SPECIAL HOROSCOPE FOR PISCES: FEBRUARY 19 - MARCH 20
Happy Birthday, Pisces!
This year's birthday month for you has the potential to be, well, interesting. There's a fair amount of planetary action that could affect you in ways large and small. The sun will enter your sun of course, and you'll have a birthday new moon on February 27th. Mercury is already in your sign and will begin retrograding as of the 2nd of March, meaning that this little planet will be in your neck of the woods throughout the solar month. Mars will finally enter Gemini and your solar 4th house where it will stir up goodness knows what in the sector of home and family. Uranus continues to transit your sign, and this month it will meet briefly with the sun and have a potentially fairly gnarly conversation with Mars on the 11th of March. And to top it off, there's a full moon eclipse in your opposite sign of Virgo on March 14.
Add it all up and it's an unpredictable month. Which is why I'm not going to even hazard any guesses as to what this month will bring you. Plausible scenarios range from absolutely nothing of interest to experiencing a month full of surprising events. Theoretically, the eclipse will touch you in the sector of your closest relationships (marriage, business partners, etc.), so you may see some action there. Or...you may not. Eclipses tend to be unpredictable, and so does Uranus. So instead of telling you what exactly to expect, I'll tell you what to be alert for, by trying to give you a sense of what the big picture is for your sign, and why some planetary weirdness may make itself felt.
You see, this eclipse essentially kicks off a period of around two years in which the planets will seemingly be hell-bent on getting something to happen for you that will make you very very glad. In the process, however, they will root through your closets with the help of Neptune in Aquarius and throw everything up in the air until they find what they're looking for. I don't know how you feel about having everything tossed up in the air for a couple of years, but I'm going to try to explain to you why I think it's a good thing although you may very well disagree at times.
You see, one of the reasons that Piscean people exist on this planet is to teach other signs how to experience joy. This may seem like an unlikely task for Pisces as no sign can get gloomier, sadder, or more depressed. Pisces is the quintessential crying sign of the zodiac and whether you happen to be the kind of Piscean who likes to indulge it or not, your sign likes nothing better than a big boo-hooing session to clear out not only its sinuses but its accumulated sad feelings. And that, in its contradictory way, is exactly why Pisces is also the single most joyful, ecstatic sign in the zodiac. Sadness, boo-hooing, and the rest of those things happen to be how the human soul cleanses itself so it can see anew. Joy is experienced in the moment, something that the mutable sign of Pisces knows. If you repress sadness when it occurs, you repress joy as well. Being open to joyful moments requires periodic cleansing of the soul by indulging in and getting rid of all those little sadnesses, disappointments and painful feelings we all experience.
Most of the other signs don't know that. They think the route to joy is to conscientiously slap a positive attitude on top of all those sad feelings they'd rather not experience. A positive attitude is a wonderful thing, but it is not joy. Joy requires being able to feel; and being able to feel means being willing to experience pain. Now what the heck does this have to do with me, you may be wondering uneasily at this point.
Here's the deal. The planets are apparently getting ready to strap you into a rollercoaster of emotions to test your Piscean willingness and ability to ride through the moments and show all the rest of us that if we can just hang in there with our real feelings during the inevitable sickening drops that life sometimes hands us, then we will also get to experience the wonderful, exhilarating, joyful highs that life also hands out. Uranus, Mr. Rollercoaster himself, is very firmly parked in your sign. Neptune, your own ruling planet, is busy pulling up every unconscious feeling it can find in your psyche for your examination. And the eclipse series that begins March 14 is basically a set of mini-thrill rides that occur around 6 months for a couple of years. During the next couple of years your legs may get wobbly at times, and you may wonder whether or not you really want to be on a rollercoaster. But if you can hang in there through this process--big time joy will come your way.
This is the kind of energy that can make dreams come true. It may make them come true in a series of extremely unsettling jolts, but it can make them come true. Not all of them at once, but some of the most important ones. If you're willing to ride the rollercoaster.
So what do you need to do to make your dreams come true during this cycle? Well, it helps to actually have some. It also helps to communicate them, and to be willing to act on them. A little bravery will work to your advantage during this cycle as well. Being alert to surprising opportunities (the key word is surprising) and not hesitating to jump on them is a big plus. But the most important thing perhaps is to not block the energy. The rest of us are counting on you to be an inspiration. Show us how it's done. Show us how you're willing to keep on wanting something important even when wanting is painful, even when wanting is not having yet. Show us that if a person is willing to experience all the highs and lows that go with wanting and trying and trying again to make a dream come true--that crazy wonderful things really will happen. All the rest of us want to see your dreams come true because it gives us hope. So show all the rest of us how to experience joyfulness by spending the next couple of years being willing to have some of your dreams come true.
