(October 23 – November 21)
There’s nothing half-hearted about a Scorpio’s love; this sign that will literally burn for you. So if you live for passion, intensity, and nonstop intrigue, you’ve come to the right place. Like a cresting and crashing wave, dating this water sign can bring an endless series of highs and lows. If you’re willing to surf—and also plunge into some serious depths (Scorpio is ruled by Pluto, god of the underworld)—you’ll have a fiercely loyal, endlessly fascinating soulmate for life. Read on to discover how your sign can handle the zodiac’s official sex symbol.
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SCORPIO + ARIES (March 21 – April 19)
Fierce physical attraction draws your signs together, but watch out: This relationship can easily become a game of sexual gunpowder and erotic explosives—not that either of you is afraid of such things. Passionate, combative Mars is the ruler for both Aries and Scorpio (who also counts possessive Pluto as a cosmic custodian). No sign is as darkly intense as watery Scorpio. When mixed with Aries’ concentrated firepower, the two of you churn up quite the hydroelectric charge. Kaboom! Alas, there are fundamental challenges to navigate. Fearless Aries hides nothing, while calculating Scorpio hides everything. Aries takes; withholding Scorpio takes away. When Aries reaches out a heroic hand, Scorpio’s first instinct is to draw back, which can shock and offend the confident Ram. Aries’ energy can be powerfully consuming, which leaves Scorpio weak-kneed but scared. Aries will need to temper the raw desire or at least mask it to avoid overwhelming Scorpio. Jealous Scorpio will need to stop playing private detective and take what Aries says at face value. Nothing turns off the blunt-edged Ram more than being questioned about their honest assertions. One way in which you’re alike? Both zodiac signs have deep fears of abandonment and might even shun each other in a self-protection paradox: “Go away before you leave me.” (This tactic only guarantees another hot reunion tryst.) Selfishness can also be this couple’s downfall. Scorpio is the sign that rules other people’s resources—this sign’s karmic job is to create wealth from another person’s pocket. Aries is simply born entitled. In a sense, you both live by the credo: “What’s mine is mine; what’s yours is mine.” But who will refill the coffers once you empty them? Put your considerable talents together with Aries running the table and Scorpio handling the back of the room, and you can tap into a rich vein of wealth and thrive as a power duo.
SCORPIO + TAURUS (April 20 – May 20)
There’s a thin line between love and hate in this opposite-sign pairing. You both like to run the show, albeit by different sets of rules. Glamorous, elegant Taurus is the boss Bull who wins people over by providing pleasure and decadence. Mysterious Scorpio rules with power and control and puts people through loyalty tests before they gain inner-circle access. As you both have your own “territories” to reign over, you can make a formidable pair. But if you tread onto each other’s turf, look out. Differences can be a turn-on for some zodiac combinations, but for this pair, they’re often a deal-breaker. Taurus and Scorpio are both “fixed” signs, gifted at perseverance and holding ground, terrible at adapting to other people’s personalities. This inflexibility can lead to serious power struggles and enmity that burns bright after the relationship ends. If ever a couple needed a prenup, it’s you. Better yet, you’ll need to be extremely self-aware and conscious of your personal power. If you can avoid arousing the sleeping dragon in each other, there’s plenty of rich material here. You both love music, food, and sensual delights. You’re equally intense about your beliefs and passions, and sex is a lusty, no-holds-barred affair. You’ll give each other the attentive listening both of you crave. The Bull’s earthy nature can be grounding for watery Scorpio, whose emotions can warp their perspective. Practical Taurus will pull Scorpio out of depressive slumps, and Scorpio will help Taurus look below the surface to see hidden motivations and agendas. You’re loyal and protective of each other, so stay off each other’s sacred turf, and respect your differences.
