Aries and Scorpio Compatibility
“Two people who go all in, and never at the same moment or about the same thing.”
Aries and Scorpio make a quincunx in the Western zodiac, scoring 40 out of 100. That is the tie between the two signs themselves, before anything else about either person is taken into account.
The Reading · Quincunx
Aries and Scorpio sit 150 degrees apart: a quincunx.
Aries and Scorpio look like they should understand each other and do not. Both are ruled by force of a kind, both are capable of total commitment, and there the resemblance ends. Aries is entirely on the surface: what it feels is what it says, immediately, and it is over just as fast. Scorpio decided some time ago and has said nothing, and what looks like calm is a position already taken and not up for discussion. Aries cannot find the argument it is having. Scorpio finds Aries careless with things that should not be handled carelessly. There is intensity in abundance here and almost no shared method for spending it, which is why it tends to run hot and end suddenly.
Neither of you is frightened of the other, and that is rarer than it sounds. Aries says the unsayable thing straight out, and Scorpio, who has been circling it for a week, is often relieved. Scorpio in turn takes Aries seriously in a way lighter signs do not, and an Aries who is genuinely taken seriously will do almost anything for the person doing it. When you are aimed at the same target this is an unusually effective pairing, because neither of you knows how to do a thing by halves.
Aries fights in the open and Scorpio does not, so you are never in the same fight. Aries burns through it in ten minutes and considers the matter closed. Scorpio has filed it, and will return to it at a time of its own choosing, which Aries experiences as an ambush from nowhere. Scorpio's withdrawals read to Aries as punishment; Aries's bluntness reads to Scorpio as contempt. Trust is the thing that goes first here, and Scorpio does not hand it back once it has gone.
Fire and water: steam, in every sense. Beautiful, hard to hold, and somebody usually gets scalded.
Cardinal meets fixed: one opens the door, the other holds it open. That is a genuine division of labour.
Aries and Scorpio in the Ancient Zodiac
A sun sign is half of a reading. Which of the twelve Ancient Zodiac signs each of these two actually carries depends on the year they were born, and the pairing below is where the reading gets specific.
