Pisces at a glance
- Dates
- February 19 – March 20
- Element
- Water
- Mode
- Mutable
- Ruler
- Neptune (traditionally Jupiter)
Pisces in love
Pisces loves with imagination and empathy. They sense how a partner feels before it is said, and they will make sacrifices for someone they love without keeping score. Romance, music and shared dreams matter to them.
They can see a partner as they hope they are rather than as they are, and they find boundaries hard. Pisces does best with someone kind and steady who keeps them grounded without dismissing their dreams.
What Pisces needs: Tenderness, understanding and a partner who is gentle with their sensitivity.
Best matches for Pisces
Pisces and Cancer
Cancer gives Pisces a safe, caring home and understands its moods. Both are nurturing and intuitive. Together they can retreat from the world a little too easily, so friends and outside interests keep the relationship healthy.
Pisces and Scorpio
Scorpio offers Pisces depth and protection. The emotional bond can be intense and lasting. Pisces must keep its own sense of self, and Scorpio must trust without testing, but the understanding between them is rare.
Pisces and Virgo
Virgo is the practical opposite who keeps Pisces’s dreams within reach. Virgo plans, Pisces imagines. Pisces softens Virgo’s self-criticism, and Virgo helps Pisces say no. Each fills a gap the other feels.
Pisces compatibility with every sign
Read by Sun sign alone, Pisces has the easiest time with Taurus, Cancer, Scorpio, Capricorn. The table below gives the traditional reading of each pairing, which comes from how far apart the two signs sit on the zodiac.
| With | Pairing | What it’s like |
|---|---|---|
| Aries | Neighbors | Pisces and Aries sit side by side on the zodiac but share neither element nor mode (water and fire). Each has what the other lacks, which can feel either refreshing or foreign. |
| Taurus | Easy friends | Water and earth feed each other, so Pisces and Taurus tend to get along easily, with plenty to talk about and few deep clashes. |
| Gemini | Friction | Both mutable signs, Pisces and Gemini each want to lead in their own way. The friction is real and often where the attraction comes from; it lasts when both learn to give ground. |
| Cancer | Natural fit | Both water signs, Pisces and Cancer share a temperament and rarely have to explain themselves to each other. The risk is comfort turning into coasting. |
| Leo | Out of step | Pisces and Leo have no element or mode in common, so they keep having to adjust to each other. It can work well, but it rarely feels effortless. |
| Virgo | Opposites | Pisces and Virgo face each other across the zodiac: water and earth, the same mutable mode, opposite instincts. Strong attraction, and a lot to learn from each other. |
| Libra | Out of step | Pisces and Libra have no element or mode in common, so they keep having to adjust to each other. It can work well, but it rarely feels effortless. |
| Scorpio | Natural fit | Both water signs, Pisces and Scorpio share a temperament and rarely have to explain themselves to each other. The risk is comfort turning into coasting. |
| Sagittarius | Friction | Both mutable signs, Pisces and Sagittarius each want to lead in their own way. The friction is real and often where the attraction comes from; it lasts when both learn to give ground. |
| Capricorn | Easy friends | Water and earth feed each other, so Pisces and Capricorn tend to get along easily, with plenty to talk about and few deep clashes. |
| Aquarius | Neighbors | Pisces and Aquarius sit side by side on the zodiac but share neither element nor mode (water and air). Each has what the other lacks, which can feel either refreshing or foreign. |
| Pisces | Same sign | Two Piscess understand each other instantly and share the same strengths. They also share the same blind spots, so nobody is there to balance them. |
Why your Sun sign is only the start
Pisces Suns frequently have Venus in Aries or Aquarius, which makes them bolder or more independent in love than the gentle Pisces image. A Pisces with a fire Moon is quicker to act on its feelings. The Sun shows the sensitivity; the rest of the chart shows how much of it others see.
The Sun changes sign once a month, so every Pisces gets the same answer here. In a real relationship the Moon, Venus, Mars and the Ascendant often say more than the Sun does: a Pisces whose Moon sits on a partner’s Venus can get on wonderfully with a sign this table calls difficult. Put both birthdays into the calculator above to see the aspects between your actual charts.
Dates are approximate. The Sun moves into each sign on a slightly different day each year, so if you were born on the first or last day of a range, the calculator will tell you which sign your Sun was really in.
Questions people ask
Who is Pisces most compatible with?
By Sun sign alone, Pisces gets along most easily with Taurus, Cancer, Scorpio, Capricorn: the other water signs share its temperament, and the signs two steps away bring an element that suits it. Virgo, its opposite, is the classic strong attraction.
Which signs clash with Pisces?
Gemini and Sagittarius square Pisces. They share its mutable mode but not its element, so both sides want to steer. That friction is often exciting, and it doesn’t rule anything out.
Is Sun sign compatibility accurate?
It is a rough first look. Your Sun sign is one placement out of more than ten, and two Piscess can have very different Moons, Venus signs and Ascendants. The calculator on this page compares whole birth charts, which is how astrologers actually judge compatibility.