Pisces, the sign of mutable water. Ruled by elusive Neptune, Pisces is compassionate, impressionable, gentle, and imaginative.
Symbol: ♓
The glyph of Pisces connotes two forms of experience, internal and external. Alternatively, it represents two fish tied together. When they cooperate, they navigate their watery domain with ease. When they pull in opposite directions, neither gets anywhere.
Polarity: Negative
Modality: Mutable
Element: Water
Favourable Colours: Sea green and lavender
Lucky Gem: Aquamarine
Parts of the Body: Feet and immune system
Metal: Platinum
Ruling Planet: Neptune
Key Phrase: I believe
Opposite Sign: Virgo
Positive Traits
Sensitive to the needs of others: compassion. Helps without expecting anything in return. Inspired, intuitive. Dreamy, very romantic, yet is quite able to think clearly and logically. Perceives the energies behind the appearances. More than just tolerant: accepts others without judgement. Extremely imaginative, rich fantasy life.
Negative Traits
No sense of reality. Fear of living, and of asserting oneself: feels that he is the victim of life. Tries to flee from day-to-day reality using any means at his disposal: drugs, alcohol, etc. A morbid dependence on fantasies prevents him from building a meaningful life. Chaotic, dishonest, unable to discipline himself, unreliable and unpunctual.
You want sensitivity? Pisces is sensitive. Yours is the sign of dreams, imagination, poetry, and matters of the spirit. Ruled by mysterious Neptune, the planet of glamour and illusion, your challenge is to find a way to live in a workaday world when you have an out-of- this-world sensibility.
Every tiny bounce in the emotional weather sends your internal compass into a spin. Sympathetic and receptive, you receive a constant barrage of impressions and information, and you can be weirdly psychic. But protecting yourself is difficult because you lack boundaries. All your membranes are permeable. When the people upstairs have a fight, you feel battered. When bad things happen to good people, you’re horrified. And when good things happen to people you love, you rejoice. (It’s one of your most magnificent traits.) You’re generous, big- hearted, insightful, and truly compassionate. You’re also innately spiritual.
Another strength is your powerful imagination. Your dreams (and daydreams) can be a vivid source of inspiration and even problem-solving. Your intuition is equally powerful. You sense what’s going on way before it registers on the seismograph. But you can also become trapped in a web of illusion. At your intuitive best, your refusal to get hung up on the limitations of reality enables you to leap over obstacles and to make surprising breakthroughs and turnarounds. Unlike more “realistic” signs, you embrace change and are willing to take enormous risks. Often your gambles succeed. When they don’t, you’re philosophical about it. As Albert Einstein, a prototypical Pisces, said, “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
