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Scorpio and Capricorn compatibility

Scorpio and Capricorn are two signs apart on the wheel, a sextile of about 60°: water and earth, one fixed 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 Scorpio from 23 October to 22 November and in Capricorn from 21 December to 20 January. 7 famous couples in StarMap's dataset are a Scorpio and a Capricorn, where chance would give about 8.8: Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom and Alain Delon and Dalida among them. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 33rd 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: Scorpio and Capricorn, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.

7 famous Scorpio 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 Scorpio and Capricorn

Two signs apart is the sextile, and astrology reads it as the angle of easy conversation. The signs belong to elements that feed each other, fire with air or earth with water, so the two people tend to want compatible things without wanting the same thing. The tradition reads the pairing as friendly first: it is the angle most often found between people who liked each other before anything else was decided.

Because the sextile asks little, it is also the angle the tradition says can be left to drift. There is no friction to work against and no mirror to look into, so the relationship tends to be as warm as the attention it is given. Astrologers read it as an opportunity rather than a pull, and look to the rest of the two charts for whatever holds the pair together when the conversation stops.

Water with earth

Earth with water is read as the gentlest of the mixed pairings: water feels and earth holds, and each tends to make the other feel safe. The tradition reads these two as home-makers in the broad sense, slow, loyal and private, with an ease that other pairs work for. The reading's caution is that comfort can become a habit, and that the pair may let the wider world go quiet around them.

Fixed with cardinal

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.

Scorpio in love, Capricorn in love

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.

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.

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

Famous Scorpio and Capricorn couples

Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 7 are Scorpio and Capricorn. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 8.8, a ratio of 0.80, which makes this the 33rd most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 71 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.

1 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 two signs apart the way they read the two Suns above, as a 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 Scorpio have pages of their own.

Questions people ask

Are Scorpio and Capricorn compatible?

By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Scorpio and Capricorn as a sextile, two signs apart: water and earth, fixed 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, 7 are Scorpio and Capricorn, against about 8.8 that chance would give, a ratio of 0.80. 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 Scorpio and Capricorn?

7 of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain, Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom and Alain Delon and Dalida among them. Chance alone would give about 8.8, which makes it the 33rd most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 71 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted.

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

23 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Scorpio and the Moon in Capricorn, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Aishwarya Rai and Bryan Adams among them. 13 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Capricorn and the Moon in Scorpio, Gao Xingjian, Gérard Depardieu and Orlando Bloom 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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