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 | Scorpio | Sagittarius |
|---|---|---|
| Aspect between the signs | Semisextile, 30° | |
| Element | Water | Fire |
| Quality the elements share | None | |
| Modality | Fixed | Mutable |
| Traditional ruler | Mars | Jupiter |
| Modern ruler | Pluto | Jupiter |
| How the rulers relate | A personal and a social planet | |
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
Fire is hot and dry, water cold and moist: they share no quality, and the classical scheme counts them as the most opposed pair of elements. Water can put out fire, and fire can evaporate water.
One sign holds and the other adjusts: a fixed sign sustains, a mutable sign adapts.
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. Jupiter stands for: expansion, meaning, confidence, excess.
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.
Sagittarius tends to bring openness: frankness, humour and appetite for what is new. It tends to need freedom, and honesty returned in kind.
Scorpio keeps and Sagittarius tells. Frankness can read to Scorpio as carelessness, and privacy can read to Sagittarius as distrust.
What tends to come easily
- Each brings something the other has not yet developed.
- Each has something the other lacks: warmth on one side, depth on the other.
- Stability from one side and room to adapt from the other.
- Daily manner and long-term purpose can support each other.
What tends to cost something
- There is little automatic understanding; common ground has to be built.
- The same intensity is felt by one as too much and by the other as too little.
- The one who adjusts can run out of room, and the one who holds can mistake flexibility for lack of commitment.
- 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.