Aries 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

Fire is hot and dry, water cold and moist: they share no quality, and the classical scheme counts them as the most opposed pair of elements. Water can put out fire, and fire can evaporate water.

One sign starts and the other adapts: a cardinal sign opens, a mutable sign adjusts.

The rulers

One ruler is a personal planet and the other a social planet, Jupiter or Saturn. The first deals in daily manner, the second in long horizons: belief, duty and limits.

Mars stands for: drive, anger, initiative, courage. Jupiter stands for: expansion, meaning, confidence, excess.

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

The two signs together

Aries tends to bring initiative: it says what it wants and starts before it is certain. It tends to need room to act without explaining each step, and a direct answer.

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.

Aries is direct and Pisces is porous. Bluntness can wound here without being noticed, and Pisces’s withdrawal can go unread by Aries.

What tends to come easily

• +Each brings something the other has not yet developed.
• +Each has something the other lacks: warmth on one side, depth on the other.
• +Direction from one side and flexibility from the other.
• +Daily manner and long-term purpose can support each other.

What tends to cost something

• −There is little automatic understanding; common ground has to be built.
• −The same intensity is felt by one as too much and by the other as too little.
• −Adapting can slide into being led, and leading into not listening.
• −What one does lightly the other may take as a matter of principle.

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.