Aquarius Compatibility

Who is Aquarius most compatible with?

Gemini and Libra score highest with Aquarius, and Cancer and Virgo score lowest. The cards below run from highest score to lowest. Dates are approximate; sign boundaries vary by year and time zone.

• air · mutable · May 21 – June 20

  Aquarius and Gemini Compatibility

  90%

  Gemini changes its mind for fun and assumes you do too, so it keeps reopening a question you settled weeks ago. Tell them which of your views are finished and which are still open. Talk and friendship tie at the top, both excellent, and sex is the lowest area, still strong.

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• air · cardinal · September 23 – October 22

  Aquarius and Libra Compatibility

  90%

  Libra hears a flat 'I disagree' at dinner and thinks a fight has started. For you it's interest. Explain that arguing is one of the ways you stay close, and that you'll say so if anything turns serious. Friendship is the high point, excellent, and sex trails in the strong band.

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• fire · cardinal · March 21 – April 19

  Aquarius and Aries Compatibility

  82%

  Aries reads an Aquarius who stops to think as an Aquarius who isn't interested, and moves on to the next plan. Tell them a slow answer is still on its way, and give a day. Friendship is the high point, excellent, and marriage the lowest area, good.

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• fire · mutable · November 22 – December 21

  Aquarius and Sagittarius Compatibility

  82%

  Sagittarius assumes you're as easygoing as they are, then jokes about a cause you take seriously and can't see why the room went quiet. Let them know which subjects aren't for teasing. Friendship scores excellent here, while sex and marriage share the bottom, both good.

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• air · fixed · January 20 – February 18

  Aquarius and Aquarius Compatibility

  76%

  Another Aquarius reads your distance correctly, since it keeps the same habits. What it gets wrong is assuming you agree, because you both see yourselves as the open-minded one. Check you agree on the decision itself before you argue about how to carry it out. Friendship is strong, and marriage is the lowest area, good.

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• fire · fixed · July 23 – August 22

  Aquarius and Leo Compatibility

  73%

  Leo watches you give a stranger the same warmth you give them and decides they aren't special to you. If a Leo partner feels overlooked in a group, introduce them as your partner and leave together. Sex is excellent, the top sex score on this chart, and friendship is the lowest area, good.

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• earth · cardinal · December 22 – January 19

  Aquarius and Capricorn Compatibility

  57%

  Capricorn sees you shrug at a title or a raise and reads it as no ambition. You're ambitious about other things. Tell them what you're working toward in their terms: a date and a result. Friendship is the best of this mixed match, good, and sex lands last, mixed.

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• water · mutable · February 19 – March 20

  Aquarius and Pisces Compatibility

  52%

  Pisces hears you answer a sad story with a plan and thinks the plan means you weren't listening. For an Aquarius, the plan is the comfort. Tell them you heard the feeling first, then offer it. Friendship is the best area here, good, and sex the lowest, mixed.

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• earth · fixed · April 20 – May 20

  Aquarius and Taurus Compatibility

  43%

  A Taurus counts love in touch and evenings at home, so a night spent across the room with other people reads as rejection. Say where you'll be and when you're coming back to them. Sex is the best of this square, good, and talk is the hardest part, challenging.

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• water · fixed · October 23 – November 21

  Aquarius and Scorpio Compatibility

  43%

  Scorpio watches you talk openly with everyone while keeping your feelings to yourself, and suspects a second story. There usually isn't one. Tell them plainly who your friends are and what each one is to you. Sex is the strongest area, good, and talk the weakest, challenging.

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• water · cardinal · June 21 – July 22

  Aquarius and Cancer Compatibility

  40%

  Cancer takes a calm face in a hard week as proof you don't care, when you may care a great deal and be thinking it through first. Tell them the feeling before you explain it. Sex is the best of it, mixed, and marriage the lowest, challenging. Cancer and Virgo tie for last.

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• earth · mutable · August 23 – September 22

  Aquarius and Virgo Compatibility

  40%

  Virgo spots the loose ends in an Aquarius plan and decides you're careless. Usually your care went into the idea instead of the details. Say which details you'd like help with and which to leave alone. Love is the lowest area, challenging, with talk, friendship and marriage level at the top, all mixed.

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Score Aquarius with any sign

Two birth dates give a Full chart score across both whole charts, with no birth time and no account needed. For a Sign score, switch to Simple, where Aquarius is filled in and you pick the other Sun sign.

Our calculation service uses Lx Ephemeris, built on NASA JPL's DE440. Read about the data and precision. The historical date tables below use a separate PyEphem calculation.

What does each sign get wrong about an Aquarius?

An Aquarius can go a whole drive home without asking about your week, then text you at midnight with a link to the thing you mentioned in March. The person in the passenger seat can read that as disinterest, when the Aquarius has been thinking about them the whole time.

Each sign misreads the distance in its own way, and each needs to hear something slightly different. The distance itself is real. What helps is saying what it's for: time to think, or something wrong that the two of you need to talk about.

Why are Aquarians so hard to read?

