Cast & Chart

Rising sign

Pisces rising

A chart describes tendencies in a symbolic tradition. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

In an older source

The ocean, even when calm, is never absolutely still

Evangeline Adams, Astrology: Your Place in the Sun (1928)

About this entry

Lilly 1659, Raphael's Guide 1877 and Sepharial 1920 describe a short, fleshy figure and, in Raphael's case, a languid temper, reports that read as unkind today. Adams 1928 turns to the sea for her image, an unusually gentle piece of writing for the sign.

Like Aries, Pisces rises fast at northern latitudes and slowly in the far south, which is why a time rounded to the nearest hour can miss it. Clock accuracy decides the matter before any meaning is possible. Alan Leo, writing before 1917, grouped mutable signs rising, Pisces among them, with sensitiveness, sympathy and impressionability. Modern popular astrology keeps that receptive note and calls it softness and permeable boundaries, a modern phrase these writers never used.

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