Pisces compatibility with all twelve zodiac signs and their ruling planets

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Pisces is filled in. Pick the other Sun sign for the symbolic reading, or switch to two birth dates and we look up Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars for both of you. No birth time and no account needed.

Birth-date positions use Swiss Ephemeris calculations based on NASA JPL planetary data. Read about the data and precision. The historical date tables below use a separate PyEphem calculation.

Venus, Mercury and Mars on Pisces Sun dates

Our date sample holds a noon-UTC chart for every day from 1950 to 2005. The Sun was in Pisces on 1,678 of those dates, about 30 a year, and every share on this page counts dates, not people or couples. A different range of birth years would give different shares.

Venus is exalted in Pisces, and yet it turns retrograde on fewer Pisces Sun dates than on any other sign's. It was retrograde on just 2.3% of Pisces Sun dates in our 1950–2005 sample, 39 of 1,678, the lowest share of the twelve signs. On those dates it was retrograde in Aries or Aquarius, never in Pisces. In fact Venus didn't turn retrograde in Pisces or back into it at any point from 1950 to 2008. It has done so every eight years since 2009, most recently turning direct at 24°37′ Pisces on April 12, 2025.

Mars was retrograde on 13.6% of sampled Pisces Sun dates, second only to Aries among the twelve signs, and on every one of those dates it stood on the far side of the zodiac, in a sign from Cancer to Scorpio. On 40.2% of sampled Pisces Sun dates neither Mercury nor Venus was in Pisces, so neither one was in a water sign at all. And Mercury, Venus and Mars were never all in Pisces together on any Pisces Sun date in our 1950–2005 sample.

With each of the twelve signs, the most common Venus combination puts the Pisces date's Venus in Aries, the fire sign next door. So a Pisces who reads as soft by Sun sign may well love in a quicker, more direct way. When Venus does land in its exaltation, astrologers read Venus in Pisces very differently.

Pisces sign compatibility chart, sign by sign

Ptolemy reports that the ancients counted 'Jupiter and Venus, together with the moon, as beneficent' (Tetrabiblos I.5), and all three have standing in Pisces. Jupiter rules the sign and Venus is exalted in it. The water triangle of Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces goes to Mars, with the Moon as co-ruler by night and Venus by day (I.18). Cancer can say the same of all three, so this isn't unique to Pisces.

Count houses, exaltations and the water triangle, and four of the seven traditional planets have standing in Pisces in Ptolemy's scheme. That means seven of its twelve partner signs have a ruler that's welcome there. Two, Gemini and Virgo, have a ruler at its weakest in Pisces, and three, Leo, Capricorn and Aquarius, have a ruler with none of those roles in Pisces.

The lists don't always agree with each other, either. Read on October 19, 2026, AskNebula's Pisces page put Capricorn level with Scorpio at the top of the twelve matches without saying how its percentages are worked out, while the FAQ in mindbodygreen's Pisces guide names Capricorn among the more challenging ones. Each entry below gives what the partner's planet finds in Pisces, how far apart the two signs sit and where most lists put the pairing.

