Libra and Scorpio: sign compatibility

The aspect between the signs

Neighbouring signs share no element and no modality, and the traditional scheme counts them as “in aversion”, signs that cannot see each other. Each begins roughly where the other has just finished, which can be productive and can feel like talking past one another.

Elements and modalities

Air and water share moisture but differ in temperature: thought and feeling. The tradition reads the pairing as one where each translates for the other.

One sign starts and the other sustains: a cardinal sign opens, a fixed sign holds.

The rulers

Both rulers are personal planets, Mercury, Venus or Mars: ways of thinking, valuing and acting in daily life. The pair meets mostly at the level of habit and manner.

Venus stands for: value, attraction, pleasure, taste. Mars stands for: drive, anger, initiative, courage.

Modern astrology also assigns Pluto to Scorpio. 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.

Scorpio tends to bring depth: loyalty, focus and willingness to stay with what is difficult. It tends to need trust that is shown rather than asked for, and privacy that is respected.

Libra aims for balance and Scorpio for depth. Libra may find Scorpio’s intensity heavy, and Scorpio may find Libra’s tact evasive.

What tends to come easily

• +Each brings something the other has not yet developed.
• +Air can name what water feels.
• +Starting and keeping are both covered.
• +Everyday ways of thinking, valuing and acting are easy to read.

What tends to cost something

• −There is little automatic understanding; common ground has to be built.
• −Water wants to be felt and air wants to talk it through.
• −The starter can feel held back, and the sustainer can feel pushed.
• −Small differences in habit are felt often, even when nothing larger is wrong.

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.