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Aries and Scorpio compatibility

Aries and Scorpio are five signs apart on the wheel, a quincunx of about 150°: fire and water, one cardinal and one fixed. Astrology reads the angle between two Sun signs as the first measure of a pair, and the rest of the two charts as the rest of the story.

This year the Sun is in Aries from 20 March to 20 April and in Scorpio from 23 October to 22 November. 9 famous couples in StarMap's dataset are an Aries and a Scorpio, where chance would give about 7.7: Josh Duhamel and Fergie, Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson and Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara among them. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 19th most common pairing of the 78. A Sun sign is one placement of ten, and the two whole charts say far more than the two signs.

Each sign has its own page: Aries and Scorpio, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.

9 famous Aries and Scorpio couples, scored chart against chart.How do your two charts compare?Compare two whole charts, free: every angle between your planets

What astrology reads for Aries and Scorpio

Five signs apart is the quincunx, the angle the tradition reads as adjustment. The two signs share neither element nor modality and sit too far apart to be opposites, so there is no obvious ground in common and no obvious contest either. Astrologers describe these pairs as two people who keep finding that a word means something slightly different to each of them.

The reading is of a relationship that is made rather than found. Nothing comes free, and what the two people share has usually been built deliberately, from an interest in how differently the other one sees things. The tradition reads this angle as the one that most rewards curiosity and most punishes assumption, and leaves it to the rest of the two charts to say which the pair is better at.

Fire with water

Fire with water is read as the pairing of two strong feelings that do not speak the same language: fire shows what it feels by acting, water by sensing. The tradition reads the pair as intense, with a pull that is easy to feel and a rhythm that is hard to find, since fire tends to move on from a mood that water is still in. Astrologers read it as the pairing most changed by the rest of the two charts.

Cardinal with fixed

One sign is cardinal and one is fixed: a starter and a keeper. The tradition reads the pairing as complementary, the cardinal sign supplying new directions and the fixed sign holding to the ones worth keeping, and as a contest when the one that starts wants to start again and the one that holds has only just settled.

These are readings of the Sun signs alone, written for reflection and entertainment. They describe tendencies the tradition assigns to an angle, not two people, and they do not say whether a pair lasts.

Aries in love, Scorpio in love

Aries

In love, Aries pursues. Interest is shown early and plainly, the chase matters, and the sign is at its best with a partner who can hold their own rather than one who gives way. What it needs to learn is patience: desire arrives before tenderness, and the relationship lasts when the second catches up with the first.

Scorpio

In love, Scorpio does not do casual well. It wants the whole person and offers the same, and it reads a partner closely enough to be unnerving. Betrayal is not forgiven quickly. Its lesson is that intimacy needs some air, and that loyalty cannot be proved by jealousy.

532 famous people have the Sun in Aries for certain and 466 in Scorpio: every Aries Sun and every Scorpio Sun, each with a birth chart.

Famous Aries and Scorpio couples

Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 9 are Aries and Scorpio. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 7.7, a ratio of 1.17, which makes this the 19th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 62 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted. With about seven couples a cell, a ratio between a half and double is what chance produces; the counts describe the dataset, not the signs.

3 more on the couples page. All famous couples, each scored from both birth charts.

Both signs in one chart

The two signs also meet inside one chart, when the Sun is in one and the Moon in the other. Astrologers read a Sun and Moon five signs apart the way they read the two Suns above, as a quincunx between how a person is seen and how they feel.

Only people whose Sun and Moon signs do not depend on an unknown birth time are counted. The Moon in Scorpio and the Moon in Aries have pages of their own.

Questions people ask

Are Aries and Scorpio compatible?

By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Aries and Scorpio as a quincunx, five signs apart: fire and water, cardinal with fixed. That is a reading of one placement of ten and not a verdict on two people. In StarMap's dataset of famous couples, 9 are Aries and Scorpio, against about 7.7 that chance would give, a ratio of 1.17. The angles between two whole charts, Moon to Moon and Venus to Mars among them, say more than the Sun signs can; the comparison is free on StarMap.

How many famous couples are Aries and Scorpio?

9 of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain, Josh Duhamel and Fergie, Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson and Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara among them. Chance alone would give about 7.7, which makes it the 19th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 62 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted.

Who has the Sun in Aries and the Moon in Scorpio?

25 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Aries and the Moon in Scorpio, Lady Gaga, Eddie Murphy and Francis Ford Coppola among them. 29 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Scorpio and the Moon in Aries, Bill Gates, Alain Delon and Kazuo Ishiguro among them. The Moon's sign depends on the day and often on the hour of birth, so only people whose Moon sign is certain are counted.

Sun signs are computed from the Sun’s position with the astronomy-engine ephemeris, checked against Swiss Ephemeris, in the tropical zodiac. Birth data and relationship data come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, from Astro-Databank with their Rodden rating. A couple is counted only when the Sun was in one sign for the whole of each birth date. Readings describe what the tradition assigns to an angle, for entertainment and self-reflection; StarMap predicts nothing. Compare two whole charts.

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