Sextile · 60° apart
Sextile
Compatible elements — fire with air, earth with water. Easy, cooperative and rarely explosive.
Earth · Mutable · ruled by Mercury
Brings. Spots the flaw everyone else missed, and fixes it rather than pointing at it.
Struggles with. Applies the same scrutiny to itself until nothing is ever finished well enough.
In love. Shows love through practical help. Criticism is often affection badly aimed.
Water · Fixed · ruled by Pluto (traditionally Mars)
Brings. Sees through pretence instantly and commits completely once convinced.
Struggles with. Tests people rather than asking, and remembers slights for a very long time.
In love. Intense and private. Wants total honesty and gives it slowly.
Virgo is mutable earth; Scorpio is fixed water. 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 1.426% of all possible pairings, which ranks 22 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.