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1st decan of Pisces: dates and rulers

Pisces’s first third is said to live sensitivity in reflection and high standards, or in welcome and trust.

  • inner life
  • contemplation
  • generosity
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1st decan of Pisces: Saturn (faces), Pisces (triplicity)
The essentials

The 1st decan of Pisces at a glance

For you

A rich sensitivity approached through reflection or through trust: Saturn deepens, Jupiter broadens.

A strength

Supporting others with patience and depth in moments of doubt.

Something to watch

Withdrawing into melancholy, or dissolving into everyone’s needs.

Decan planet
♄︎ Saturn
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By Thomas Guilhot · updated

The 1st decan of Pisces: the meaning

The Chaldean series, after the Moon of Aquarius, starts over with Saturn at the beginning of Pisces.

The triplicities give these first ten degrees back to Pisces and Jupiter; the moderns add Neptune. The meeting is singular: the planet of limits at the entrance to the most permeable sign of the zodiac. The two readings nonetheless share the same inner richness, fed by silence or by encounters.

Saturn would suggest a person who loves long reading sessions and places for contemplation, and who gives her sensitivity a demanding form: music practiced every day, patient writing, a lasting commitment to the most vulnerable, volunteering kept up for ten years. Jupiter would make the same sensitivity more open, trusting, ready to welcome without asking questions and to believe in the best in everyone, even after a disappointment.

Saturn might tint the inner life with melancholy and withdrawal; Jupiter, push toward giving oneself without limit, to the point of forgetting oneself. The entry into Pisces would do well to find a middle path: protecting itself without shutting itself in, giving without losing itself, and seeking in creation a way to share what it feels. A notebook, an instrument, or a choir would offer this sensitivity a bed to flow in, and a way to reach other people without losing itself.

Sign
PiscesWater, mutable; ruler: Jupiter (modern: Neptune)
Degrees
0° to 10°Longitude 330° to 340°
Faces (Chaldean)
SaturnPlanet 1 of the Chaldean order
Triplicity
Pisces (Jupiter (modern: Neptune))The sign itself

The 1st decan of Pisces: tradition

What tradition says

Saturn has no dignity in Pisces; Jupiter holds its nocturnal domicile there, Sagittarius being its diurnal domicile.

How is it calculated?

The faces give Saturn; the triplicities give Pisces itself and its ruler, Jupiter.

Frequently asked questions about the 1st decan of Pisces

Saturn or Jupiter: which ruler for the 1st decan of Pisces?

Saturn for the Chaldean order, which starts over here from its first star after the Moon of Aquarius. Jupiter for the triplicities, since the opening of Pisces belongs to them, with Neptune among the moderns. The gap between these rulers gives two very different portraits of the same inner depth, one contemplative, the other welcoming.

Does Neptune rule the 1st decan of Pisces?

For those who adopt the modern rulerships, yes, alongside Jupiter. Neptune was not discovered until 1846, from Le Verrier’s calculations; neither the faces nor the ancient triplicities mention it. The site flags it as a recent addition, next to the traditional rulers.

When does the Sun enter the 1st decan of Pisces?

At the moment it leaves Aquarius, in the second half of February; it then stays about ten days, until early March. Leap years shift these limits slightly. The table gives the exact moments for three years, and the calculator applies to any past date.

Neighboring decans

The three decans of Pisces

The decans of Saturn (faces)