Pisces

Pisces is the twelfth sign of the zodiac, a mutable water sign symbolized by two Fishes swimming in opposite directions. Its traditional ruler is Jupiter and its modern ruler is Neptune. It carries the energy of compassion and imagination, the urge to dissolve boundaries and merge with something larger. The Sun passes through Pisces from roughly February 19 to March 20. Where Pisces falls in a chart is where a person feels intensely, dreams, and senses the unseen connections between things. The Pisces temperament is gentle, empathic, imaginative, and spiritual. It absorbs the feelings around it, gives without keeping score, and has a natural gift for art, music, and compassion. Pisces understands suffering and offers others a sense of being genuinely understood. The same openness, unguarded, becomes escapism, confusion, poor boundaries, and a tendency to lose itself in others or in fantasy. Pisces rules the feet and the lymphatic system, and its key phrase is "I believe." Its growth lies in building gentle structure, so that its sensitivity becomes a source of creativity and care rather than a way to disappear.