♓ Pisces

Sensitive, empathetic and imaginative.

Approximate dates: Feb 19 – Mar 20 (the Sun's entry shifts by a day or two each year)
Element: Water: Feeling, intuition and empathy, valuing inner connection.
Mode: Mutable: flexible and adaptable, good at transitions and finishing.
Ruler: Neptune (traditional: Jupiter)
Opposite sign: Virgo: the other end of the same axis; the two often learn from each other.

"I am a Pisces" usually refers to the Sun sign. But the Moon, Mercury, Venus and the other planets each sit in a sign too, and your Ascendant may be Pisces, so you can have plenty of Pisces traits even if your Sun is elsewhere. Here is how each planet behaves in Pisces.

The planets in Pisces

☉ The Sun in Pisces

Your boundaries are thinner than most. You pick up the emotional weather around you, with real empathy and imagination — good for creative and healing work. The practice is telling which feelings are yours and which you absorbed.

☽ The Moon in Pisces

Your feelings work like a sponge, absorbing whatever is around. Strong empathy, accurate intuition, and real exhaustion as a result. Solitude is not indulgence for you; it is how you clear the channel.

☿ Mercury in Pisces

You think in images and intuition rather than steps. Answers surface while drifting, which suits poetry, music and film. Getting what's inside into plain words is the recurring difficulty.

♀ Venus in Pisces

Your love carries devotion and dream in it, and you're drawn to people who need help. Romantic and soft, and the most likely to idealise a partner past the point of seeing them.

♂ Mars in Pisces

Your drive works out of sight; you avoid direct confrontation and take the indirect route. You fight harder for others than for yourself, and unexpressed anger turns inward over time.

♃ Jupiter in Pisces

Your fortune comes from where it can't be seen — intuition, compassion, giving without return, repaid at unexpected moments. Boundaries are the assignment.

♄ Saturn in Pisces

Your fear comes from somewhere you can't name. Solitude is necessary and can slide into avoidance. Guilt you can't articulate drags behind you.

♅ Uranus in Pisces

For the Pisces generation, the edges of spirituality, art and consciousness open up — bringing, along with them, a confusion between the real and the invented.

♆ Neptune in Pisces

Neptune in its own sign. Spiritual, artistic and empathic capacity is at its strongest here, and so is the difficulty telling truth from wish and the pull toward escape.

♇ Pluto in Pisces

For the Pisces generation, consciousness, faith and the collective unconscious undergo total transformation; boundaries dissolve in order to re-form.

These readings describe tendencies based on general astrological convention, not predictions; a natal chart is read by putting planets, signs, houses and aspects together.

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This is fixed text compiled from general convention, not a reading of any individual and not a prediction. For important decisions, please consult qualified professionals.