Sign compatibility
Aries goes straight through, Pisces goes around
- Elements
- Fire
- Water
- Modalities
- Cardinal
- Mutable
- Rulers
- Mars
- Neptune
Aries and Pisces are neighbours on the circle and built almost in opposite ways. Aries acts without waiting for things to be clear. Pisces waits for clarity and usually does not get it.
Thirty degrees separate them, a semisextile: the closest distance with not one feature in common. Fire and water do not feed each other.
Neighbouring signs do see each other well. Next to Pisces, Aries does not have to prove he is a good person. Next to Aries, Pisces finally knows what to do next.
Where this pair rubs
The first difficulty is directness. Aries demands a clear answer and gets an evasive one. Pisces evades not out of cunning: an outright refusal is heavier for her than somebody’s displeasure.
The second is pace. Aries decides for both to save time, and Pisces agrees and then quietly does nothing, because she only notices her own objection after the conversation. These couples do well where a refusal is put into words and is not punished with displeasure.
One pushes, the other leaves the conversation
Aries goes straight and cannot see the point of going around. Pisces goes around and cannot see the point of a collision that could be avoided.
Loud arguments are rare here: Aries raises his voice, Pisces simply stops answering.
Friends usually think the pair is unequal and are wrong. Pisces gets her way not by arguing but by not doing what she does not agree with.
One gives calm, the other gives movement
Pisces gives Aries something he gets nowhere else: he is not assessed and not checked.
Aries gives Pisces direction and cover, and a thing that would have dragged on for months is settled in a day. In friendship and among relatives this shows more clearly than in a marriage.
Pisces cannot refuse outright
Pisces agrees out loud and then does not start, and it takes Aries a long time to realise he was refused.
That is where the grievances come from: he thinks he was deceived, she thinks she was pushed into agreeing.
What helps is not character but the form of the question. Instead of «do you mind?» — «when will you do it?».
The angle between Aries and Pisces
Aries and Pisces stand 30° apart on the zodiac wheel, and astrology calls that distance the Semisextile. The angle never changes: it is the same for every pair of these two signs, whatever else the two charts hold.
Fire and Water are the classically awkward elements: what one of them treats as obvious, the other has to be talked into.
Cardinal and Mutable are two different speeds: one sets the pace, the other decides how long it lasts.
The pair has two rulers, Mars and Neptune, and each side reads the relationship through its own.
Compare the real charts
A Sun sign is only the outline. A synastry chart puts two full birth charts side by side — Moon, Venus, Mars and the houses — and shows where the two of you actually meet.
Open synastryAries: the other pairs
- Aries and Aries
- Aries and Taurus
- Aries and Gemini
- Aries and Cancer
- Aries and Leo
- Aries and Virgo
- Aries and Libra
- Aries and Scorpio
- Aries and Sagittarius
- Aries and Capricorn
- Aries and Aquarius
Pisces: the other pairs
- Pisces and Taurus
- Pisces and Gemini
- Pisces and Cancer
- Pisces and Leo
- Pisces and Virgo
- Pisces and Libra
- Pisces and Scorpio
- Pisces and Sagittarius
- Pisces and Capricorn
- Pisces and Aquarius
- Pisces and Pisces
The ruling planets of this pair
Answers
Aries and Pisces: common questions
The pair works if both learn to speak plainly. What they give each other costs nothing: he lacks softness, she lacks decisiveness.
Thirty degrees: neighbours on the circle with nothing in common. The angle gives no ease, but neighbours notice in each other what a person does not know about himself.
Usually because of the evasion. He hears agreement and sees nothing happen, and concludes he was lied to. In fact she simply could not refuse out loud.
Quickly and almost without words: Aries cools off at once and Pisces cannot hold a grievance for long. The trouble is that the reason goes unexamined and returns a month later.
They do, if the tasks are separated and one of them sets the deadlines. Pisces is good at what needs patience and a feel for people; Aries takes the decisions and the negotiations.