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As the last sign of the zodiac, you are in conflict with yourself, as your symbol suggests--two fish locked in tension, forever pulling each other in opposite directions. This can represent the personality tied to the soul, and indeed one seems to be swallowing the other. Your motto is "serve or suffer." And if you lean more toward the spiritual side, your rewards are huge, for you are the most sensitive and psychic sign in the horoscope.
You are friendly, charitable, self-sacrificing, and kind--with a natural intuition that works endlessly on behalf of others. Your fault is you have a difficulty in facing reality, so that many times you seem to deceive others, taking the path of least resistance instead of telling the terrible truth. Your rose-colored glasses may flatter others, but they also can lead you to tell lies. You can also be impressionable or gullible, and need to focus and channel your imaginations creatively. You, of all others, are the poet of the zodiac--please use that creative energy to its best expression.
You need a career that helps others, and have a talent for caring. Though you are not good at organization, you often work selflessly in the background, even though you may be attracted to acting where you can conceal your true personality behind the role. You make exceptional counselors, since you are so aware of the suffering of others. Other careers include a religious vocation, professional musicians, doctors, designing clothes--or doing two jobs at once, in keeping with your dual sign. In business, you make powerful administrators because you are so in tune with others' feelings. You need variety, but are not overly ambitious. You don't relish change--it brings about confusion and apprehension. You're not good at it, and your imagination works overtime, worrying.
Your inner self is always preparing to retreat from the world. You need to always try to seek a balance between your two sides, and to restrain your strong and deep emotions that cause moodiness, introspection, and a difficulty in expressing to others. When your need to escape from the world, to be alone, leads you to the source--the river of life--it can lead to great accomplishments. When you meet up with drugs, alcohol, or other substitutes, you become the prey for others. Watch out for your deep sense of pride which may keep you addicted for many years.
On the negative side, you may suffer from an inferiority complex, and a sense of unworthiness that can be self-indulged and wallowed in. You may try to lose this sense of separateness by resigning and being submissive to whatever you are involved in--love, lust, work, or pleasure. You must guard against this, and realize that your only true freedom comes through spiritual orientation. When you do this, you will become the true saviors and servants of mankind. With a great sense of compassion, you can sacrifice yourself for the betterment of the world.
More than anything, Pisces needs to explore his or her world through the emotions. You feel things deeply, and can become psychic easily, absorbing emotions around you. You need to choose your friends carefully, to guard against bad vibes. Your creativity and imagination makes you lean towards the arts, theater and film, whether as a career or a hobby. You need to make time to be alone, so you can detach from others' emotions and concentrate on that solitude and life force within. This will make you less moody and less impressionable, and will help you from suffering indecisiveness. This also can develop your mystical tendencies and spiritual side.
You flourish in a stable love relationship, as this fills you emotionally. A woman Pisces is mysterious, complex and compassionate. She is all feeling, with a quiet strength and inner depth that doesn't like to be limited or restricted in expression. She doesn't like dogma, and needs companionship--yet craves solitude. She can have a weakness for drugs or alcohol if imbalanced, but if she is evolved, she can excel in art, literature or music. She has a mystical channel that is very spiritual, if she is in tune with it, and has an almost psychic connection to children.
The challenge for the Pisces is to stay connected, to balance their two extremes seen in the picture of the two fish swimming in opposite directions, and to guard against becoming an aimless wanderer, a voyager, an introvert mired in depression, or an addict. With a sensitive nervous system, they many times react strongly to small doses of food or medications. They must also think carefully about who they can trust.
Their boundaries are thin, and they live best when they are connected to Jung's "collective unconscious," when he or she can retrieve from the spiritual world what has been lost, and bring it back to the surface for others to gaze at. Ruled by Neptune and Jupiter, a Pisces is steeped in dreams, visions, the imagination, and illusions. They have a need to get away for awhile and meditate before rejoining society, and find it difficult living in the present, preferring to live in the past or the future. Their challenge is to find some kind of way to express themselves without becoming addicted or a part of some kind of self-sabotage. They also need to find a way to fit in, without being co-dependent or a martyr. They need to find compassion without self-sacrifice.
Pisces rules the feet, which gives them good grounding, and a connection to earth. Sometimes they may get out of their depths, or lose control, and may need a more practical partner such as a Virgo to help get them back. Their challenge is to fully embrace the mystery or mystic sides of experience, while remaining a compassionate human being. As a water sign, and as a fish, they clean all the toxicity and poison out of other people with their gills, needing only solitude to clean themselves.
