The aspect between the signs
A sextile joins signs of compatible elements, fire with air or earth with water. It is read as an opportunity rather than a given: the support is there, and it works when someone uses it.
Sign compatibility
Aries and Aquarius: sign compatibility
Aries and Aquarius are two signs apart: a sextile, 60°.
Sextile, 60°
What the two signs have in common
Facts about the two signs as traditional astrology lists them. The reading below is built from these rows.
- Element Fire Airhot
- Modality Cardinal Fixed
- Traditional ruler Mars SaturnA personal and a social planet
- Modern ruler Mars Uranus
This page lists the facts about the pair and what the tradition reads from them. It gives no score: every pair of people born under these two signs would get the same number, and that number would say nothing about them.
Elements and modalities
Fire and air share heat. Air feeds fire, and the tradition reads the pairing as lively, sociable and quick.
One sign starts and the other sustains: a cardinal sign opens, a fixed sign holds.
The rulers
One ruler is a personal planet and the other a social planet, Jupiter or Saturn. The first deals in daily manner, the second in long horizons: belief, duty and limits.
Mars stands for: drive, anger, initiative, courage. Saturn stands for: structure, limit, duty, time.
Modern astrology also assigns Uranus to Aquarius. The reading here uses the traditional rulers; the modern ones are in the table.
The two signs together
Aries tends to bring initiative: it says what it wants and starts before it is certain. It tends to need room to act without explaining each step, and a direct answer.
Aquarius tends to bring independence: ideas, fairness toward everyone and an unusual angle. It tends to need space, and to be accepted without being asked to conform.
Aries acts on impulse and Aquarius on principle, and neither likes being told what to do. Room for independence is usually a condition of this pair, not a cost.
What tends to come easily
- Conversation and cooperation start without effort.
- Ideas and action feed each other.
- Starting and keeping are both covered.
- Daily manner and long-term purpose can support each other.
What tends to cost something
- Because nothing forces the issue, the connection can stay pleasant and unused.
- Both can move on before anything is finished.
- The starter can feel held back, and the sustainer can feel pushed.
- What one does lightly the other may take as a matter of principle.
What two Sun signs cannot say
Two Sun signs are a small part of two charts. The Moon, Venus, Mars, the rising sign and the houses of each person shape how a relationship goes, and so do age, circumstance and choice.
The aspect here is counted between signs, not between degrees. Two people born at the start and at the end of the same sign stand differently from two born at the same degree, and this page cannot tell which applies.
Two signs are not two charts
To compare two actual people, the synastry tool takes both birth dates and shows the aspects between the planets.