SCORPIO + GEMINI (May 21 – June 20)
Inquisitive air sign Gemini and watery, esoteric Scorpio live on completely different planes, which either turns you off or utterly fascinates you. Both of you are accustomed to reading people like flimsy comic books, then tossing them aside if the plot fails to inspire. But in this mashup, your X-ray vision fails to penetrate each other’s psychic shields. Hello, exciting challenge! Mutable Gemini is the shape-shifting Twin, home to a traveling cast of personalities. Intense Scorpio is shrouded in mystery and bottomless layers of complexity. It’s rare that either of you meets someone so baffling or capable of seizing the upper hand. How did this happen? You’re piercingly smart signs who love a good puzzle, so your relationship becomes your romantic Rubik’s Cube. The challenge sets off sexual dynamite. You tease each other with cat-and-mouse evasions, neither of you making your attraction obvious. This prickles your insecurities, daring you to strive for the other’s unbroken gaze. No two signs are as quietly obsessive as yours! There will be frustrating moments, too. You’re both prone to gloomy spells and swing from giddiness to unreachable shutdown. Clever mind games edge on cruel or callow. If they go on too long, they can break the trust that Scorpio needs. At times, lighthearted Gemini might lack the empathy and sensuality that deep-diving Scorpio requires. In turn, the Scorpion’s emotional and physical passion can feel like a foreboding tsunami that threatens to pull Gemini out to unwanted depths. However, if you can accept your vastly divergent emotional temperaments—and grant one another the right to form complex friendships with people outside your couple bubble—you’ll come home to someone who keeps you on your toes, which is what both signs ultimately consider a turn-on. Your combined creativity can be a thing to behold. Gemini is a dilettante and a trivia collector who’s always got a pocketful of creative ideas. Instinct-driven Scorpio rules details and research; this sign homes in like a laser and masters any chosen field. Whether it’s starting a family or running a business, you can be an indefatigable team, with Gemini playing the rowdy ringmaster and Scorpio running the show from behind the scenes.
SCORPIO + CANCER (June 21 – July 22)
You’re an ideal match: two water signs with deeply complementary natures. As privacy hounds who are extremely protective of your personal lives, neither of you trusts easily. Perhaps your suspicious natures cancel out the hesitation you’d normally feel with another person. In this rarified combination, you intuitively trust each other. The good news is, you’ve bet on a winning seahorse. Cancer and Scorpio can mate for life, and the emotional facets of your relationship deepen into an intimacy most couples only dream about (but probably fear to tread into). Romantic and sentimental occasions never go uncelebrated: birthdays, Valentine’s Day, the five-month anniversary of the first time you said, “I love you.” Sex is a sacred, erotic act, and you feel safe enough together to try anything. The challenge will be breaking the ice, since you both tend to clam up in a red-faced fluster or any icy aloofness around a new love interest. It helps to talk about music, books, films—anything but your burning desire to rip each other’s clothes off. Once you get past the awkward phase, it’s smooth sailing. You genuinely enjoy each other’s company and like to do almost everything together. As parents, you’re incredibly nurturing and hands-on, and you might struggle to cut the cord when your kids reach adolescence. In fact, control is the big challenge for your signs. Jealous and possessive, you know how to avoid your mate’s hot buttons—or to push them when you’re feeling spiteful. (The Crab pinches and the Scorpion stings; both can wound the relationship fatally.) At times, Cancer’s sulking seems childish to Scorpio, and Scorpio’s sharp edges can maim the Crab’s tender feelings. Fortunately, you know how to win your way back into each other’s good graces once the moody spells pass.
SCORPIO + LEO (July 23 – August 22)
This combustible combination serves nonstop power plays, a white-hot dynamic you both find infuriating and sexy in equal measure. In many ways, you’re complete opposites. Secretive Scorpio is a private soul who rules the night. Leo is an exhibitionist ruled by the sun, and those piercing rays expose Scorpio’s hidden shadows. Scorpio hates to feel this vulnerable—especially in public—yet behind closed doors, being fully naked to Leo’s approving eyes can become an addictively hot experience that you’ll both return to again and again… and again. In bed, you’re both passionate and imaginative. There’s very little you won’t try. As business partners and collaborators, you can make a dream team, too. You’re both super intense, outdoing most mortals with your drive and focus. Leo plays the glamorous showstopper, and Scorpio acts as producer behind the scenes. At least you don’t compete for the spotlight, which can be a saving grace. But you’ll struggle for the upper hand, since Scorpio likes to be in control, and Leo is the bossy ruler of the jungle. Flirtatious, charismatic Leo can also spark Scorpio’s jealous streak. Remember: Darkness absorbs light. Leo must be careful not to get swept into Scorpio’s powerful undertow and vengeful obsessions.
