"Once you define yourself, you can’t know who you really are." Lao Tzu
Piscean types are gentle creatures who want to make the world a better place. They are idealistic and artistic, but also sometimes totally unrealistic. They find it easier to dream of a spiritually advanced society than to do the hard work to bring it about. Their energy isn’t all that robust and it is very easy for them to get sapped by other stronger personalities especially Scorpio, Aries or Leo. They must be careful not to become victims because of their compassion and a strong need to save others. They are empaths so it is hard for Pisceans to watch violent movies or TV.
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Their dreams are powerful and their dreams can lead them in the right direction. They have good visualization ability and are strongly intuitive. They have a good sense of color, balance, and rhythm and usually gravitate to the creative artistic fields such as painting, music, film or fashion design.
Pisces is about letting go of boundaries and merging with the whole. Pisces likes a little bit of chaos sometimes and likes to flow with energies of the universe. They need to make room in their life to fall apart and dissolve once in a while. Also, there is a strong need to escape to a spiritual retreat or self-imposed isolation on a regular basis. Since Neptune is the ruler of Pisces, one of their favorite escapes is to the seashore.
Pisces are vague and sometimes confused. They can drive an analytical, logical Virgo crazy. And if you have both Pisces and Virgo in your natal chart, you can drive yourself crazy by trying to reconcile the mystical view with the scientific.
You are a Piscean type if you have the Ascendant, Sun or Moon in Pisces or if one of your personal planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus or Mars) are in a challenging (Conjunct, Square, Opposition) aspect to Neptune.
Pisces
Water Element: Experiences are soulful and emotional
Mutable Mode: Energy breaks up forms and is distributed
Hero Type: Indecisive Hero, Introverted Style
Archetypes: The Mystic, The Poet, The Dancer
Moon in Pisces: Need for Emotional Expression
Sun in Pisces: The Search for Peace
Pisces Ascendant: Surrounded by temples, music, pastel colors
Myth: Orpheus
Orpheus is a musician and poet who plays such beautiful music that trees weep and rocks melt. He marries Eurydice, who dies right after the wedding. Orpheus cannot accept her death and pines for her. He goes into the underworld to get her back. He plays music to Cerberus, the 3-headed dog guarding the underworld, and puts him to sleep. He then plays to Pluto and Persephone, who love his music so much they agree to let him take Eurydice back to life. He took her hand and started to lead her out of the underground. They warned him not to look at her until they are out of the cave. Just when he is about to see light, he begins to doubt it is really her. He looks back, and she vanishes. Orpheus is not allowed back in the underworld, and he begins to grieve.
Soldiers are partying, and resent him because he won’t join them. They throw javelins at him but his sad music stops the javelins. The revelers drown out his music by yelling, and this time their javelins kill him. He is decapitated and years later his head is found floating in the river and Orpheus is still singing. Some say he was killed by a thunderbolt from Zeus, angered by the mystic revelations Orpheus had made to new initiates.
Piscean Traits: Pisceans can dissolve boundaries, making them excellent peacemakers. They have trouble maintaining boundaries in their lives, even with their own unconscious. There is a part of Pisces that does not want to be defined. As soon as they have something that gives them structure, they do something to attract chaos. They run into trouble when they analyze a situation too rationally and lose touch with their intuition and feelings. Pisceans cannot find fulfillment outside, only inside themselves. Looking to others or to a job for fulfillment will not satisfy them. Their happiness and peace is inside them. Pisceans are very sensitive and come into harm when they associate with rough, aggressive types. Their creative gifts live long after they are gone. They share mystical truths with others.
Primary goal: Transcending the everyday world
Challenge: How do I balance spirit and matter?
Janet Kane
www.mythiczodiac.com