Love horoscopes: zodiac sign compatibility for capricorn and pisces

Capricorn, an Earth sign, and Pisces, a Water sign, have a natural affinity for each other’s company. Let’s take a closer look at this pairing.

Capricorn male and Pisces female:

He may be the stereotypical ‘strong, silent type’ of her mistier and more fairy-tale type dreams. A Capricorn, because of that Earth element mentioned above, always has his feet on the ground. He’s practical, steadfast, stolid and hard-working. He might be her neighborhood banker or real estate broker, or he may deal in stocks and bonds. Whatever he does for a living, it’s a career; one for which he’s well-trained, having invested years of college. The phrase “self-made man” is one of the highest accolades you can give him.

She’s a little like a heroine in a romance novel – of which she probably reads far too many – and can easily imagine herself trapped in a tower by a wicked dragon (or landlord) and needing to be rescued. In fact, ‘being rescued by a knight in shining armor’ is likely her favorite daydream. A Pisces woman doesn’t usually have or really want a full-fledged, all-consuming career. She’s content to have enough money to feed herself and her pets, haphazardly house all of them, and be able to pursue her real vocation: painting, writing poetry, creating delicate, charming jewelry, or all of the above. She doesn’t handle money well, and her checkbook may be a lost cause.

He shudders at the very idea of throwing money away foolishly. This is the man who started working at age five, with his lemonade stand on the corner, the one which all the joggers passed at their half-way mark on their runs. He can be very tight with a buck. There are cases of Capricorn men who denied themselves and their families even the necessities of life, just to watch that savings account grow larger every month. She’ll have to figure out a way to show him how to take a few dollars and have a great time spending them on a date they both enjoy.

She may be more adaptable than he realizes, too, since she has her own style and way of dressing, which may include not only making her own clothes, but re-creating ones she finds at thrift stores and yard sales. While he would die of embarrassment if anyone saw her shopping at such places once they’re an established couple, he’ll appreciate how far she can stretch her clothing budget. And he’d better appreciate her off-beat way of dressing, too, because she won’t change that for anyone – it’s part of her self-expression.

When they get into an argument, she tells him he has no imagination, doesn’t understand her, and places his career above her in his schedule and his heart. He may have a hard time countering all but the very last statement – he does place her first in his heart. He just has a tremendous need for his career to take first place in time and outward devotion.

For these two people to have a relationship is relatively easy. It’s the long-term commitment that may be the sticking point. He may grow tired of always having to be the grown-up in the relationship: paying the bills, finding the right apartment or house, making sure all of her pets have their shots and so on. She may grow a little resentful at him finally becoming more like her father, instead of that swashbuckling sea captain she thought she married. But their Sun Signs are sextile to each other, indicating inner compatibility, and if she can remember to pay the light bill each month, and he can become a little less stuffy, they can likely be very happy together for a very long time.

Now let’s look at a Capricorn woman and a Pisces man. In our current culture, it’s most likely a woman is middle-aged before she’s really established herself on the career ladder and monetarily able to support another person or perhaps a family. There may be enough of an age difference between these two for all the neighborhood gossips to keep the rumors flying 24/7. If she really loves him, though, it’s one of the things she’s going to have to get used to – because most Pisces men are dreamily unable to make a living for themselves, let alone anyone else.

A Pisces man would be very happy being the favored composer at an eighteenth-century court, for example, or the Royal Consort to a queen. He could then pursue his music, or poetry, or work at keeping his dashing appearance, without having to suffer the horrible indignities of a daily job. Most Pisces men work only enough to supply the barest of necessities, and few of them have any interest in a stellar career. You won’t find many of them fighting their way to the top of the corporate food chain.

She’s probably an elegant, classic dresser, who buys a few very good suits each year and adds perhaps one or two good silk blouses. Her ‘play clothes’ are tropical weight wool and linen or crisp cotton. She takes good care of her expensive clothing. Her closet is likely one of those organizer’s dreams, with a place for certain items which are carefully returned to that place after cleaning. She also exercises and eats a balanced diet. He, on the other hand, may resemble a suit salesman’s worst nightmare. If he wears plaid, it may be with stripes and dots, or at the very least sporting a multitude of wrinkles. He probably can’t find a tie, let alone one without stains on it, and for him to ‘dress up’ means he leaves his flip-flops in the car.

The Capricorn woman enjoys a challenge, however, and turning her ‘diamond in the rough’ into the polished, sophisticated mate she needs occasionally for her career progression might be her favorite project. Their love-making likely won’t be the fierce cave-man style some men seem to favor – but many women don’t enjoy that type either.

On the whole, this can be a good match, with a lot of staying power: as long as she can avoid turning into a copy of his mother, and he can grow up a little, and not demand she do all the work of keeping their relationship alive.