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Pisces
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The last sign, which the tradition reads as carrying something of all the others. Also the one most likely to be told it is too much and to believe it.
The basics
Pisces is the twelfth sign of the zodiac, mutable water, symbol the Fishes, ruled by Neptune in modern astrology and by Jupiter in the older tradition, which assigned its rulers before the outer planets were discovered. Mutable water is the last combination in the zodiac, and the one with the least edge to it. Its opposite sign is Virgo.
When the Sun is actually in Pisces
The Sun enters Pisces on 18 or 19 February and leaves for Aries on 20 March. Both ends shift. The orbit and the calendar are out by about a quarter of a day each year, and that gap is the entire explanation.
Computed from the same ephemeris this site uses for its birth charts, here is where it actually fell across the eleven years 2020 to 2030: the 18th in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2029 and 2030; the 19th in 2020, 2024 and 2028. In 2026 the crossing was at 18 February 15:51 UTC.
Aquarius comes before it and Aries after. Born on the 18th or 19th of February? That one moves with the year. The other end does not: the 20th of March held for every year from 2020 to 2030, which makes Pisces the only sign with one firm edge.
What Pisces is actually like
Modern astrology gives Pisces to Neptune and the tradition gives it to Jupiter. Neptune dissolves edges and Jupiter expands, and between them you get someone with very little natural boundary and a large capacity for whatever comes through it.
Mutable water means you take the shape of what you are in. You absorb the mood of a room, a person, a film, and you have genuinely struggled at times to tell which feelings in the room are yours. That is not a weakness of character, it is the mechanism of the sign, and knowing it is most of the management of it.
You are the person other people tell things to. You did not ask for this and it happens anyway, in queues and at parties and to taxi drivers. Being easy to confess to is restful for them and expensive for you.
The part the lists leave out
You escape. Everybody has a version and yours is more available than most, because the capacity to be somewhere else is the same capacity that lets you imagine anything. The escape is not always obvious from outside and frequently looks like being agreeable.
You also apologise for taking up room and then feel unseen, which are two halves of one move. Nobody can give you a place you have declined to occupy.
Pisces in love
You give enormously and early and you do not meter it, which means you have been hurt by people who read generosity as a measure of how little you were worth rather than how much you had. Slow is not the same as cold.
Your risk is disappearing into somebody and calling it devotion. The question worth asking a year in is whether you could still say plainly what you want. If the answer takes a while, that is the thing to look at.
Your sun sign is not your chart
If the absorbing fitted and the dreaminess did not, the first one is the sign and the second is the packaging. The Sun is one body out of ten, and it is the only one a date on its own can find.
The Moon changes sign every two and a half days and the Rising every two hours, so a date on its own gets you the least specific third of the answer. Your Big Three works out all three, free, and the arithmetic runs on your own device.
Mutable water takes the shape of what it is in. Pisces absorbs the mood of a room rather than merely reacting to it, which is a different mechanism from being easily upset.
Who rules Pisces?
Modern astrology says Neptune and the tradition says Jupiter. Neptune dissolves boundaries and Jupiter expands, and the sign reads as both at once.
What are the Pisces dates?
The Sun is in Pisces from 18 or 19 February to 20 March. Both ends move by a day with the year, so a birthday on the 18th or the 19rd of February has to be worked out from the year and the hour rather than read off a table.
What is the opposite sign to Pisces?
Virgo. The axis runs between letting a thing stay whole and taking it apart, and a Pisces Sun is better at the first than it has ever been given credit for.
