Capricorn and Aquarius Compatibility

Capricorn and Aquarius in love, sex, friendship and marriage

Capricorn and Aquarius compatibility by birth date

Your Venus, Mercury and Mars signs can lift or lower the Sun-sign score. Two birth dates give you a personal score in all five areas, with no birth time and no account needed.

Birth-date positions are calculated from NASA JPL data. Read about the data and precision. The historical date tables below use a separate PyEphem calculation.

Which family traditions do you keep?

One of you hasn't missed the family dinner on the 24th in eleven years. The other has just asked, quite reasonably, what would happen if you did. It's November, the invitation's on the fridge, and nobody's said anything since.

Aquarius and Capricorn run into this one in plenty of forms: the holidays, the in-laws, how you'll raise the kids. Either sign can hold either side, and a Capricorn is sometimes the one asking why.

Keep it, shrink it or change it

Take one tradition at a time and leave the general argument out of it. Pick the dinner on the 24th, or the church service, or the annual week at the lake. Ask these about it:

• Who is it really for? Name the person.
• Who'd actually miss it, and what would they miss?
• What's the smallest version that keeps that part?

One thing stays, one thing changes

Then make a yearly trade: one thing stays exactly as it is and one thing changes. You go to the dinner on the 24th and leave at nine. You keep the lake and drop the group photo. Leaving at nine keeps the dinner and gives you part of the evening back.

Marriage is one of this pair's stronger areas, so decide which family commitments you're making together before either of you accepts the next invitation.

One planet, two signs

Are Capricorn and Aquarius both ruled by Saturn? In traditional astrology, yes. To Saturn, Ptolemy says, 'were assigned the signs opposite Cancer and Leo, namely Capricorn and Aquarius' (Tetrabiblos I.17). Uranus, discovered long after him, is the modern addition for Aquarius, and our score uses the traditional rulers. That's the reason this pair has the highest score of the twelve next-door pairings on our chart.

So there's duty on both sides. One person's runs to what was handed down, and the other's runs to whether it still makes sense.

A birthday close to the line between these signs needs the year and time, so check the Capricorn and Aquarius boundary. The compatibility percentage elsewhere read 37 at zodiacsign.com, 55 at jobcannon and 70 at AskNebula on November 3, 2026.

Parents, children and siblings

A Capricorn parent with an Aquarius child will hear 'why do we go?' sooner or later. Give the real reason, then ask which part of the visit they'd miss. An Aquarius parent with a Capricorn child gets a kid who likes to know what's happening next and may want more structure than you're inclined to give. Offer it, and don't take it as a criticism.

Capricorn and Aquarius siblings often split the family without meaning to: one stays close to the parents and the routines, and the other leaves early and comes back with opinions. Holidays are when it surfaces. The test above works for siblings as well, and you can compare the Moon signs behind your family habits, which astrologers often read for family more than the Sun. The in-law question usually comes down to one thing: each partner handles their own family, and doesn't send the other in to deliver the news.

Love, sex and why Capricorn gets so interested

What draws Capricorn to Aquarius? Someone who doesn't care what the room thinks, and can still explain why. Capricorn, who's spent a good deal of time caring, finds that very hard to look away from. Aquarius, in turn, finds a person who can actually get an idea built. That interest can look like an obsession from the outside. Trouble starts when earning the other's respect becomes the whole courtship. Trust comes more easily once you've each seen the other keep a commitment: Capricorn watches what you do, and Aquarius watches whether you're straight about why, so say the reason along with the decision.

Sex is the lowest score, so let's be plain: this takes time and conversation. In the sample's Venus and Mercury counts, each sign's most common Venus sign is the other's Sun sign, and both Mercury signs land in Saturn's two signs in 63.0% of modeled pairs of dates, the highest of the twelve Capricorn pairings. So check both Venus signs from birth dates. An Aquarius Venus that wants friendship and Venus in Capricorn's slow warm-up ask for different things first, and you can find how each of you pursues too.

When friends start to wonder about more

You've been each other's first call for two years and helped each other move twice, and last weekend one of you asked whether you should try dating. On the scores, it's a fair question: friendship is the top area, marriage is good, and love and sex are the ones you'd have to build. Tell each other what you'd want to be different, and what you'd be sorry to lose, before you try anything.

At work you make a useful pair, one getting it done and the other testing the method, as long as you settle early who has the final word. See how Aquarius compares with the rest of Capricorn's chart, and put in both birth dates for your Mercury and Venus.

For whose family gets the 24th, astrologers start with each person's Moon and then Saturn contacts between the charts. Find both Moon signs in a free birth chart, then see how the two charts meet.

Two siblings, one invitation

A Capricorn sister and an Aquarius brother get the same invitation for the 24th. She's already bought the wine. He writes back asking whether anyone would mind if he came for dessert. Their mother would mind. Their father, it turns out, has wanted to eat earlier for years.

Run the three questions and it's a smaller argument. The meal is for their mother, and what she'd miss is everyone at the table once. So he comes for the meal, they all eat at five, and he's gone by eight. Swap the signs and it plays out the same way. What a Moon in Capricorn needs from home can tell you who's going to take it hardest.

Capricorn and Aquarius in our 1950–2005 date sample

These estimates pair two dates drawn independently from the 1950–2005 sample, with equal weight for every date within each Sun sign. They show how often each Venus and Mercury combination turns up, which is why two real people with these Sun signs can score differently.

Most common Venus pairings in this model: Aquarius with Capricorn (10.2%), Aquarius with Aquarius (8.7%), Aquarius with Pisces (8.4%). Venus signs are listed in Capricorn Sun, then Aquarius Sun order. Mars can occupy any sign with either Sun sign. The most frequent Mars signs on sampled Capricorn dates are Scorpio (13.8%), Sagittarius (12.6%), Aquarius (12%), Libra (11.2%), and on Aquarius dates Sagittarius (12.8%), Pisces (12.3%), Aries (11.7%), Scorpio (10.9%).

The sample covers 20,454 dates from January 1, 1950, through December 31, 2005, with Sun, Mercury and Venus signs taken at noon UTC. Capricorn and Aquarius dates are paired independently, so the figures count combinations of dates, not couples.

Calculation method and downloadable date-sample tables

Capricorn and Aquarius questions