Taurus and Scorpio Compatibility
“Two people who never let go, facing each other across the only thing they both want.”
Taurus and Scorpio make an opposition in the Western zodiac, scoring 64 out of 100. That is the tie between the two signs themselves, before anything else about either person is taken into account.
The Reading · Opposition
Taurus and Scorpio sit 180 degrees apart: a opposition.
Taurus and Scorpio sit opposite each other and are made of the same material: fixed, possessive, and entirely unwilling to be moved by argument. Taurus holds the visible things, the house, the money, the body, the ordinary pleasures. Scorpio holds the invisible ones, the loyalty, the secret, the thing decided long ago and never mentioned. Each of you is fluent in exactly the half the other avoids, and the pull between you is famously difficult to walk away from. Neither of you does anything by halves, and neither of you forgets. When it is good it is the most solid pairing on the wheel, and when it goes wrong it goes wrong slowly, thoroughly, and without either of you conceding an inch.
The commitment is not in doubt from the first month, which spares you the anxiety most pairings spend years on. You are both entirely serious about the person you have chosen, and neither of you finds intensity embarrassing. Taurus gives Scorpio the one thing Scorpio cannot manufacture, which is somewhere solid that does not shift when Scorpio is testing it. Scorpio gives Taurus depth and a reason to look at the things Taurus would rather leave undisturbed. Physically and practically, this pairing is formidable.
Possessiveness is the whole hazard, and you have it in two flavours. Taurus wants to keep, Scorpio wants to know, and between them there is very little air. Scorpio tests, obliquely and repeatedly, and Taurus will not play, which Scorpio reads as either indifference or concealment. When it does go wrong, neither of you can end it cleanly: Taurus stays out of sheer refusal to move and Scorpio stays out of refusal to be the one who left, and the whole thing can go on for years past its finish.
Earth and water: water finds the shape, earth holds it. This is the combination things actually grow in.
Two fixed signs: immovable object, meet immovable object. When you agree it is granite. When you don't it is a siege.
Taurus 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.