Aquarians are hard to read because the distance looks the same from outside, whatever it's for. An Aquarius goes quiet to think, steps back to be fair, and talks about an idea when a feeling is too new to name. Across the table, all three look like coolness. Fixed air holds a view steadily and shows its feelings late, so the people nearby fill the silence with their own explanation.

The fix is short. Say what the distance is for and when it ends: 'I'm thinking, I'll know by Sunday', or 'I want tonight alone, and we're fine.' Most of the misreadings on the cards stop right there. And if you love an Aquarius, ask which of the three it is before you decide what it means. With the Moon in Aquarius as well, the feeling tends to arrive later still.

Aquarius worst match: Cancer and Virgo, then Taurus and Scorpio

Cancer and Virgo tie for last. Both sit five signs from Aquarius and share no element, kind of sign or easy angle with it. Cancer's lowest area is marriage and Virgo's is love, and both tend to read an Aquarius's distance as a verdict on them: Cancer feels shut out, and Virgo feels its help isn't wanted. Cancer and Aquarius split over whether a personal question is care or prying, and Virgo and Aquarius over whose cause gets the evening.

Taurus and Scorpio tie just above them. They're the squares, fixed signs like Aquarius, so nobody gives way, and sex is the strongest area for both. A Taurus wants you home, and a Scorpio wants to know what you're not saying. Taurus and Aquarius have to agree how much time apart still feels close, and Scorpio and Aquarius tend to write their own rules for a relationship.

In all four, the misreading comes early and sticks. Name the distance before they name it for you.

Why some lists put Leo first for Aquarius

On November 10, 2026, AskNebula's Aquarius chart put Leo first at 91 and Virgo at 85. Ours has Leo sixth and Virgo tied last. JobCannon, read the same day, agrees with us at the top: Gemini and Libra.

The difference is the opposition. Leo sits straight across the wheel, and our model scores an opposition high for sex and lower for friendship and talk. Leo gets Aquarius's top sex score and a friendship score below Capricorn's, which leaves it sixth. Gemini and Libra lead overall, with much stronger friendship and talk scores. So choose by what you want: for heat, Leo; for the conversation, Gemini or Libra. Leo and Aquarius test whether it's chemistry or real liking.

Leo's misreading fits the score, too. A Leo wants to be the one, and an Aquarius treats everyone fairly. Tell a Leo, in so many words, what makes them different from your friends.

Aquarius in marriage: Gemini and Libra lead, Cancer comes last

Gemini and Libra tie at the top for marriage, both excellent, and Aquarius also gives Libra its best marriage score with any sign. Aries and Sagittarius tie next, then Leo, then another Aquarius. Cancer has the lowest marriage score on the chart, with Scorpio just above it.

Marriage asks an Aquarius for the thing the misreadings are about: showing up in a way the other person can see. With Gemini or Libra the distance is usually understood, so the risk is the quiet reassurance neither of you thinks to ask for. With anyone else, agree how you'll signal that you need time alone, and when you'll check back in.

For a real couple, astrologers start with Saturn, the traditional ruler, in each chart, and its house needs a birth time. Pull up a free birth chart for each of you, then check how Saturn and Venus meet across the two.

Aquarius red flags, and the ones that are only distance

A night alone or a slow reply needs context: did you agree when you'd talk, and did they keep to it? An opinion argued hard over dinner is usually just interest. These are worth taking seriously:

• Distance that never ends. Going quiet is normal. Going quiet for days, every time, with no word on when it's over, is a pattern to name.
• Fairness for everyone except you. If friends and strangers get the patience you never do, that's a choice, and the sign doesn't explain it.
• Feelings treated as a debate. Being argued out of being upset, point by point, is a problem in any partner.
• A view that never moves. Fixed signs hold positions. If nothing has shifted one in a year, ask what would.

Aquarius as a friend, at work and in the family

Aries, Gemini, Libra and Sagittarius tie for Aquarius's top friendship score, all excellent. Taurus and Scorpio are the lowest, both challenging. An Aquarius friend can disappear for a month and pick up mid-sentence, and the usual misreading is the friend who takes the month personally. Say you've been buried, and then actually call.

At work, an Aquarius gets on with anyone who gives the reason for a rule. In a family, a Cancer or Virgo parent may read an Aquarius child's quiet as withdrawal. Ask what's going on before deciding what it means. Between relatives, astrologers read how two Moon signs get along as much as the Suns.

Venus, Mercury and Mars on Aquarius Sun dates

Mercury was in Capricorn or Aquarius, Saturn's two signs, on 1,435 of the 1,656 Aquarius Sun dates in our 1950–2005 sample, nearly nine in ten, more than any other sign's ruler gets. Astrologers read a Capricorn Mercury as careful and slow to commit to a view, and from across the table that can pass for coolness. Look up the Mercury sign for a birth date before you decide what a pause means.

Ptolemy linked the same two planets, though for the stars of the Water Pourer constellation rather than the sign: 'those in the shoulders exert an influence like that of Saturn and Mercury' (Tetrabiblos I.9).

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