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Pisces symbolizes the vast, mysterious, nurturing ocean and the odd creatures that came out of it and on to dry land: a bit confused at first, adapting a well as they could, forever filled with the nostalgia of their origin - a genesis far back in the murky past - and carried by the hopes of their dream - transcendance in the misty future. Pisces ruling planet is Neptune which symbolizes myth, the symbolic and paradoxical nature of transcendental truth, veiled by illusion, recaptured by imagination, vision and seflessness. Pisces belongs to the Water element, pointing to the dissolving power of the primal ocean that covers and erodes lands, rocks, mountains and buildings. Pisces is a Mutable sign, indicating a lack of boundaries, a loose and blurry sense of identity.
Pisces has an affinity with the astrological 12th House, the Ego-Crusher (Fate experienced as a curse, chronic or debilitating conditions, karmic baggage, painful issues buried in the past, addiction). What lies behind the ego is the Self and it can only come out and reclaim its rightful dimension once the personality has cleared the way with selfless action and outlook. This is not easy for anyone snared in the trappings of the world and mired in its values. Thus comes confusion and an attempt to escape as graphically symbolized by the two fishes swimming aimlessly in opposite directions. But the dream is stronger and more vivid than the decoy of what passes for "reality".
Pisceans need a lot of space to fantasize although they also have a tendency for getting "holed up" when things don't go too well. They don't mind reclusion, even exile or self-imposed confinement. They need time alone because other people tend to overwhelm them and drain their energy, which may be weak to start with. They may drag their feet to do anything requested or imposed, but they would probably give their shirt or their last penny if you show them you are in dire straights. They may be more afraid of having to deal with "reality" and immediate consequences than to gaze into any hypothetical "beyond".
Pisceans like to let God or their partners balance the checkbook and pay the bills. Like water, if you provide the fire, they warm up and can evaporate, go up in steam. If you remove the fire, they slowly become tepid and if the conditions are such, icy. They can become easily defeated, resignated, imposed upon or victimized but since they can relate to this without being vengeful or judgmental, they can also be great saviors, rescuers, healers, listeners. The 12-step programs seem to have been invented for them and by them. You'll find a lot of Pisceans in bars, in movie theaters, as couch-potatoes in front of the TV, in prisons, hospitals and institutions, but also climbing mountains, flying an airplane, sailing solo across the ocean, or in communes, cults, and new-age stores!
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Those with prominent Pisces have been called mystic and psychic; they have been labeled as simpletons, and they have been stereotyped as 'those who dwell in deep waters'! They have been cruelly described as "homely" and even unintelligent at times, and have even been portrayed as shrewd. They have been found to be nebulous by some, with their awareness and psychic-ectoplasm hovering between realities, giving the impression that the Pisces is focused on a realm that is neither here nor there! So many diverse labels and such controversies characterize this 'mutable' sign that forms the tail end of the zodiac. Pisces stands for fish and fish is a simple life form, many say. It is also one of the oldest life forms and depicts survival and adaptability without which no life form can aspire to thrive for long. Pisces reminds us of the smell of the seas, the chaotic primordial sea from which creation arose, according to Hindu mythology, as gods and demons churned the ocean of milk and found nectar as well as poison. The secrets that the ocean can hold in its bosom are unfathomable, and yet it is made of transparent water that keeps moving and seems so incapable of hiding anything or keeping something buried within.
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Pisces is the last of the signs, the place where all of our lives, successes and failures, loves and hates, past and future, light and dark, are integrated. It is where our soul and our personality finally meet—and join.
In Aquarius we incorporated our guiding star, our ideals, into our lives. Now in Pisces we can touch that inner spirit in ourselves which informs us how we are living up to those ideals. We can use that starlight to move through the dark of unfinished business, and its fire to burn away the final dross of our zodiacal journey. It was a Piscean child who could say, "See, the Emperor has no clothes!"
Pisces is a water sign. All water signs are healing and bridging signs. Through them we touch our e-motions, which literally spur us to motion, move us into expression of what has real meaning to us. Pisces’ connection to proper understanding is shown by its association to the feet, which stand under us.
Water signs are in touch with suffering, and most suffering arises in the letting go of something to which we cling. In the air signs, which precede the water signs, we tend to hang onto outmoded ideas, attitudes, perspectives, and ways of thinking. Now, in Pisces, we allow intuition to work with mind to separate the significant from the petty, so that we can let go of nonessentials.
