Venus in Pisces and Mars in Pisces: The Same Sign

Venus in Pisces: what you are drawn to

Venus is the placement that answers what attracts you and how you show affection, and it is a far better guide to somebody's love life than their Sun sign. With Venus in Pisces you are drawn to gentleness and imagination. Somebody kind, who is not hard work.

You show affection by merging: taking on the other person's feelings, plans and problems. What you need in order to feel loved is tenderness, and somebody who does not take advantage of the openness, and the thing that reliably puts you off is harshness, and anybody who is contemptuous of feeling. That last one is worth knowing, because the turn-off is usually more consistent across a lifetime than the attraction.

Mars in Pisces: how you go after it

Mars is the other half: how you pursue, how you argue, and what you want physically. With Mars in Pisces you chase indirectly and hopefully, and often without declaring it at all.

You fight by avoiding, apologising, or disappearing. What you want is tenderness, and the boundaries to blur. And the way it gets stuck is waiting to be understood instead of saying it, which is the specific failure mode of this Mars and the thing most worth watching for in yourself.

The angle between them, and why it matters

Pisces and Pisces are the same sign, which is 0 degrees apart, a conjunction. This is the part that makes the combination more than two separate placements, and it is the part almost every page about Venus and Mars leaves out.

What you are drawn to and how you go after it are the same thing. There is no gap between the attraction and the pursuit, which makes you unusually straightforward in love and leaves you with no internal brake.

The cost attached: no second opinion. Nothing in you disagrees with the chase, so there is nothing to slow it down when it should be slowed down.

Both signs are Water, which is the simplest version of this: the wanting and the chasing are made of the same material and they do not argue with each other.

What this actually looks like

In practice: somebody drawn to gentleness and imagination. Somebody kind, who is not hard work, who pursues indirectly and hopefully, and often without declaring it at all. Because the two work together, what you want and what you do about it tend to point the same way, and people generally find you readable.

The argument version is worth thinking about separately. You fight by avoiding, apologising, or disappearing, and you need tenderness, and somebody who does not take advantage of the openness. Those are compatible, which means conflict in your relationships tends to resolve rather than accumulate.

What to do with it

1. Check it against your actual history rather than against how you would like to be. Venus and Mars are descriptions of a pattern, and the pattern is in what you have done.
2. Watch for waiting to be understood instead of saying it. That is the specific way this Mars goes wrong and it is the most actionable thing on this page.
3. Say what you need out loud. Venus in Pisces needs tenderness, and somebody who does not take advantage of the openness, and nobody can supply that by inference.
4. Do not assume the ease is compatibility. An easy Venus and Mars makes you consistent, not well matched with anybody in particular.

Where to read next

Venus in Pisces in full and Mars in Pisces in full cover each placement on its own. Venus conjunction Mars covers the aspect itself, for anybody whose Venus and Mars are close enough in degree for it to count properly rather than merely being that many signs apart.

Which houses these two fall in is the part that makes it personal, and that needs a birth time. Here is how to find yours.