Taurus and Sagittarius compatibility

Love and romance is the lowest facet, at 35. The angle weighs most in it, and the angle is where this pair has least.

Ptolemy calls signs with no familiarity between them “inconjunct and separated”. Those five signs apart are so, he says, “because they divide the whole circle into unequal parts”. William Lilly’s quality lines, written for judging a chart and not as portraits of people, give the two signs unlike qualities when we compare them: Taurus “Feminine, Nocturnal”, Sagittarius “Masculine, Cholericke, Diurnall”.

Alan Leo calls the Sagittarian “generally wise in his love expressions”, and adds: “Although not so demonstrative as the Aries, or as steady and fixed as the Leo, still the Sagittarian is expressive in his feelings.” Taureans, in a sentence that contrasts them with Aries types, are “more inclined to live in their feelings than in their minds”. The word feelings is in both sentences. Bringing them together is our doing.

Trust comes to 39, the second highest. Steadiness weighs as much as the angle here, and it stands at half: a fixed sign counts in full, a mutable sign not at all.

Lilly’s line for Taurus has “Fixed”; his line for Sagittarius has “Common, bycorporall or double bodied”, the kind our data calls mutable. Ptolemy says the bicorporeal signs are “intermediately placed between the fixed and the tropical signs” and that “they participate in the constitutional properties of both”. Taking a sign’s place in the seasons as a measure of a person’s constancy is our step.

Alan Leo’s Sagittarian is “always frank, honest, generous and sincere; loyal to whomsoever he becomes attached”. Taureans “can be secretive and very reserved, but make faithful friends to all whom they give allegiance”. Loyal in one chapter, faithful in the other: we set the two words side by side, he does not.

Communication scores 38, level with shared activities. The elements have the largest weight and count for less than half; adaptability, at half, adds a middling share.

On the Sagittarius side Alan Leo writes: “They have a decisive way of expressing themselves which can never be mistaken”, and “They will never willingly hurt, but when pushed to extremes are inclined to say much more than they mean.” Taureans “usually speak with a quiet, firm, inflexible and almost authoritative tone”. Our reading of the two portraits: both speakers are sure of themselves, one quietly, the other with more words than intended when pressed.

Emotions comes to 37. Elements carry the largest weight, and here they bring under half of it.

Lilly’s lines, compared by us, show what the two signs share and what they do not. Taurus is “Earthly, Cold, Dry, Melancholy”; Sagittarius is “in nature fiery, hot, dry”. Dry stands in both lines, cold against hot.

Alan Leo says Sagittarius people “are always looking forward with a bright, hopeful, and happy disposition”. Of Taurean feeling he says “as the sign belongs to the earthy triplicity, it is more often physical and objective than subjective feeling”. A forward-looking mood beside a physical one is our reading of two separate chapters.

Values is the highest facet by a single point, at 40. Steadiness is a quarter of it, and the angle, this pair’s weakest input, weighs least here of all six facets.

Alan Leo’s sentences, placed together by us, point different ways. “The Sagittarians make splendid characters when allowed perfect freedom”, he writes, and “Being lovers of liberty, they can recognise the law of order and harmony”. Of Taureans: “it is quite natural for them to be reserved, conservative and secretive”. Liberty is his word for one sign and conservative his word for the other.

Shared activities scores 38. Adaptability is a fifth of this facet and stands at half; the elements, again the largest weight, count in part.

Alan Leo sums up the Sagittarian as “an introspective, impressionable, active and enterprising person”. His Taurus chapter says: “The Taureans are slow, plodding, patient, enduring, persistent, executive and matter-of-fact persons.” Active and enterprising beside slow and plodding: the contrast is our reading.