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Pisces called Ichtyes ("the fishes")
by the Greeks, "Pisces" being the
Latin translation. In the
constellation of Pisces there's a
big fish and a little fish.
Aphrodite and her son, Ichthus (some
versions say the god Eros was her
son), were being pursued by a huge
monster fish by the name of Typhon.
In order to escape their nasty,
monstrous pursuer, Aphrodite turns
herself and her son into fishes.
Together they then hid from the
monster fish, Typhon, in the
Euphrates River. Aphrodite
(symbolizing in this case "the great
mother") is the big fish and Ichthus
is the small fish...
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There's a famous quote by Sun Sign
Pisces, Albert Einstein:
"Imagination is more important than
knowledge." The full quote goes on
to say: "Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world."
Reportedly, one of this famous
Pisces' methods of getting in touch
with his inner source of creativity
was to imagine in his mind's eye -
the numbers he was working with. He,
then, allowed the numbers to "dance
freely" within his imagination. (I
don't know about you, but I figure
I'm doing pretty good to manage a
shaky two-step when I'm dealing with
numbers.)
Pisces, at it's best and most
fruitful, is about meeting and
responding to the natural rhythms of
life with an open, imaginative,
expectant, and adaptable attitude.
The Zodiacal sign of Pisces is about
being receptive to whatever comes
your way, and then synthesizing it
into the source of a totally new,
unique, and imaginative creation.
That description of Pisces sounds a
wee bit "fishy" and downright
"elusive" doesn't it - so here's a
practical example of what that
means... as a Pisces, you've
discovered the hard way - whenever a
great big 18 wheeler crisis comes
barrelling down the interstate of
life at 100 miles an hour (and
inevitably there is a crisis
barrelling your way, isn't there) -
that the best way to respond to that
18 wheeler crisis is by remaining
quiet within yourself and allowing
yourself to "go with flow" of
unfolding of events. When you do
that - then, much of time, the 18
wheeler crisis resolves itself.
For most folks, this sort of giving
up of control is more than a wee bit
disconcerting. It's tough to remain
calm with an 18 wheeler crisis
headed your way. Most folks like to
get in control by organizing,
plotting out, and controlling a
predictable course of events. But
"going with the flow" often works
out just fine for you. When "going
with the flow" in answer to a crisis
- you've discovered that all of the
questions you needed answered are
"miraculously" answered in the "nick
of time." All the doors you needed
opened are "unexpectedly" opened.
Questions are answered and/or doors
are are "miraculously" and
"unexpectedly" opened with little or
no "conscious" effort on your part.
Likewise, you've discovered that if
you interfere by trying to take
control matters when facing a crisis
situation - then all the right
answers mysteriously vanish and all
the open doors slam shut on your
toes.
Typical descriptions of the Sun in
Pisces are that you are an
imaginative, sensitive, and serene
individual. You feel the need to
express and bring life to your
fantasies, imagination and
creativity. As a result, you may
tend be a dreamer and a wee bit
ungrounded in regard to the
practicalities of everyday life. And
according to traditional astrology
readings, some of the basic
characteristics you should seek to
consciously develop in your life
are: Your sense of compassion, your
sensitivity, the ability for
self-sacrifice, and your sense of
intuition.
But now that I've said all this...
the real truth is that there is NO
typical description of a Sun in
Pisces. Sometimes I wish like heck I
could pin you down, but it's
impossible. You're like the
mythological Greek sea god Proteus,
notorious for being a shape shifter.
And whenever someone attempts to
catch you in their net, you simply
change shapes and swim away. The
older and more mature you become,
Pisces - the more clearly you will
be able to see and thus take
advantage of your fluid shape
shifting qualities and abilities.
The magician like shape shifting
qualities of Pisces inevitably
become your strongest bulwark and
defence for survival in the world.
This is especially going to be the
case for males having the Sun in
Pisces. The problem is, you see...
the Zodiacal sign of Pisces asks us
to give up the sense of needing
absolute, complete control over our
life course, journey, and destiny.
But the sad fact is that we live in
a "macho, dog eat dog world." It can
often be a mean, nasty world where
"big boys don't cry." It's a common
sense world where you're only
supposed to believe in and count on
what you can see, hear, smell,
touch, and taste. Society doesn’t
normally give positive strokes to
those folks who exemplify and
exhibit the gentle, caring,
empathetic, imaginable, flowing, and
sensitive energy of Pisces. This
lack of social reinforcement holds
especially true for males having the
Sun in Pisces. As a Pisces, you
often end up feeling like stranger
in a strange land. With many
slightly older, more experienced
male Pisces (and some female
Pisces), most of the world will
never get a glimpse of the serene,
sensitive, go with the flow, oceanic
creature that lies just beneath the
surface of whatever other Zodiacal
sign the Pisces is hiding behind.
Since you're one of my personal
favourite Sun Signs, I'll finish
this section off with a little story
which relates to the energies of
Pisces. A young, handsome man is out
fishing one day and catches
something rather unusual in his net.
The youth catches a beautiful
mermaid, also known as a melusine.
The youth and mermaid immediately
fall in love with one another.
There's one major hitch, though. The
two lovers are from very different
worlds and it's obvious the young
man can't join the world of the
mermaid. So, she makes the ultimate
sacrifice - so that the two of them
can be together. The mermaid offers
to join the world of the young man
by taking on the form of a mortal
woman. But in exchange for this
sacrifice, the mermaid requires one
small promise from the young man. He
must promise never to ask her to
reveal her true name. (The promise
he must make actually varies from
version to version, but the idea is
not to pry into a secret held only
by the mermaid.)
