Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, con-
science. (George Washington, born in Pisces, February 22, 1732.)
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a right-
eous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. (William Jennings
Bryan, born in Pisces, March 19, 1860.)
Pisces seeks salvation within himself, striving always for self-sufficiency,
self-knowledge and effacement of self. His aim is deep and worthy, and if
he does not succeed, it is because of the difficulty of the goal rather than
because he does not try. His early aim appears material, because he
knows instinctively that the search for self goes on most successfully if
physical wants are not a source of worry. But he is not always equipped
by nature for the give-and-take of commerce, and often feels himself a
failure when he should not. His “failure” is more often than not that of a
square peg in a round hole. When he finds his noncommercial place of
service, love, understanding, he goes far toward the deep kind of satis-
faction that is his personal, and therefore his true, success.
Because his aim is different, he tries ill-advisedly to accommodate him-
self to what he thinks he ought to be instead of following what his
heart and instinct tell him. And because he wishes deeply to do the
right thing, he becomes confused about his true aims and gets bewil-
dered and lost in the business of living. It all comes about because he
has forgotten the stir, small voice—because he has allowed himself to
be distracted from his true desires—and because in following an uncon-
genial and unfamiliar path his feet stumble. He thinks he is misunder-
stood—but this is true only because he misunderstood himself, tried to
palm himself off for something that he wasn’t, and found he didn’t
have the heart to go through with it. When he is being his truest, deep-
est self he is crystal clear—unselfish, sweet, lovable, devoted, demand-
ing little, giving much, eager always to sacrifice himself for others.
It is only in the presence of the material world, when Pisces tries to
submerge the sweetness which he may come to be ashamed of, that he
is unhappy. It is then that he becomes demanding, jealous, unreliable,
self-deceived and perhaps even deceptive—because he is trying to
force his meditative spirit into a harness where it must try to be some-
thing it isn’t. Let Pisces follow his heart, his conscience, his inner
desire for service, self-realization and self-knowledge, and the world be
damned, and he is the happiest, most useful of mortals, living comfort-
ably with deep spiritual truths that give him an almost mystic grip on
other people and on the reins of his own life. (Courtesy of Matrix Soft-
ware [http://thenewage.com].)
The following excerpt comes not from a natal report program, but from David
Cochrane’s book, Astrology for the 21st Century.Based on lessons for astrology stu-
dents, it approaches the signs of the zodiac from a somewhat different perspective
than the other short delineations cited here:Pisces
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