Are Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen astrologically compatible?

Is this marriage a touchdown or a fumble?

By several accounts, Leo Tom Brady and Cancer Gisele Bündchen are in the midst of a rumored “epic fight” spurred by Brady’s decision to un-retire from football and tap out on family life.

The Brazilian babe allegedly left her dude in Tampa to decamp to the couple’s Costa Rican compound and the two are “taking some time apart.”

Hell hath no fury like a double water sign scorned, folks.

The pair, who has been married since 2009 and share three children, have been outspoken and surprisingly public about their divergent views on work life balance. This discord between them and public airing of it can be attributed to their rising or ascendant signs which form a square aspect, Brady’s is in likable, somewhat deceptive Libra while Bündchen’s is in legacy building, emotionally with holding Capricorn. The ascendant is the face we show the world and the square aspect suggests challenge and strife, thus it tracks that their discord would be put on display.

While the ascendant is what we project, the sun is the self and Brady and Bündchen’s are in the not so compatible signs of Leo and Cancer. To illustrate just how different Brady and Bündchen’s sun signs are, consider that Leo is ruled by the sun and Cancer the moon, quit literally night and day.

Leo wants to shine/be seen and Cancer wants to nest/retreat which can make reconciling a mutually beneficial home life something of a challenge. What else do the stars spell for this golden pair? Read on to learn more about what makes them compatible and combustible.

Double fire

Tom Brady, who turned 45 on August 3 is a Leo sun and Aries moon, making him double fire and all athlete. Leo needs to shine and Aries needs to act, meaning Brady’s career choice is utterly apt. Yet, the lesson for Leo is to find the love they need and attention they crave in close circles rather than wide arenas while an Aries moon is the mark of someone who has spent many, many lifetimes doing battle and has incarnated this go round to surrender their weapons and take up a cause that requires their energy but does not compromise their life.

The star quarterback, who has a reported net worth of $250 million, announced his retirement from football in February 2022 before walking the walk away back a biblical 40 days later with the news that he had signed on to play with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Why? For an athlete with Brady’s placements, there’s a real fear that if they can’t go to war IE play ball and have the world watch, they will cease to exist, suggesting that guts and glory are more important than safety and serenity.

Because of the fixed, fiery nature of his sun and the initiating energy of his cardinal moon, Brady knows what he wants and will stand, bold and staunchly defiant in the face of compromise. Fun times. As astrologer Alice Sparkly Kat deftly notes of Brady’s sun/moon combination, “You expect not only love and loyalty but adoration at all times. It is not that you believe you are necessarily better than others but do not see why you should concede your heart’s desires for others when they very well have the freedom go directly after their own wants.

A major conflict in your life is the tension between complete obedience to meeting the self’s desires and the need for social acceptance.” It seems that Brady is living within that very tension as we speak though it’s too early in the season to tell whether that conflict will fuel him or fail him on and off the field.

Double water

Born July 20, 1980 Bündchen is double water with her sun in the cardinal sign of Cancer and her moon in the fixed tides of Scorpio, a combination that suggests an interdependent relationship, a solid home, and control over both are of primary importance. As Bündchen revealed to “Vanity Fair” in 2009, “My idea of that is you have a partner who’s got your back. When I’m weak, you can be strong; when I’m strong, you can be weak. That’s what I believe marriage is. Loving someone, you want to grow with them, share with them, share the same values, the same feelings about things, the same beliefs.”

The fixed quality of Bündchen’s moon and the compassionate vibe of her sun indicate a person who is willing to go to great lengths to preserve her relationships and support her partner. But make no mistake, she is no martyr, no push over. Bündchen takes promises as oaths and she sees with clarity the role she has played and sacrifices she has made. As she confided to Elle Magazine, “I’ve done my part, which is [to] be there for [Tom]. I moved to Boston, and I focused on creating a cocoon and a loving environment for my children to grow up in and to be there supporting him and his dreams…At this point in my life, I feel like I’ve done a good job on that.” Match point.

Curtains or compromise?

Brady and Bündchen are a couple who have navigated inclement emotional weather throughout their relationship. Just a few months after they began dating, Brady’s ex Bridget Monahan revealed she was pregnant with his child, delivering son Jack later that year. True to the maternal archetype of her sun sign, Bündchen came to view Jack as a child of her own and framed Brady’s handling of the messy paternity situation as proof of his strength and fortitude, suggesting that a hail Mary pass at redemption in this most recent kerfufflle is not out of the question for him.

In addition to Jack, the couple are parents to son Benjamin and daughter Vivian. Being the double water momma that she is, Bündchen insisted on an at home water birth for both. In the most Cancer sun/Scorpio moon description of birth I have ever seen, Bündchen said of the experience, “I felt like Kali, the Hindu goddess of time, creation, destruction, and power, a feeling of invincibility. I could chew rocks in half! I could split mountains in two! I could divide oceans! When a baby is born, a mother takes a step backwards. A part of her dies. It was also the death of me-ness, of ego, of putting myself and my own needs first.”

Bündchen’s birth chart, particularly her sun and moon, support her intense and intensely sacrificial view of motherhood while Brady’s supports individuation and the following of one’s own path at all costs. The influence of Bündchen’s Scorpio moon indicates a powerful and persuasive person that leverages emotion, values commitment and keeps careful track of broken promises and perceived betrayals.

In this sense it is easy to understand Bündchen’s ire at Brady’s decision to forgo retirement in pursuit of playing the game. For her, the pain is multi point; as a maternal Cancer, she’s concerned about the welfare of his body and mind, revealing, “Obviously, I have my concerns—this is a very violent sport, and I have my children and I would like him to be more present.” It would seem that Brady’s ambitions are tantamount to Bündchen’s desires, a dicey dynamic in a relationship.

Martian Moons

Interestingly, both Bündchen and Brady’s moon signs are ruled by Mars. In astrology the moon represents our emotional interiority and attachment styles while the energy of Mars is willful, war mongering and dead set on desire. The suggests that for Bündchen and Brady, getting their needs met is a fierce, and fiercely uncompromising pursuit. Having a pair of Martian moons in a relationship correlates to intense passions, primal hair pulling, soul dissolving sex, explosive fights and the serious potential to be transformed in and through their partnership.

Love and luck in cahoots

In astrology, Venus is the planet of love and attachment. Bündchen’s Venus is in the versatile sign of Gemini while Brady’s is in compassionate Cancer. While the couple’s Venus signs are not inherently complimentary they are aspected in a way that supports a proud pairing. Most notably, Bündchen’s Venus in Gemini aligns with Brady’s Jupiter in Gemini, a beneficial aspect that indicates a boundless kind of potential for these two, if and when they can get it together and meet in the meadow of understanding. With the planet of love and the planet of abundance in cahoots, luck is certainly on their side and hopefully running defense against the rogue rage of their moons

In Brady and Bündchen, you have two very formidable, very inflexible people with very different approaches to life, love, parenting and partnership. We hope that whatever way the road bends or how the relationship resolves, the best is yet to come for the couple.

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Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports back on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture and personal experience. She is also an accomplished writer who has profiled a variety of artists and performers, as well as extensively chronicled her experiences while traveling. Among the many intriguing topics she has tackled are cemetery etiquette, her love for dive bars, Cuban Airbnbs, a “girls guide” to strip clubs and the “weirdest” foods available abroad.