Opposite signs · 180° apart
Taurus and Scorpio
Two ends of one axis rather than two unrelated positions, which is what separates an opposition from a square. The tradition reads opposite signs as the classic attraction: each holds exactly the half the other neglects. It also reads them as the classic projection, where what is disliked in the other is the unowned half of oneself.
What this page can and cannot tell you
Two Sun signs are two placements out of about eighty across two charts. They describe a general shape and nothing about the two people in particular, which is why sign compatibility is right often enough to feel useful and wrong often enough to be worth checking properly.
Compare both whole charts instead →Why these two land where they do
| Taurus | Scorpio | |
|---|---|---|
| Element | earth | water |
| Modality | fixed | fixed |
| Polarity | receptive | receptive |
| Ruler | Venus | Pluto, and Mars traditionally |
The same modality, the same polarity, and complementary elements: fire with air, or earth with water.
What these two have in common
The same modality, the same polarity, and complementary elements: fire with air, or earth with water.
Taurus and Scorpio as elements
The other traditionally compatible pairing. Earth gives water a container and water gives earth something worth building for, which is why this combination is so often described as the domestic one.
The tempo
Both hold on. Extremely stable and extremely difficult to change direction, so a disagreement between two fixed signs tends to last.
What works
The strongest complementary pull in the zodiac, and the one most associated with long marriages.
What costs something
A see-saw. Whichever end is being favoured, the other is being neglected, and each keeps meeting their own missing half in somebody else and resenting it there.
The two signs themselves
Do it properly
Synastry compares both whole charts, measuring every one of one person's planets against every one of the other's. It is the technique this page is a summary of, it takes two birth dates, and it is free.