Taurus and Scorpio: sign compatibility

The aspect between the signs

Opposite signs share a modality and have complementary elements, fire with air or earth with water. The tradition reads them as a polarity: each person holds what the other leaves out.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Opposite signs, both fixed. Loyalty and possessiveness come from the same place here, and each can find the other’s grip either reassuring or too tight.

What tends to come easily

• +Strong mutual attraction to what the other seems to have.
• +Needs for security and care overlap.
• +Loyalty and persistence on both sides.
• +Everyday ways of thinking, valuing and acting are easy to read.

What tends to cost something

• −The same quality, seen from the other side, becomes the point of conflict.
• −The pair can close in on itself, since both prefer the known.
• −Stalemates, because neither gives way.
• −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.