Virgo and Pisces Compatibility
Virgo and Pisces are opposite signs, an earth sign and a water sign. In general they tend to support and nourish each other.
How Virgo and Pisces fit together
You sit directly opposite each other in the zodiac, which is called an opposition. Opposites share a mode and often balance each other’s extremes: each has what the other lacks. That tends to create strong attraction and, at times, a pull between two views.
Earth and water nourish each other. Water gives earth feeling and softness, and earth gives water shape and safety, so this element pairing tends to feel supportive and quietly devoted.
Both are mutable signs, which means both are flexible, adaptable and good at going with the flow. That makes change easy, and it can also mean that decisions drift unless someone picks a direction.
Virgo in love
Virgo loves through care and attention. It notices what you need before you say it, shows affection by helping and fixing, and tends to be shy about big declarations.
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
Virgo brings reliability, thoughtfulness and quiet, practical devotion, and needs honesty, steadiness, and gentle appreciation for the small things it does. The hardest parts tend to be turning off its inner critic, and accepting care without trying to repay it.
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
Look for the middle. Each of you holds half of a whole, and it goes best when you treat the other’s view as a missing piece instead of a challenge.
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 Virgo compatibility guide and the Pisces compatibility guide.
Questions about Virgo and Pisces compatibility
Are Virgo and Pisces compatible?
Any two signs can build a lasting relationship, and the Sun sign is only one layer of a chart. As opposite signs, Virgo and Pisces tend to support and nourish each other, and the main thing to work on is finding the middle between two views.
What do Virgo and Pisces have in common?
Both are mutable signs, so you share a style of acting, even though your elements differ. Virgo is ruled by Mercury and Pisces by Jupiter and Neptune.
What does each need from the other?
Virgo needs honesty, steadiness, and gentle appreciation for the small things it does. Pisces needs gentleness, patience, and a steady partner who is a calm place to land.
See every pairing on the zodiac compatibility page.