Aries and Capricorn compatibility: love, friendship, work

• Dialogue

  Strength Two ways of speaking without detours: important decisions get made without pointless palaver, each going straight to the point.

  Watch point Capricorn’s tone can seem cold, Aries’s aggressive; each hears a reproach where the other was stating a fact.

• Emotions

  Strength Aries warms Capricorn’s reserve; Capricorn’s steadiness offers Aries a solid foothold.

  Watch point Capricorn hides emotions behind duty; Aries, who expresses things in the heat of the moment, feels like they are talking to a wall.

• Attraction

  Strength One’s confidence and the other’s self-control answer each other; an attraction slow to be born, but very real.

  Watch point Aries wants immediate passion, Capricorn builds trust step by step: their clocks of desire differ.

• Values

  Strength Both respect effort, merit, and success earned by oneself; they hate easy excuses.

  Watch point Security and status on one side, independence and risk on the other: a loan or a job change becomes delicate.

• Everyday rhythm

  Strength Capricorn keeps the budget and the calendar; Aries takes care of urgent errands and immediate repairs.

  Watch point Capricorn’s meticulous plans are often upended by Aries’s initiatives, who does not always ask before acting.

• The long term

  Strength Over the years, Capricorn’s trust can grow and Aries’s impatience can dull, which softens the bond.

  Watch point A struggle for authority never settled ends up stiffening the relationship; sharing decision-making power protects the balance.

Two people of the same sign can have an opposite Moon, Venus, or rising sign, and therefore very different needs. To truly compare two temperaments, astrology compares two whole charts, planet by planet: this is synastry. Your birth chart already shows your share of the picture.

The play of dignities nonetheless blurs this picture: Aries’s planet, Mars, would find its exaltation in the sign of the goat-fish, the latter’s discipline giving martial energy its best form; Saturn, ruler of Capricorn, would on the contrary be in fall in Aries, patience being roughly handled there. The celestial Capricorn, a goat with a fish’s tail whom Hyginus associates with Pan, recalls a cunning in the face of danger, where Aries chooses the charge.