Sign compatibility

Aries decides at once, Libra weighs it first

AriesMar 21 – Apr 19
Angle180°Opposition
LibraSep 23 – Oct 22
Elements
Fire
Air
Modalities
Cardinal
Cardinal
Rulers
Mars
Venus

Aries and Libra come together fast, usually for one reason: each likes that the other is busy with the same thing the opposite way round. His bluntness is a relief next to long deliberation; her habit of counting other people in looks rare to someone used to going straight through.

A hundred and eighty degrees separate the signs, an opposition. An opposition is not enmity here but one question split between two people: what to do when your own wish gets in someone else’s way. Fire and air feed each other, and the modality is shared — each of them is used to going first.

Either of them starts the conversation

A new plan, new terms, a new talk about something that has not worked for a long time — either one begins it.

So their arguments take an odd shape: the direction suits them both, and what comes up every time is who chose it and whether the other was asked.

Nothing accumulates, though. Whatever stopped working becomes a subject almost at once.

The angle between Aries and Libra

Aries and Libra stand 180° apart on the zodiac wheel, and astrology calls that distance the Opposition. 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.

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 Venus, and each side reads the relationship through its own.

Where this pair rubs

The first difficulty is how each of them speaks. Aries speaks and decides in one motion; for Libra those are two separate acts. He hears indecision where work is going on; she hears a verdict where someone is only thinking aloud.

The second is who else is in the room. Aries starts the conversation wherever he remembered it, without looking at who is present, and Libra moves it home. Each thinks the other picks the wrong place on purpose. There is nothing to fix here: they rub where they hold, because neither will hand the decision over whole.

One answers by moving, the other by arranging

Aries acts and explains afterwards. Libra looks for the version that costs everyone least.

Both are answering the same question, so they recognise each other immediately and their criticism lands precisely. They give each other good advice and take it badly.

Each gets what he cannot do himself

Libra stops checking with everyone: next to Aries it turns out that some of the consultation was never needed.

Aries gets information about people he cannot see. Libra notices who agreed silently and therefore did not agree at all, who finds it awkward to object, and what a quick decision will look like in a week.

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.

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Aries: the other pairs

Libra: the other pairs

The ruling planets of this pair

Answers

Aries and Libra: common questions