

When in the opposite sign of its preferred home, Mercury is said to be in detriment, or at a sort of disadvantage in Pisces. Ruled by Jupiter, Pisces likes to seek, expand, and dissolve boundaries, where Virgo, ruled by Mercury, likes to organize the material world, focus on fine details, and seek perfection. Pisces is in polarity with the mutable earth sign Virgo. Those born with Jupiter in the sign of the Two Fishes tend to have a strong belief in the unseen forces of the universe and are often mystic seekers and teachers. Pisces is potentially the archetype of a more private and mysterious seeker than the ebullient, outgoing Sagittarius. This placement presents a more thoughtful, reflective, and gentle version of Jupiter’s bold planetary energy.

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Jupiter has a full affinity with the imaginative and spiritual tendencies of this sign, but because it is in its nocturnal home, these themes take on a more interior and meditative expression. Sagittarius was thought to be the day, or diurnal home of Jupiter, with Jupiter finding a second nocturnal home in sensitive and soulful Pisces.

In classical astrology, Jupiter is the planetary ruler of both Sagittarius and Pisces. Pisces Planetary Rulership Domicile of Jupiter Pisces’ creativity, intuition, imagination, and strong inter-relational talents are all akin to the connectivity of the water element. Water fertilizes earth so that nature and creativity can incubate and bloom. Without it, nothing that takes a material form could “stick” together. Water represents the moistening and cohering principle that binds and connects all forms of nature. Pisces’s element is water, the second heaviest element, thought by ancient astrologers to be the fluid, adaptive, yet a tangible form of matter. Pisces begins the last phase of winter, when the cold season is less established, lending to the fluid and changeable sign qualities of Pisces. Pisces is the fourth and final of the mutable signs in the zodiac wheel, who all hold an energy of change, liminality, and adaptation at the end of one season, and the beginning of the next. The underlying seasonal sense that growth and renewal are soon returning to the world is mirrored in the reflective and inwardly creative imaginings of the Piscean archetype. This is the time of year when the chill of winter is beginning to yield to the oncoming warmth of Spring, and the days are continuing to increase in light. Pisces season in the western tropical zodiac begins on February 19, commencing the final phase of Winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Pisces Element, Mode, and Season Late Winter Venus, the Roman version of Aphrodite, is said to have an exalted position in Pisces, an affinity that echoes back to her gratitude for the fishes’ hospitality and help. Pisces is the Latin word for “fish,” and in Greek mythology, this constellation represents the koi fish that saved Aphrodite and her son Eros from the sea monster Typhon.Īs a reward, the two fishes were placed in the heavens to shine for all of eternity. The constellation known as Pisces has been associated with many divine figures in history, such as Poseidon/Neptune, Christ, Vishnu, and the Sumerian goddess Inanna. Read today’s Pisces horoscope Pisces Symbolism + Myth
