Sagittarius and Aquarius Compatibility

Sagittarius and Aquarius in love, sex, friendship and marriage

Sagittarius and Aquarius compatibility by birth date

The score above reads your Suns alone. Two birth dates give a Full chart score across both whole charts, with no birth time and no account needed. Simple shows the Sign score for any two signs.

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.

Do your friends become our friends?

Ten months in, and you've spent the last few Saturdays apart, both with friends, sending each other photos. You've each met the other's crowd once, at a birthday. The Sagittarius's running club has never seen the Aquarius, and the Aquarius's old work friends still think the Sagittarius is someone from the gym. Nobody has invited you anywhere as a couple.

Two sociable signs rarely run short of company. What they can run short of is anyone who knows them as a couple.

Draw the overlap map of your shared friends

Take a sheet of paper and draw two circles that overlap in the middle. Each of you writes, in your own circle, the people you'd call on a free Saturday, first names only. Anyone you both know and like goes in the middle. It takes a few minutes and gives you something concrete to talk about: how much of your social life you want to share.

Aim for at least one name in the middle and at least one on each side, then compare the map with what each of you wants:

• An empty middle. You're two people with separate lives who date. This month, each of you takes the other to one thing with your own people and stays to the end: the club's Sunday run, the old work crowd's next dinner.
• Nobody outside on one side. One of you has moved into the other's crowd and left their own behind. Get one old friend back, and see them on your own.
• Names in the middle and names on both edges. That's the balance to aim for: friends you share, and friends who knew each of you first. Check that you're both happy with it.

Why is Aquarius so attracted to Sagittarius?

Because a Sagittarius treats an Aquarius idea as a plan for Saturday. Most signs answer a strange idea with questions; a Sagittarius asks what time you're leaving. Sagittarius, in turn, gets room to try something unfamiliar without having to talk the other into joining, and can bring home any strange new enthusiasm and have it taken seriously.

Sex is tied for their lowest score, and the friendship is the reason: it's so comfortable that the flirting can stop. Keep some of it going. Venus shows how each of you likes to be wanted, so look up both Venus signs from the birth dates. A Sagittarius Venus likes the chase to feel like an adventure, and that's an easy thing for an Aquarius to give.

Mercury and Venus in Saturn's two signs

In our 1950–2005 date sample, a Sagittarius date and an Aquarius date have both Venus signs in Saturn's two signs, Capricorn and Aquarius, more often than any other Sagittarius pairing, just ahead of Sagittarius with Capricorn. Both Mercury signs land there most often too. Capricorn is also the only Mercury sign these two Suns can share. Most of that comes from the Aquarius side, where Mercury usually sits in Capricorn or Aquarius. When the Sagittarius has a Capricorn Mercury or Venus too, astrologers read the two of you as thinking and showing affection in the same careful way. Look up both Mercury signs before you draw the map.

The two rulers sit side by side in Ptolemy's order of the planets. 'To Jupiter, which is moderate and below Saturn's sphere', he writes, assigning Jupiter the two signs next to Saturn's (Tetrabiblos I.17). Astrologers read Jupiter as the planet that widens a life and Saturn as the one that keeps a commitment: one partner keeps adding names, and the other keeps the ones that matter.

Sagittarius and Aquarius relationship problems

Three come up most. Nobody goes first on commitment, so two independent people can wait each other out for years. The friends do the work the couple should, so you're never lonely and never notice how rarely you're alone together. A quick joke ends the conversation before either of you answers the hard question, because that's easier than saying 'I missed you.' In an argument, the Sagittarius tends to say the blunt thing and the Aquarius to go cool and logical, and then both change the subject.

The map handles the second. For the first, the one who wants more says so in a plain sentence and asks for an answer that week; a Sagittarius respects a straight question, and an Aquarius respects a clear one. For the third, when one of you jokes about something that clearly stung, the other asks once whether it's really a joke. Plans can test trust, too: mutable Sagittarius changes one when something better turns up, and fixed Aquarius, having agreed, expects it to hold. Say which plans are fixed when you make them.

Can Sagittarius and Aquarius marry?

Yes, and it suits this pair best once the map has names in the middle. Marriage scores good, tied with sex for their lowest. Mutable Sagittarius adapts and fixed Aquarius holds a line, so once an Aquarius has decided, the decision tends to stay made. Expect a house with a lot of visitors.

A Sagittarius parent and an Aquarius child argue about everything and enjoy it. Sagittarius and Aquarius siblings often share friends well into adulthood. At work, give an idea a deadline and agree who follows it through, since the Sagittarius loves the pitch and the Aquarius loves the redesign.

Astrologers look at the eleventh house, the house of friends and groups, in each chart, and it needs a birth time. Find each eleventh house in a free birth chart, and read what Saturn there says about friendship. Then put in both birth dates here, or see how Jupiter and Saturn meet across both charts.

Where Sagittarius and Aquarius rank for each other

On the Sagittarius chart, the other fire signs come first, with Aquarius and Libra tied right behind them. On the Aquarius list, the other air signs lead, with Sagittarius and Aries tied in third. Each of those tied pairings is a fire and air sextile with friendship as its top area.

Aquarius has a modern ruler as well: read how Uranus joined Saturn as a ruler of Aquarius. How Jupiter reads in a birth chart is worth a look if one of you is the friend who invites everyone.

Two couples draw their friend maps

Give both partners Mercury in Capricorn, the only Mercury sign these two Suns can share. Astrologers read a Capricorn Mercury as choosy, so try their version of the map: only the people who actually show up, with the middle left to fill slowly.

For a different illustration, give the Sagittarius Mercury in Sagittarius and the Aquarius Mercury in Aquarius, the most common combination in the date sample below. Start this couple with a crowded map, then ask which friends each partner actually wants to share.

Sagittarius 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: Scorpio with Capricorn (10.1%), Scorpio with Aquarius (8.7%), Capricorn with Capricorn (8.5%). Venus signs are listed in Sagittarius Sun, then Aquarius Sun order. Mars can occupy any sign with either Sun sign. The most frequent Mars signs on sampled Sagittarius dates are Libra (15%), Scorpio (14.9%), Capricorn (11.2%), Aquarius (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. Sagittarius and Aquarius dates are paired independently, so the figures count combinations of dates, not couples.

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