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Scorpio and Scorpio compatibility: love, friendship, work

Two Scorpios recognize each other without a sound: the same reserve, the same taste for truth, the same refusal of half measures.

  • intensity
  • loyalty
  • secrecy
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The essentials

Scorpio and Scorpio at a glance

For you

Two depths meeting: the pair lives on total sincerity, as long as control does not replace trust.

A strength

A loyalty without calculation: each knows the other will keep their word and guard what has been entrusted to them.

Something to watch

Two wary natures that watch each other: a silence or an avoided question can be enough to set suspicion in.

The relationship
☌︎ The same sign
The elements
Water, on both sides
The modalities
Fixed, on both sides
The ruler
Mars and Pluto
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By Thomas Guilhot · updated

Two Scorpio people, by type of relationship

Love, friendship, work, or family: the same pair is not lived the same way depending on the relationship.

The first glance matters a great deal: two Scorpios size each other up for a long time before opening up, and the attraction is often born of this mutual mystery. Once trust is established, the relationship is lived without reserve, with an intimacy where anything can be said, fears as well as desires. The danger comes from the same place. Each keeps a secret part and suspects the other of doing the same; a phone turned face down on the table or an unexplained delay quickly takes on enormous proportions. The arguments are not loud; they play out in heavy silences and words chosen to hit the mark. Agreeing on a simple rule, never letting a night pass on a suspicion without talking about it, defuses many of these tensions.

A friendship between two Scorpios resembles a pact. Few words, but a stubborn presence in the dark months: the other shows up without being called, and asks no needless questions. These two like late conversations about the underside of things, the politics of an office, the secrets of a family. The fragility lies in forgiveness. A confidence repeated to a third party can end years of complicity, because neither takes the first step to repair it.

On a difficult case, two Scorpios make a formidable team: investigation, negotiation, auditing, crisis management, anywhere one has to dig and hold on without being impressed. They share the same standard and quickly detect what rings false in a contract or a speech. The difficulty arises when power has to be shared. Two fixed wills that want to keep control of the same project watch each other rather than cooperate. Defining clearly, in writing, who decides what keeps rivalry from settling in quietly.

A parent and child who are both Scorpio understand each other at a glance, but also hide things from each other with the same talent. The child senses immediately when they are lied to for their own protection, and experiences it as a betrayal. In a sibling group where two children were born under this sign, childhood grudges can last for decades, revived at every holiday meal. What soothes: frank explanations, even late ones, and the possibility for each to keep a territory of their own without the other seeing a threatening secret in it.

Two Scorpio people: the same sign

No angle separates two Scorpios: each one’s Sun sits in the same portion of the zodiac, a configuration called a conjunction.

The water, the fixed modality, the receptive polarity, and the ruler are all shared. Everything that characterizes the sign is therefore doubled, tenacity as well as grudge. The pair needs no translation to understand each other; it lacks, however, an outside view to put its outbursts in perspective.

  • The same element (water), the same modality (fixed), and the same ruler (Mars and Pluto).
Scorpio and Scorpio: the same markers on both sides
MarkerScorpioScorpio
ElementSharedWaterWater
ModalitySharedFixedFixed
PolaritySharedYin (receptive)Yin (receptive)
RulerSharedMars and PlutoMars and Pluto
Dates (approximate)SharedOctober 23 – November 21October 23 – November 21
Opposite signSharedTaurusTaurus

Strengths, watch points, and tradition

Strengths and watch points, in six dynamics

Dialogue, emotions, attraction, values, daily life, the long term: for each, a strength and a watch point, with no score.

The Sun sign is not enough

The Sun sign tells only part of the story.

What tradition says

For Ptolemy, Scorpio would be Mars’s second domicile, its nocturnal home, while Aries would be its diurnal home.

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How is it calculated?

Scorpio and Scorpio: the same 30° sector (210° to 240°), no gap

Frequently asked questions: Scorpio and Scorpio

Are two Scorpios compatible?

They often understand each other without explanation, which is precious. But the resemblance also doubles wariness, jealousy, and the difficulty of forgiving. A relationship between two Scorpios can be remarkably loyal, provided that trust is actively maintained rather than policed. Nothing is written in advance in a sign.

Why do two Scorpios argue so much?

They rarely argue loudly, but they argue for a long time. Two fixed signs, ruled by Mars, refuse to give ground, and each waits for the other to make the first move. The conflict moves into the silences. Quickly naming what hurts, without trying to win, often breaks this circle of mutual sulking.

What changes when you share the same sign?

Being born under the same Sun sign means having water, fixity, and Mars in common: a base that eases understanding. But the weak points add up with no counterweight. Two Scorpios do well to look elsewhere, among those close to them or in other facets of their charts, for the lightness the sign does not supply.

For two Scorpios, is the Sun sign enough?

Far from it. Two Scorpios can have very different Moons: in Gemini, one would need to talk and move; in Taurus, the other calm and stability. Venus and the rising sign also change a great deal about the way of loving and approaching the other. Each person’s birth chart says far more.

Sister pairs

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