• Another Pisces brings Jupiter home on both sides. The same sign isn't one of the four aspects of I.13, and the usual trouble is two people who both rush to apologize. Two Pisces who both say sorry first still need one of them to name what actually went wrong. Most lists rate the pairing well.
• Sagittarius is Jupiter's other house, so the two signs share their traditional ruler, and they still sit square. Both care about what they believe, and trouble starts when one expects the other to believe the same, which is why Sagittarius and Pisces need respect more than agreement. Lists split sharply on it, from best match to worst.
• Taurus belongs to Venus, the planet exalted in Pisces, and sits a gentle sextile away. The risk is a plan you both assume and neither of you says out loud: Taurus and the plans that need saying aloud. It sits near the top of most lists.
• Libra belongs to Venus too, though it sits five signs from Pisces, a gap modern astrologers call a quincunx. The test comes when a friend lets you both down and one of you wants to forgive sooner. Libra, fairness and the second chance turns on how many chances a person gets. Lists put it anywhere from best to worst.
• Cancer, a water trine, belongs to the Moon, which governs Pisces's triangle by night. The two take care of people easily, sometimes too easily, so Cancer and Pisces need to agree where helping stops. Cancer rarely misses a best list.
• Scorpio, the other water trine, belongs to Mars, the triangle's main governor. A small mistake gets harder to admit the longer it's kept quiet, so when Scorpio and Pisces have their first real quarrel, the repair has to name the hiding as well as the mistake. Scorpio ties Cancer for the most best-list mentions.
• Aries belongs to Mars as well and sits right next door. One partner is often finishing something just as the other wants to start, the rhythm of Aries starting while Pisces finishes, and March 20 birthdays are settled on that page too. Aries lands on worst lists almost as often as Sagittarius does.
• Gemini belongs to Mercury, which is at its weakest in Pisces, and sits square. After the same evening each can come home with a different version of it, and Gemini and Pisces have to settle whose memory counts without calling either one wrong. Gemini turns up on more worst lists than any other sign.
• Virgo belongs to Mercury too and sits directly opposite, which makes it the sign people call Pisces's sister sign. The friction is over rest: one wants the day off, the other can't stop working through it, and Virgo and Pisces do better agreeing what a day off is for. Plenty of lists rate it high.
• Leo belongs to the Sun, which has no house, exaltation or share of the triangle in Pisces, and the two sit five signs apart. If one partner is up at six and the other comes alive at night, a Leo and a Pisces on two different schedules have to find the hours they share. Most lists put it low.
• Capricorn belongs to Saturn, which isn't at home, exalted or a triangle ruler in Pisces either, and yet it's an easy sextile and a fixture of best lists. The snag is a vague reply: when a Pisces says 'I don't know yet', a Capricorn partner can hear a no that isn't there.
• Aquarius belongs to Saturn as well and sits next door. The risk is one partner naming the other's mood before it's been said, so Aquarius and Pisces do better asking before reading each other. That page also covers February 18 and 19 birthdays. Lists rate it middling to low.

Best match for Pisces: two water trines and two earth sextiles

Count the best-match lists and Scorpio, Cancer and Taurus come up again and again, while Capricorn rates highest on the sites that give scores. Those four are the two trines and the two sextiles, and Ptolemy calls those aspects harmonious because they join signs of the same kind (I.13). All four are night signs like Pisces, so his reason fits them exactly.

Jupiter was given Pisces partly because the sign sits trine to Cancer, the Moon's house, an arrangement Ptolemy calls 'a harmonious and beneficent configuration' (I.17). Add the Moon and Mars governing Pisces's triangle, and Cancer and Scorpio are tied to Pisces by aspect, by element and through their rulers.

The sextiles differ. Taurus's Venus is exalted in Pisces, so that pairing holds up on every count in the old scheme. Capricorn's Saturn has no house, exaltation or share of the triangle in Pisces, which makes Capricorn the one best match the planet reading doesn't back. Its easy sextile is what earns the pairing a good reading here.

That's also the short answer for love, for marriage and for friendship, and it doesn't change for a Pisces man, a Pisces woman or anyone else, since a Pisces Sun reads the same whoever has it. Virgo, the sign opposite, gets its own place among the hard matches below.

The hardest matches for Pisces: Gemini, Sagittarius and the unconnected signs

So what sign does Pisces square? Gemini and Sagittarius, three signs away on either side. Both are day signs and Pisces is a night sign, so Ptolemy's reason for calling a square disharmonious, signs of opposite kinds, fits them. They're also the two names worst lists give most often.

Sagittarius is the puzzle. It shares Jupiter with Pisces and is still a square, which is why one site lists it as a best match and the next as a worst. Astrologers read the shared Jupiter as a common interest in what life means, and the square as two different ways of going after it. Gemini has no such tie. Its ruler, Mercury, is at its weakest in Pisces.

Virgo, the opposite sign, is a night sign like Pisces, so the kind-against-kind reason doesn't apply. What the two share instead is a crossing of planets: Venus is exalted in Pisces and depressed in Virgo, and Mercury the other way round (I.19). In astrology the opposite sign is the one you're most drawn to and most often argue with, and for these two the argument is usually about effort.

