Dragon/Capricorn and Dog/Scorpio meet at 65–70%, the career-driven Dragon squeamish about love encounters the morally convicted Scorpio Canine with the cruel streak. The Chinese halves are zodiac opposites. The Western halves sit in sextile harmony. Earth and Water find a depth.
Chemistry is reserved and intense. Dragon/Capricorn brings career-first ambition and Capricorn squeamishness; Dog/Scorpio brings Scorpio depth and the moral conviction laced with selfishness. The bedroom is intense, possibly possessive. The risk: the Dragon's reserve reads as evasion to the morally convicted Dog, and Scorpio cruelty surfaces.
Conversation is reserved on Dragon/Capricorn's side and morally loaded on Dog/Scorpio's. Dragon/Capricorn worries about being unpalatable; Dog/Scorpio judges by strict creed. The risk: Dog/Scorpio aims the camera eye outward and forgets the mote-and-beam reflexive turn, and the Capricorn Dragon retreats further into work.
Friction lives in the Dragon/Dog opposite axis softened by Capricorn/Scorpio sextile. Dragon/Capricorn defends the next rung; Dog/Scorpio wants the moral verdict. When Scorpio cruelty lands on Capricorn squeamishness, the Dragon disappears into career, escape disguised as discipline.
Dragon/Capricorn learns from Dog/Scorpio that depth requires the moral camera turned inward; Dog/Scorpio learns from Dragon/Capricorn that reserve is not deceit, sometimes it is dignity. Both halves practice mercy on purpose.
At 65–70%, this is a moderately compatible, sextile pairing. Dragon/Capricorn and Dog/Scorpio can build something, both halves let the verdict and the reserve soften on purpose.