Aries and Pisces compatibility

Love is 28. The angle weighs most in this facet and gives little. The largest contribution comes from the rulers, which neither help nor hurt one another: neither planet is exalted or in its fall in the other’s sign.

Ptolemy treats the two planets differently. Jupiter “has a favourable temperament”, and its houses, Pisces among them, lie at a distance from the houses of the Sun and Moon that “harmonises with the operation of good”. The houses of Mars, Aries among them, lie at distances he calls “injurious and discordant”.

Alan Leo gives each sign a world of its own. Aries people “nearly always live in a world of theory”, while Pisces people “love to live in a world of romance”. The two phrases come from different chapters, and matching them is our doing.

Trust comes to 27. Steadiness is a large part of this facet, and the pair has little: our formula counts a cardinal sign for half and a mutable sign for nothing. Ptolemy calls the mutable signs bicorporeal and says that, lying between two other kinds of sign, “they participate in the constitutional properties of both”.

Each of Alan Leo’s portraits has a sentence on concealment. Of Pisces: “They nearly always pretend to be something different from what they really are”. Of Aries: “Their greatest fault when perverting their gifts is deception”. He also allows Pisces a change over time: “Their character, as it grows, becomes more confiding, more trustful”. Reading these sentences as a pair is our step.

Communication is the highest of the six, 35, and more than half of that comes from adaptability. Angle and elements add only a little.

Alan Leo writes that Aries people “are frank and outspoken by choice, but often combative and assertive”. Pisces people, in his words, “are ever apt to be more timid than bold”, and he describes what he calls the personal Pisces character as “being very receptive to all the conditions that are around them”. Our reading: an outspoken character beside a receptive one.

This is the pair’s lowest facet, 25. Elements weigh most here, and fire with water, sharing neither quality, earns very little.

William Lilly’s lines, which describe signs as qualities for judging a chart and not as people, show the gap. Aries is “hot and dry, cholericke”. Pisces is a “cold Signe, moyst, Flegmatick”. Laid next to each other, which is our arrangement, every term has its opposite.

Alan Leo’s Aries people are “always inclined to act upon impulse without waiting to mature their plans”. His sentence on Pisces runs: “They are emotional and secretive, patient and meditative, kind and generous, imitative, receptive, and peaceful when living up to the best of their nature.” The comparison of quick with patient is ours.

Values reads 26, for the reasons trust is low: little steadiness, an unfavoured angle, unlike elements.

Ptolemy sorts the two signs into different kinds. Aries he counts as “masculine and diurnal”; Pisces sits in the water triplicity, whose signs he says “are feminine”.

In Alan Leo, Aries people are “very self-willed and often self-opinionated”. Much of that personal Pisces character, he thinks, “appears to arise from a lack of decision”, and Pisces people “find it very difficult to become fully individualised”. We read that as a firm will described in one chapter and an undecided one in the other.

Shared activities, at 34, is the second highest facet, and again adaptability accounts for the largest part.

Here Alan Leo’s portraits overlap, in our reading. Aries people “are fond of constant change”; Pisces people “are very changeable and imaginative” and “love roaming about”. Both are drawn as hosts as well: Aries “can always be relied upon to provide plenty of entertainment”, and Pisces people are “very hospitable”.