Scorpio and Aquarius: sign compatibility

The aspect between the signs

A square joins two signs of the same modality in different elements. It is the traditional aspect of tension: both want to do the same kind of thing, whether starting, holding or adjusting, and each does it in a way the other finds unnatural.

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.

Both signs hold on: fixed signs sit in the middle of a season and resist being moved.

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.

Mars stands for: drive, anger, initiative, courage. Saturn stands for: structure, limit, duty, time.

Modern astrology also assigns Pluto to Scorpio; Uranus to Aquarius. The reading here uses the traditional rulers; the modern ones are in the table.

The two signs together

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.

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.

Scorpio wants depth and Aquarius wants detachment. Both are fixed, each is sure of its view, and each is slow to alter it.

What tends to come easily

• +Strong motivation; each pushes the other to act.
• +Air can name what water feels.
• +Loyalty and persistence on both sides.
• +Daily manner and long-term purpose can support each other.

What tends to cost something

• −Friction is regular, and it usually comes from method rather than from aim.
• −Water wants to be felt and air wants to talk it through.
• −Stalemates, because neither gives way.
• −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.