Sign compatibility
Aries settles it now, Scorpio remembers it later
- Elements
- Fire
- Water
- Modalities
- Cardinal
- Fixed
- Rulers
- Mars
- Pluto
Aries and Scorpio recognise the stubbornness in each other and rarely walk past. Neither retreats, both take a conflict to the end, and for a while it looks like a meeting of equals.
They have nothing in common: a hundred and fifty degrees, a quincunx, and at that angle neither element nor modality nor neighbourhood matches. Fire and water do not feed each other, Mars hurries one along and Pluto takes the other downwards. Every subject has to be worked through from scratch, and admitting the other is needed is hard for both.
They have to learn to understand each other
An agreement on one subject does not carry to the next, so every conversation starts from the beginning.
From outside it does not look like conflict. There may be no big row for a long time, and what tires them both is something else: the number of small negotiations.
The angle between Aries and Scorpio
Aries and Scorpio stand 150° apart on the zodiac wheel, and astrology calls that distance the Quincunx. The angle never changes: it is the same for every pair of these two signs, whatever else the two charts hold.
Fire and Water are the classically awkward elements: what one of them treats as obvious, the other has to be talked into.
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 Pluto, and each side reads the relationship through its own.
Where this pair rubs
The first difficulty is that they are ready to answer at different times. Aries demands an answer now and raises his voice if there is none. Scorpio refuses to speak at all at that moment, because he cannot bear having things pulled out of him.
The other half is no easier. Scorpio stays silent and watches, and Aries reads silence as punishment and gets angrier than he would at a flat refusal. Both believe they are defending themselves. It goes most evenly where a hard subject has an appointed time.
One settles it now, the other remembers it
Aries settles it loudly and has forgotten the occasion an hour later. Scorpio does not settle anything until he decides it is time, and remembers what was said along with the tone.
Hence the main misunderstanding: Aries thinks the conversation is closed, Scorpio thinks it has not started.
Friends see only half of it. Aries argues in front of witnesses, Scorpio shows nothing in company, so it looks as if only one of them is unhappy.
They work best against an obstacle
A shared deadline or pressure from outside turns these two into an alliance at once: Aries breaks through, Scorpio keeps them on course.
In calm times the stubbornness has nowhere to go, and they take each other apart instead of the task. That is why such pairs often form around a job nobody else can carry.
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 Sagittarius
- Aries and Capricorn
- Aries and Aquarius
- Aries and Pisces
Scorpio: the other pairs
- Scorpio and Taurus
- Scorpio and Gemini
- Scorpio and Cancer
- Scorpio and Leo
- Scorpio and Virgo
- Scorpio and Libra
- Scorpio and Scorpio
- Scorpio and Sagittarius
- Scorpio and Capricorn
- Scorpio and Aquarius
- Scorpio and Pisces
The ruling planets of this pair
Answers
Aries and Scorpio: common questions
It is not about similarity but about the willingness to spell out every time what other couples understand without words. The benefit shows quickly: Scorpio adds endurance, Aries adds speed.
A hundred and fifty degrees: a distance at which the signs have no feature in common. A quincunx neither attracts nor collides: it makes you explain yourself in words every time.
Because they finish at different times. Aries treats the matter as closed once it has all been said aloud, while Scorpio still has to live through it and decide what to do.
They do, if the task is hard and there is resistance from outside: Aries pushes the start through, Scorpio does not let go until the end. On calm work the pairing comes apart faster.
Both are, in different ways. Aries asks directly and at once; Scorpio does not ask and draws his conclusions in silence, which is the harder of the two to live with.