Sign compatibility
Aries and Aquarius find it easy to be together and hard to be close
- Elements
- Fire
- Air
- Modalities
- Cardinal
- Fixed
- Rulers
- Mars
- Uranus
Aries and Aquarius treat freedom the same way. Neither thinks reporting in is normal and neither asks for a report, which removes a whole class of arguments.
Sixty degrees separate the signs, a sextile, and fire and air feed each other, so these two come together fast. The difference lies elsewhere: Aries acts because he wants to now, Aquarius because he thinks it right, and his decision does not change with his mood.
The angle between Aries and Aquarius
Aries and Aquarius stand 60° apart on the zodiac wheel, and astrology calls that distance the Sextile. The angle never changes: it is the same for every pair of these two signs, whatever else the two charts hold.
Fire and Air are the classically supportive elements: each one gives the other what it does not produce on its own.
Cardinal and Fixed are two different speeds: one sets the pace, the other decides how long it lasts.
The pair has two rulers, Mars and Uranus, and each side reads the relationship through its own.
Nothing forces them to get closer
This pair finds something to do together in the first weeks. Anything is easy for them except a conversation about the pair itself.
A relationship can run for years on shared projects and good company, and both will think everything is fine until somebody outside asks what is actually going on between them.
Aries acts on wanting, Aquarius on principle
An idea Aquarius would consider as a principle gets tested in practice by Aries in one evening.
What Aries would drop within a month becomes, next to Aquarius, a position held for years.
Both notice the exchange late, usually from something a third person says.
There is nobody here to ask you to stay
Neither of them knows how to ask for attention. Aries takes a step instead of asking, Aquarius goes off into his own affairs instead of asking.
So they drift apart without rows and notice it late. Couples like this separate quietly, and afterwards neither side can name the reason.
Where this pair rubs
The first difficulty is speed against principle. Aries decides on the move and changes his mind just as easily; Aquarius does not revisit a decision because circumstances changed, and finds the other’s variability unserious.
The second is coldness. Aries wants it out now and loudly; Aquarius answers by becoming reasonable and distant, and Aries feels brushed off. These couples do well where saying how you are is a habit that needs no occasion, because an occasion never arrives by itself.
Compare the real charts
A Sun sign is only the outline. A synastry chart puts two full birth charts side by side — Moon, Venus, Mars and the houses — and shows where the two of you actually meet.
Open synastryAries: the other pairs
- Aries and Aries
- Aries and Taurus
- Aries and Gemini
- Aries and Cancer
- Aries and Leo
- Aries and Virgo
- Aries and Libra
- Aries and Scorpio
- Aries and Sagittarius
- Aries and Capricorn
- Aries and Pisces
Aquarius: the other pairs
- Aquarius and Taurus
- Aquarius and Gemini
- Aquarius and Cancer
- Aquarius and Leo
- Aquarius and Virgo
- Aquarius and Libra
- Aquarius and Scorpio
- Aquarius and Sagittarius
- Aquarius and Capricorn
- Aquarius and Aquarius
- Aquarius and Pisces
The ruling planets of this pair
Answers
Aries and Aquarius: common questions
Yes, and the early stage usually goes without a hitch. Freedom and the absence of jealousy cost them nothing. Closeness is the hard part: neither knows how to ask for it.
Noticeably less than most couples. Both treat the other’s freedom as normal rather than as a concession. The trouble is usually the reverse: there is so much freedom that closeness never grows.
Usually a slow drift rather than a conflict. There may be no rows at all, but less and less is shared, and one day it turns out there is nothing left to hold on to.
They do, especially on something new where nobody knows the right way yet. Aries tests it in practice, Aquarius sees in advance where it leads. Routine is what defeats them.