Aquarius and Pisces Compatibility
Aquarius and Pisces are neighbouring signs, an air sign and a water sign. In general they tend to learn to bridge thinking and feeling.
How Aquarius and Pisces fit together
You sit next to each other in the zodiac, which means you share almost nothing by element or by style, and it can feel like you are speaking from different corners of life. The pull is often curiosity: each of you has something the other does not.
Air and water think and feel in different ways. Air makes sense of things by talking, and water by sensing, so they can seem to be speaking different languages at first, and they have a lot to learn from each other.
One is fixed and the other mutable. The fixed sign holds steady and the mutable one bends, which can balance well and can also leave one feeling immovable and the other feeling unheard.
Aquarius in love
Aquarius loves as a friend first. It is drawn to originality and independence, shows affection through ideas, loyalty and shared causes, and needs a relationship with room in it.
Pisces in love
Pisces loves tenderly and imaginatively. It gives devotion, sensitivity and a sense of romance, and it tends to merge with the people it loves.
What each brings, and what each needs
Aquarius brings originality, loyalty to its principles and a genuine respect for who you are, and needs freedom, intellectual company, and acceptance of its quirks. The hardest parts tend to be staying present for heavy emotion, and letting someone get very close.
Pisces brings compassion, imagination and an instinct for what others are feeling, and needs gentleness, patience, and a steady partner who is a calm place to land. The hardest parts tend to be holding a boundary, and separating its feelings from everyone else’s.
Making it work
Ask more questions than you assume. What looks like indifference is usually just a different way of being. Treat the differences as things to learn, not things to fix.
This is the Sun sign view only
This page looks at two Sun signs. A full picture also depends on where your Moons, Venuses and Mars signs fall, and how the two charts lie over each other, which is called synastry. You can try the free compatibility tool on this site, or build each chart with the birth chart calculator. For each sign on its own, read the Aquarius compatibility guide and the Pisces compatibility guide.
Questions about Aquarius and Pisces compatibility
Are Aquarius and Pisces compatible?
Any two signs can build a lasting relationship, and the Sun sign is only one layer of a chart. As neighbouring signs, Aquarius and Pisces tend to learn to bridge thinking and feeling, and the main thing to work on is learning each other’s different ways.
What do Aquarius and Pisces have in common?
You do not share an element or a mode, so your common ground is the effort to understand each other. Aquarius is ruled by Saturn and Uranus and Pisces by Jupiter and Neptune.
What does each need from the other?
Aquarius needs freedom, intellectual company, and acceptance of its quirks. Pisces needs gentleness, patience, and a steady partner who is a calm place to land.
See every pairing on the zodiac compatibility page.