bride. It’s an intense aspect, one that can cause obsession and control issues. Up in Kendall’s 8th house, it speaks even further to potential control and financial issues.
The saving grace? They both have mercury in Libra. If they focus on communication, they'll find a way through.
The power of synastry with families
Just as we are all complicated individuals, synastry brings a whole new level of astrological complexity. This is just the tip of the iceberg for how Kris relates to each of her daughters (let alone how they relate to each other!)
Synastry can be a powerful way to understand our own dynamics. How are we showing up with each other? What’s easy? What are some tensions that may never go away?
What do you think of the Kardashian astrology? Any celeb you’d like a nosy deep dive on?