The Sun in Pisces makes you an idealist fired by the power of the imagination. You love to live on a romantic scale and are particularly susceptible to colour and movement. Inspiration and intuition play a great part in directing your actions.

The price you pay for your idealism is that you are hopelessly impractical in the conduct of everyday affairs. You are a dreamer.

You are hypersensitive, and this causes you an unnecessary amount of worry. You have a strong desire to help anyone in need, and are sometimes imposed upon by family and friends. You find it hard to say no to others, and to define your own limits. You are very sensitive to the illnesses and misfortunes of immediate family and friends, taking on their worries as though they were your own. You can appear timid, and find it difficult to stand up for your rights.

The up side of your capacity to empathise with others is that you are essentially an artistic type. Like the fish you tend to take on the colouring and the mood of your surroundings. This means that you could become an actor or actress. The capacity to take on another's role and feelings is strong in you. Other possible careers involve caring for others, such as social work.

As with all other mutable signs, there is a duality in your nature. Leaping out of the water of matter towards higher ideals is one aspect of this sign. But the fish can also be bound to the earthly or watery plane of existence. Those who are drifting with the earthbound life can get into self-undoing with too much drink, too many sexual partners, too much refusal to take responsibility for others.

In terms of health you could have problems with the feet. Pisceans tend to have smaller feet in relation to their body size than other signs. You could suffer from corns, chilblains and the like and always need to wear well-fitting, comfortable shoes. Off-the-rack purchases of footwear can often cause problems. You need to keep your feet warm and dry, or you will develop tinea or other fungal infections.

The one thing that you are renowned for is a tendency to feel sorry for yourself when ill. Resistance to pain is not a characteristic: you burst into tears easily.

Pisceans born in the Southern Hemisphere often express greater practicality than their Northern Hemisphere counterparts, because they share some of the characteristics of their opposite sign, Virgo. They can become quite 'health-faddy', refusing to eat certain foods or taking vast quantities of pills to supplement their diet. This is particularly so in middle age.

At first glance, you may find yourself fascinated with a Pisces. They are usually gentle and have a softness about them, essentially living in a world of dreams and romance. Along with their sensitive and mysterious qualities, their psychic intuition usually leads them through life. They have a tendency to fall in love easily and can have several love affairs until finding the right match. To stay in a continuous relationship, they need to have their emotional needs met, along with a feeling of security. Adaptable to almost any situation and all sorts of people, you may find the Pisces to be a real charmer.

To win points with the Piscean, compliment them on their appearance, or flatter them regarding something they have done. Additionally, if you’re the sentimental type, you will be on your way into a fulfilling relationship. If you’re thoughtful, kind, and affectionate, in return, you may find yourself richly awarded with devotion. However, if you constantly criticize or have a tendency to be unfaithful with your devotion, you may want to keep looking. They will find this behavior intolerable and definitely unacceptable. Pisces will do almost anything for someone they care about. Once they commit to a person, they will give all their time, effort, and energy to them.

Their interests fall in the arts and in stimulating conversation. These often artistically talented individuals love topics on mysticism, spiritualism and the supernatural. Pisces love to expound and explain their point of view, however, if you don’t agree, be gentle. This sensitive zodiac sign, doesn’t appreciate rejection or someone that takes a completely negative approach to life. They are also great listeners and their sympathy is mostly genuine.

Once they have found a stable, passionate, and tender partner, they will relinquish their uttermost passion and devotion to them exclusively. They won’t even mind if the person makes most of the decisions that are to be made. As an attentive, compassionate and romantic lover, they will surely fulfill your spiritual and physical needs. Once content in emotional security, this vulnerable sign of the zodiac, will look no further.

The sign of the Fish rules the House of the Unconscious, which says a lot about the world that Pisceans live in.

A dreamy state is very attractive to these folks, one where some delicious secrets are hidden from their lover, only to be sprung upon them at the right moment.

The Fish enjoys alternating between conscious and unconscious states, the better to develop a romance in their vivid minds. When it's back to earth, Pisceans are selfless and intuitive and love to serve their lover.

Showering a partner with exquisite fantasies and other sweet things becomes a blissful state for both.

