The Power of Pisces

https://displacedgodsc1.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/the-power-of-pisces/


The astrological sign Pisces appears last in the Zodiac and forms part of a trilogy of astrological signs that include Cancer and Scorpio. Because of its position in the Zodiac, Pisces represents the fluidity of ending and beginning, and in Hindu mythology is associated with Vishnu. Pisces is imagined as two fish swimming in a circle, one fish facing down and one swimming upward. Twentieth-century astrologer Robert Hand wrote that the fish facing upward is swimming towards the heavens, seeking spiritual illumination. The other fish swims downward, concerned with material things. Together the two fish, eternally entwined, represent the difficulty in extracting the good from that which appears bad. Astrologers classify Pisces as a mutable sign because of its connection to ever-changing, ever-flowing water, which transforms as it fills or empties vessels.

The Pisces connects to Vishnu and Shiva because it is a symbol of fecundity; eighteenth-century astrologers consistently defined the moral meaning of Pisces: “the severe season has passed; though your flocks, as yet, do not yield their store, the ocean and rivers are open to you, their inhabitants are placed within your power.” The purposes of Hindu gods Vishnu (especially Kalki the warrior avatar) and Shiva (the “Destroyer god”) can often be construed negatively as destruction, but these gods do not destroy so much as prepare the way for rebirth and peaceful motion toward a new age. They restore the balance of the world and preside over the liminal space where endings become beginnings. [...]

I googled "Pisces shiva" because a Summon (Shiva) from my fave game was featured in an older game as two watery ladies. 😄