Virgo and Scorpio Compatibility
Virgo and Scorpio are a sextile, two signs apart, an earth sign and a water sign. In general they tend to support and nourish each other.
How Virgo and Scorpio 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 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.
Virgo in love
Virgo loves through care and attention. It notices what you need before you say it, shows affection by helping and fixing, and tends to be shy about big declarations.
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.
What each brings, and what each needs
Virgo brings reliability, thoughtfulness and quiet, practical devotion, and needs honesty, steadiness, and gentle appreciation for the small things it does. The hardest parts tend to be turning off its inner critic, and accepting care without trying to repay it.
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.
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 Virgo compatibility guide and the Scorpio compatibility guide.
Questions about Virgo and Scorpio compatibility
Are Virgo and Scorpio 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, Virgo and Scorpio tend to support and nourish each other, and the main thing to work on is turning easy rapport into plans.
What do Virgo and Scorpio have in common?
You do not share an element or a mode, so your common ground is the effort to understand each other. Virgo is ruled by Mercury and Scorpio by Mars and Pluto.
What does each need from the other?
Virgo needs honesty, steadiness, and gentle appreciation for the small things it does. Scorpio needs trust, honesty, and a partner who does not play games with it.
See every pairing on the zodiac compatibility page.