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In my book, Romeo and Juliet are the perfect Pisces--Libra couple. These signs are both
die-hard romantics, after all, and I see Romeo as the Pisces because he thinks Juliet is
dead so he kills himself just to be with her — and the truth is, with Pisces, there's
just always some confusion over what's real and what's illusion. So it's no wonder he
doesn't realize she's actually just in a deep kind of sleep state. And what does he do?
His completely romantic, selfless instincts take over, and he offs himself because he
can't live without her! Ugh, but is that really true romance?? Did they really both have to
die? I don't know, I think that kind of shows the fatalistic quality of this pairing of
signs. They're both romantic dreamers, and falling in love might be really fast and easy
for these two, and it might just feel so overwhelming and inevitable — as if it's fated — but
the truth is, it's only going to work out as long as reality doesn't intrude. And how
long can that really last? Libra and Pisces are quincunx — that's a hard aspect in Astrology,
between signs that are five signs apart in the Zodiac — and I always say it's a karmic
connection. There's a strong sense of fatedness here, but that's not necessarily a good thing,
and definitely isn't an easy one, because quincunx signs tend to come together to work
something out. And there are just a lot of differences here, usually too many to get
past, in the end. I don't know, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin — she's a Libra, he's a
Pisces — they seem to have made it work for quite some time now. But maybe that's
because they're incredibly rich artists who can pay a staff of people to tend to the day-to-day
stuff like, you know, grocery shopping and paying bills and cooking meals and whatnot,
and they can just live their dreamy artist lifestyles without really having to be a part
of most people's idea of the real world! That's really an issue with these two signs: Who's
going to be the practical one, the one who gets things done? It's going to have to be
Libra, as a Cardinal sign — and yet Libra and Pisces both are really indecisive, and
they just have trouble keeping both feet on the ground. Dreamy and romantic, yes, this
pairing works out wonderfully. Beautifully! But when it comes to regular day-to-day stuff,
this couple really can't go very far.