Getting Down and Dirty with Aries and Pisces Compatibility for 2020
Man, let me tell you, when I first sat down to tackle this compatibility forecast for Aries and Pisces for the year 2020, I thought it was going to be a simple, run-of-the-mill blog post. You know the drill: Fire meets Water, one is aggressive, the other is dreamy, cue the usual warnings about miscommunication. I figured I could crank it out in an afternoon. Boy, was I wrong. This wasn’t just about reading a few charts; this turned into a full-scale forensic investigation into relationship dynamics, mostly because I had a massive wake-up call right before I started this project.
See, I had this friend, let’s call her Sarah, who’s a classic, impulsive Aries. She was dating a textbook, sensitive Pisces guy, Mark. Everyone, and I mean everyone, including me, had given them the standard “it’s going to be rough” prediction for 2020. But they didn’t just break up; they had this huge, dramatic falling out, then three months later, they moved in together and got a dog. The standard astrology failed spectacularly to predict the intensity of the struggle and the eventual stabilization. That moment shook me. It made me realize I was relying on Wikipedia-level astrology, and if I was going to call myself a compatibility expert, I had to dismantle and rebuild my methodology.
So, I tossed out the surface-level Sun Sign stuff immediately. That’s baby astrology. If you want to know what the stars really say about a relationship, you gotta dig deep into the moving parts. My practice started right there. The first thing I did was scour for solid ephemeris tables for 2020. I needed to see exactly where Mars, Venus, and the Moon were hanging out, especially during those tricky Mercury retrogrades, because that’s where the real action lives for love and fight.
My initial research phase consumed about forty hours spread over two weeks. I pulled up the charts for three different specific dates in 2020 that represented peak stress periods—one in late February when Mars was conjunct Saturn, another in June when Venus went retrograde, and the final stretch in December when Jupiter and Saturn finally shook hands in Aquarius. I cross-referenced how these big, heavy planetary energies were influencing the rulers of Aries and Pisces: Mars and Jupiter/Neptune.
I quickly realized the major conflict wasn’t fire vs. water; it was the push-pull of the Zodiac cycle. Aries is the starting gun, the first breath. Pisces is the final exhale, the winding down. They meet, but often miss each other in time. To truly understand their 2020 forecast, I developed a three-tier system for scoring compatibility during the transits:
- Tier 1: Basic Attraction (Sun/Moon/Venus): This stayed relatively stable, giving them the foundation to keep coming back.
- Tier 2: Conflict Points (Mars/Saturn/Outer Planets): This showed the flashpoints. I marked down three periods where Mars’s hard aspects would make the aggressive Aries completely overwhelm the sensitive Pisces, leading to those dramatic blowups.
- Tier 3: The Glue (Jupiter/Neptune): This was the unexpected twist. Jupiter’s movements in 2020 actually offered a surprising amount of idealism and shared vision, which is what helped Sarah and Mark get the dog instead of getting divorce papers. This provided the redemption arc.
Once I had all these movements plotted out—and trust me, the spreadsheet I built looked like a colorful mess of overlapping cycles—I could finally start writing the forecast. I made sure to divide the year into quarters, focusing less on generic advice and more on specific emotional weather reports. I used straightforward language. No obscure astrological terms. I wanted people to read it and feel like I was talking directly to them about their confusing relationship, not lecturing them about their 5th House cusp.
The whole process taught me that good astrological practice isn’t about knowing the textbook; it’s about observing the messiness of real life, challenging the conventional wisdom, and then using the ancient tools to explain the exceptions. I didn’t just reveal the forecast for 2020; I validated my entire approach to compatibility research. And honestly, watching that one post generate so much discussion proved that people were starving for analysis that went deeper than just “you’re incompatible, sorry.” I finished up feeling exhausted but genuinely satisfied, knowing I didn’t just share a forecast, but a detailed map of emotional survival for anyone caught between the Ram and the Fish that year.
