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Scorpio and Sagittarius compatibility

Scorpio and Sagittarius are one sign apart on the wheel, a semi-sextile of about 30°: water and fire, one fixed and one mutable. 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 Sagittarius from 22 November to 21 December. 11 famous couples in StarMap's dataset are a Scorpio and a Sagittarius, where chance would give about 9.3: Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds, Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland and Jane Fonda and Ted Turner among them. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 5th 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 Sagittarius, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.

11 famous Scorpio and Sagittarius 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 Sagittarius

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.

Water with fire

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.

Fixed with mutable

One sign is fixed and one is mutable, a keeper with an adapter. In the tradition the fixed sign gives the relationship its shape and the mutable sign its give; the strain is read as each mistaking the other's nature for a choice, the fixed sign taking flexibility for drift and the mutable sign taking steadiness for refusal.

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, Sagittarius 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.

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.

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

Famous Scorpio and Sagittarius couples

Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 11 are Scorpio and Sagittarius. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 9.3, a ratio of 1.18, which makes this the 5th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 70 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.

5 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 Sagittarius and the Moon in Scorpio have pages of their own.

Questions people ask

Are Scorpio and Sagittarius compatible?

By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Scorpio and Sagittarius as a semi-sextile, one sign apart: water and fire, fixed with mutable. That is a reading of one placement of ten and not a verdict on two people. In StarMap's dataset of famous couples, 11 are Scorpio and Sagittarius, against about 9.3 that chance would give, a ratio of 1.18. 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 Sagittarius?

11 of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain, Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds, Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland and Jane Fonda and Ted Turner among them. Chance alone would give about 9.3, which makes it the 5th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 70 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted.

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

25 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Scorpio and the Moon in Sagittarius, Carl Sagan, Charles Bronson and Danny DeVito among them. 20 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Sagittarius and the Moon in Scorpio, Steven Spielberg, Bruce Lee and Miley Cyrus 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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