SCORPIO + VIRGO (August 23 – September 22)
Virgo and Scorpio are two of the zodiac’s shrewdest signs. Nothing gets past your collective gaze; in fact, your conversations can be as hair-splitting as Freudian analysis. You’re both insatiable when it comes to understanding the human soul. Examining your own neuroses can keep you busy for weeks. While your obsessive natures would drive other people over the edge, this commonality only draws you closer. You’re like two scientists in the lab of love, researching, analyzing, and measuring data. Moody and introverted, you both have spells where you crave total privacy, and you’ll grant each other that space. Both Virgo and Scorpio are psychic sponges. You’ll unconsciously absorb energy from your environments. When you find yourselves snapping at each other, that’s a sign to clear yourselves with an Epsom salt bath or a walk through nature. Scorpio is a sensitive water sign and Virgo is sensible earth, and you might enjoy a healthy or outdoorsy lifestyle. Romantic vacations might look like renting a private chalet on a pristine European lake or spending a week at a yoga retreat eating raw food and doing daily asanas. Erotically, you might move at different settings. In bed, Scorpio can be a bit too intense for innocent Virgo. You’re both lusty sensualists, but if Scorpio breaks out the dungeon props and dominatrix gear, Virgo might object. Virgo might indulge a fetish with strangers but keeps a stricter boundary about how far they’ll experiment with a partner. No matter. You’re good friends and supportive partners who find beauty in the smallest details—the makings of a quality commitment.
SCORPIO + LIBRA (September 23 – October 22)
Libra is sunshine in a bottle, and Scorpio glows in the dark, but your searing sexual chemistry blazes when the lights are on or off. As a couple, you’re quick to bed and slow to wed. In many ways, the long prenuptial pas de deux is a mutual preference. Slow-jamming Libra loves an extended courtship—expensive dinners, luxury vacations, and lavish gifts. Shrewd, suspicious Scorpio subjects Libra to a battery of character tests, gauging whether Libra can be trusted or not. Libra is a hopeless dilettante whose surface skimming can feel superficial beside Scorpio’s obsessive, detail-focused nature. Because your temperaments are so different, your icebreaker phase can be fraught with misunderstanding. Libra is the social monarch butterfly and an unrepentant flirt, provoking Scorpio’s incurable jealousy at every turn. Libra quickly feels smothered when cooped up too long, and while Scorpio pulls out all the seductive stops to lure Libra back to bed, Libra is mentally calculating what outfit to wear when they slip off to the club for a few hours of dancing (foreplay to Libra). To say you’ll need compromise is an understatement. Combine your strengths, though, and you can also make a powerful society couple—with Scorpio dominating the world from behind the scenes and Libra presiding as its lovely, doe-eyed diplomat.
SCORPIO + SCORPIO (October 23 – November 21)
There’s no combination more molten and magnetic than Scorpio-on-Scorpio. Chemistry is palpable and exothermic. Unspoken cues become strong enough to render talk unnecessary. You understand each other’s wiring based on pure primal instinct. We forget that human beings are animals, an amnesia that plagues modern civilization. Yet, Scorpios know that the one you love might also become your prey (if you’re hungry or threatened) or could sneak up and attack you by night. Your galactic guardian is Pluto, the ruler of the underworld. Unpacking your mate’s shadow side is a prerequisite to trust. Scorpio is a master at subtle cues, emotional intelligence, and feeling your way through each other’s dark depths. When it’s time to let the other be the top, you submit, then artfully ease them down to the mat when it’s time to rule again. Power glides into your gullets like oysters, every bit the aphrodisiac. In the bedroom, your sexy, spiritual stinger-tails turn you into a Tantric twosome with a twist. There’s a hint of force and a danger to all you do, even in the way you fiercely protect your children and property. The real threat of this relationship is to the outside world, for you make an invincible familia that could send Tony Soprano on the lam.
