Pisces the Fish. Ruled by Neptune. In a way, the beginning, since it comes at the end. Pisces is the culmination of the journey, a mystical awareness of the One in Everything. Pisces breaks down borders with its Mutable Watery energy and seeks to free the truth from the constrictive forms which have gathered around all sides of the essence of things, and held it long enough for the play to be complete. Next comes the breaking down of the stage, the incorporation of the meanings and messages into ourselves, and our mystical dispersion further into the Ocean of time itself.

Of course, to live in this world means to stand on two feet, to look up at the sky and warm our hands over the fire and our faces in the Sun. Pisces signs progress through life with this burden of hidden knowledge. A lifestyle born from the risk of identifying too closely with the Beyond is ever-present. This can give parts of your chart where this sign touches a kind of hesitancy, since the truths revealed often cannot be understood by reason and logic. Pisces is the ultimate step skipper—the sign tuned into the wavelengths of dreams which undergird all of existence.

Pisces needs to take care not to be carried away. The means to escape is always at hand. With a blink, they can retreat into a fantasy world that may be more real in a sense than whatever mundane circumstance they may have gotten themselves trapped in. But reality is the ultimate test of something's fitness, at least here on Earth it is, at least during this incarnation.

Myth The myth of the two fishes is apparently extremely ancient, predating even the Hellenistic astrologers. Of note in the symbol is that the fish are tied together, which means that the beginning and the end of things cannot be separated, must be considered together at all times. One fish represents the powerful, irrational force of Nature itself, the other humanity's place in and relationship to that force. It is the same as a Mother and Child. Although we are born with reason and a drive toward the Sun, we can never escape our watery origins. From water comes all things, and we are no different. Pisces has a more direct link to this least rational of all causes, as if the umbilical had never been severed. The fish represents an uncanny goodness, as when Jesus and his disciples declared themselves fishers of men. The fish also represents the most alien and ancient of enemies —the Sea Monster —the giant scaled creature of the depths which overwhelms our rationality, who calls to us through all the water in our system and reminds us we can never fully escape it, no matter how far inland we travel, no matter how solid the ground beneath our feet.

HAND OF FATE: To heal, to feel and sense, to know, to do all of these things and keep our heads, and feed our hearts.Hand of Fate: Pisces' task is to understand the mystery of surrender without defeat. To discover the self in losing the self. To hold the tension of opposites without falling into escapism or despair. Pisces must master the art of swimming in deep emotional waters without drowning in them, turning confusion into wisdom, and chaos into creativity.