In Pisces, the last of the water signs, we must go all the way, we must finish the job. It is time to go through that metamorphosis which leads to transcendence of all those earthly ties which bind only the personality. The way must be opened for the soul.
The energy for this inner ruthlessness is like the great depths of the sea. During its quiet times the sea erodes the land inconspicuously but inexorably. In its stormy times, tidal waves and hurricanes can be totally devastating. Always, the sea releases its debris. We can see it on the beaches and in the fishermen’s nets.
Purification is the goal. It is during Pisces time that we engage in the fasting and penance of Lent. We are preparing the space for the fresh birth of Aries at Spring Equinox.
The night force is now in its closing phase, and all the remaining ghosts must be cleaned out if we are to become agents of universal wholeness.
Our imaginations open. We touch the grand symphony of the spheres. As we strengthen our inner focus, our purpose can become clear. In Pisces we need to align ourselves with spirit; if we fail to do this, confusion and chaos result.
As our sensitivity is increased, as we refocus around our spiritual center, we find a new strength to act, and that strength is generated through love. In Pisces we will be drawn to whatever we love the most, and if we focus our love on our true purpose, we will draw to ourselves opportunities for growth and success. Love is he greatest of all healing powers.
In Pisces we can appreciate the poetry and beauty of life. We have a restlessness to become part of the good, the true, and the beautiful which persist through time. The eternal verities draw us.
As we detach ourselves from one time and place, we can tune into all times and places. As we open and listen to our own deepest selves, we become attuned to all of life. We become aware that we are connected with one another in one vast web of life, and what happens to one part affects all the parts. We thus develop compassion and true humility.
Examples of Pisceans with an ability to see the whole combined with a strong sense of purpose are George Washington, the Father of our Country, James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, and Ralph Nader, who has been behind most of the environmentally friendly legislation which Congress has passed in the last 30 years, including the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. Talk about purification!
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as a Pisces, you've discovered the hard way - whenever a great big 18 wheeler crisis comes barreling down the interstate of life at 100 miles an hour (and inevitably there is a crisis barreling 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.
... 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 defense for survival in the world.
Since you're one of my personal favorite 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.
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Famous Pisces People
February 19 Prince Andrew, Sven Hedin
February 20 Cindy Crawford, Kurt Cobain, Sidney Poitier, Robert Altman
February 21 Jennifer Love Hewitt, William Baldwin, Kelsey Grammer, Nina Simone, Barbara Jordan, Anais Nin
February 22 Drew Barrymore, Ted Kennedy, George Washington, Frederic Chopin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Julius Erving
February 23 W.E.B. Du Bois
February 24 George Harrison, Steve Jobs, Edward James Olmos
February 25 Tea Leoni, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georg Friedrich Handel, Enrico Caruso, Meher Baba, Adelle Davis
February 26 Johnny Cash, Michael Bolton, Erykah Badu, Victor Hugo
February 27 Chelsea Clinton, Elizabeth Taylor, John Steinbeck, Ralph Nader
February 28 Brian Jones, Bernadette Peters, Linus Pauling, Tommy Tune
February 29 Anne Lee, Jimmy Dorsey, John Holland
March 1 Ron Howard, Tim Daily, Harry Belefonte, Ralph Ellison, Roger Daltry, Alberta Hunter
March 2 Tom Wolfe, Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Mikhail Gorbachev, Lou Reed, Tom Wolfe, John Irving, Martin Ritt, Jon Bon Jovi
March 3 Alexander Graham Bell, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, George Pullman
March 4 Mirium Makeba, Patsy Kensit
March 5 Niki Taylor
March 6 Stedman Graham, Jr., Shaquille O’Neal, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Wes Montgomery, Alan Greenspan
March 7 Maurice Ravel, Peter Wolfe, Piet Mondrian
March 8 Aidan Quinn
March 9 Camryn Manheim, James Vander Beek, Freddie Prinze, Jr.
March 10 Sharon Stone
March 11 Ralph Abernathy
March 12 Liza Minneli, James Taylor, Andrew Young, Jack Kerouac
March 13 Percival Lowell, William H. Macy
March 14 Albert Einstein, Michael Caine, Quincy Jones, Billy Chrystal
March 15 Mike Love, Fabio, Gerhardus Mercator, Michelangelo
March 16 Jerry Lewis, James Madison
March 17 Gary Sinise, Kurt Russell
March 18 Edgar Cayce
March 19 Bruce Willis
March 20 Holly Hunter
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