Taurus 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

Earth is cold and dry, air hot and moist, so they share nothing. Earth tests what air proposes, and air lifts what earth has fixed in place.

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.

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

Taurus tends to bring steadiness: patience, loyalty to what it has chosen, and a feel for comfort. It tends to need time, and no sudden changes of plan.

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.

Both fixed, and each sure of its view. Aquarius’s detachment can read to Taurus as coldness, and Taurus’s routines can read to Aquarius as a cage.

What tends to come easily

• +Strong motivation; each pushes the other to act.
• +Practical strength and conceptual strength complement each other.
• +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.
• −Earth hears talk without results, and air hears caution as dullness.
• −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.