Scorpio and Aquarius Compatibility
Scorpio and Aquarius are a square, three signs apart, a water sign and an air sign. In general they tend to learn to bridge thinking and feeling.
How Scorpio and Aquarius fit together
You are three signs apart, which is called a square. You share a style of acting, since you are the same mode, but your elements pull in different directions. The result is friction and attraction in the same place, which keeps things lively and sometimes tense.
Air and water think and feel in different ways. Air makes sense of things by talking, and water by sensing, so they can seem to be speaking different languages at first, and they have a lot to learn from each other.
Both are fixed signs, which means both are loyal, persistent and slow to change their minds. That gives the relationship staying power, and it can also mean a standoff when neither will move.
Scorpio in love
Scorpio loves intensely and privately. It wants to know a partner completely, gives total loyalty once it trusts, and takes closeness very seriously.
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
Scorpio brings depth, loyalty and a rare willingness to go all the way in, and needs trust, honesty, and a partner who does not play games with it. The hardest parts tend to be forgiving quickly, and letting someone see it being unsure.
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
Treat the friction as information. When you disagree, ask what each of you is really protecting. A square tends to grow the people in it, and it rewards honesty over politeness.
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 Scorpio compatibility guide and the Aquarius compatibility guide.
Questions about Scorpio and Aquarius compatibility
Are Scorpio and Aquarius compatible?
Any two signs can build a lasting relationship, and the Sun sign is only one layer of a chart. As a square, three signs apart, Scorpio and Aquarius tend to learn to bridge thinking and feeling, and the main thing to work on is turning friction into honesty.
What do Scorpio and Aquarius have in common?
Both are fixed signs, so you share a style of acting, even though your elements differ. Scorpio is ruled by Mars and Pluto and Aquarius by Saturn and Uranus.
What does each need from the other?
Scorpio needs trust, honesty, and a partner who does not play games with it. Aquarius needs freedom, intellectual company, and acceptance of its quirks.
See every pairing on the zodiac compatibility page.