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Aries and Aquarius Compatibility: Fire-Air VisionCompatibility

Aries and Aquarius Compatibility: Fire-Air Vision

A small church hall in Hackney on a Wednesday evening. A housing meeting that started at seven has not finished at half past nine; the organiser is putting chairs away and pointedly not turning the lights off. Two people are still standing by the leaflet table, both holding paper cups of tea long...

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Cancer & Capricorn Compatibility: An Opposition Pair ExplainedCompatibility

Cancer & Capricorn Compatibility: An Opposition Pair Explained

It is Sunday morning, and you are both already at odds without quite knowing it. You want a slow day at home: coffee, the paper, perhaps a walk later. He has a list. Market, gym, two small admin things, dinner with his sister. Both of you think you are being reasonable. By eleven you feel slightl...

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Taurus and Aries Compatibility: The Builder and the SparkCompatibility

Taurus and Aries Compatibility: The Builder and the Spark

Maya wants to book the venue tonight. David wants to think about it until Sunday. The email goes out three days late, after a small, slow disagreement that wasn't really about the venue. He's a Taurus. She's an Aries. They've both noticed the pattern by now, and one of them has started typing the...

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Aries & Scorpio Compatibility: The Full PictureCompatibility

Aries & Scorpio Compatibility: The Full Picture

Someone posts on Reddit asking whether an Aries Sun and a Scorpio Sun can work. The replies don't agree. One commenter calls it volatile but addictive, another a slow disaster, a third the most intense pair in the zodiac. The original poster reads all three and is more confused than when she star...

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Leo & Aquarius Compatibility: Opposites or Allies?Compatibility

Leo & Aquarius Compatibility: Opposites or Allies?

A Leo texts her Aquarius partner late on a Tuesday afternoon: "Are we still on for Sarah's birthday tonight?" He answers, twenty minutes later: "Yeah probably. Might pop in."

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Pisces and Libra Compatibility: The Dreamer and the DiplomatCompatibility

Pisces and Libra Compatibility: The Dreamer and the Diplomat

It is 11:53pm. The takeaway menus are still open on the kitchen counter. He said "I genuinely don't mind, you choose". She said "no really, you choose". This is the third evening this week that has finished without anyone choosing the restaurant, and neither of them is sure whether that is sweet ...

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Cancer and Gemini Compatibility: Feeling Meets TalkingCompatibility

Cancer and Gemini Compatibility: Feeling Meets Talking

It is a Tuesday evening, and you have been turning a small thing around all afternoon. A colleague said something at lunch that landed harder than it should have, and you have been holding it for three hours. Then the door opens and your partner walks in mid-thought about a podcast, an article he...

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Aries Cancer Compatibility: A Square Pair ExplainedCompatibility

Aries Cancer Compatibility: A Square Pair Explained

She screen-grabs a paragraph from Cosmopolitan and sends it to her best friend. "Is this us?" The friend reads two sentences and sends back a shrug. A different site rates the pair at 47 per cent. A third calls it "one of the most challenging matches in the zodiac", then a Reddit thread tells her...

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Pisces & Scorpio Compatibility: Deep Water TrineCompatibility

Pisces & Scorpio Compatibility: Deep Water Trine

She met him in a bereavement group — the local Talking Therapies service ran one for adults who'd lost a parent. She'd lost her father six months earlier; he'd lost his mother the year before. They started having tea after sessions. Four months later they were together, and she was lying in bed a...

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Aquarius and Sagittarius Relationship: The Visionary SextileCompatibility

Aquarius and Sagittarius Relationship: The Visionary Sextile

A Wednesday in late October. The Aquarius partner is on the sofa with a laptop and the document she's been editing on and off for three weeks — a climate report for a charity she advises. The Sagittarius partner is on the floor next to a half-disassembled bicycle, the second of two he's restoring...

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Scorpio and Sagittarius Love Compatibility: Depth Meets DistanceCompatibility

Scorpio and Sagittarius Love Compatibility: Depth Meets Distance

She wants to know whether they're moving in together. He answers, easily, by suggesting a long weekend in Porto, as though those two questions belong on the same shelf. Both think they have engaged. Neither has heard the other. By Tuesday the conversation about the flat has gone quiet, and he is,...

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Aquarius & Cancer Compatibility: An Honest Synastry ReadCompatibility

Aquarius & Cancer Compatibility: An Honest Synastry Read

Two o'clock on the 31st of December. The Cancer partner is in the kitchen, putting together a small supper for four — her sister, her sister's husband, the two of them. Candles already on the table at this hour; the music chosen yesterday. The Aquarius partner walks in with his coat still on. "I ...

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