Rooster/Gemini and Goat/Virgo meet at 79-84%, two exacting temperaments that most people find hard to live up to. That is exactly the trick: each one clears the other's famously impossible bar almost without trying.
Goat/Virgo has disqualified above-average lovers over a single blemish; Rooster/Gemini despises weakness and cannot tolerate a clinging dishrag. So when the perfectionist meets someone genuinely sharp, and the Rooster meets someone genuinely self-sufficient, both quietly retire their disqualification lists. Admiration is this couple's native form of affection.
Talk is fast, precise, and bracing. Rooster/Gemini argues recreationally, conversations degenerating into gale-force debate when nobody is watching; Goat/Virgo files each point against an internal standard of flawlessness. Neither wants soft soap, so the sharpness reads as respect.
Friction comes when Goat/Virgo's merciless eye lands on the Rooster's own quirks, or when Rooster/Gemini's bullying streak sounds like being ordered around, the one thing it cannot stand receiving either. Two critics in one house need a truce on grading each other.
From Rooster/Gemini, Goat/Virgo learns that tolerance and a little mercy are themselves a kind of perfection. From Goat/Virgo, the combative Rooster learns that precision persuades better than volume. Both end up sharper and kinder, an unusual double.
At 79-84%, Rooster/Gemini and Goat/Virgo are strongly compatible. Two high bars, mutually cleared; keep the criticism pointed outward and this one runs on admiration.