The aspect between the signs
A sextile joins signs of compatible elements, fire with air or earth with water. It is read as an opportunity rather than a given: the support is there, and it works when someone uses it.
Sign compatibility
Taurus and Pisces: sign compatibility
Taurus and Pisces are two signs apart: a sextile, 60°.
Sextile, 60°
What the two signs have in common
Facts about the two signs as traditional astrology lists them. The reading below is built from these rows.
- Element Earth Watercold
- Modality Fixed Mutable
- Traditional ruler Venus JupiterA personal and a social planet
- Modern ruler Venus Neptune
This page lists the facts about the pair and what the tradition reads from them. It gives no score: every pair of people born under these two signs would get the same number, and that number would say nothing about them.
Elements and modalities
Earth and water share cold. Water softens earth and earth gives water a shape; the tradition reads the pairing as steady and caring.
One sign holds and the other adjusts: a fixed sign sustains, a mutable sign adapts.
The rulers
One ruler is a personal planet and the other a social planet, Jupiter or Saturn. The first deals in daily manner, the second in long horizons: belief, duty and limits.
Venus stands for: value, attraction, pleasure, taste. Jupiter stands for: expansion, meaning, confidence, excess.
Modern astrology also assigns Neptune to Pisces. The reading here uses the traditional rulers; the modern ones are in the table.
The two signs together
Taurus tends to bring steadiness: patience, loyalty to what it has chosen, and a feel for comfort. It tends to need time, and no sudden changes of plan.
Pisces tends to bring sympathy: imagination, intuition and a gentle ear. It tends to need gentleness, and clear boundaries it does not have to enforce alone.
Taurus gives Pisces something solid to rest on, and Pisces gives Taurus an ear for what is not said. The gentleness is real, and so is the drift when neither takes charge.
What tends to come easily
- Conversation and cooperation start without effort.
- Needs for security and care overlap.
- Stability from one side and room to adapt from the other.
- Daily manner and long-term purpose can support each other.
What tends to cost something
- Because nothing forces the issue, the connection can stay pleasant and unused.
- The pair can close in on itself, since both prefer the known.
- The one who adjusts can run out of room, and the one who holds can mistake flexibility for lack of commitment.
- What one does lightly the other may take as a matter of principle.
What two Sun signs cannot say
Two Sun signs are a small part of two charts. The Moon, Venus, Mars, the rising sign and the houses of each person shape how a relationship goes, and so do age, circumstance and choice.
The aspect here is counted between signs, not between degrees. Two people born at the start and at the end of the same sign stand differently from two born at the same degree, and this page cannot tell which applies.
Two signs are not two charts
To compare two actual people, the synastry tool takes both birth dates and shows the aspects between the planets.