A porous, generous soul: overflowing compassion, intuition, and imagination, with great fragility before the world.
The Sun rises in Pisces: a water soul, porous and generous, that feels the world before understanding it.
Hearing a sorrow before it is spoken, and calming it with a gesture.
Melting into other people’s moods until you lose your own outlines.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
At the dawn of March, sign and luminary rise together: a mutable, receptive wave, ruled by Zeus among the ancients, by Neptune among contemporaries.
The person seems gentle, dreamy, a little absent; they listen at length, are moved by a piece of music, a landscape, a confidence, and you feel understood without having needed to explain everything. Their presence has something soothing, almost liquid. Their company is a pleasure.
This sensitivity is a real strength. The person guesses the needs of others, consoles, soothes, inspires. They may compose music that moves to tears, paint canvases that seem dreamed, accompany isolated people with infinite patience, commit to a humanitarian cause without counting the hours. Their imagination is immense, so is their generosity, and many remember them as a presence that consoles without judging.
The downside is well known: porosity. Nothing structures the whole, and the person may absorb everyone’s emotions, get lost in dreams, flee the constraints of daily life, idealize and then suffer. Setting limits is hard for them. The Spike, in the west, would bring the counterweight: methodical companions who anchor them to reality without putting out their dreams.
The double Pisces loves with a boundless tenderness, romantic, almost mystical, and dreams of fusion, of poetry, of silent complicity.
With Virgo on the descendant, the person would meet practical, vigilant, sometimes severe people who bring them back to the ground. Accepting this structure, without seeing coldness in it, would make love more lasting, more serene, and much less painful. Time soothes their worries.
Composing, painting, film, poetry, counseling, humanitarian missions, spiritual life: imagination and consolation are their favorite ground.
They work with heart and intuition, often without counting the hours. Environments that are too rigid dim them quickly. An organized colleague, or an agent for their works, would help them make their talents concrete without exhausting or undervaluing themselves. Their works often reach a wide public. They also know how to listen at length to those who come to see them.
Music on all day, dream journals, walks by the water, candles and poetry collections: the daily life of the double Pisces resembles a waking reverie.
The home is gentle, a little untidy, full of objects charged with emotion. Schedules float. A few fixed anchors, meals at regular times, a notebook checked, a Saturday sort-out, would protect their creative energy. Their friends know they will always answer.
With horizon and luminary lodged under the same sign, Jupiter rules alone over the chart, and would sit at home if he is also there.
Venus would moreover know her exaltation in this sign, which would add a particular gentleness to the whole. Neptune, attached to Pisces after its discovery in 1846, would thicken still more the mist of dream in modern readings. The ancients would see a character wholly turned toward compassion.
Sign and Sun rise together at daybreak. The Sun thus occupies the house of the horoscope, the joy of Mercury for the Greek authors: body, mood, path of life.
The Sun sign depends on the day of birth; the rising sign, on the time and place.
Pisces takes about 58 min to rise in Paris: with the Sun in Pisces, the rising sign is Pisces for a birth during that rise.
A water sign, mutable, ruled by Jupiter and Neptune (modern).
The Pisces signA water sign, mutable; descendant in Virgo.
Pisces risingJupiter rules Pisces: its place in the chart (sign, house) colors the rising sign.
The page of Jupiter| Sun in Pisces | Pisces rising | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| February 20Start of the sign | 7:51 AM to 8:49 AM | 58 min |
| March 5Middle of the sign | 7:00 AM to 7:58 AM | 58 min |
| March 18End of the sign | 6:09 AM to 7:07 AM | 58 min |
Legal time in Paris; elsewhere, latitude and longitude shift these times. The rising sign calculator takes them into account.
The Sun was in Pisces, and Pisces was rising: a birth at sunrise, within minutes or an hour. Front and inner self share the sensitivity, the imagination, the compassion. The rest of the chart, the Moon first, would nuance this portrait a great deal, which is too often reduced to a reverie.
Their sensitivity is great, it is true, and can make them vulnerable. But it is also their strength: intuition, empathy, creativity. Tradition sees in it a gift to protect rather than a flaw to correct. Clear limits and a stable circle would help them make it a richness.
Zeus among the ancients, Neptune among contemporaries: they are the shared rulers of the horizon and of the luminary. The first would tell the form generosity takes; the second, very slow, would count mostly through the house it occupies. Their dialogue would tell how the dream becomes a gift.