SCORPIO + SAGITTARIUS (November 22 – December 21)
Level with us: Would you really be interested in each other without the element of danger? There’s always something that feels like a secret, naughty thrill between you two. Water-sign Scorpio pulls Sagittarius into the mysterious depths, which the Archer might otherwise find too murky (and dangerous) to explore alone. Sagittarius pulls Scorpio out of their isolated cave and gives them a reason to stop ruminating and start experiencing life beyond whatever Scorpio has been so fixated on. But after the adrenaline wears off, you might find the other draining and off-putting. Your combined willpower—enough to combust a small village—can yoke you together despite your own best interests. The issue is anatomical: Scorpio rules the crotch, and Sagittarius rules the hips and thighs. From the waist down, a magnetic field pulls you into insatiable sexual attraction. Above the midsection, it’s a love-hate drama as you battle for mental and emotional domination, one-upping and offending each other at every turn. You both love to have the last word, and deep down, you’re pretty sure you’re smarter than the rest of the population. As friends, this makes you smugly superior comrades, but in love, you tend to unleash your intellectual weapons on each other. The Archer’s biting sarcasm and Scorpio’s acid-washed retorts will leave you both wounded and estranged. Yet, a good shag seems to erase your short-term memory between attacks. For best results, remain naked at all times, and only discuss problems in the afterglow. Grant each other your own turf, and never cross the line of demarcation.
SCORPIO + CAPRICORN (December 22 – January 19)
Power struggles are ahead, but the real question is this: Would those impending battles be a red flag or a green flag? Reaching settlement can be quite an ordeal for two uncompromising alphas such as yourselves. As you haggle over the prime position, you’re secretly testing each other. Both of you need a mate with an iron backbone, a cunning fox who is the master of any mind game. Although you’re business-savvy signs, there are terms that must be negotiated in advance. For one, you’ll need to swear off secrecy—and that will be the true test of your relationship. Scorpio and Capricorn are masters of underhanded power plays that could topple this merger fast. As you grow closer, learn and practice direct communication. Master that, and the rest is a cakewalk. You can tie each other to bedposts, tryst on the conference table in your glass-paned office tower, or earn your mile-high wings with nary a flight attendant knowing. The 2.5 kids you produce will have some interesting conception stories, that’s for sure. Not that you’ll ever tell. A little secrecy with the rest of the world is fine.
SCORPIO + AQUARIUS (January 20 – February 18)
What happens when the watery, mysterious Scorpion flows into the cool and intellectual Water Bearer’s urn? A whole lot of shapeshifting, which is exactly what’s required to keep this odd-couple pairing going strong. Scorpio is an intense, seductive creature with ruthless ambition, eagle instincts, and a complicated psyche. Aquarius is a silly prankster and an unrepentant nomad who avoids messy emotions, then releases them in embarrassing blurts of sloppy sentiment. You two are as different as they come, right down to your values, style, and interests. Then there’s the power issue to settle. Scorpio wants ultimate control over everything, while rebel Aquarius chafes at any restraint. While Aquarius is happy to hand rulership of the household to Scorpio, any breach of personal freedom will be an instant “game over.” Possessive Scorpio must accept that Aquarius is a social creature with friends from all walks of life, and then, curb the jealousy. Aquarius will need to adopt a few of Scorpio’s deep-diving interests. So, where’s the click? Different as you are, you both prefer a mate who’s hard to figure out; it staves off boredom. Plus, you’re both seekers, even if you tend to pursue different curiosities. To keep this strong, borrow each other’s strengths. Aquarius needs Scorpio’s depth, and Scorpio lightens up from Aquarius’ outrageous jokes and impersonations. Since you’re both among the zodiac’s four stabilizing fixed signs, making plans in advance can help you both warm up to (and prepare for!) the new activities you’re bound to lure each other into during this relationship.
SCORPIO + PISCES (February 19 – March 20)
As two of the most mystical and soulful signs, it’s easy for Scorpio and Pisces to connect. You were both born with the intuitive knowing that you’re merely travelers on an esoteric journey. Finding an equally sensitive, divinely connected soulmate in one another invites you home to your truest essence. Scorpio and Pisces are water signs: compatible artistes who love art and music, sensual magic and all-consuming romance. Like a lighthouse for two ships adrift on the emotional high seas, your relationship is an anchor and a haven. However, your bond is not immune to the turbulence caused by your secretive, suspicious natures. Emotional withdrawal is a self-protective act you’ve both honed over the years, but this tactic backfires when used against each other. The trick is learning to catch a bad mood when it starts, then processing the feelings instead of lashing out. Once the righteous anger and wounded egos kick in, you’re like two runaway trains waging a war of domination and submission. Yet, you both want the same thing: a partner who inspires absolute, unshakeable trust with a money-back guarantee. What you need to learn is how to give it before you get it. To adapt the saying, be the change you want to see in your partner. It will keep you together for lifetimes.
