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Virgo and Aquarius compatibility

Virgo and Aquarius are five signs apart on the wheel, a quincunx of about 150°: earth and air, one mutable 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 Virgo from 23 August to 23 September and in Aquarius from 20 January to 18 February. 6 famous couples in StarMap's dataset are a Virgo and an Aquarius, where chance would give about 6.9: Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley, Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz and Charlotte Rampling and Jean-Michel Jarre among them. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 48th 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: Virgo and Aquarius, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.

6 famous Virgo and Aquarius 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 Virgo and Aquarius

Five signs apart is the quincunx, the angle the tradition reads as adjustment. The two signs share neither element nor modality and sit too far apart to be opposites, so there is no obvious ground in common and no obvious contest either. Astrologers describe these pairs as two people who keep finding that a word means something slightly different to each of them.

The reading is of a relationship that is made rather than found. Nothing comes free, and what the two people share has usually been built deliberately, from an interest in how differently the other one sees things. The tradition reads this angle as the one that most rewards curiosity and most punishes assumption, and leaves it to the rest of the two charts to say which the pair is better at.

Earth with air

Earth with air is read as the practical sign and the thinking sign: one asks what works, the other asks why. The tradition reads the pairing as civil and often productive, each supplying a competence the other lacks, and cooler than most, since neither element leads with feeling. The reading is that these two can build a good life together and may need to remember to enjoy it.

Mutable with fixed

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.

Virgo in love, Aquarius in love

Virgo

In love, Virgo shows care by being useful: the fixed tap, the sorted problem, the remembered preference. It is slower to speak of feeling than to act on it, and it can mistake improving a partner for loving them. Its lesson is to accept being looked after as well as it looks after others.

Aquarius

In love, Aquarius starts from friendship and never quite leaves it. It needs space and conversation, resists possessiveness, and can seem detached when it is simply thinking. Its lesson is that intimacy is not a loss of freedom, and that feelings do not have to be reasonable to be said.

523 famous people have the Sun in Virgo for certain and 530 in Aquarius: every Virgo Sun and every Aquarius Sun, each with a birth chart.

Famous Virgo and Aquarius couples

Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 6 are Virgo and Aquarius. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 6.9, a ratio of 0.87, which makes this the 48th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 62 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.

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 five signs apart the way they read the two Suns above, as a quincunx 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 Aquarius and the Moon in Virgo have pages of their own.

Questions people ask

Are Virgo and Aquarius compatible?

By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Virgo and Aquarius as a quincunx, five signs apart: earth and air, mutable 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, 6 are Virgo and Aquarius, against about 6.9 that chance would give, a ratio of 0.87. 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 Virgo and Aquarius?

6 of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley, Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz and Charlotte Rampling and Jean-Michel Jarre among them. Chance alone would give about 6.9, which makes it the 48th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 62 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted.

Who has the Sun in Virgo and the Moon in Aquarius?

29 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Virgo and the Moon in Aquarius, John McCain, Sophia Loren and Jesse Owens among them. 21 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Aquarius and the Moon in Virgo, John Travolta, Gianluigi Buffon and Eva Braun 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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