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Virgo and Pisces compatibility

Virgo and Pisces are opposite signs on the wheel, an opposition of about 180°: earth and water, both mutable. Astrology reads the angle between two Sun signs as the first measure of a pair, and the rest of the two charts as the rest of the story.

This year the Sun is in Virgo from 23 August to 23 September and in Pisces from 18 February to 20 March. 6 famous couples in StarMap's dataset are a Virgo and a Pisces, where chance would give about 5.8: Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford, Emily Blunt and Michael Bublé and Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis among them. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 50th most common pairing of the 78. A Sun sign is one placement of ten, and the two whole charts say far more than the two signs.

Each sign has its own page: Virgo and Pisces, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.

6 famous Virgo and Pisces couples, scored chart against chart.How do your two charts compare?Compare two whole charts, free: every angle between your planets

What astrology reads for Virgo and Pisces

Opposite signs face each other across the wheel, and astrology reads an opposition between two Suns as attraction with a question in it. The two signs share a modality and belong to elements that feed each other, so the pair wants to act in the same rhythm from complementary strengths, and each tends to carry what the other has left out. The tradition reads this as the angle of the classic couple: the one people notice.

What each sign lacks, the opposite sign has, and the reading is that this is both the pull and the problem. Oppositions tend to swing between fascination and exasperation, each person wanting the quality they admire in the other and resenting it on the same day. Astrologers read the pairing as one that learns balance by living without it first, and look to the Moons and the rising signs for how the swing settles.

Earth with water

Earth with water is read as the gentlest of the mixed pairings: water feels and earth holds, and each tends to make the other feel safe. The tradition reads these two as home-makers in the broad sense, slow, loyal and private, with an ease that other pairs work for. The reading's caution is that comfort can become a habit, and that the pair may let the wider world go quiet around them.

Mutable with mutable

Both signs are mutable, the signs that end a season, and the tradition reads two mutable people as adaptable, curious and changeable. Each can fit around the other, which makes the pair easy to live with and, the reading says, sometimes hard to pin down: when both bend, someone has to decide what the shape is.

These are readings of the Sun signs alone, written for reflection and entertainment. They describe tendencies the tradition assigns to an angle, not two people, and they do not say whether a pair lasts.

Virgo in love, Pisces in love

Virgo

In love, Virgo shows care by being useful: the fixed tap, the sorted problem, the remembered preference. It is slower to speak of feeling than to act on it, and it can mistake improving a partner for loving them. Its lesson is to accept being looked after as well as it looks after others.

Pisces

In love, Pisces is devoted, romantic and quick to merge. It idealises a partner, forgives too readily, and can lose track of where it ends and the other begins. Its lesson is that boundaries are a form of love too, including love of itself.

523 famous people have the Sun in Virgo for certain and 520 in Pisces: every Virgo Sun and every Pisces Sun, each with a birth chart.

Famous Virgo and Pisces couples

Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 6 are Virgo and Pisces. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 5.8, a ratio of 1.03, which makes this the 50th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 61 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted. With about seven couples a cell, a ratio between a half and double is what chance produces; the counts describe the dataset, not the signs.

All famous couples, each scored from both birth charts.

Both signs in one chart

The two signs also meet inside one chart, when the Sun is in one and the Moon in the other. Astrologers read a Sun and Moon opposite signs the way they read the two Suns above, as an opposition between how a person is seen and how they feel.

Only people whose Sun and Moon signs do not depend on an unknown birth time are counted. The Moon in Pisces and the Moon in Virgo have pages of their own.

Questions people ask

Are Virgo and Pisces compatible?

By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Virgo and Pisces as an opposition, opposite signs: earth and water, both mutable. That is a reading of one placement of ten and not a verdict on two people. In StarMap's dataset of famous couples, 6 are Virgo and Pisces, against about 5.8 that chance would give, a ratio of 1.03. The angles between two whole charts, Moon to Moon and Venus to Mars among them, say more than the Sun signs can; the comparison is free on StarMap.

How many famous couples are Virgo and Pisces?

6 of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain, Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford, Emily Blunt and Michael Bublé and Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis among them. Chance alone would give about 5.8, which makes it the 50th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 61 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted.

Who has the Sun in Virgo and the Moon in Pisces?

22 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Virgo and the Moon in Pisces, Michael Jackson, Leonard Cohen and Chris Pine among them. 20 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Pisces and the Moon in Virgo, Corbin Bleu, Douglas Adams and Jack Kerouac among them. The Moon's sign depends on the day and often on the hour of birth, so only people whose Moon sign is certain are counted.

Sun signs are computed from the Sun’s position with the astronomy-engine ephemeris, checked against Swiss Ephemeris, in the tropical zodiac. Birth data and relationship data come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, from Astro-Databank with their Rodden rating. A couple is counted only when the Sun was in one sign for the whole of each birth date. Readings describe what the tradition assigns to an angle, for entertainment and self-reflection; StarMap predicts nothing. Compare two whole charts.

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