Pisces

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PISCES (THE FISH)

The sign of the Poet or Interpreter

A mutable watery sign. Gentle, kind, retiring, sensitive,
unlucky, often melancholy.

Ruler: Neptune

Gems: chrysolite, moonstone

Color: sea-green
Metal: tin

Harmonious signs for business, marriage, or companionship:
Cancer, Scorpio, Virgo


The Piscarian Type

Evolved Type
The strength of the typical Piscarian lies in his ideals and aspirations rather than in his actions. He usually has little worldly ambition, cares nothing for rank or power, seldom succeeds in making money, and rarely accumulates it. He is indifferent about restrictions and limitations, so long as the inner self is left free to feel, dream, and grow according to its own nature. Many people born under this sign are attracted to the cloister or shrink from society and from any competition, rivalry, and strife. Many others go to sea, or spend available recreation time on a yacht or fishing boat, preferring the silent world of waters. With the vast ocean below and the star-spangled sky above, they rest content, calm and fearless; for solitude and solitary musing are frequently the luxuries most prized by the type, especially if their lives are in uncongenial surroundings.

And yet it is difficult to say that any particular profession is impossible or unsuitable for a Piscarian. Individual commercial enterprise is least likely to be a success; however, if the business signs - Taurus and Virgo - are accentuated in his horoscope, the quick intuition and plastic mind given by Pisces may favor such undertakings. But as a rule the Sun, Moon, Neptune, or any striking group of planets in Pisces must be taken as inimical to worldly prosperity, because these positions indicate that the native will never make it his first consideration.
Curiously enough, the yearning for unity and the sense of completion carries many Pisceans onto the stage. This may to some extent prove trying and uncongenial, but the actual work of interpretation always gives these people intense delight. Receptivity of mind makes them accept the thought of the poet or playwright as naturally as if it were their own, and, once possessed or inspired, they revel in calling up these necessary emotions. There, in their turn, dominate the action, and so transform, for the time being, the whole personality.
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Further, the sensitiveness peculiar to the type gives Piscarians a very special pleasure in feeling they are in touch with their audience; for that is to them a foretaste of the enlarged consciousness for which they yearn.

In proportion to their delight in such achievements, however, in the measure of their despondency after failure; in some cases fits of unreasoning apprehension beforehand, and all the horrors of stage fright, are recurrent. Analyses of the horoscopes of successful actors and actresses show and amazing preponderance of this particular influence; there are few, if any, of the first rank without at least one planet in the sign. Ellen Terry had a quadruple accentuation, consisting of Neptune, the Sun, Saturn, and Mercury!

Apart from theatrical life, the true-born Piscarian generally learns sooner or later that all the world is a stage, and whether he plays lead or simply walks on he realizes more fully than is possible for other men that his life is only part of a stupendous whole, and that the setting of the scene is transitory, elusive, and of little importance compared with the rendering of the piece. This is why many Piscarians are peculiarly fitted to enter the church, the army, and the navy, or to take employment in institutions such as hospitals, universities, colleges, or in any other service which emphasizes the fact that the whole is greater than any of its parts, or teaches a man to regard himself as a mere unit, whose duty it is to put self and self-seeking aside. Government service is suited to this type; because the salaries, though small, are steady and regular. Life is often simplified for Piscarians by the fact that they accept celibacy easily, and many, especially women, lead cheerful and busy lives, content to sink their own individuality and fill up the odd corners of family life.
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Primitive Type

The primitive Piscarian is almost invariably an anxiety to his friends. Lacking the spur of worldly ambition and even, sometimes, the desire to be self-supporting and independent, he drifts aimlessly through life, waiting vaguely for the prompter and incapable of using his discrimination when the cue comes. He will accept any suggestion that fits the emotional need of the moment, and, as a variety of emotional experiences is the true path of his evolution, that condition is constantly changing. Like a rudderless boat he drifts on a sea of sensations, caught by every passing current, driven by every wind that blows. The wistful yearnings for completion which make the real compelling force of the sign are translated into cravings for comforts, emotional excitement, and, too often, for stimulants.

Even the fitness for celibacy and monastic life has its dark side in the earlier stages, merely manifested as a peculiar inability to understand the sanctity of marriage or to appreciate the qualities of faithfulness and loyalty. When highly developed, these people are pure yet very loving; but at the primitive level they are prone to strange adorations and antipathies which they do not attempt to control - reveling in the emotional exercise of a devotion that is positively abject, or shrinking with repulsion from an apparently harmless and innocent person. They are always more or less psychic and intuitional. Unless training leads this type in the direction of greater balance and self-restraint, nervous irritability, varied by sudden explosions of temper will become habitual.

Piscarians at this level also lack a sense of proprietorship, and cannot see why they should not be allowed to help themselves from the superfluity of others. Commercial integrity and a conscientious discharge of debts are altogether beyond them; and, though if they have money they are always quite willing to part with it, they can never understand why someone else who has the cash at hand should not meet their obligations for them.
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Physical Characteristics

The stature is generally rather insignificant; the skin is soft the hair fine and silky, they eyes light, and the complexion pallid. The best-looking among them have better proportions, clear complexions, and dimples instead of wrinkles. All disadvantages are generally atoned for by the plasticity of feature, mobility of expression, and extraordinary grace of movement and gesture. Even their somewhat deficient coloring seems to change and brighten as they forget themselves and their shyness in congenial society. A touch of the Neptune influence often adds great charm to childhood, and even in old age a certain childlike grace is sometimes retained, making the personality extremely lovable.

Piscarians are common in literature, but rarely play leading parts. An exception is Hamlet, the precise interpretation of whose character has been the subject of much debate. He is psychic, emotional, impressionable, prone to moods of loneliness and despondency, liable to sudden outbursts of severity which contrast strangely with his habitual gentleness. He is deeply religious, yet unrestrained in his flights of daring speculation, and so utterly devoid of ambition that he declares that he could be bounded in a nutshell, and yet count himself king of infinite space. Students who wish to have a clear conception of the tendencies of the Piscarian type should read and re-read Hamlet's utterances, remembering, however, that in his character, if authorities of Shakespeare are correct, we have inextricably mixed up a youth of twenty and a man of thirty. Many consider it practically certain that in the original draft of the play Shakespeare gave poignancy and pathos to the plot by making the unfortunate Prince a student at college, (as certain of the lines seem to show) and that his age was afterward advanced ten years (with some of the more philosophic speeches added) because Burbage was too fat and heavily built an actor to play so youthful a part effectively. The play, by judicious omission, can still be taken either way, but at whatever age the character is read, the influence of Neptune sways it.


Health

People strongly dominated by the vibrations of Neptune rarely fear death. They are frequently somewhat frail, but if the nature is finely balanced and activities are wisely guided, they will probably enjoy excellent bodily health.
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Health

People strongly dominated by the vibrations of Neptune rarely fear death. They are frequently somewhat frail, but if the nature is finely balanced and activities are wisely guided, they will probably enjoy excellent bodily health.



mostly true, but i do have some fucked up stomach issues. i'll blame my virgo rising for that 😄

yeah, and if i'm stressed i catch every little cold too