What the two signs have in common
Facts about the two signs as traditional astrology lists them. The reading below is built from these rows.
| Fact | Libra | Aquarius |
|---|---|---|
| Aspect between the signs | Trine, 120° | |
| Element | Air | Air |
| Quality the elements share | hot · moist | |
| Modality | Cardinal | Fixed |
| Traditional ruler | Venus | Saturn |
| Modern ruler | Venus | Uranus |
| How the rulers relate | A personal and a social planet | |
The aspect between the signs
A trine joins two signs of the same element in different modalities. It is the classical aspect of ease: a shared temperament with a different pace of acting on it.
Elements and modalities
Two air signs share both qualities, hot and moist. Conversation, change and distance come naturally to both.
One sign starts and the other sustains: a cardinal sign opens, a fixed sign holds.
The rulers
One ruler is a personal planet and the other a social planet, Jupiter or Saturn. The first deals in daily manner, the second in long horizons: belief, duty and limits.
Venus stands for: value, attraction, pleasure, taste. Saturn stands for: structure, limit, duty, time.
Modern astrology also assigns Uranus to Aquarius. The reading here uses the traditional rulers; the modern ones are in the table.
The two signs together
Libra tends to bring balance: tact, fairness and a wish for things to be pleasant. It tends to need company, and time to weigh a decision.
Aquarius tends to bring independence: ideas, fairness toward everyone and an unusual angle. It tends to need space, and to be accepted without being asked to conform.
Two air signs, at ease with talk and with distance. They share fairness as a principle, and feeling may be discussed more than shown.
What tends to come easily
- A shared way of feeling and reacting, with little to translate.
- Talk is easy, and each leaves the other room.
- Starting and keeping are both covered.
- Daily manner and long-term purpose can support each other.
What tends to cost something
- Comfort can slide into complacency, since nothing demands change.
- Feeling can stay talked about rather than felt, and commitment can stay abstract.
- The starter can feel held back, and the sustainer can feel pushed.
- What one does lightly the other may take as a matter of principle.
What two Sun signs cannot say
Two Sun signs are a small part of two charts. The Moon, Venus, Mars, the rising sign and the houses of each person shape how a relationship goes, and so do age, circumstance and choice.
The aspect here is counted between signs, not between degrees. Two people born at the start and at the end of the same sign stand differently from two born at the same degree, and this page cannot tell which applies.
To compare two actual people, the synastry tool takes both birth dates and shows the aspects between the planets.