Leo and Pisces Compatibility

How these two meet

Pisces minds. Occasionally, for about an hour, and then the minding dissolves, because Pisces has no equipment for holding a grievance in the shape it arrived in, and everybody who has ever watched has taken that for not minding.

From outside it reads as Leo taking up all the room and Pisces not objecting, and that is not what is happening in here.

Leo is not taking anything. The Sun does not take a room, it is the thing a room arranges itself around, and it never turns back, one of only two bodies here that never goes retrograde. Jupiter needs 11.85 years for the twelve signs and revises for a third of them, so Pisces is genuinely still deciding what happened last April.

The two who are not here: Leo’s opposite is Aquarius, who stands one step back from the whole proceeding and would have given Leo something impersonal to be the centre of, and Pisces is what comes just after Aquarius, with the same distance from the self and none of the detachment. Pisces’ opposite is Virgo, who notices precisely and says so, and Leo is what comes just before Virgo, and notices generously and says it louder.

And what has actually been going on, which needed ten years and an outside opinion to see: Leo has never once performed for Pisces. Not in the way Leo performs, which is not a fault and is how Leo loves. Somewhere in the first year Leo stopped, neither of you noticed the stopping, and it has not come back.

For Leo, the work is noticing that you stopped, and asking whether Pisces would like the other version sometimes.

For Pisces, the work is keeping one grievance in its original shape for a whole day and then handing it over intact.

And a third: neither of you decided any of this. It happened, and then it was the arrangement, and an arrangement nobody chose can still be renegotiated.