Wondering who you can trust, Scorpio?

Who is Scorpio most compatible with?

In the traditional geometry, Scorpio shares its element with Cancer and Pisces: the trines, the most harmonious angle. Virgo and Capricorn sit a friendly sextile away, Taurus is directly opposite, and Leo and Aquarius 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 testing them before they can hurt you? Your Venus might be why.

Your sun sign gives every Scorpio the same short list. Your card is worked out from the day, the minute and the place you were born.

Every Scorpio reads this page. Only your card knows you.

Find out your true compatibility.

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Scorpio in love, in the old books

The traditional portrait: the same for every Scorpio.

Scorpio, in the old portrait, loves privately and all the way down. Slow to trust, said to test before it commits, and loyal once it does. The books give Scorpio a long memory, for kindness and for slights, and no patience for anything shallow. For a Scorpio, small talk is a doorway, never the room.

Tradition gives Scorpio the other water signs, Cancer and Pisces, and the earth signs Virgo and Capricorn a sextile away. Taurus sits across the wheel, the other half of the most stubborn opposition in the zodiac. Square to it sit Leo and Aquarius: fixed, proud, and plenty of heat.

Scorpio’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.

Scorpio and Taurus

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?

Scorpio and Scorpio

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 is letting someone in so hard for you?

Two Scorpios born a week apart can love in completely different ways. These four lamps are why, and your card reads every one of them.

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 Scorpio's Venus can only sit in Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius or Capricorn. Two people with the same sun sign can want completely different evenings.

Your card reads your Venus.
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 Scorpios born a season apart can want, and fight about, completely different things.

Your card reads your Mars.
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.

Your card reads your Moon.
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.

Your card reads your rising sign and your descendant.