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
Sagittarius and Aquarius: sign compatibility
Sagittarius 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 Mutable Fixed
- Traditional ruler Jupiter SaturnTwo social planets
- Modern ruler Jupiter 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 holds and the other adjusts: a fixed sign sustains, a mutable sign adapts.
The rulers
Both rulers are social planets, Jupiter and Saturn: one stands for expansion and belief, the other for structure and limits. The pair meets at the level of values and long-term aims.
Jupiter stands for: expansion, meaning, confidence, excess. 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
Sagittarius tends to bring openness: frankness, humour and appetite for what is new. It tends to need freedom, and honesty returned in kind.
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.
Two signs that like ideas, travel and independence. They are likely to give each other space; closeness may need arranging.
What tends to come easily
- Conversation and cooperation start without effort.
- Ideas and action feed each other.
- Stability from one side and room to adapt from the other.
- Shared seriousness about where things are going.
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 one who adjusts can run out of room, and the one who holds can mistake flexibility for lack of commitment.
- One wants to widen what the other wants to secure.
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.
Sagittarius compatibility
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.