Nearing full circle,

the zodiac's wheel arrives at Pisces,
the Fish. Those born under this sign inhabit the twelfth house,
the reunion with ego and infinite, the eternal.

Pisces is said
to be the most sensitive of signs--

and the most vulnerable.
Pisceans swim in the medium of dreams.



Pisces's glyph shows two fish hooked together
but swimming in opposite directions.

The image is a metaphor
for the Piscean character. One part of it swims wide,
toward the edge of the universe,

while the other dives deep
seeking some mystical substratum of reality
. Ideally there is a rhythm to the journeys:


the fish reunite and share their discoveries
before setting out again on their separate missions.
Lacking the rhythm, however, it symbolizes
unbalanced extremes: the voyager wandering
aimlessly and the unhappy intorvert

deep in the abyss.

The Fish as cosmological voyagers are exlemplified
by some of history's great students
of the universe--Copernicus, Galileo,
Einstein. Einstein was, perhaps,
Pisces at its most evolved--a complete human being,
scientist, and mystic, who joined intution to reality.

But not all Pisceans are so comfortable

in the cosmos.
Some are hypersensitive even

to the point of being psychic.
Edgar Cayce, for example.
Piscean minds are so receptive that as children,
Pisceans may have trouble distinguishing their own
thoughts from the thoughts of others.
This confusion can spur

a headlong retreat from reality
as Pisceans seek to escape

the clamoring mental static.
They may then become withdrawn,
submissive, anxious, and disorganized.

When it does not run to extremes, however,
Piscean intuition is strong and redemptive,
endowing the individual with

intellectual and artistic gifts.
On a larger scale,

it instills profound understanding
and compassion. And Pisceans are in touch with
what the culture

has forgotten or repressed--the magical,
irrational world of unconscious longing and subterranean dreams
. Pisceans have the ability to retreive

the dreams from the depths
and return them to consciousness,

revealing a cosmic unity
that alleviates human alienation.

The Fish are the sign of wholeness.
On the zodiacal wheel, they lie opposite Virgo,
and share a love of minutiae. Unlike them,
Pisceans are able to see the cosmos as a grand
and beautiful design. Ironically,

they may have trouble
fitting into the external world.

If certain negative aspects
afflict their birth charts,

they are prone to childishness,
dreaminess, fear of responsibility

and feelings of discontent
or victimization.

Free of negative influences, however,
they are cheerful and

sensual and quietly appreciative
of life's pleasures.

Romanticism plays a role in their lives.
Nat King Cole and Maurice Ravel

were both Pisceans
. In love, Pisceans act out their yearning
for absolutes and perfection.

Pisceans are above all else visionaries;
they often find it hard to live in the present or
to interact with

people less spiritually inclined than they
. Many Fish have an acute tendancy to self-denial--
and sometimes and almost messianic need to save.
Indeed, they may

be driven to share their spirituality--
to save souls, for instance,

whether they want salvation or not.
Pisceans thus inclined would be wise to learn
to impart their mystical vision of awe
and wonder without forcing it on hapless friends.

The Fish mark the end
of the progression of the zodiac from birth (Aries)
to reunification with God or the cosmos,
which astrologers liken to the sea.

 
 
 @joenes Abdullah Production 2003          

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