The young man readily agrees to this
condition and makes the promise to
her. So the years pass by with the
lovers living in their very own
version of blissful, joyous
paradise. But as time goes by, the
young man becomes ever so much more
curious about the mermaid - wanting
to know where she came from, who she
is and what her true name is. The
young man thinks to himself that
surely enough time has passed and
the beautiful mermaid won't mind
telling him who she is and what her
true name is.
So one day, the young man gathers up
his nerve and asks the beautiful
mermaid what her true name is? The
mermaid shrieks in horror that the
young man has broken his promise and
she instantly disappears. So you
see, Pisces... even if I managed to
catch a brief glimpse of your pure
essence, you'd simply disappear.
Your birth Sun is the hero of your
mythic journey through this
lifetime. Let Your Light Shine!
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Regardless of whether you're a male
or female, the very first love of
your life was your mother (or if mom
was absent, then another mother
figure in your environment). The
Moon symbolizes the unconscious,
instincts, and what you need to feel
nurtured in your life. The Moon is
the "place" where we go for comfort
when scared.... and we tend to
unconsciously nurture ourselves in
much the same way our mothers
nurtured and cared for us when we
were very young children.
With the Moon in Pisces, you feel
and experience your own emotions
deeply. You also tend to empathize
rather deeply with and intuitively
(sometimes almost psychically) "pick
up on" the emotions of the people
around you. As a very young child
you may have pictured your mother as
a caring, sensitive individual who
experienced difficulty in setting
her own emotional boundaries with
other people. As an adult, you may
feel a continuing strong empathy
with your mother (or other
alternative mother figure), and it
would therefore be helpful to your
own emotional growth and sense of
emotional stability if you learn how
to form your own emotional
boundaries.
Under stress? During those times
when you're an emotional
"shape-shifter, " you may feel an
instinctual urge to blend in with
and disappear into your environment
by reflecting back the behaviour of
your environment. This is called
emotional camouflage. You figure if
you manage to blend in well enough,
then they can't see you anymore.
Remember when you were a kid and Mom
asked you: "Would you jump off a
cliff just because everyone did?"
Because of your tendency toward a
lack of clear emotional boundaries,
you may at times feel the strong
need to withdraw and seek out
seclusion. Other times, you will
feel the safest when with a close,
trusted friend with whom to two of
you can mutually share your deepest
emotions, fantasies, and dreams.
Warning! You have a wee bit of a
strong tendency to draw in and
attract emotionally lost people who
need (and/or use and abuse) your
extraordinary sense of emotional
understanding, care, and empathy.
Please remember, you can't save the
entire world.
Tips for relieving day to day
stress? Meditation, listening to
relaxing music, escaping into a
nice, warm bubble bathtub for an
hour or so, volunteering at the
local homeless shelter, aligning
oneself with the cosmos, joining an
encounter group or a spiritual book
reading club. Dream vacation? Where
else? Escape to the ocean for a
little deep sea fishing and/or scuba
diving. Or maybe, just hang out at
the beach. If you're a Pisces Moon
with spiritual inclinations, then
you might prefer signing up for a
tour group travelling through India
and hosted by a really cool,
spiritual swami.
That reminds me of what the swami
told the hot-dog vendor: “Make me
one with everything.”
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I like to call Pisces the Zodiacal
Sign of "Smoke and Mirrors."
Of all the Pisces ladies I’ve dated
in the past (and there have been
more than a few), I can only think
of a few special select
characteristics that each one of
them had in common with the others.
1. Each of them had extraordinarily
beautiful huge, round, eyes that -
the best way I can think of to
describe it - were like luxurious,
radiant, shimmering, mystical pools
of water (that it was very easy to
get lost in).
2. None of them seemed all that much
connected to and/or concerned with
regular time and space reality. Each
one of them, in their own unique and
different way, seemed to be a
“stranger in a foreign land.” They
were always being surprised and/or
shocked when regular time and space
reality insisted on rearing its ugly
head.
3. And finally, all of them were
“shape shifters.” No really, they
were emotionally and physically
“shape shifters.” Each and every
time I would see one of them, she
looked different than she did the
time before. Usually, the change in
appearance was quite subtle - but
other times I truly wasn’t sure it
was the same person I was looking at
the day before. Not recognizing
someone that you’re dating is
generally less than helpful. Let's
say you happen to be walking down
the street, and you pass by your
Pisces without saying hello. For
some odd reason… relying on the
concept of "shape shifting," to
explain to someone why you blatantly
ignored them, doesn’t quite cut it.
However, this Number 3
characteristic of “shape shifting”
happens to be Pisces best defence
for their Number 2 characteristic of
not being very well connected to our
regular time and space world.
Society doesn’t normally give
positive strokes to those folks who
exemplify and exhibit the gentle,
caring, and sensitive energy of
Pisces. We live in a macho, dog eat
dog world. This lack of
reinforcement holds especially true
for male Pisces. With many slightly
older, more experienced male Pisces
(and some female Pisces), most of
the world will never get a glimpse
of the serene, sensitive, go with
the flow, oceanic creature that lies
just beneath the surface of whatever
other Zodiacal sign the Pisces is
hiding behind.
Just like I said, the Zodiacal sign
of "Smoke and Mirrors."
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