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Taurus and Scorpio compatibility

Taurus and Scorpio are opposite signs on the wheel, an opposition of about 180°: earth and water, both 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 Taurus from 20 April to 21 May and in Scorpio from 23 October to 22 November. 10 famous couples in StarMap's dataset are a Taurus and a Scorpio, where chance would give about 7.8: Leonardo DiCaprio and Gigi Hadid, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier and Demi Moore and Emilio Estevez among them. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 13th 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: Taurus and Scorpio, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.

10 famous Taurus 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 Taurus and Scorpio

Opposite signs face each other across the wheel, and astrology reads an opposition between two Suns as attraction with a question in it. The two signs share a modality and belong to elements that feed each other, so the pair wants to act in the same rhythm from complementary strengths, and each tends to carry what the other has left out. The tradition reads this as the angle of the classic couple: the one people notice.

What each sign lacks, the opposite sign has, and the reading is that this is both the pull and the problem. Oppositions tend to swing between fascination and exasperation, each person wanting the quality they admire in the other and resenting it on the same day. Astrologers read the pairing as one that learns balance by living without it first, and look to the Moons and the rising signs for how the swing settles.

Earth with water

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 fixed

Both signs are fixed, the signs of the middle of a season, and the tradition reads two fixed people as loyal, stubborn and built to last. Each holds to a position; neither gives way easily. The reading is of a pair that stays once it has decided to, and that may have to be careful which disagreements it decides to keep.

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.

Taurus in love, Scorpio in love

Taurus

In love, Taurus is slow to begin and slow to end. Affection shows in presence rather than declarations: cooking, turning up, remembering. The sign wants a settled life with someone and is unsettled by games and sudden changes. Its lesson is that holding on tightly is not the same as holding well.

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.

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

Famous Taurus and Scorpio couples

Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 10 are Taurus and Scorpio. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 7.8, a ratio of 1.29, which makes this the 13th 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.

4 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 opposite signs the way they read the two Suns above, as an opposition 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 Taurus have pages of their own.

Questions people ask

Are Taurus and Scorpio compatible?

By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Taurus and Scorpio as an opposition, opposite signs: earth and water, both fixed. That is a reading of one placement of ten and not a verdict on two people. In StarMap's dataset of famous couples, 10 are Taurus and Scorpio, against about 7.8 that chance would give, a ratio of 1.29. 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 Taurus and Scorpio?

10 of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain, Leonardo DiCaprio and Gigi Hadid, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier and Demi Moore and Emilio Estevez among them. Chance alone would give about 7.8, which makes it the 13th 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 Taurus and the Moon in Scorpio?

14 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Taurus and the Moon in Scorpio, Mark Zuckerberg, Harper Lee and Bono among them. 20 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Scorpio and the Moon in Taurus, Demi Moore, Achraf Hakimi and Luchino Visconti 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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