Aries and Scorpio compatibility
Two signs who will not back down, and who both know it.
Aries: March 21 – April 19. Scorpio: October 23 – November 21.
Are Aries and Scorpio a good match?
Tradition calls it an awkward match rather than a bad one. What it runs on is fascination, and it lasts when curiosity outlives the confusion.
I will not hand you a percentage. A number like that is invented, and a Sun sign is one line of a long letter. Two people of any signs can love each other well.
What draws you together
Tradition gives these two the same old ruler, Mars, and you can feel it: an appetite for intensity and a refusal to be bored. Aries fights in the open, Scorpio in the dark, and each respects the other's nerve.
The hard part
Aries gets it out and moves on. Scorpio remembers, and waits. A quarrel that is finished for one of you is only starting for the other.
How your signs sit on the wheel
You sit five signs apart, a one-hundred-fifty-degree angle astrologers call a quincunx. You share no element and no way of moving, and you cannot see each other straight across the wheel either. Each of you keeps adjusting to a person you do not quite have the language for.
Fire and water make steam. One of you acts on a feeling while the other is still inside it, and each can feel the other is either too much or not enough.
One of you starts things and the other keeps them. That is a working partnership, as long as neither mistakes it for a contest of wills.
What each of you is really asking
Aries is asking: Will you still want me when I stop running at you? Aries brings nerve and fears being slowed down until the fire goes out.
Scorpio is asking: Can you bear all of it, and stay? Scorpio brings depth and fears being betrayed after handing over the keys.
The desire under the question
Each of you wants to meet someone you cannot overpower. Underneath is a harder wish: to lay the weapons down and not be punished for it.
Finish this line, privately
I want ___ ; I accept ___ ; I will not surrender ___ .
Fill it in about this person. Whatever you write first is usually the truth.
Two signs are only the first line.
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