Rat/Leo and Dog/Pisces meet at 66-71%, a cross pairing of two perfectionists with opposite blueprints. One interrogates the mirror each morning about why it is not perfect yet; the other perfects the nest and then guards it anxiously.
Rat/Leo courts with dedication and nothing-but-the-best generosity, and Dog/Pisces answers with a devotion that is meticulous, loyal, and total. Each finds the other's standards reassuring at first: here, at last, is someone else who refuses to do anything halfway, in love included.
Rat/Leo speaks in ambitions and, when disappointed, in withering criticism; Dog/Pisces registers the least little disturbance in its ordered world, so every sharp word sets alarm bells ringing for days. Praise, oddly, is what neither remembers to deliver.
Friction lives in pressure. Rat/Leo imposes its personal ambitions on everyone in orbit, and Dog/Pisces responds by tightening household security until the secure existence starts to feel like a carpeted coffin. Criticism meets anxiety, and both escalate.
Rat/Leo learns that a promise of continued presence should never double as a thinly veiled threat, and that gentleness gets more from a devoted partner than critique. Dog/Pisces learns to calm down a notch or two and let love breathe unguarded.
At 66-71%, Rat/Leo and Dog/Pisces are workable with effort. Two devoted perfectionists who must learn to grade each other more kindly than they grade themselves.