Scorpio and Capricorn Compatibility
Scorpio and Capricorn are a sextile, two signs apart, a water sign and an earth sign. In general they tend to support and nourish each other.
How Scorpio and Capricorn 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.
Earth and water nourish each other. Water gives earth feeling and softness, and earth gives water shape and safety, so this element pairing tends to feel supportive and quietly devoted.
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.
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.
Capricorn in love
Capricorn loves steadily and seriously. It builds trust slowly, shows care by providing, planning and showing up, and it tends to be loyal for the long run.
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.
Capricorn brings reliability, ambition and the patience to build something that lasts, and needs respect, stability, and a partner who takes the shared future as seriously as it does. The hardest parts tend to be relaxing, and saying the soft words out loud.
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 Scorpio compatibility guide and the Capricorn compatibility guide.
Questions about Scorpio and Capricorn compatibility
Are Scorpio and Capricorn 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, Scorpio and Capricorn tend to support and nourish each other, and the main thing to work on is turning easy rapport into plans.
What do Scorpio and Capricorn have in common?
You do not share an element or a mode, so your common ground is the effort to understand each other. Scorpio is ruled by Mars and Pluto and Capricorn by Saturn.
What does each need from the other?
Scorpio needs trust, honesty, and a partner who does not play games with it. Capricorn needs respect, stability, and a partner who takes the shared future as seriously as it does.
See every pairing on the zodiac compatibility page.