The emotions of the Fish run deep and can be rather erotic if their lover knows how to release them. Those born under this Water sign can flow like a river and have a sensitive and spiritual nature which can be quite alluring.

Pisces, the twelfth and last sign of the zodiac, is ruled by the planet Neptune and symbolized by the Fish. To say that Pisces is represented as two fish is one thing, but to say that one is swimming upstream and the other down is quite another; therein lies a clue to the nature of its natives. There's a certain contrariety to this sign which makes Pisceans restless or sometimes at odds with themselves. As symbolized by the fish swimming in opposite directions, these natives often find a conflict between their conscious behavior and subconscious promptings or their mortal desires and spiritual yearnings. There's a part of their consciousness which tends to another realm of existence, a dimension less troubled by material things, ego gratification or grossness, and their conception of this idyllic place persists in the back of their minds at all times. Another aspect of the Pisces symbol is that one fish is above the other, representing the distinction between heaven and earth. These natives will tend to live on two planes of existence at once, the spiritual and the physical, and they can have an unusual capacity for integrating the two in their lives. The waters they inhabit are the mist-like emanations of the distant planet Neptune, and their ties with the earth are its manifestations of spirituality, psychism, intuitive powers and creativity.

Before you write off your Pisces friends as 'way out' or some kind of incurable dreamers, there's more you should know about the natives of this watery, mysterious sign. First of all, they can be giving, even self-sacrificing, to a fault. After all, who was it who answered your call in the middle of the night to rescue you from being stranded with a flat tire, or lent a sympathetic ear when you really needed it? Pisceans can never say no to a friend if his need is genuine, and even if sometimes it's not so genuine. Their hearts naturally go out to those less fortunate, the underprivileged, the underdog, the sick, even if for the moment, that happens to be you. They can be duped into helping others through false pretenses, but even then Pisces natives will not bear a grudge. They tend to see only the good in people and can be as forgiving as they are compassionate. They'll sometimes spend themselves to exhaustion in their outpouring of compassion to others, not only emotionally, but physically. At these times, they'll have to be alone, to submerge themselves once again in the subtle vibrations of Neptune's healing power, indulging in meditation, prayer or spiritual reverie in order to regain their strength.

You may have trouble spotting Pisceans in a room full of people. The more masculine ones might be mistaken for a weak Leo, the more feminine types for the passive form of Cancer. The appearance of these natives is greatly affected by other planetary positions in their natal charts, but there are some physical characteristics which are unmistakably Piscean. The general character of the facial features, for example, will be of a singular softness. Everything will seem to be rounded, especially the cheeks, which may be prominent in some way, reminding you of the gills of their zodiacal mascot. The eyes similarly, may appear to bulge with somewhat of a sleepy or dreamy expression, and in them you can get the distinct impression of wisdom, mystery or spiritual depth. For this reason, Pisces' eyes are perhaps the most beautiful in all the zodiac. The lips will tend to be full with a pursed or puckering quality, suggesting a certain sensuality. The jaw is generally weak or subdued, and in some natives, there will be a tendency to double chin. The neck is generally graceful, meeting at the shoulders with a certain smoothness of line. The hair is most often fine and wavy, usually ranging in color from blonde to dark brown, and the nose is generally small. You'll notice something peculiar about the hands and feet— they'll either be small and petite or large and cumbersome. Most Pisceans are short, although you'll find a few tall, lanky specimens wandering about the misty clouds. Many of them, especially the females, can possess an ethereal or other-worldly quality.

Pisces, being the last sign of the zodiac, is said to represent the culminating point of all the other signs and as such, implies a completeness of understanding on the part of its natives. In the Piscean personality you may find the quickness of Gemini, the peacefulness of Taurus, Leo's love of pleasure, the congeniality of Libra, the sensitivity of Cancer, the wanderlust of Sagittarius, Scorpio's mystic penetration, the helpfulness of Virgo, Aries' originality, the melancholy of Capricorn or the humanitarianism of Aquarius. Neptunians themselves may not exemplify any of these qualities in particular, but they embrace them all through their breadth of perspective. Basically, it is up to them which qualities of each sign, positive or negative, they will choose to cultivate in their own personalities. If they are judicious, acceding to opportunities for spiritual growth, they will take from each sign its own particular gem of wisdom, incorporating each one into their own crown of cosmic consciousness. Pisceans' expanse of vision is different from that of Aquarians, whose view of the universe is limited to what they can grasp intellectually. Pisceans, on the other hand, transcend this limitation by receiving impressions of the universe through their intuition or sixth sense, and can have an inkling of truths far beyond intellectual or emotional understanding.

