Scorpio and Capricorn: sign compatibility

The aspect between the signs

A sextile joins signs of compatible elements, fire with air or earth with water. It is read as an opportunity rather than a given: the support is there, and it works when someone uses it.

Elements and modalities

Earth and water share cold. Water softens earth and earth gives water a shape; the tradition reads the pairing as steady and caring.

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.

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

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

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.

Capricorn tends to bring discipline: reliability, long-term planning and quiet commitment. It tends to need respect for its effort, and permission to rest.

Both are serious and think long-term. They tend to respect each other’s reserve; warmth may need to be put into words on purpose.

What tends to come easily

• +Conversation and cooperation start without effort.
• +Needs for security and care overlap.
• +Starting and keeping are both covered.
• +Daily manner and long-term purpose can support each other.

What tends to cost something

• −Because nothing forces the issue, the connection can stay pleasant and unused.
• −The pair can close in on itself, since both prefer the known.
• −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.