Five signs apart · 150° apart
Aries and Scorpio
The tradition is specific that this is not a weak square. A square describes two things in conflict, which at least implies they are on comparable terms. Five signs apart there are no comparable terms, so nothing can be traded off against anything. The classical picture is of continually adjusting for something that never resolves and never quite becomes a crisis.
What this page can and cannot tell you
Two Sun signs are two placements out of about eighty across two charts. They describe a general shape and nothing about the two people in particular, which is why sign compatibility is right often enough to feel useful and wrong often enough to be worth checking properly.
Compare both whole charts instead →Why these two land where they do
| Aries | Scorpio | |
|---|---|---|
| Element | fire | water |
| Modality | cardinal | fixed |
| Polarity | active | receptive |
| Ruler | Mars | Pluto, and Mars traditionally |
No element, no modality and no polarity in common, and not even the adjacency of neighbouring signs.
What these two have in common
No element, no modality and no polarity in common, and not even the adjacency of neighbouring signs.
Aries and Scorpio as elements
Heat and depth. Fire experiences water as unaccountably sensitive and water experiences fire as careless, and the tradition notes that each is describing something the other genuinely does.
The tempo
One starts and the other sustains, which is the most practical division there is. The friction is that the starter keeps moving on and the sustainer would rather finish.
What works
Each finds the other genuinely strange, which some people want and most underestimate.
What costs something
Endless small accommodations, made without discussion, that neither notices until they add up.
The two signs themselves
Do it properly
Synastry compares both whole charts, measuring every one of one person's planets against every one of the other's. It is the technique this page is a summary of, it takes two birth dates, and it is free.