This sign governs the feet of the Grand Man, or Microcosm. It is a phlegmatic, nocturnal, common, effeminate, watery sign, the negative pole of the Water Triplicity. The higher attributes are emotion and silence. The Sun enters the sign on or about the 19th of February, and departs from it on or about the 21st of March. The Sun on entering the sign should be given six days before coming into full touch and action with the influence of the sign. A person born between the dates of the 19th and the 25th of February would not receive the full central results of the sign's individuality, as he would be born when the Sun was on the edge of the sign. This is known as the Cusp, and its nature and impulses partake of the sign the Sun has just passed through and out from, and the native will also partake of the attributes of the sign of the Zodiac the Moon is located in at the time of birth. This is called the Metaphysical Sign of Understanding.

These people have a deep, hidden love-nature, and are always anxious to give of their abundance to all who need. They are natural lovers, and their realm is the kingdom of the soul. They rarely look for dishonesty; on the contrary, are prone to have too much confidence in the words and promises of those they love. They are very loyal to their friends, and will defend them whether right or wrong. It is almost impossible for the average Pisces person to acknowledge a flaw in the person cared for. These are the people who will deny themselves the absolute comforts of life to further the interests of relative or friend. These are also the people of quick attractions and equally quick repulsions, though they are generally too kind to let their aversions be seen. They are very fond of beautiful things in nature and art, and among them are to be found excellent art critics, artists, and writers. They have a limpid purity of style when properly educated, that resembles the clear, blue, shimmering water which is their native element. When writing, they have always an eye to the placidly picturesque. These Pisces people are also very magnetic, and some splendid healers are to be found among them. Their gift seems to be the peculiar and sacred one of laying on of hands. In this beautiful work their great desire to help often causes them to give too much, and consequently to deplete and injure themselves. These people are rarely satisfied with giving. They will empty their pockets and spend all the vital force they have on hand, and then fret because they have not done more. Those born under this sign do not demand quite so much as they give; if they did they would be the most difficult people on earth to live with. They are naturally very honest and clean-minded, and the women are easily disgusted with anything coarse or common. In marriage they become very unhappy if the relation is degraded into a merely sexual one. This sign governs the feet, but it leads those born under it into clean, clear places, unless they yield themselves to its temptations and inherent weaknesses.

These people are fond of responsibility, and can usually be relied on to fill acceptably places of trust. Those who have been trained to methodical business habits make excellent accountants, cashiers, and book-keepers. They are very few egotists to be found among Pisces people. In fact, they are in many instances abnormally deficient in self-esteem and this causes them to appear very awkward, and sometimes leads to the belief that all the world is against them, and it is of no use to try to keep up in the race with others. They have a deep religious feeling, and because of their great persistency and natural loyalty, they cling to an early belief or a creed, even when they are very much shaken as to its correctness. When they do change they are apt to excuse themselves by saying it is not so different after all from what they had previously believed. There is an innate modesty of both old and young born under this sign.

Personal Appearance

Pisces people are usually full faced, with placid, sleepy eyes, and apt to be round-shouldered.

Companions

They will find their most congenial friends and companions among Virgo and Capricorn people.

Faults

Worry, anxiety, and diseased imagination are the most formidable faults of this sign.

Some of these people beat their hearts out with imaginings fears, and are constantly expecting accidents and unpleasant tidings. This anxiety makes them prematurely old. Many an active and earnest business man has taken his own life because of his gloomy forebodings of failure, and afterwards those fears were found to have been groundless. Pisces men, probably on account of their training and education, are more careful and methodical in their daily habits than Pisces women, although just as restless. The women are wavering and uncertain in all their actions. They lose their belongings, and mislay those of other people. They drop things and forget to pick them up, and sometimes are so superlatively careless in all household matters that even their sweet and helpful dispositions cannot make up for the trouble they create in a well-ordered household. These are the pepole who kick up mats and rugs, and never seem aware that they do not leave things exactly as they found them.

There is a peculiar obstinacy in the Pisces character, which sometimes becomes a most formidable element to deal with, and really seems inexplicable, but it is easily explained. The natural timidity and abnormal delicacy of these people acts as a constant restraint, and after a while the nature becomes tired of the yoke of its own placing and rebels. At this crisis they show a stubbornness which is even more disagreeable than that of the stiff-necked Taurus, and they have neither logic nor consistency. They will say and do the most absurd things, and stick to them. At such times, argument and advice are useless. The more they are reasoned with, the more obstinate they become. In the acceptance of a new theory or truth which they have previously repudiated, the males are quite likely to declare that it is precisely what they have always believed. One of the great faults of this sign is intellectual dishonesty.