Scorpio and Sagittarius Compatibility

How Scorpio and Sagittarius fit together

You sit next to each other in the zodiac, which means you share almost nothing by element or by style, and it can feel like you are speaking from different corners of life. The pull is often curiosity: each of you has something the other does not.

Fire and water are very different temperaments. Fire is outward and direct, and water is inward and feeling, so the pull is both strong and a little steamy, and it works best when each learns the other’s language.

One is fixed and the other mutable. The fixed sign holds steady and the mutable one bends, which can balance well and can also leave one feeling immovable and the other feeling unheard.

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.

Sagittarius in love

Sagittarius loves freely and openly. It brings humour, adventure and plain speaking to a relationship, and it shows affection by sharing the things that excite 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.

Sagittarius brings optimism, honesty and a gift for making life feel bigger, and needs freedom, shared adventure, and a partner who laughs easily. The hardest parts tend to be staying put when things get heavy, and softening a blunt remark.

Making it work

Ask more questions than you assume. What looks like indifference is usually just a different way of being. Treat the differences as things to learn, not things to fix.

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 Sagittarius compatibility guide.

Questions about Scorpio and Sagittarius compatibility

Are Scorpio and Sagittarius compatible?

Any two signs can build a lasting relationship, and the Sun sign is only one layer of a chart. As neighbouring signs, Scorpio and Sagittarius tend to mix warmth with deep feeling, and the main thing to work on is learning each other’s different ways.

What do Scorpio and Sagittarius 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 Sagittarius by Jupiter.

What does each need from the other?

Scorpio needs trust, honesty, and a partner who does not play games with it. Sagittarius needs freedom, shared adventure, and a partner who laughs easily.

See every pairing on the zodiac compatibility page.