Compatibility · Fire · Mutable
Wondering who’ll come along for the ride, Sagittarius?
Who is Sagittarius most compatible with?
In the traditional geometry, Sagittarius shares its element with Aries and Leo: the trines, the most harmonious angle. Libra and Aquarius sit a friendly sextile away, Gemini is directly opposite, and Virgo and Pisces are square, the angle of friction. That's the Sun alone; Venus, Mars and the Moon tell the rest.
You're here because of someone.
Still running before it gets serious? Your Venus might be why.
Your sun sign gives every Sagittarius the same short list. Your card is worked out from the day, the minute and the place you were born.
Every Sagittarius reads this page. Only your card knows you.
Find out your true compatibility.
Sagittarius in love, in the old books
The traditional portrait: the same for every Sagittarius.
Sagittarius loves the way it travels, in the old portrait: wide open, a little reckless, always up for one more adventure. Traditionally an Archer wants a partner who's also a co-pilot, and freedom inside the relationship, not outside it. Honest to a fault, the books say. Fence one in and it starts looking at the horizon.
The old geometry sends Sagittarius to Aries and Leo, the other fire signs, and to Libra and Aquarius, the air signs a sextile away. Gemini is the opposite, the other great talker. Virgo and Pisces rub against it at the square, with very different ideas of where to go next.
Sagittarius’s twelve pairings
Trine Harmonious, in Ptolemy’s terms
Four signs apart, 120° on the wheel: a trine, the classic easy pairing inside one element. Easy is lovely. Is easy what you came for?
Sextile Harmonious, in Ptolemy’s terms
Two signs apart, 60°: a sextile, the friendly angle between elements that get along. The old books call it an open door. Somebody still has to walk through it.
Opposite Opposition: two ends of one axis
Six signs apart, straight across the wheel: opposites, 180°. Everything you aren’t, sitting right across the table.
Square A hard aspect, since Ptolemy
Three signs apart, 90°: a square, the angle of friction. Rub two sticks together long enough and see what happens.
Same sign A conjunction, the first of Ptolemy’s aspects
The same sign twice: a mirror. Tradition says a mirror is easy to read and hard to argue with. Do you like what you see?
Semi-sextile A minor aspect, added long after Ptolemy
Next-door neighbours, 30° apart: a semi-sextile. Side by side on the wheel, and different in every way the old system counts: element, mode and polarity. Tradition shrugs and calls it awkward kin.
Quincunx A minor aspect, added long after Ptolemy
Five signs apart, 150°: a quincunx, the angle that never quite lines up. Different element, different mode. Astrologers say it's the pair that keeps straightening the same picture frame.
Why do you leave just when it gets good?
Two Sagittarius born a week apart can love in completely different ways. These four lamps are why, and your card reads every one of them.
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Venus · how you love
How do you love, and how do you want to be loved?
That's Venus. It never strays far from the Sun, so a Sagittarius's Venus can only sit in Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn or Aquarius. Two people with the same sun sign can want completely different evenings.
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Mars · what you want
Why do you fight about the same thing every time?
That's Mars: desire, temper, the way you chase what you're after. It can sit in any of the twelve signs, so two Sagittarius born a season apart can want, and fight about, completely different things.
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The Moon · what you need
Why do they feel like home one day and a stranger the next?
That's the Moon: what you need when the door's shut and the day's gone wrong. It changes sign every two and a half days. If their Moon falls in your sign… well.
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The descendant · who you’re drawn to
Why do you keep falling for the same type?
That's your descendant, the edge of the seventh house: the sign setting in the west at your birth minute. Tradition reads it as the partner you keep noticing. It needs your birth time and place.
Two people. Two cards.
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