From this perspective, it is easy to understand the Piscean's sometimes lackadaisical attitude. Try to impress on him the need for punctuality, organization and efficiency or the importance of money and career, and he'll seem vaguely interested; try to get him excited about the social unrest in Afghanistan, the instability of the world's economy or the political candidates for an upcoming election, and he'll give you a serene yet knowing smile. His actions may seem like laziness or apathy at first, but on closer scrutiny, you'll find behind them a greater wisdom. There is a part of the Piscean which recognizes, subconsciously at least, that some things are just not that important, that in the larger scheme of things, all that really matters is one's own inner development. In the deep recesses of his consciousness, he instinctively recognizes that the temporality of materialism will ultimately yield to the incorruptibility of spiritual values. Some March-born will carry this kind of thinking too far, becoming the irrepressible dreamers or the followers of blind religious devotionalism. On the other hand, some may deny this aspect of consciousness altogether, seeking to substitute spiritual experience with the euphoria of alcohol or drugs. A goodly share of skid row bums will be Pisceans, their wasted lives as testimonials to the negative side of Neptune. As with the fish, these natives have their choice of swimming upstream, against the currents of vanity, pettiness and contention to increasingly clear waters, or to let themselves be swept away to the murky waters below.

The challenge to Pisces natives is to somehow integrate their affinity with the more subtle planes to some constructive work on the physical level. They may achieve this by working in artistic or creative occupations where intuition and creativity are necessary attributes. Neptunians can make excellent musicians whether classical, jazz or rock, imbuing an intriguing, soulful quality to their performances. In painting or sculpture, their works manifest an other-worldly quality, capable of evoking profound emotion. Piscean writers can be very fluent and voluble; their words seem to flow from them in a torrent. In dance, they will exemplify a fluidity of motion not found in other signs. Neptune rules the feet, and these natives can be capable of some pretty fancy footwork whether on stage as ballerinas or on the dance floor of a local discotheque. No matter what their occupation or interest, they will never feel happy in their work unless it somehow entails a certain amount of creativity or involvement in the realms of the spiritual, the subconscious, the psychic or the unseen. Similarly, Pisceans will not be able to maintain for very long friendships or associations with those who are too materialistic or worldly. They may actually get physically ill if obliged to subscribe to their mundane philosophies for very long.

Neptunian energies can also find a positive outlet in the medical field, especially in those occupations where there is a direct personal involvement with the sick. Their outpouring of sympathy and a desire to help the weak or infirmed are natural attributes for doctors, nurses, medical receptionists, assistants, attendants, etc. In these occupations, Pisceans find outlet for their Neptunian drives of compassion and mercy while their professional statures curb the likelihood of their being taken advantage of. So penetrating is their sensitivity that a touch or words of understanding from these natives can sometimes be as curative as the medical treatment itself. In the same way, social work, caring for the handicapped, counseling for child abuse, alcoholism, drug abuse, for the dying or bereaved, etc. are occupations uniquely suited to Pisceans' sense of mercy and their sensitivity to spiritual and emotional needs. If they're typical March-born, they are not discriminatory to whom they extend their consoling words or actions whether to saint, sinner, murderer, thief, liar, rich or poor, deserving or undeserving. They instinctively recognize the integrity of each person's spirit and with a forgiving heart can overlook the apparent causes of their particular situation of problem. You'll never get judgmental remarks or condescending glances from these natives. Their ultra-sensitivity allows them to see the spiritual essence within each individual with a certain reverence. Their insight into the spiritual realms can sometimes lead them to commitments in the religious life as priests, reverends, monks or nuns.

The super-subtlety of Pisces can often lead the natives to confuse the material and spiritual planes, taking the shadow for substance or reality for illusion. Indeed, because their outlook is not entirely from a physical perspective, Neptunians can in some cases, regard everything as dream or illusion. Although Shakespeare was a Taurus, he left words with profound insight into this typically Piscean frame of thought: