Capricorn and Scorpio in love
Intense, committed and long-lasting — a traditionally strong match.
· Sextile · 60° apart
Capricorn and Scorpio Compatibility
Capricorn and Scorpio compatibility rests on a sextile: the signs sit 60° apart, earth with water. We score it 82%.
- Angle
- 60° Sextile
- Elements
- Earth + Water Cardinal + Fixed
- Two random people
- 1.25% are Capricorn and Scorpio
- US births
- 7.63 · 8.18% Capricorn · Scorpio
US births 2000–2014; a random pair is two independent births.
Sextile
82%
Are Capricorn and Scorpio compatible?
Scorpio and Capricorn form a sextile between water and earth. Both are ambitious, loyal and private, and they respect each other's strength. Scorpio brings emotional depth, Capricorn brings stability.
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As friends and colleagues
A powerful team for business, finance and strategy.
Where it goes wrong
Control issues and emotional withholding.
Over time
How a Capricorn–Scorpio relationship usually unfolds
- At first. Mutual respect for strength and privacy; neither rushes, and the commitment, once made, is serious.
- Once settled. They build quietly and strategically — careers, savings, a guarded private life — and outsiders rarely see the depth.
- What keeps it working. Sharing feelings as well as plans, because both prefer control to vulnerability.
Ruling planets
How each ruler fares in the other’s sign
Scorpio’s ruler, Mars, is exalted in Capricorn, the sign where tradition says it works best after its own; Saturn has no standing in Scorpio. On the classical scale that makes +4 for the pair.
On the wheel
Where Capricorn and Scorpio sit on the zodiac wheel
- The 60° line runs from Capricorn to Scorpio.
- Element. Earth Capricorn with water Scorpio: a pairing of elements tradition calls complementary.
- Modality. Cardinal Capricorn starts things; fixed Scorpio holds on.
- Polarity. Capricorn and Scorpio are both yin signs.
Computed, not asserted
How common the Capricorn–Scorpio pairing actually is
Scorpio is the more common of the two in US births, 8.18% against 7.63% for Capricorn. As a pairing it comes 62nd of 78, at 1.25% of random pairs.
Among the 12 sextile pairings, which together cover 16.7% of random pairs, Capricorn–Scorpio ranks 11th. At London’s latitude Scorpio takes 170 minutes to rise and Capricorn 106, which makes Scorpio rising about 1.6 times as common there as Capricorn rising. Rising times for every sign →
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AstroHot. “Capricorn and Scorpio Compatibility: Sextile.” Accessed October 28, 2026. https://astrohot.com/zodiac-compatibility/capricorn/scorpio/
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