Sign compatibility
The easiest pairing to have and the easiest to lose
- Elements
- Fire
- Air
- Modalities
- Mutable
- Fixed
- Rulers
- Jupiter
- Uranus
Sagittarius and Aquarius get on immediately and demand almost nothing of each other. Neither asks where the other has been. Neither takes a week of silence as a statement about anything. Both would rather talk about an idea than about the relationship, and both have been told before that this is a failing.
Sixty degrees separate them, a sextile, with elements that support one another, so the ease is genuine and entirely optional. Nothing about this angle insists on anything, and this is a pairing that can survive on goodwill alone for years and then quietly stop without anybody deciding to end it.
The angle between Sagittarius and Aquarius
Sagittarius 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.
Mutable and Fixed are two different speeds: one sets the pace, the other decides how long it lasts.
The pair has two rulers, Jupiter and Uranus, and each side reads the relationship through its own.
Freedom, defined twice
Sagittarius wants freedom of movement: the trip, the change, the door left open. Aquarius wants freedom of mind: nobody deciding what is to be thought, believed or agreed to.
Those two are compatible in practice and different in kind, and it shows in an argument. Sagittarius can be talked round on a principle and will not accept a restriction. Aquarius will accept a great deal of practical inconvenience and will not accept being told what to conclude.
The conversation that runs for years
This pair talks. About politics, other people, how things ought to be arranged, what the last decade meant — and neither runs out, since both are more interested in the world than in the domestic detail of their own lives.
It is genuinely sustaining and it is also where the relationship hides.
Two people can discuss everything and never once say what they need from each other, and this is the pairing most likely to do exactly that.
One revises, one does not
Sagittarius changes the plan and Aquarius changes nothing at all, which sounds like a conflict and mostly is not, because they change different things.
Where it bites is on a shared decision. Aquarius has a position, arrived at early and not really up for revision; Sagittarius has three provisional ones. The pair tends to go with the position by default, and Sagittarius rarely notices that this has become the pattern.
Where this pair rubs
The rub is that neither of these two tends anything. The relationship is real and largely unattended, and both are proud of not being demanding, which conceals how little is actually being given.
Under that sits a difference about warmth. Sagittarius is affectionate in bursts, loudly and physically; Aquarius is loyal, interested and often undemonstrative. Neither is short of feeling and both are short of ways to show it that the other recognises, so a bad stretch can pass with two people who care about each other being unable to convey it.
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 synastrySagittarius: the other pairs
- Sagittarius and Aries
- Sagittarius and Taurus
- Sagittarius and Gemini
- Sagittarius and Cancer
- Sagittarius and Leo
- Sagittarius and Virgo
- Sagittarius and Libra
- Sagittarius and Scorpio
- Sagittarius and Sagittarius
- Sagittarius and Capricorn
- Sagittarius and Pisces
Aquarius: the other pairs
- Aquarius and Aries
- Aquarius and Taurus
- Aquarius and Gemini
- Aquarius and Cancer
- Aquarius and Leo
- Aquarius and Virgo
- Aquarius and Libra
- Aquarius and Scorpio
- Aquarius and Capricorn
- Aquarius and Aquarius
- Aquarius and Pisces
The ruling planets of this pair
Answers
Sagittarius and Aquarius: common questions
They are one of the easiest combinations on the wheel and one of the most likely to drift. Independence, honesty and curiosity are all shared, so almost nothing has to be negotiated. What has to be built is upkeep, since neither sign supplies it.
Because neither asks for attention and both interpret the absence of complaint as everything being fine. Nothing dramatic occurs. The relationship simply gets less of both people's time each year until one of them notices it has become a friendship.
It is the 60-degree angle between signs whose elements support each other, and it makes cooperation available rather than obligatory. The pair finds things easy whenever it reaches for them, and nothing in the angle makes them reach.
Very well on anything unconventional and badly on anything routine. Both are unbothered by other people's disapproval, which is a rare and useful thing in a partnership. Neither will do the maintenance, so a third person or a hard external structure is usually required.