Pisces

Pisces says, "I believe."

Archetypes: The Mystic, The Poet, The Face Dancer

Ruler: Neptune

Mode: Mutable

Perspective: Universal

Life Mission: Mystical Openness; to allow themselves to acquire the tools necessary to handle the level of psychic sensitivity they are born with

Developmental Phase: 80 years old to death. This is the phase of life where there’s a collapse of boundaries that separate time and space. The body is decaying and deteriorating; thus, it’s a time of loss, suffering, and surrendering. Because the body is dying, there is a heightened connection to the unconscious.

General Characteristics & Observable Behaviors:

Allowing; accepting; Compassionate; Forgiving; Empathetic; Surrendering; Empathic; Indiscriminately Loving; Dreamy or Spacey; Passive-Submissive; Otherworldly; Quiet; Shy; Transparent; Delicate; Weak; Lifeless; Vacant; Rescuing or Saving; Unconscious Guilt; Bleeding Heart; Co-Dependent; Weepy or Tragic; Metaphorical; Archetypal; Incoherent; Indistinct; Nebulous; Confusing; Chaotic; Crazy or Psychotic; Puzzling: Distorted; Elusive; Slippery; Tricky; False; Deceitful or Deceptive; Impressionable; Naive; Irresponsible; Feeble.

Give Pisces Permission to: Daydream or appear aloof | Unknowingly, they do this to bring themselves into a meditative state which helps them regulate their emotional and psychic sensitivity | Take 20 minutes to find the language to explain themselves in emotionally charged situations | Be service or other-oriented | Be visionaries rather than realists.Speak in parables, metaphors, and figurative language

Challenge Pisces When: Their escapist tendencies lead them to be unproductive and self-destructive | They are absorbing and succumbing to emotions that do not belong to them | Their ability to see how wonderful someone can be clouds their ability to see people for who they currently are

It has been said that life is nothing but a dream. No other zodiac sign believes this quite like Pisces does. Pisces can disengage from the "real" world at a moments notice. Why? Because they don’t want to be here in the first place! The real world is too harsh, too serious and lacks magic. They'd much prefer a dream. Whereas other signs may think dreams are meaningless, Pisces knows better. They intuitively understand that it is our consciousness that creates our outward reality. Consciousness is the experience, consciousness creates the “real” world.

Pisces is notorious for appearing aloof and lost in daydreams. This is far too surface level, and undermines their most ritualistic practice: meditation. Society has wrongly trained us to believe that in order to mediate we must be in a specific physical position, with soothing music, and chiming bells in the background. It is actually a state of being. A certain kind of mental calm that allows unseen within to be seen, and respected. A Piscean can be at restaurant eating dinner alone and feel themselves entering that meditative state. Looking at the big picture perspective, it is the Pisces task to observe the mind observing the world; to dissolve “reality”, and give life to the unconscious, intuition and dreams.

Strengths

“I just have feeling that so and so is going to call”, said every Pisces who ever lived. Low and behold, twenty-minutes later they are on the phone. Whilst it is far too reaching to say that Pisces can continuously predict the future with 100% accuracy, it’s much more reasonable to address the fact that it happens too often to be considered a coincidence. There is a psychic gift there.

Their mind, and fascination with it since childhood is another strength of Pisces. Taking a liking to any subject that discusses higher-level consciousness is straight up their alley! Through quenching their ongoing thirst for information in this area, they are indirectly and unknowingly walking themselves along the path of self-transcendence.

Shadow Side

Illusory experiences and deception walk hand-in-hand. Sometimes in their quest for transcendence they will get lost in their dream world and forget to bring back to Earth what they’ve uncovered. The physical world can be so overwhelming for them that they daydream to self-medicate. This can also be done through addictions (alcohol and drugs) because they controlled substances that can alter reality, and create the illusion of escapism. All they are actually doing is numbing themselves out.

The advice: Time alone, to unwind and meditate is essential for you mental and spiritual health. You are an emotional sponge, in a sense that you absorb all the stuff that no one can see (emotions and energy). You’ve got to learn how to ring yourself out or you’ll fall apart.