Sextile · 60° apart
Sextile
Compatible elements — fire with air, earth with water. Easy, cooperative and rarely explosive.
Air · Fixed · ruled by Uranus (traditionally Saturn)
Brings. Thinks for itself and cares about fairness at a scale beyond its own circle.
Struggles with. Intellectualises feeling, and mistakes emotional distance for objectivity.
In love. Values friendship inside a relationship above romance. Needs autonomy preserved.
Fire · Mutable · ruled by Jupiter
Brings. Genuinely open-minded and hard to discourage. Says the thing nobody else will.
Struggles with. Says it without checking whether it needed saying, and leaves before the consequences land.
In love. Needs room and honesty. Reads possessiveness as a threat rather than devotion.
Aquarius is fixed air; Sagittarius is mutable fire. Nothing shared on either axis. Understanding each other is a deliberate act rather than a default.
Sun signs are one factor among many, and astrology itself treats them as a starting point rather than a verdict. Two full charts describe far more than two birthdays do.
Computed, not asserted
Zodiac signs are not equally common — the Sun spends different amounts of time in each, so some pairings occur far more often than others. This one is 1.24% of all possible pairings, which ranks 64 of 78.
12 of the 78 pairings form the same sextile. Worth knowing before treating this aspect as a distinguishing feature of your relationship — a sixth of all couples share it. Note also the rising times: at London’s latitude these two signs spend very different amounts of time on the ascendant, which is why one of them turns up as a rising sign far more often than the other. The full table is here.