With Pisces, pleasure would take on a dreamy color.
Play opens a door to the imagination: you create while dreaming, you love while idealizing.
Creating from your dreams and touching others through a rare sensitivity.
Idealizing budding romances, or getting lost in the imaginary to the point of finishing nothing.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
A watercolor painted by the water, a song written after a dream, a puppet show invented for nephews, a movie night that leaves your eyes moist: the pleasures of this house would have the fluidity of water.
You create by intuition, not always knowing where you are going, and let inspiration carry you. You like music, dance, photography, everything that touches emotion directly. Your flirting is gentle, romantic, attentive to silences. With children, you easily enter their imaginary world and extend it with them.
Jupiter, the classical ruler of this water sign, commands the pleasures here; Neptune, which the moderns associate with the sign, would add a share of dream and ideal. Jupiter’s house shows where this inspiration extends: in the 9th, toward travel and spirituality; in the 11th, its place of joy, toward collective artistic projects. If Venus sits in the 5th house in Pisces, she would combine her joy and her exaltation, a configuration tradition would judge very favorable to pleasures. In Paris, the rising sign would be Scorpio (58%) or Libra (42%).
The difficulty would be vagueness. Projects begun in enthusiasm then abandoned, an idealized love story that disappoints on contact with reality, children shielded from all frustration: imagination can replace action. Opposite, the 11th house in Virgo brings practical sense: concrete friends, organized group projects, which help give form to dreams.
Flirting would be romantic: letters, music, glances, walks by moonlight.
You look for an almost ideal fusion and can fall in love with an image more than with a real person. You are tender, devoted, empathetic. The risk would be disillusion when the other does not match the dream; letting the real person show up, over the weeks, protects against disappointment.
Your enthusiasm would go to trades where imagination and sensitivity count: music, film, photography, storytelling, children’s entertainment, social support work.
You need to give meaning to what you create: a song written for a nonprofit, a show performed in a retirement home speak to you more than a well-paid commission. You do well to surround yourself with structure, an agenda, a methodical partner, so that your ideas take shape and find their audience.
Hobbies are lived as inspiration comes: music listened to for a long time, walks by the water, movies, reading poetry.
You like moments of reverie and activities that carry you elsewhere. For the little ones around you, you invent stories and role-playing games. You do well to set a few regular appointments with your creative practice, so that inspiration finds a framework.
Ruled by Jupiter, this house of pleasures would have suggested to the old authors generous pleasures, a lucky hand in leisure, and marked attention to children.
Since Pisces is among Lilly’s “fruitful” signs, the old reading evoked a house rich in offspring: it is cited as such, without seeing a forecast in it. Venus, exalted in Pisces, would be doubly at ease there, since she rejoices precisely in the fifth house: a configuration the manuals cited as one of the gentlest in the chart.
The moderns, with Neptune, see here an inspired creativity, born of emotion more than of plan, and the Pisces-Virgo axis with the 11th house: personal imagination on one side, friends’ practical sense on the other.
The sign on the cusp of the 5th house depends on the time and place of birth; its ruler becomes the ruler of the house, and where it sits in the chart extends the house.
succedent house: creativity, pleasures, children.
The 5th houseA water sign, mutable.
The Pisces signJupiter as traditional ruler, Neptune as modern ruler: both are read.
Jupiter in the 5th houseIt describes dreamy, inspired pleasures: music, image, dance, romantic flirting, tenderness toward children. You create by intuition. The risk is vagueness, idealized love, unfinished projects. Opposite, the 11th house in Virgo brings concrete friends who help give form to dreams.
Jupiter in tradition, Neptune among the moderns. With a revolution of some 165 years, Neptune lingers a good decade in each sign; a generational planet, it becomes personal only through the house it occupies. Jupiter, faster, remains the main ruler in classical interpretation.
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