Taurus and Pisces compatibility

Love and romance is the highest facet, 79. The angle weighs most in it, and the ruler point counts for more here than in any other facet.

That point rests on a passage of Ptolemy: “Venus is of a moist nature, and becomes chiefly moist when in Pisces.” From being in that sign, he says, the planet “derives an augmentation of her own proper influence”. William Lilly’s quality lines, which describe signs for judging a chart and not people, record both ends of the link: Taurus is “the Night-house of Venus”, and Pisces “the house of Jupiter, and exaltation of Venus”.

Alan Leo says Pisces people “love to live in a world of romance”. Of Taureans, where he contrasts them with the Aries types, he says “they are more inclined to live in their feelings than in their minds”. The passages we use never bring the two signs together; that pairing is ours.

Trust is the joint lowest facet, level with values at 71. Steadiness counts here, and the pair has half of it: Taurus as a fixed sign gives all it can, Pisces as a mutable sign gives none.

Alan Leo writes of Taureans: “They can be secretive and very reserved, but make faithful friends to all whom they give allegiance.” His sentence on Pisces has a condition in front: “When becoming individualised and more self-controlled, they are very patient, gentle and submissive persons, possessing a quiet understanding”. Neither sentence mentions the other sign, and we set them together only to show the two portraits.

Communication stands at 72. The elements weigh most and count for most of their share; adaptability, at half, is supplied entirely by Pisces.

In Alan Leo’s Taurus chapter, “they usually speak with a quiet, firm, inflexible and almost authoritative tone”. Of Pisces people he says “They are ever apt to be more timid than bold”. Our reading of the two fragments is a firm voice beside a hesitant one.

Emotions comes just behind love, at 78. The elements have their largest weight in this facet.

Lilly gives the shared quality in both lines. Taurus is “Earthly, Cold, Dry, Melancholy”, and Pisces a “Northern, cold Signe, moyst, Flegmatick”. Cold appears in each, dry in one and moist in the other; that comparison is ours.

Alan Leo writes of feeling in both chapters, as we read them. “The true Taurean may be said to be one great, feeling individual”, he writes, adding that the feeling “is more often physical and objective than subjective”. Of Pisces: “They are emotional and secretive, patient and meditative, kind and generous, imitative, receptive, and peaceful when living up to the best of their nature.” Feeling is central to both portraits, in our reading.

Values shares the lowest score with trust, 71. The reasons are the same in another mix: elements weigh most, steadiness is at half.

Here Alan Leo’s portraits pull apart. Taureans “can be very determined, persistent and dogmatic”. Of the other sign he says “A considerable amount of the personal Pisces character appears to arise from a lack of decision”. The second sentence concerns what he calls the personal character only. Determination against indecision is our contrast.

Shared activities reads 73. Adaptability counts in this facet, and the mutable sign brings what the pair has of it.

Alan Leo describes Taureans as “slow, plodding, patient, enduring, persistent, executive and matter-of-fact persons”. Pisces people, he says, “love roaming about”, and are “very hospitable, and seek to do all in their power to make those dependent on them comfortable and happy”. One portrait stays put and the other wanders, as we read them.