Sign compatibility
What Libra and Sagittarius build together
- Elements
- Air
- Fire
- Modalities
- Cardinal
- Mutable
- Rulers
- Venus
- Jupiter
Libra and Sagittarius take to each other quickly and argue rarely. Sixty degrees apart, a Sextile: unalike, but pointed the same way.
Sagittarius brings an idea home on Thursday. By Friday Libra has found the weak part of it and moved half the plan, and neither of them minds.
Air and Fire feed each other here. Libra weighs the thing out loud, Sagittarius pushes, and one conversation settles it. What the pair lacks is anybody who slows it down.
Sagittarius proposes, Libra redraws the route
The trip gets invented a week before departure and the first ticket is bought at once. A day later Libra suggests a different city, cheaper and easier to reach.
This rarely turns into a fight, because Sagittarius cares about leaving rather than about the destination. It only turns into one when the plan is rewritten a third time and the ticket cannot be refunded.
The angle between Libra and Sagittarius
Libra and Sagittarius 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.
Air and Fire are the classically supportive elements: each one gives the other what it does not produce on its own.
Cardinal and Mutable are two different speeds: one sets the pace, the other decides how long it lasts.
The pair has two rulers, Venus and Jupiter, and each side reads the relationship through its own.
Where this pair rubs
The first problem is dates. Sagittarius says it will be done this week and means roughly, while Libra expects Thursday, because people are coming on Thursday.
The second is the unclosed subject. Arguments are put out before the cause is found, so the same conversation about money comes round four times a year.
The repair is dull. Write each agreement down as one line with a date, and go through the list together for half an hour once a month. Sagittarius calls that paperwork and Libra calls it ordinary manners, and half an hour is short enough that both turn up.
Bluntness from Sagittarius lands on Libra
At a dinner with friends Sagittarius says the true thing, usually about the person across the table. Libra spends the rest of the evening repairing it and explains on the way home why that was not fine. It happens again within the month.
The money runs out before the month does
Both spend and both spend lightly, on tickets and courses at one end, on the house and the guests at the other.
Nobody in this pair says there is none left. The only thing that holds is a separate account funded on payday that neither of them touches.
Their rows burn out by bedtime
Sagittarius gets loud fast and is done in ten minutes. Libra defuses it with a joke by the second hour. Nothing survives to the next morning, including whatever was agreed.
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 synastryLibra: the other pairs
- Libra and Aries
- Libra and Taurus
- Libra and Gemini
- Libra and Cancer
- Libra and Leo
- Libra and Virgo
- Libra and Libra
- Libra and Scorpio
- Libra and Capricorn
- Libra and Aquarius
- Libra and Pisces
Sagittarius: the other pairs
- Sagittarius and Aries
- Sagittarius and Taurus
- Sagittarius and Gemini
- Sagittarius and Cancer
- Sagittarius and Leo
- Sagittarius and Virgo
- Sagittarius and Scorpio
- Sagittarius and Sagittarius
- Sagittarius and Capricorn
- Sagittarius and Aquarius
- Sagittarius and Pisces
The ruling planets of this pair
Answers
Libra and Sagittarius: common questions
They are, unusually easily. This pair is not undone by conflict but by the pile of things that were started, promised and never closed.
Nobody on paper. Sagittarius picks the direction and Libra negotiates the terms, and the arrangement holds as long as each believes the choice was theirs.
Rarely, and not for long. There is enough room in this pair that a scene usually has to be invented rather than provoked.
By not keeping. What drives Sagittarius off is a timetable and a running account of every evening, and what brings the return is a house that is interesting to come back to.
The first year, yes: Sagittarius finds the clients and Libra closes them. It needs a third person for the invoices and the deadlines, or it quietly stalls in the second year.