Aries and Aries compatibility

Love and romance stands at 83. The angle weighs heaviest in this facet, and for a sign paired with itself the formula allows three quarters of it, alongside the whole of the element share and three quarters for the ruler.

Ptolemy has no name for this case. His chapter on configurations lists the opposition, the trine, the quartile and the sextile, and a sign meeting itself is not among them. His translator, J. M. Ashmand, remarks on the gap in a note and adds that the conjunction is “frequently adverted to in subsequent chapters”. On our reading, that leaves sameness outside both his harmonious and his discordant angles, and treating it as mostly favourable is the formula’s choice.

Of Aries people Alan Leo writes: “Their mental sympathies are always quick to respond to the least good which they may find in others.” Doubled, on our reading, that describes two people each quick to notice the good in the other.

Trust is the lowest of the six, at 73. Steadiness carries as much weight here as the angle, and it is the pair’s weakest input: neither sign is fixed, so the average stays at one half.

Ptolemy calls Aries an equinoctial sign, “the first after the vernal equinox”, and says of Aries and Libra together that “from them proceed the principal variation, and most powerful agitation, of all things”. Lilly’s list for the sign includes the words “movable, Cardinall, Equinoctiall”; he is naming qualities used in judging a chart, not describing people.

Alan Leo’s sentence on loyalty reads: “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.” With two Aries, on our reading, the expectation runs in both directions at once.

Communication reaches 78. The shared element is the largest part of it. Adaptability, which this facet also counts, is at one half for two cardinal signs, neither helping much nor hurting much.

Alan Leo gives Aries people two habits of speech. One is ease: “They are never at a loss for a word”. The other is edge: “They are frank and outspoken by choice, but often combative and assertive.” Put the description on both sides of a conversation, and this is our inference, and there are two ready talkers who are also two ready arguers.

Emotions is the top facet, 86, because the element counts for more here than anywhere else and fire with fire takes all of it. Lilly places Aries in “the Fiery Triplicity”. Ptolemy ties the sign to heat through the Sun, which is exalted there: when the Sun is in Aries, he says, “the influence of his heating nature increases at the same time”. In the northern hemisphere that is the start of spring.

Alan Leo’s portrait is of a quick temperament: “They have great mental energy but are inclined to be very headstrong and impulsive.” Nothing in the tables for this pair supplies a second element to set against the first. Our reading is that the likeness is complete, and so is the impulsiveness he describes.

Values comes to 76. The element and the shared ruler lift it; the half measure of steadiness holds it under the love and emotions scores.

Mars is the planet both partners share. Ptolemy calls Mars “dry in nature” and gives him Aries and Scorpio as signs “of a nature similar to his own”. Alan Leo says Aries people “nearly always live in a world of theory”. If that holds for both, then on our reading the two would meet in ideas more readily than in practical matters.

Shared activities scores 79, built mostly from the common element and the same-sign angle, with adaptability again at its midpoint.

Two of Alan Leo’s remarks bear on doing things together. As hosts, Aries people “are full of little plans for making those around them happy”. They are also “always inclined to act upon impulse without waiting to mature their plans”, and he says in the same sentence that “it is exceedingly difficult to restrain them”. Our inference from a doubled portrait: plenty of plans, started quickly, with neither partner described as the one who waits.