Taurus and Aquarius Compatibility

“One of you has done it this way for years. The other one thinks that is the problem.”

Taurus and Aquarius make a square in the Western zodiac, scoring 42 out of 100. That is the tie between the two signs themselves, before anything else about either person is taken into account.

The Reading · Square

Taurus and Aquarius sit 90 degrees apart: a square.

Taurus and Aquarius are both fixed, which means neither will be moved, and they are fixed on opposite things. Taurus is loyal to what has been proven by lasting. Aquarius is loyal to the principle, and will take apart something that works perfectly well because it should not work that way. Venus and Uranus have nothing to say to one another. Aquarius finds Taurus's contentment close to a moral failing; Taurus finds Aquarius's need to reinvent a functioning arrangement exhausting and slightly childish. What makes this a genuine standoff rather than a passing friction is that both of you are certain, permanently, and neither has the flexibility to be talked round on anything that matters.

What works

Neither of you is going anywhere, which counts. Aquarius is the reason a Taurus life does not close over entirely, dragging in the new idea, the odd friend, the thing Taurus would never have chosen and ends up glad of. Taurus is the reason an Aquarius has clean clothes and a functioning bank account, and Aquarius knows perfectly well that it needs someone to handle the ground floor of a life. When you are both interested in the same project, the combination of Taurus stamina and Aquarius invention is genuinely strong.

Where it snags

Change is the fight, and it is every fight. Aquarius announces the new arrangement as though it has already been agreed, Taurus refuses on principle, and Aquarius reads the refusal as stupidity rather than preference. Meanwhile Taurus wants ordinary physical reassurance and Aquarius, who conducts most of its life at one remove, keeps offering conversation instead. Taurus is possessive and Aquarius considers possessiveness beneath discussion. Neither of you concedes ground, so what starts as a difference in taste hardens quite quickly into a permanent position.

Air and earth: one of you wants the concept, the other wants the invoice. It works the moment the concept gets a deadline.

Two fixed signs: immovable object, meet immovable object. When you agree it is granite. When you don't it is a siege.

Taurus and Aquarius 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.