Rat/Aquarius and Ox/Capricorn meet at 66-71%, the dreamer and the anvil. One is a self-conflicting creative wired for contradiction; the other dissects the goose to learn why it lays golden eggs and never, ever gives up on a project.
Rat/Aquarius does best settling down with exactly the staid, dependable, supportive sort who drives it crazy with pragmatism, and Ox/Capricorn is that sort in concentrated form. The Ox offers unbudging loyalty and a well-stocked table; the Rat offers a strangeness the Ox will never admit it finds fascinating.
Rat/Aquarius, hypersensitive and fence-sitting, struggles to voice its true emotions, while Ox/Capricorn is a repository of received knowledge that will never admit being wrong. One cannot say the thing; the other cannot hear the correction. Progress is slow but real.
Friction lives between neurosis and stubbornness. The Rat's boredom with the workaday world reads as flakiness to the Ox, and the Ox's grinding stick-to-itiveness reads as tyranny to the Rat. Neither fights loudly; both dig in.
Ox/Capricorn gives Rat/Aquarius the stable floor its genius needs to stop spinning, and the Rat's ideal expectations remind the Ox that a project can be finished thoroughly and still be finished wrong. The pragmatist and the visionary each hold half the map.
At 66-71%, Rat/Aquarius and Ox/Capricorn are workable with effort, the exact mismatch the Rat secretly needs, maddening by design and steadying in the long run.