Pisces may be the most gifted of the 12 signs. And also the most challenged. The fish is the 12th sign of the zodiac and thus is a blending of all the 11 preceding signs. Neptune, Pisces' ruler, represents mystical dissolution into the cosmic sea where ego dissolves and identity merges with the vast unknown. Watery, psychic, visionary, and acutely senstive, the fish has more trouble negotiating the world of hard facts than most other signs. The world of unrighteous mammon is no place for the indigo burst of the Christ vision, the call to Muhammed, or the the dance of Shiva. Pisces' will and intent is to serve. The Christ washed the feet of the disciples as an act of sacrificing ego. Pisces rules the feet and also the age in which Christianity was born. The cross, the fish, the chalice and the sea are images that perfectly align with Pisces. We have been integrating this age for over 2,000 years. We struggle now to release the ingrained images of one age in order to move into the cyber age of Aquarius.
All fish need time to retreat from the world in order to manage and understand the psychic energies they collect. Pisces is like a sponge and soaks up everything around it. Senstive to environment and the vibrations of others, Pisces, the boundless, has a difficult time sorting out what is self and what is other. The time in solitude resembles hours in an ashram or retreat where silence can work its magic of healing. Neptune, dissolver of boundaries is also the ruler of drugs and alcohol. All the water signs, Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces are prone to addiction if right discrimination and acceptance of healthy ego are not achieved.
Pisces polar opposite, Virgo, (Mother Theresa's sun sign) is the healing mirror for the fish's deep gaze. To love and serve are admirable. But to do so without thought is indiscriminate. Mother Theresa, who accepted all who needed her, practiced discrimination. She did not give more than what was needed; she gave precisely what was demanded: a way to self-esteem and victory for the downtrodden. Her warm bowls of soup and earthy bread fed the body as Christ broke bread with his disciples. One interesting note here, is that many astrologers and historians think that Christ may have been born in September, thus making him a Virgo! The Master practiced right discrimination in all his works as did Mother Theresa.
Pisces' lesson is to work with Virgo (Mercury ruled) so that thought penetrates Neptunian depths. Focus, structure, "rules" and boundaries are key to the right use of Pisces' enormous compassionate powers. Empathic, psychic and sometimes unstable, the fishes swim against themselves in the 12th house of self-undoing. Salvation is found within one's own heart. Pisces can also find it in the mind.