Sign compatibility
Aries celebrates the start, Capricorn only the finish
- Elements
- Fire
- Earth
- Modalities
- Cardinal
- Cardinal
- Rulers
- Mars
- Saturn
Aries and Capricorn want the same thing: for the work to move and for the decision to be theirs. Both are used to starting rather than fitting into someone else’s plan, so the contest over the first move begins before any real disagreement.
Where they differ is timing. Aries starts today and works it out on the way; Capricorn will not move until he sees what it will cost and who answers for the result.
Ninety degrees separate the signs, a square: the modality is shared, the elements are not. Neither of them gives way by nature.
Where this pair rubs
What these two argue about is power over the decision. Both go first, so any household question turns into an argument about whose decision stands. Aries pushes with volume and speed, Capricorn simply does not agree and waits, and waiting usually wins.
The second difficulty is acknowledgement. Capricorn rarely praises out loud and treats good work as the norm, while Aries needs approval at once and reads silence as refusal. It passes where the two of them get a shared job outside the house.
One counts the start, the other the finish
Aries thinks the work is going if it has begun. For Capricorn a started job means nothing until it is done, and he will not praise a start.
On a short job Aries is right and on a long one Capricorn is, and most of their arguments come down to how long the job will actually turn out to be.
Both pay for the pace, in different ways
Aries feels the time is going into approvals. Capricorn feels the other’s haste leaves him clearing up afterwards.
Both complaints are fair, so neither can wave the other off. Splitting work by length saves them: Aries takes what runs a week, Capricorn keeps what runs a year.
Respect comes before closeness here
Aries recognises that Capricorn does not abandon things. Capricorn recognises that Aries is not afraid to begin.
That lasts a long time, but tenderness does not grow out of respect by itself. Such couples often live for years as good partners and then notice they have not talked about anything but work for a while.
The angle between Aries and Capricorn
Aries and Capricorn stand 90° apart on the zodiac wheel, and astrology calls that distance the Square. The angle never changes: it is the same for every pair of these two signs, whatever else the two charts hold.
Fire and Earth are the classically awkward elements: what one of them treats as obvious, the other has to be talked into.
Both signs belong to the same cross: Cardinal. They meet a change on the same beat, and neither of them is the one who gives way first.
The pair has two rulers, Mars and Saturn, and each side reads the relationship through its own.
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 Aquarius
- Aries and Pisces
Capricorn: the other pairs
- Capricorn and Taurus
- Capricorn and Gemini
- Capricorn and Cancer
- Capricorn and Leo
- Capricorn and Virgo
- Capricorn and Libra
- Capricorn and Scorpio
- Capricorn and Sagittarius
- Capricorn and Capricorn
- Capricorn and Aquarius
- Capricorn and Pisces
The ruling planets of this pair
Answers
Aries and Capricorn: common questions
They are, but not for free: they share neither pace nor attitude to risk. What comes easily is respect for the work and a dislike of empty conversation.
Because money means different things to them. To Aries, spending speeds the work up; to Capricorn it is an obligation that will take a long time to close.
An angle of ninety degrees, at which the signs catch on each other’s way of acting. A square is not a verdict on the pair but a description of the load.
Formally the second one more often, because he does not give way and knows how to wait. In practice both decide: Aries what happens now, Capricorn what will still be there in a year.