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Sagittarius and Capricorn compatibility

Sagittarius and Capricorn are one sign apart on the wheel, a semi-sextile of about 30°: fire and earth, one mutable and one cardinal. 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 Sagittarius from 22 November to 21 December and in Capricorn from 21 December to 20 January. 9 famous couples in StarMap's dataset are a Sagittarius and a Capricorn, where chance would give about 9.3: Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris and Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner among them. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 14th 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: Sagittarius and Capricorn, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.

9 famous Sagittarius and Capricorn 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 Sagittarius and Capricorn

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.

Fire with earth

A fire sign with an earth sign is read as spark and ground: one wants to start, the other wants to make it last. The tradition reads the pairing as productive when each respects what the other supplies, the fire sign bringing the impulse and the earth sign the follow-through, and wearing when each reads the other as either reckless or dull. Astrologers call it the pairing that most needs to agree on pace.

Mutable with cardinal

A cardinal sign with a mutable one is a starter with an adapter: the tradition describes the pairing as mobile, the cardinal sign choosing the direction and the mutable one fitting around it, and places the strain at the mutable sign's wish to be asked against the cardinal sign's wish to be followed.

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.

Sagittarius in love, Capricorn in love

Sagittarius

In love, Sagittarius wants a companion for the road more than a keeper of the house. Freedom matters, so does laughter, and a partner who tries to pin it down usually ends up watching it go. Its lesson is that commitment can be an adventure rather than the end of one.

Capricorn

In love, Capricorn is slow, careful and then constant. It shows commitment by showing up, year after year, and it finds romance easier to practise than to declare. Its lesson is that a partner wants to be let in, not only provided for.

449 famous people have the Sun in Sagittarius for certain and 468 in Capricorn: every Sagittarius Sun and every Capricorn Sun, each with a birth chart.

Famous Sagittarius and Capricorn couples

Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 9 are Sagittarius and Capricorn. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 9.3, a ratio of 0.97, which makes this the 14th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 67 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 Capricorn and the Moon in Sagittarius have pages of their own.

Questions people ask

Are Sagittarius and Capricorn compatible?

By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Sagittarius and Capricorn as a semi-sextile, one sign apart: fire and earth, mutable with cardinal. 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 Sagittarius and Capricorn, against about 9.3 that chance would give, a ratio of 0.97. 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 Sagittarius and Capricorn?

9 of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris and Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner among them. Chance alone would give about 9.3, which makes it the 14th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 67 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted.

Who has the Sun in Sagittarius and the Moon in Capricorn?

25 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Sagittarius and the Moon in Capricorn, Brad Pitt, Kylian Mbappé and Arthur C. Clarke among them. 24 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Capricorn and the Moon in Sagittarius, Umberto Eco, Anthony Hopkins and Jason Bateman 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.

Photo credits (18 photos from Wikimedia Commons)

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