Pisces
There's little worldly ambition in Neptune people. Most of them wouldn't give a minnow for rank, power or leadership, and wealth holds little attraction. Few Pisces people accumulate money by the bushel, unless they marry it or inherit it. Mind you, they have nothing against cash. But they're more aware than most of us of its temporal qualities. Whoever said, "I don't want to be a millionaire - I just want to live like one," was truly reflective of the Piscean philosophy.
You'll be impressed with the Piscean charm of manner and lazy good nature. He's indifferent to most limiting restrictions, if thay don't rob him of his freedom to dream and feel his way through life. He's even more indifferent to insults, recriminations and other people's bristling opinions. Tell a Piscean that society is decadent, the government is cracking, air pollution will put us all in our graves and the world is coming to a dead stop, and he'll yawn, or smile enchantingly, or look vaguely sympathetic. Very little will excite him to violent action or reaction. Of course, the fish is not completely bland. He does have a temper. When he's finally aroused, he can be bitingly sarcastic, with a clever, caustic tongue. To arouse the fish to a display of temper is rather like tossing a pebble into a clear, mirror-smooth lake. You'll create some ripples, but the surface will soon be calm again.
Pisces eyes are liquid, heavy-lidded, and full of strange lights. Frequently, but not always, they're slightly protruding, bulbous and extremely compelling. Some Piscean eyes are simply beautiful. The features are elastic and mobile, and you'll usually find more dimples than wrinkles. Few Pisceans are tall; Neptune bodies are sometimes awkwardly built, but with their extraordinary grace, it's seldom discernible.
Like Scorpios and Cancerians, Pisces people are wise to stay miles away from alcohol. Too many Pisceans find enticing relief from trouble in liquor. It lulls them pleasantly with a false sense of security and it's a dangerous lullaby. The fish was born with the desire to see the world through rose-colored spectacles. He knows well enough about the seamy side of humanity, but he prefers to live in his own watery, gentle world, where everyone is beautiful and all actions are lovely. The rejected Pisces is too inclined to face the ugliness of failure by deepening his false hopes, when a determined switch of course, or some new, forceful action might shower him with real, instead of imaginary success. Not every March-born person falls into such a typical Neptune trap, but enough of them do to make it a necessary warning.
The Pisces symbol of two fish in reversed directions symbolize the choice given Pisces: to swim to the top - or to swim to the bottom and never quite reach his goals. Pisces must learn that he is to serve mankind in some way, ad eschew worldly possessions. Piscean Einstein, who swam upstream, formulated a whole new world of relative time. Pisceans who swim downstream serve by washing dishes or shoveling snow. The choice is always there, because there's never a lack of unusual talent, but the fish, with eyes that see clearly on both sides, somtimes has difficulty seeing straight ahead.
Although Pisceans shrink from competition, the strong pull of Neptune sends many of them toward the bright footlights, where they can use their fabulous powers of interpretation to project myriad emotions. But only if they fight their distaste for the hard work of grueling rehearsals, and the dullness of the dreary, but necessary years of experience. Memorization is seldom a problem. The Pisces memory is legendary, although with an afflicted Moon or Mercury they can forget their own telephone numbers.
When a Pisces has a feeling something will happen, it usually does. If he tells you not to get on that plane or in that car, you'd better plan to swim or walk.
While Aries represents birth in the zodiac, Pisces represents death and eternity. The fish is the twelfth sign, a composite of all that's gone before, and his nature is a blend of all the other signs, which is a lot to cope with. His surprising ability to organize and concentrate on detail which pops up now and then, as well as his gentleness, reflects his inner knowledge of the lessons of Virgo. His jugdment is as fair and detached as that of Libra, and his love of pleasure is also purely Libran. Pisces people have the crazy sense of fun of Cancer, as well as both the Cancerian sympathy and crabbiness. They're sometimes full of Sagittarian outspoken frankness ad generosity, as fun-loving and outgoing as Leo, yet as devoted to duty as Capricorn, and often just as envious of social distinction. There may also be a smattering of the Saturnine melancholy. The fish can be as moody as a Moon child and as happy as a lion. He likes to tease and analyze in Aquarian fashion. He's often overflowing with Aries idealism and enthusiasm, but usually without the Mars drive. A Pisces person can zip around with Gemini quickness, talk just as fast and think just as cleverly. He can also be as lazy and peaceful as Taurus. He has the clever wit of Mercury and the soft grace of Venus, and he combines it with the mystic penetration of Scorpio, without the Scorpio's ruthlessness. The Piscean love of music and art, and his highly developed senses and versatility he owes to other signs, but his deep wisdom and compassion belong only to him, culled from the combined knowledge of every human experience.
Humor is one of their secret weapons. Pisceans grin to cover unshed tears. They're masters of satire, and you may cringe from a bright remark thrown at you so casually that you're unable to pin down the exact meaning or the intent. He's an excellent practical joker, great at pulling hilarious lines while he keeps his own elastic face mournful and straight. He can move gracefully from a slapstick to brittle, sophisticated jokes. Sometimes the fun is warm and harmless, sometimes it's cold and merciless; but it's always a cover for another emotion the fish wants to hide, seldom spontaneous of itself. Pisces wears his laughs as a mask, and they disguise him well.
There's a great feeling of pity and a desire to help the sick and weak. Pisces share compassion for the ill with Virgo, but he takes the extra step to try to understand the hearts of the burdened and the friendless, the failures and the misfits, no matter how weird or how rejected by society. To help is his first instinct. There are Pisces people who are crusty and brusque, but it's only a fragile shell, worn for protection. The world is not yet tuned to the sensitive Piscean wave-lenght, so he sometimes feigns indifference. The impositions of those who would trample him force the fish to hide his true spirit.
The glorious Piscean imagination, their marvelous elfin humor and the Neptunian sense of beauty can create the most delicate, yet eternally lasting prose or poetry. You'll frequently find fish who have buried their personal dreams to brighten odd corners of the lives of relatives and friends, or to bring the gift of tears and laughter to the public through the stage, at the cost of the privacy Pisces seeks and needs.
He hates to answer a direct question with a yes or no. It's always maybe. A simple curiosity about what play he just saw or what book he just read can bring an evasive answer for no reason in particular. All is illusion with Pisces, and they find it hard to tell the difference themselves. Their internal nature is as unfathomable as Neptune's great oceans.
Hanging somewhere between the silent waters of the sea below and the cast, star-studded mist above, only barely touching the earth from necessity, Pisces lives his life in lonely understanding of truth too deep to express in words. Those who want him for a friend, those who love him, must use their imagination to grasp the strange planes of his mind and emotions. The other two water signs - Scorpio and Cancer - are symbolized by half-land, half-water creatures, amphibious and flexible - but the fish can't breathe air. He must live in cool green water, sometimes muddy, always moving.
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