Tiger/Aries and Dog/Capricorn meet at 76-81%, a cross pairing of the charging optimist and the buttoned-up sentinel. One barrels in shouting banzai; the other checks the locks twice and keeps the family ledger.
Tiger/Aries runs on luck in job lots and a blaze that takes what it wants, and Dog/Capricorn, loyal, staid, and quietly devoted to family, is steadied ground for all that fire. The Tiger finds someone who will never betray it; the Dog finds someone who drags it, protesting, into actually living a little.
The Tiger declaims; the Dog answers in taciturn understatement that can chill a room. Canon warns the Tiger believes what it wants to hear, and the Dog's sober, unflattering counsel is exactly the corrective, when the Tiger stands still for it.
Friction lives between command and propriety. The Tiger's urge to command meets a Dog that goes silent and intimidating rather than argue, and its prudish streak can read the Tiger's appetites as recklessness needing supervision.
Dog/Capricorn learns from the Tiger to uncross its legs and live before the coffin gets comfortable; candy and flowers help. Tiger/Aries learns to verify before charging, and that flattery-proof loyalty beats a false alliance every time.
At 76-81%, Tiger/Aries and Dog/Capricorn have good chemistry, fire warmed by faithfulness. It succeeds when the Dog loosens up and the Tiger starts listening to the one honest voice in the room.