Aries and Aquarius Compatibility
Aries and Aquarius are a sextile, two signs apart, a fire sign and an air sign. In general they tend to keep each other lively and talking.
How Aries and Aquarius fit together
You are two signs apart, which is called a sextile, and your elements tend to support each other. It is a friendly, easy-going connection, with a feeling that you can work together well and that the other adds something you were missing.
Fire and air feed each other. Air gives fire ideas and room, and fire gives air momentum and warmth, so this element pairing tends to feel lively, talkative and full of possibility.
One is cardinal and the other fixed. The cardinal sign starts things and the fixed sign sees them through, which can be a good division of labour when both respect it.
Aries in love
Aries loves directly and quickly. Attraction shows up as pursuit, plain words and the energy of starting something together, and it would rather be told the truth than be handled.
Aquarius in love
Aquarius loves as a friend first. It is drawn to originality and independence, shows affection through ideas, loyalty and shared causes, and needs a relationship with room in it.
What each brings, and what each needs
Aries brings courage, honesty and a spark that gets things moving, and needs room to lead, straight answers, and a partner who can keep pace without needing to be managed. The hardest parts tend to be slowing down, and waiting for others to catch up.
Aquarius brings originality, loyalty to its principles and a genuine respect for who you are, and needs freedom, intellectual company, and acceptance of its quirks. The hardest parts tend to be staying present for heavy emotion, and letting someone get very close.
Making it work
Make the effort to turn that easy rapport into plans and conversations. A sextile gives you the opening, and it works best when you both step through it.
This is the Sun sign view only
This page looks at two Sun signs. A full picture also depends on where your Moons, Venuses and Mars signs fall, and how the two charts lie over each other, which is called synastry. You can try the free compatibility tool on this site, or build each chart with the birth chart calculator. For each sign on its own, read the Aries compatibility guide and the Aquarius compatibility guide.
Questions about Aries and Aquarius compatibility
Are Aries and Aquarius compatible?
Any two signs can build a lasting relationship, and the Sun sign is only one layer of a chart. As a sextile, two signs apart, Aries and Aquarius tend to keep each other lively and talking, and the main thing to work on is turning easy rapport into plans.
What do Aries and Aquarius have in common?
You do not share an element or a mode, so your common ground is the effort to understand each other. Aries is ruled by Mars and Aquarius by Saturn and Uranus.
What does each need from the other?
Aries needs room to lead, straight answers, and a partner who can keep pace without needing to be managed. Aquarius needs freedom, intellectual company, and acceptance of its quirks.
See every pairing on the zodiac compatibility page.