Aquarius and Pisces: sign compatibility

The aspect between the signs

Neighbouring signs share no element and no modality, and the traditional scheme counts them as “in aversion”, signs that cannot see each other. Each begins roughly where the other has just finished, which can be productive and can feel like talking past one another.

Elements and modalities

Air and water share moisture but differ in temperature: thought and feeling. The tradition reads the pairing as one where each translates for the other.

One sign holds and the other adjusts: a fixed sign sustains, a mutable sign adapts.

The rulers

Both rulers are social planets, Jupiter and Saturn: one stands for expansion and belief, the other for structure and limits. The pair meets at the level of values and long-term aims.

Saturn stands for: structure, limit, duty, time. Jupiter stands for: expansion, meaning, confidence, excess.

Modern astrology also assigns Uranus to Aquarius; Neptune to Pisces. The reading here uses the traditional rulers; the modern ones are in the table.

The two signs together

Aquarius tends to bring independence: ideas, fairness toward everyone and an unusual angle. It tends to need space, and to be accepted without being asked to conform.

Pisces tends to bring sympathy: imagination, intuition and a gentle ear. It tends to need gentleness, and clear boundaries it does not have to enforce alone.

Aquarius thinks things through and Pisces feels them through. Both are unconventional; the difference is between detachment and absorption.

What tends to come easily

• +Each brings something the other has not yet developed.
• +Air can name what water feels.
• +Stability from one side and room to adapt from the other.
• +Shared seriousness about where things are going.

What tends to cost something

• −There is little automatic understanding; common ground has to be built.
• −Water wants to be felt and air wants to talk it through.
• −The one who adjusts can run out of room, and the one who holds can mistake flexibility for lack of commitment.
• −One wants to widen what the other wants to secure.

What two Sun signs cannot say

Two Sun signs are a small part of two charts. The Moon, Venus, Mars, the rising sign and the houses of each person shape how a relationship goes, and so do age, circumstance and choice.

The aspect here is counted between signs, not between degrees. Two people born at the start and at the end of the same sign stand differently from two born at the same degree, and this page cannot tell which applies.