Encyclopedia of Astrology

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Symbolic interpretation: Waves, of water, or the vibrationary waves of electricity; parallel lines of force.


The humanitarian principle coordinating spirit and matter, that prompts all acts of unselfish love; that secs,
feels, and acts for others as though all were one Self.


............Men at some time are masters of their fates;


............The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,


............But in ourselves, that we are underlings.


..........................Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.


First Decan: Originality, remarkable knowledge of human nature; progressive tendencies; ever in pursuit of
this own ideas; ability to handle people; to impart to others his enthusiasm for advanced ideas and methods.


Second Decan: Inspiration, ability to gain ideas from the invisible; imaginative power; dramatic, convincing.


Third Decan: Repression, reaches highest expression through association with opposite sex; must work with
and for others.


Sign: Pisces.


The Fishes. The twelfth sign of the zodiac. Its symbol represents a pair of great sea-horses or sea-lions, yoked
together, who dwell in the innermost regions of the sea; symbolical of life after death; of bondage - the
inhibiting of self-expression except through others; and of the struggle of the soul within the body. The Sun is
in Pisces annually from February 21 to March 20. Astrologically and astronomically it is the thirty degree arc
immediately preceding the passing of the Sun over the point of the Spring Equinox occupying a position along
the Ecliptic from 330° to 360°. It is the Mutable quality of the Water element; negative, cold, moist, obeying,
fruitful; also effeminate, idle, sickly and unfortunate.


Ruler: Jupiter; or by some moderns: Neptune. Exaltation: Venus. Detriment: Mercury. Fall: Mercury.


.................................Soulful Pisces


.............Who prays, and serves, and prays some more;


.............And feeds the beggar at the door -


.............And weeps o'er loves lost long before?


.................Poor Pisces.

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