Aries · Compatibility
Aries compatibility
Traditional astrology reads compatibility from the elements before anything else. Aries is a fire sign, so it is read as sharing a temperament with the other fire signs and as pairing well with the air signs.
Everything else falls outside that rule — which is not the same as being incompatible. It means the element heuristic has nothing to say, and the rest of two charts decides it. A sun sign is one placement out of ten.
Same element
The other fire signs. Shared temperament — the same way of taking in and giving out energy, which reads as easy recognition and, just as often, as the same blind spot twice.
Paired elements
The air signs, which the tradition pairs with fire. Different temperament, held to be complementary rather than similar.
Outside the rule
Outside the element rule. The tradition offers no general verdict here, so neither does this page.
- Aries and Pisceswater · mutableFebruary 19 – March 20
- Aries and Taurusearth · fixedApril 20 – May 20
- Aries and Cancerwater · cardinalJune 21 – July 22
- Aries and Virgoearth · mutableAugust 23 – September 22
- Aries and Scorpiowater · fixedOctober 23 – November 21
- Aries and Capricornearth · cardinalDecember 22 – January 19
Why: the fire and cardinal families
Aries shares the fire element with Leo and Sagittarius. Signs of the same element are traditionally read as sharing a basic temperament — the way they take in and give out energy — even where the rest of the chart differs.
Aries is cardinal, alongside Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. Modality describes how a sign meets change: cardinal signs start things, fixed signs hold and sustain them, mutable signs adapt and let go. It cuts across the elements rather than following them, which is why two signs can share a temperament and still handle change differently.