I got really into tracking compatibility data a couple of years back. Not because I’m some professional astrologer—far from it. I just wanted to see if the charts people toss around online actually mean anything when life gets tough. And trust me, 2021 was tough.
The whole obsession kicked off with Pisces and Virgo. These two signs are supposed to be opposites, right? They sit right across the wheel from each other. Conventional wisdom, the stuff you read in magazines, always gives them a middling score. Enough polarity to be interesting, enough grounding to stick together. Maybe a solid 6.5 out of 10. Stability. But I kept seeing real-world chaos, especially around that 2021 marker.
My Practice: Hunting Down the Real Scores
I decided I wasn’t going to trust some generic website score. I wanted tangible evidence. My practice involved three major steps, and none of them were clean or tidy. I started by just gathering data on every single Pisces/Virgo pairing I could track down. This wasn’t some scientific survey; I was digging into people’s lives.
- Phase 1: The Roster Call. I spent two weeks compiling a list. I pulled up old high school friends, checked Facebook connections, used mutual contacts, and even had a couple of people volunteer their relationship timelines after I posted a vague poll on a smaller platform. I ended up tracking 34 couples—some dating for years, some married, some newly formed in 2020.
- Phase 2: Defining the Metrics. How do you score a relationship? I boiled it down to three key indicators for 2021, a year defined by stress and forced proximity:
- Conflict Frequency: How many major, blow-up fights or extended silent treatments were logged? (Based on third-party observation and occasional drunken confessions.)
- Financial Stability/Joint Decision Stress: How well did they handle unexpected expenses or career shifts? (Virgo loves structure; Pisces hates planning. 2021 forced planning.)
- Emotional Retreat Score: How often did one partner completely withdraw? (This is the big killer for this axis—Pisces retreating into fantasy, Virgo retreating into critique.)
- Phase 3: Logging the Damage. I built a massive, messy Excel sheet. I cross-referenced dates with major planetary movements (because, you know, I had to be thorough) but mostly, I logged anecdotal evidence. I was constantly checking in with friends, hearing stories, seeing cryptic social media posts, and assigning numerical values to what I heard. I gave “breakup” a score of 10, “major move/job change handled smoothly” a 2, and “three days of screaming matches” a 6.
What I found was brutal. The 6.5/10 general score? It was trash for 2021. The tension between Pisces’ need for escapism and Virgo’s insistence on logic and health checks—which was a huge theme that year—created constant friction. Many of the Virgos were stressed out of their minds trying to control external chaos, and the Pisces partners were totally unavailable for that level of intense reality management. They couldn’t handle the pressure cooker environment.
The Shocking Final Tally
When I finally crunched the numbers, the compatibility score for 2021, based on my real-world data set, plummeted. It wasn’t a stable, slightly complicated pairing. It was highly volatile. I logged 8 complete breakups in my 34 pairs, and another 12 couples who admitted they spent the majority of the year fighting about finances or their living situation. That’s over half the group seriously failing.
My derived score for Pisces/Virgo compatibility in 2021? A painful 4.1/10. It scored poorly not just on communication, but crucially, on endurance under unexpected, prolonged stress. The practical earth sign (Virgo) felt abandoned, and the dreamy water sign (Pisces) felt smothered by demands for routine.
Why Did I Dive Down This Rabbit Hole? The Backstory.
You might be asking why I, a guy who used to work in logistics, suddenly spent my nights tracking other people’s relationship trauma. This all started because I got totally burned right before the 2020 mess started, and it changed how I viewed accountability and prediction.
I had a small, lucrative freelance operation running for nearly five years. I built it up from scratch, hustled hard, and landed a massive contract in early 2020 that would have set me up for life. Everything was riding on it. My business partner, who I considered family, was supposed to handle the backend infrastructure and client interface—a meticulous job that demanded extreme reliability. He was a Virgo, textbook organization, or so I thought.
The moment things got uncertain in the spring—when travel bans hit and clients started panicking—he didn’t communicate. He didn’t organize. He vanished. He completely ghosted the project right at the crucial execution phase. He pulled his savings, changed his number, and left me holding the bag for massive potential penalties because the work wasn’t finished. I was facing financial ruin, literally scrambling just to pay rent, while he was safe and silent somewhere else.
I spent months digging myself out of that hole. That betrayal made me obsessed with finding predictable human patterns. If I couldn’t trust people based on friendship or shared goals, maybe I could trust patterns in human behavior under pressure. I got tired of being blindsided. I realized that a lot of conventional relationship advice and compatibility charts are just fluffy garbage written for perfect conditions. When the pressure cooker of 2021 hit, my raw data proved that the supposed stability of Pisces/Virgo completely disintegrated. That’s why I keep tracking this stuff—I need the truth, not the fantasy.
So, to wrap this up: Was Pisces and Virgo compatibility good in 2021? Absolutely not. It was a pressure test they overwhelmingly failed.