Then come the signs with no aspect at all. Ptolemy's I.16 counts signs one or five apart as disjunct, which covers Aquarius and Aries next door and Leo and Libra five signs away. Leo and Aquarius stay disjunct on every reading. Aries and Libra are read both ways: disjunct on I.16's plain wording and in the Loeb editor's notes, yet tied to Pisces, counted from the equinox and the solstice, by the reasons Ptolemy gives for equal rising times (Aries) and equal days (Libra).

Who should a Pisces avoid, then? On these grounds, nobody. With Gemini or Sagittarius, say early which version of events or beliefs you're each working from. With Virgo, agree what rest looks like before anyone keeps score. And with the four unconnected signs, look at Venus and Mercury before deciding you've nothing in common.

Mercury, Venus and Neptune: what a birth date adds to the Pisces lists

Mercury and Venus never stray far from the Sun, so a Pisces birthday limits them. On a Pisces Sun date Mercury is in Aquarius, Pisces or Aries, and Venus in one of five signs from Capricorn to Taurus. So a couple's two Venus signs often differ even when their Sun signs sit close, and a Venus sign lookup for each partner's birth date shows which two you're comparing.

Neptune, Pisces's modern ruler, moves too slowly to tell apart two Pisces born the same year. From 2012 to 2025 the Sun passed exactly over Neptune inside Pisces once a year, two or three days later each time, from February 19, 2012 at 0° Pisces to March 19, 2025 at 29°. Whether Jupiter or Neptune should count as Pisces's ruler is a longer story, and the sign page tells it.

Uranus in Gemini squares Pisces degree for degree. By the end of 2030 it will have squared the Sun's exact degree on 76.0% of sampled Pisces Sun dates, and by the end of 2031 on 90.8%, the February birthdays first, so two Pisces partners born a few weeks apart can meet it years apart.

All of this assumes the Sun really was in Pisces. Pisces season's first and last days shift from year to year, and the Aquarius and Aries pairings in the chart above take the two edges. For any one birthday, a Big 3 check with birth time and place settles the Sun along with the Moon and rising signs.

Pisces in love and marriage: soulmate picks, twin flames and the long run

Who should a Pisces marry, going by the lists? Scorpio, Cancer and Taurus are the three that marriage.com's guide (updated June 18, 2026) picks, and the same three fill most soulmate lists. mindbodygreen is the odd one out, picking Virgo, the opposite sign, as the soulmate. Twin flames are a modern idea, and no classical source assigns one to any sign, Pisces included.

For the long run, astrologers look past the Sun pair to the Saturn and Moon contacts between two charts, the ones they read for staying power and everyday comfort. Treat any list, this one included, as a place to start, never a forecast.

Love and sex, in astrology, sit with Venus and Mars more than with the Sun. Venus is the planet Ptolemy exalts in Pisces, and in synastry astrologers check whether one person's Venus touches the other's Moon or Jupiter, the contacts they read for tenderness. They also check whether either chart's Neptune sits on the other's Venus, the classic sign of idealizing a partner. Comparing two complete birth charts lists those contacts in both directions, and with birth times it shows which houses they fall in. For the desire side, Mars in a Pisces chart has its own guide.

Friends, siblings and coworkers: who adapts back to a Pisces?

Pisces gets cast as the friend who adjusts to everyone's mood, the one people call first when something goes wrong. The better question is who adjusts back.

A Cancer or Scorpio friend often understands before anything's explained, which makes it tempting to leave things unsaid. A Taurus or Capricorn friend tends to turn talk into plans, so check that you both wanted one.

Between siblings, astrologers expect the water and earth signs to find each other easiest and the square signs, Gemini and Sagittarius, to argue back. A Pisces parent may think they know why a child is upset before a word is said, and letting the child explain first is the habit worth building. At work, Pisces is often the first to notice who's struggling. Agree early who raises it with the person, so the noticing doesn't turn into quietly covering for them.

