Taurus and Capricorn compatibility

Love and romance reaches 85, the second highest facet. The angle is the largest weight, and both it and the elements are complete. All that this facet lacks comes from the rulers.

Ptolemy calls the trine and the sextile “harmonious”, each “being formed between either all feminine or all masculine signs”. William Lilly’s quality lines, which describe signs for judging a chart and not people, have “Feminine” for both Taurus and Capricorn.

Ptolemy’s chapter on marriage speaks of the Sun and Moon in two people’s birth charts. When those lights are “either in trine or in sextile to each other”, he says, “the cohabitation will most usually be lasting”. That is a rule about two whole charts, and it shares only its angle with this pair. It is quoted as history, not as advice about a relationship.

Trust comes to 83. Steadiness weighs level with the angle in this facet, and the pair has three quarters of it.

Lilly marks Taurus “Fixed” and Capricorn “Solsticiall, Cardinall, Moveable”. Ptolemy says of the fixed signs that the season is “then more firmly established” in them. Capricorn is one of his two tropical signs, so called “because the Sun, after he has arrived at their first points, seems to turn”; in the northern hemisphere that turn brings winter. Reading the calendar of the seasons as reliability in a person is our step, not his.

Alan Leo’s chapters do speak of constancy. Taureans, he writes, “make faithful friends to all whom they give allegiance”. And: “The Capricornians, when individualised, are impartial, just and accurate, aiming to be precise, exact and constant”. Faithful beside constant is our pairing of two chapters.

Communication is the lowest facet, at 76. Adaptability is a quarter of it, and a fixed sign with a cardinal one has only a quarter of the adaptability our formula can give. The elements, the largest weight, count in full.

Alan Leo says of Taureans that “it is quite natural for them to be reserved, conservative and secretive”. Of Capricorn people: “when fully individualised they are very contemplative, reserved, deep and profound”. The word reserved is in both sentences. Bringing them together is our doing, and the second carries its own condition.

Emotions is the highest facet, at 88. Elements weigh most here, and two earth signs share theirs completely.

The parts of Lilly’s two lines quoted here overlap, a comparison that is ours. Taurus is “Earthly, Cold, Dry, Melancholy, Feminine, Nocturnal”; Capricorn is “Nocturnal, Cold, Dry, Melancholly, Earthly, Feminine”. The same six qualities, in another order.

Alan Leo ties both portraits to the element. Of Taurean feeling he says “as the sign belongs to the earthy triplicity, it is more often physical and objective than subjective feeling”. Under Capricorn he writes: “In common with the earthy signs, those born under Capricorn can be extremely selfish; but their virtue lies in patience, contemplation and reflection.” He names no other sign in either sentence; reading the first beside the second is our choice.

Values scores 84. The elements are the largest weight and complete; steadiness is a quarter of the facet and stands at three quarters.

For Alan Leo, “The Taureans are slow, plodding, patient, enduring, persistent, executive and matter-of-fact persons.” Capricorn people, he says, are “ever enduring with a calm, earnest patience”, and the individualised Capricornian is described as “fulfilling all things with a persistent, persevering and industrious nature”. Enduring and persistent appear on both sides. That overlap of words is our observation.

Shared activities comes to 78, the second lowest. Adaptability is a fifth of this facet and is low; the complete angle and elements carry most of the rest.

Alan Leo writes of Capricorn people: “They make the most of all their opportunities, and being self-reliant they accomplish their ends.” Of Taureans: “as co-workers they are reliable, sincere and trustworthy”. Our reading: a self-reliant portrait next to a reliable one.