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Libra and Scorpio compatibility

Libra and Scorpio are one sign apart on the wheel, a semi-sextile of about 30°: air 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 Libra from 23 September to 23 October and in Scorpio from 23 October to 22 November. 9 famous couples in StarMap's dataset are a Libra and a Scorpio, where chance would give about 8.4: Serena Williams and Drake, Katy Perry and John Mayer and Alain Delon and Nico among them. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 17th 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: Libra and Scorpio, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.

9 famous Libra 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 Libra and Scorpio

Signs next door to each other share nothing by element or by modality, and astrology reads neighbouring Sun signs as two people who grew up on either side of a fence: close enough to see each other every day, far enough apart to have learnt different lessons. The later sign is traditionally taken to have been shaped by what the earlier one left unfinished, so each tends to be good at what the other finds hardest.

The reading is of a pairing built on difference rather than likeness. There is little automatic understanding to fall back on, and more to find out, which some people find restful and others find like work. Astrologers often say these pairs make each other more complete than comfortable: the relationship is where each learns the step that comes next in the zodiac.

Air with water

Air with water is read as the thinker and the feeler: one wants to understand the feeling, the other wants it understood. The tradition reads the pairing as curious and tender when it goes well and as two people talking past each other when it does not, since air names what water would rather be felt. Astrologers read it as the pairing in which listening does most of the work.

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.

Libra in love, Scorpio in love

Libra

In love, Libra is made for partnership and knows it. It is attentive, considerate and romantic, and it can lose itself in the other person while trying to keep the peace. Its lesson is that a relationship with two whole people in it is more balanced than one with one person bending.

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.

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

Famous Libra and Scorpio couples

Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 9 are Libra and Scorpio. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 8.4, a ratio of 1.07, which makes this the 17th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 61 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 one sign apart the way they read the two Suns above, as a semi-sextile 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 Libra have pages of their own.

Questions people ask

Are Libra and Scorpio compatible?

By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Libra and Scorpio as a semi-sextile, one sign apart: air 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 Libra and Scorpio, against about 8.4 that chance would give, a ratio of 1.07. 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 Libra and Scorpio?

9 of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain, Serena Williams and Drake, Katy Perry and John Mayer and Alain Delon and Nico among them. Chance alone would give about 8.4, which makes it the 17th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 61 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted.

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

19 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Libra and the Moon in Scorpio, Jimmy Carter, Avril Lavigne and Will Smith among them. 16 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Scorpio and the Moon in Libra, Leonardo DiCaprio, José Saramago and Emma Stone 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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