Sun in Pisces

The last sign is one Alan Leo 1899 admits he finds exceedingly hard to interpret. He thinks few people born in it would agree with any account of themselves, and his chapter wavers accordingly. Adams 1928 takes up the image of two fish swimming in opposite directions and reads it as a scattering of attention.

Ownership of Pisces is disputed. Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) and Lilly 1659 give it to Jupiter, while Adams 1928 gives it to Neptune, a planet unknown before 1846. Venus is exalted here and Mercury falls here in the older scheme, and the Sun has no recorded claim of its own.

Heindel 1918 says the Sun rising in this sign adds energy and ambition, which implies the old view of Pisces as short on both. Modern readings tend toward imagination and sensitivity, a softer vocabulary than the old books use.