Aries and Aquarius compatibility

Love comes out at 64. The sextile, which weighs most in this facet, lifts it. The rulers pull it down, and they weigh more here than in any other facet.

Ptolemy gives the reason Saturn is weak in Aries, the sign of Mars. Saturn, he says, is “cold and inimical to heat”, and in the chapter on exaltations Saturn obtains “his fall in Aries”, for the reason that “the increase of heat must be attended by a diminution of cold”. Our formula takes a ruler point away for that fall.

Aries people, Alan Leo writes, are “fond of constant change, loving novelty, romance and speculation”. Of Aquarians: “They are faithful in their love until the end, the love generally living in the higher mind.” Placing novelty beside constancy is our comparison, not Alan Leo’s.

Trust is this pair’s joint highest facet, 68, and Aquarius is the reason. It is a fixed sign, and steadiness weighs as much here as the angle. Ptolemy says the season in a fixed sign “renders all things more strongly affected by its influence”. William Lilly, who lists qualities of signs for judging a chart and is not describing people, calls Aquarius “fixed, rational, humane”.

Alan Leo is describing people, and his Aquarius chapter speaks of trust directly: “They are persons one feels one can depend upon, and they inspire trust by their equable dispositions.” His Aries chapter has this: “When not living up to the highest strength of their character, they have a tendency to jealousy, they expect loyalty from others and may be somewhat exacting in this respect.” In our reading, one sign is drawn as dependable and the other as asking for dependability.

Communication stands at 61, level with shared activities at the foot of the six. The elements and the sextile supply most of it. Adaptability supplies little, since neither sign is mutable.

Alan Leo gives Aries the ready tongue: “They are never at a loss for a word”. His Aquarians are “determined, patient, quiet, unobtrusive and faithful”, and also “born character-readers, and they are rarely mistaken in their judgment”. Set side by side, which is our doing, one portrait is of a talker and the other of a quiet observer.

In the emotions facet the elements weigh most, and fire with air earns most of the element value without earning all of it. The facet reads 66, with the rulers again the weak input.

Lilly’s quality lines show where the two elements meet and part. Aries is “hot and dry”, and Aquarius “hot and moyst”. Heat is common to both; that observation is ours, made from two separate lines.

Alan Leo’s Aries is “headstrong and impulsive”. His Aquarians “are nearly always kind, humane and retiring”. The contrast is ours to draw.

Values, at 68, comes out level with trust once rounded. It draws on the same steadiness from fixed Aquarius, with a larger share given to the elements.

“This sign gives extreme ideality”, Alan Leo writes of Aries. Of Aquarians he says: “When fully individualised, they have a great love for all humanitarian undertakings and concerns that produce harmony for the many”. In our reading, one sign’s ideals are described as a habit of mind and the other’s as a concern for people at large.

Shared activities is the joint lowest facet, 61. Here too adaptability counts, and this pair has only a small amount.

Alan Leo’s Aries people, “as a host or hostess”, “are full of little plans for making those around them happy”. Aquarians “seem to readily take to strangers”, and in his sentence about the fully individualised Aquarian he adds that their social tendencies make them “delight in giving pleasure to others”. Our reading is that both are drawn as sociable.