♉ Taurus + ♑ Capricorn · earth and earth · four signs apart

Taurus and Capricorn compatibility

Two people building something that will outlast them.

Taurus: April 20 – May 20. Capricorn: December 22 – January 19.

Are Taurus and Capricorn a good match?

Tradition calls it a very good match. It stays good if ease does not become the only thing you are doing together.

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

You recognize in each other the rare willingness to work for what you want. Love arrives slowly here, proves itself over years, and tends to be quietly and thoroughly physical once it is trusted.

The hard part

Work can become the whole marriage. You are both so capable that you can run a good life together without ever saying you are lonely inside it.

How your signs sit on the wheel

You sit four signs apart, a one-hundred-twenty-degree angle astrologers call a trine. You share an element, and the tradition counts this as the easiest angle on the wheel. Things flow. The risk of flowing is that nothing gets built.

Earth with earth builds. You share an appetite for what is real and lasting, and the danger is a life so solid that no one remembers to open a window.

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

Taurus is asking: Can I put my whole weight on you? Taurus brings steadiness and fears being hurried out of what is already good.

Capricorn is asking: Is it all right to set the weight down with you? Capricorn brings staying power and fears being a fool for trusting.

The desire under the question

Each of you wants a partner you never have to worry about. Ask who, in this house, is allowed to fall apart.

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.

Both of your dates

Two signs are only the first line.

Bring both birth dates and I'll set your signs side by side, free. If you want to stay a little longer, the Lovers' Ledger opens both charts, the pull between you, and the conversation you keep not having. One reading, $14.

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