Scorpio compatibility

What comes easily to Scorpio

Cancer and Pisces sit at a trine from Scorpio - 120°, and all three share one element (water). Virgo and Capricorn sit at a sextile, 60°, in a different but friendly element (earth). Both words are measurements. Neither says the relationship will be good; they say how much translating the two temperaments have to do.

Each pairing has its own reading:

• ♋ Cancer - they understand each other without words (trine, 120°, water + water: one element)
• ♓ Pisces - they understand each other without words (trine, 120°, water + water: one element)
• ♍ Virgo - they help each other without being asked (sextile, 60°, water + earth: they feed each other)
• ♑ Capricorn - they help each other without being asked (sextile, 60°, water + earth: they feed each other)

Where translation is needed

Leo and Aquarius form a square to Scorpio - 90°. Aries and Gemini form a quincunx, 150°. This is where the vocabulary does the most damage: "square" is routinely read as incompatible, when it describes two signs that want the same thing and go about it differently. Quincunx means they share neither element nor mode, so understanding has to be built rather than assumed.

• ♌ Leo - they rub each other, and that is what moves them (square, 90°, water + fire: translation needed)
• ♒ Aquarius - they rub each other, and that is what moves them (square, 90°, water + air: translation needed)
• ♈ Aries - little in common, everything has to be said out loud (quincunx, 150°, water + fire: translation needed)
• ♊ Gemini - little in common, everything has to be said out loud (quincunx, 150°, water + air: translation needed)

Mirror, neighbours and the sign across

Conjunction is Scorpio with itself: instant recognition, and a shared blind spot, because the second pair of eyes is looking the same way. Libra and Sagittarius are the neighbours at a semisextile, 30° - a shared border and a different language. Taurus is across the wheel at 180°.

• ♏ Scorpio - they see themselves in each other, blind spot included (conjunction, 0°, water + water: one element)
• ♎ Libra - next-door neighbours who speak different languages (semisextile, 30°, water + air: translation needed)
• ♐ Sagittarius - next-door neighbours who speak different languages (semisextile, 30°, water + fire: translation needed)
• ♉ Taurus - the strongest pull on the whole wheel (opposition, 180°, water + earth: they feed each other)

The axis of the sign

Half a circle from Scorpio is Taurus, and the axis is about how you keep something. Scorpio tests by depth, Taurus by time. Most of their arguments are about method and get mistaken for arguments about feeling.

How this is worked out - and why there are no percentages

Compatibility is a heavier word than what is being measured here. Signs sit 30° apart, so four steps make 120°, three make 90°, six make 180° - the aspect is arithmetic, not opinion, and it describes the negotiation, not the outcome. There is also a limit worth stating plainly: a sun sign is one detail of a chart. A real pairing is read from two whole charts, Moon, Venus, Mars and ascendant included.