Rooster/Pisces and Ox/Virgo meet at 83-88%, the storybook romantic and the patient workhorse. In the Chinese scheme Rooster and Ox are old natural allies, and Pisces and Virgo face off across the zodiac in the complementary way.
Rooster/Pisces courts by the book: long walks on the beach, dozens of roses, candle-lit midnight dinners, tender and unashamedly romantic. Ox/Virgo, a conservative worker who toils twenty patient years to the top, has never been courted like that in its life and quietly melts. Devotion answers devotion, in different currencies.
Ox/Virgo speaks in plans and expects agreement with its elaborate personal world system; Rooster/Pisces trumpets its own praises across the land but flatters generously too. The Rooster's warmth softens the Ox's rigidity, and the Ox's patience absorbs the crowing.
Friction lives in work. Ox/Virgo respects nothing except a willingness to work as hard and as long as possible, while steady employment simply is not important to the jack-of-all-trades Rooster/Pisces. The Ox's ledger and the Rooster's drift need a standing treaty.
Rooster/Pisces learns a little humility and a little steadiness from the most reliable sign in the room. Ox/Virgo learns variation, tenderness, and that twenty-year plans deserve candle-lit checkpoints along the way. Each one's excess is the other's medicine.
At 83-88%, Rooster/Pisces and Ox/Virgo are strongly compatible. Romance funds the heart, industry funds the rest; a sound division of labor by any measure.