Pisces secrets and star lore

Pisces is the culmination of the Zodiacal cycle and represents the final period of fertile, and slowly receding darkness before the return of the Sun at it’s peak in Aries.

Pisces is many things but it is not a fish. it is a pair of fishes, tied together and swimming in opposite directions. These fish are often said to be the signs exaltation lord: Venus and her son Eros who transformed into fish in order to flee from the awful Typhon whose assault on Olympus sent even the mighty Olympians fleeing until saved by Zeus-Jupiter the ruler of Pisces.

Others say they escaped, not by transformation, but by riding on the fishes to safety and afterwards they were deified for their compassionate rescue.

As mentioned, the fishes are tied by a string and were said to both be swimming in different directions from one another, reflective of Pisces capricious changeability and tendency to confound others with their slipperiness

this story also reminds of of the tendency for Pisces to flee or escape discomfort or confrontation. The water signs all have their own defences: Caner and Scorpio have hard outer shells, pincers to say nothing of scorp's stinger. Pisces on the hand has no protective qualities besides swiming away. But as fretful as Pisces can sometimes be we have Gods within us: Queen of heaven and the powerful and sometimes dangerous Eros.

This story hints at the transmuting power of the sign as well as it being the exaltation sign of Venus. Such was the belief that the constellation gained the titles "heavenly Venus" who was born and arose in the crashing waves and seafoam on the shores of Cypress. This ties the Goddess, the Sea and Sky together. just as Pisces is both the oceans but also the realms beyond, a fact seen in the 12th house of far away and distant journies. It says a bit about the term: "space cadet" This theme of Pisces, sea and sky returns with Pegasus constellation which we will visit later.

The glyph of Pisces is a variation on the Vesica Pisces which is two circles enjoined together creating a center-oval between them.

The more popular variation of this is the Ithycus fish-symbol representing Christ and the miracle of the Loaves and Fishes although those with deeper understanding know also it’s connection to John the Baptist and the early Fish-Gods of Sumeria and their descendant civilizations. another name for this aspect of the divine is termed the Matrix, offering up an entire rabbit hole of associations and Piscean themes unto itself.

Some early titles for Pisces were “Fishes of Ia”

and in line with this thought, The Greeks derived the name from the Syrian Goddess Derke⁠ and was later changed to a number of titles, all deriving from Adir or Dag:“the great fish⁠” and it is from this we get the cast of Sea-Gods: Ia, Enki, Oannes, Atargatis and the biblical Dagon which later would inspire the unlikely pair of both H.P. Lovecraft and Starbucks coffee.

These beings also pop up in other signs in this part of the sky called "the sea", from Pisces through Aquarius and back to Capricorn. Even the fixed star Nunke in Sagittarius is named after Enki.

These many names and incarnations speaks to the shimmering reflectivity and multiplicity of Pisces.

To the Christians it is the Christ and his benevolent generosity of food to the faithful. To pagans it is the forgotten father of mankind responsible for reminding humanity of it’s origins and the knowledge of civilization. To Lovecraft it was an unspeakable horror of tentacles and fish-eyed miscegenations. This multiplicity of viewpoints will lead us to the n the character "the old man of the Sea" otherwise known as "proteus".

But before we delve into those waters we should reflect on Pisces and the nature of dream and fantasy.

coming next: Pisces, the 12th house and the Imaginal

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