Aries and Virgo compatibility
The one who jumps, and the one who already read the instructions.
Aries: March 21 – April 19. Virgo: August 23 – September 22.
Are Aries and Virgo 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
There is more here than it first appears. Virgo is quietly thrilled by someone who simply acts, and Aries, whether or not it admits it, is steadied by a person who notices the small things it never will.
The hard part
Virgo's help can land on Aries as criticism, and Aries' haste can land on Virgo as carelessness. Each of you keeps an inner list of what the other has not done.
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 earth want different things from a day. Fire wants to go and earth wants to have arrived. Fire can warm the ground or scorch it, and earth can hold a flame or smother it.
One of you sets the course and the other finds the way around what is in it. This works when the one who adapts is also asked what they want.
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.
Virgo is asking: Could you love me on a day I do it wrong? Virgo brings devotion in small things and fears being found lacking.
The desire under the question
Aries wants to be believed in without a checklist. Virgo wants to hear, just once, that all that care was seen.
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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