Family ties are where the Moon sign matters most in astrology, and a birth date alone often can't fix it. How two Moon signs fit together explains the pairings, and a free birth chart run with the birth time shows where each person's Moon actually is.

Pisces with every sign

Twelve pairings in zodiac order. Each guide explores a different practical question, with an illustrative example and the relevant planetary date counts. Dates below are approximate; sign boundaries vary by year and time zone.

• fire · cardinal · March 21 – April 19

  Pisces and Aries

  Who's finishing, and who's starting? Mars, Aries's ruler, governs the water triangle Pisces belongs to, and the signs sit side by side, so one partner is often wrapping something up just as the other wants to begin.

  Aries and Pisces compatibility, in full →

• earth · fixed · April 20 – May 20

  Pisces and Taurus

  What needs saying out loud, even when you already feel understood? Venus, Taurus's ruler, is exalted in Pisces, and this sextile is gentle enough that a shared plan can stay unspoken for far too long.

  Taurus and Pisces compatibility, in full →

• air · mutable · May 21 – June 20

  Pisces and Gemini

  Whose version of the evening is the true one? Mercury, Gemini's ruler, is at its weakest in Pisces, and the two signs sit square, so one evening out can come home as two quite different stories.

  Gemini and Pisces compatibility, in full →

• water · cardinal · June 21 – July 22

  Pisces and Cancer

  Where does helping stop? The Moon, Cancer's ruler, governs the water triangle by night, and this trine is warm from the first day, so the hard part is knowing when to step back from someone else's crisis.

  Cancer and Pisces compatibility, in full →

• fire · fixed · July 23 – August 22

  Pisces and Leo

  Can an early riser and a night owl build one routine? The Sun, Leo's ruler, has no house, exaltation or triangle share in Pisces, and the signs sit five apart. Ptolemy counts Leo among the day signs and Pisces among the night signs.

  Leo and Pisces compatibility, in full →

• earth · mutable · August 23 – September 22

  Pisces and Virgo

  Who gets to stop working first? Mercury, Virgo's ruler, is at its weakest in Pisces, and Venus, exalted in Pisces, is at its weakest in Virgo. As opposites, they're each other's sister sign.

  Virgo and Pisces compatibility, in full →

• air · cardinal · September 23 – October 22

  Pisces and Libra

  When a friend lets you both down, who forgives first? Venus, Libra's ruler, is exalted in Pisces, though the signs sit five apart. Fairness and mercy both run strong here, and they don't always agree about a friend who let you down.

  Libra and Pisces compatibility, in full →

• water · fixed · October 23 – November 21

  Pisces and Scorpio

  What happens when a small mistake gets kept quiet? Mars, Scorpio's traditional ruler, governs the water triangle both signs share, and almost every list puts this trine near the top.

  Scorpio and Pisces compatibility, in full →

• fire · mutable · November 22 – December 21

  Pisces and Sagittarius

  Must a couple share one faith or philosophy? Jupiter rules both signs in traditional astrology, yet they sit square, so the shared ruler shows up as a shared hunger for meaning that can take two very different forms.

  Sagittarius and Pisces compatibility, in full →

• earth · cardinal · December 22 – January 19

  Pisces and Capricorn

  Is 'I don't know yet' a no? Saturn, Capricorn's traditional ruler, has no house, exaltation or triangle share in Pisces, though the sextile itself is easy. The planner wants an answer by Friday, and the Pisces may still be working out what it is.

  Capricorn and Pisces compatibility, in full →

• air · fixed · January 20 – February 18

  Pisces and Aquarius

  What happens when a partner reads you before you've read yourself? Saturn, Aquarius's traditional ruler, isn't at home or exalted in Pisces and takes no share of its triangle, and the two signs sit side by side, close enough to see each other's moods coming early.

  Aquarius and Pisces compatibility, in full →

• water · mutable · February 19 – March 20

  Pisces and Pisces

  When both of you apologize at once, who names the problem? Jupiter is at home on both sides. If you're both quick to say sorry, one of you still has to say what needs to change.

  Pisces and Pisces compatibility, in full →

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