A generous idealism: warmth, faith in life, and vast dreams, sometimes a little hazy.
Jupiter on both sides: the faith of Sagittarius and the compassion of Pisces, for a generous and vast ideal.
Carrying a generous ideal with an enthusiasm and a compassion that move people.
Committing to chimeras and getting lost in oversized projects.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
The Centaur of December and the Pisces of March, flame and wave, meet at a right angle.
Yet they obey the same sovereign in classical doctrine, Jupiter, master here of the rising sign as of the natal sign; recent astrologers associate Neptune with Pisces. At an evening party, this person tells of a pilgrimage on foot, quotes a Persian poet, invites everyone to a world music festival, and you feel swept up at once in their projects.
The natal luminary sleeps below the horizon, in the fourth house: lineage, home, origins weigh heavily. Their home becomes an inn of the heart, crossed by faraway friends, passing students, cousins between two trains. They may also seek their spiritual roots, reconstruct their family’s history, pass on to children values of generosity and tolerance. The house becomes a hospitable temple, open at any hour.
The square shows up as a tendency toward haziness. The archer promises, Pisces dreams: the person commits to projects too vast, forgets the logistics, believes others’ promises without checking. They may also flee daily life in travel or reverie. Gemini, the sign of the descendant, would invite them to more precision, lightness, and attentive listening.
Generous and idealistic, the combination dreams of a love that shares its values, its journeys, its faith perhaps.
It gives much and forgives quickly. Gemini, in the west, would bring across quick, curious, light minds who make them laugh and bring them back to earth. Accepting the ordinary side of daily life, without fleeing into dreams or departure, would give the couple a solid base.
Teaching, spiritual guidance, humanitarian missions, the arts, volunteer travel, publishing: a job that carries meaning, in the service of a cause, is needed.
The Sun at the bottom of the chart would favor working from home, taking over a family business, guesthouses run with warmth. Their colleagues appreciate their kindness. They readily forget logistics and the budget, at the risk of seeing their projects wobble.
Travel souvenirs on every shelf, a guest room always ready, incense and world music: the home is open and warm.
Hosting, leaving, and dreaming mark their year. Administrative deadlines sometimes slip away, and so do the keys. A single box for papers, a single notebook for appointments: that is enough to stay on course without locking themselves into constraints they would flee.
Master of the Centaur as of Pisces in the classical system, Jupiter rules the horizon and the natal sign here, at home on both sides.
The handbooks described him then as generous, pious, hospitable, sometimes lavish to the point of recklessness. Neptune, observed in 1846 and associated afterward with Pisces, would add in contemporary readings a note of dream and haze.
Around midnight, the archer surges, the March Sun buried directly beneath the Earth. Pisces settles at the very bottom of the chart, in the place the Greeks called hypogeion: ancestors, lands, dwelling, the end of things.
The Sun sign depends on the day of birth; the rising sign, on the time and place.
Sagittarius takes about 2 hr 28 min to rise in Paris: with the Sun in Pisces, the rising sign is Sagittarius for a birth during that rise.
A water sign, mutable, ruled by Jupiter and Neptune (modern).
The Pisces signA fire sign, mutable; descendant in Gemini.
Sagittarius risingJupiter rules Sagittarius: its place in the chart (sign, house) colors the rising sign.
The page of Jupiter| Sun in Pisces | Sagittarius rising | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| February 20Start of the sign | 2:21 AM to 4:49 AM | 2 hr 28 min |
| March 5Middle of the sign | 1:30 AM to 3:58 AM | 2 hr 28 min |
| March 18End of the sign | 12:38 AM to 3:06 AM | 2 hr 28 min |
Legal time in Paris; elsewhere, latitude and longitude shift these times. The rising sign calculator takes them into account.
You could hardly be more so: a single ruler, Zeus, for the rising sign and the natal sign. Generosity, faith, idealism, hospitality converge. The pitfall would be haziness: promises too vast, details forgotten, trust given without discernment. Pragmatic company would help a great deal in making things concrete. They also know how to surround themselves well.
The rising archer sends Pisces to the lowest point of the chart, the domain of the roof and of origins. The person would make their home a place of welcome and transmission, and would readily seek their spiritual or family roots. Their journeys would always start from there, and return there.
When a single planet rules the horizon and the Sun, its position becomes decisive. Jupiter, here, colors the inner self as well as the front, according to its sign and its links. Placed in the Crab, he would multiply kindness; in the Twins or the Spike, he would scatter the forces. His house would show the widest domain of their life.