According to the Western Astrology, which is commonly accepted and “promoted” by the current pop culture there are 12 zodiac signs.
Many people believe that Zodiac Signs can tell a lot about someone’s life, and personality. So, today we are about to learn more about one of the zodiac signs: Pisces.
- Pisces is the twelfth astrological sign in the Zodiac.
- It is a negative mutable sign.
- It spans 330° to 360° of celestial longitude.
- Under the tropical zodiac, the sun transits this area between February 19 and March 20.
- So, people who are born in these days belong to the Pisces zodiac.
- In sidereal astrology, the Sun currently transits the constellation of Pisces from approximately March 12 to April 18.
- Pisces derives from an ancient greek word that basically means fish.
- In classical interpretations, the symbol of the pisces is a fish.
- The fish is derived from the ichthyocentaurs, who aided Aphrodite when she was born from the sea.
- According to some tropical astrologers, the current astrological age is the Age of Pisces.
- Others maintain that currently it is the Age of Aquarius.
- While the astrological sign Pisces per definition runs from ecliptic longitude 330° to 0°, this position is now mostly covered by the constellation of Aquarius.
- This is happening due to the precession from when the constellation and the sign coincided.
- Today, the First Point of Aries, or the vernal equinox, is in the Pisces constellation.
- There are no prominent stars in the constellation.
- The brightest stars is of only fourth magnitude.
- One star in the constellation, Alpha Piscium, is also known as Alrescha.
- It comes from the Arabic, meaning “the well rope,” or “the cord.”
- The constellation, however, is different from the astronomical location in where the sign occupies space.
- The constellations in earlier times were primarily used as markers to help determine what influence was in the sky.
- Nevertheless, the sign of Pisces remain in the 30 degree span of 330°-0°.
- Ptolemy described Alpha Piscium as the point where the cords joining the two fish are knotted together.
- The astrological symbol shows the two fishes captured by a string, typically by the mouth or the tails.
- The fish are usually portrayed swimming in opposite directions.
- This represents the duality within the Piscean nature.
- They are ruled by the planet Neptune.
- They are obviously water signs.
- Although they appear as a pair, the name of the sign in all languages originally referred to only one fish.
- Of course from this general rule there are esception- the exception of Greek, Romanian, Bulgarian, Dutch, Latvian and Italian.
- Typhon, the “father of all monsters,” had been sent by Gaia to attack the gods, which led Pan to warn the others before himself changing into a goat-fish and jumping into the Euphrates.
- A similar myth, one in which the fish “Pisces” carry Aphrodite and her son out of danger, is resounded in Manilius’ five volume poetic work Astronomica:
- Water signs Cancer and Scorpio are great companions, and together they can form a strong friendship.
- Pisces hate being pushed, given ultimatums and threats.
- Pisces would withdraw in front of a challenge.
- Pisces has a fragile disposition and needs lot of down time.
- Pisces are very sensitive, so don’t be hard on them
- Pisces are considered as some of the most secretive zodiac signs.
- The most compatible signs with Pisces are generally considered to be Taurus, Cancer, Scorpio and Capricorn.
- The least compatible signs with Pisces are generally considered to be Gemini and Sagittarius.
- Boating, travel, music, meditation, astrology, and nature walks are activities for Pisces to consider
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