Pisces rising
Its own mind
Pisces rising gives a sentimental, romantic mind that is prone to worry and restlessness and drawn to the occult and to mystical ideas.
Pisces
Rising
The Pisces ascendant
Pisces was coming up over the eastern horizon when you were born. The old books call it the sign of the fishes: a dreamer on the threshold of something higher, ending one cycle and starting the next.
Pisces rises today
Rising now
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Pisces rising
at a glance
RulerJupiter, and Neptune in modern astrology
Element and modeWater, mutable
Symbolthe fishes
Opposite, on the seventh houseVirgo
Time to rise each day in London
Your rising sign is the sign that was coming up on the eastern horizon at the minute and place you were born. Astrologers read it as the way you meet the world: the first impression, the manner, and in the older books the look of the body too.
With Pisces there, the chart starts in a mutable water sign ruled by Jupiter. Virgo, its opposite, sits on the seventh house, the house of partners.
How Pisces
rising looks
After Max and Augusta Foss Heindel, The Message of the Stars, 1918
- The build
- Short and soft, fuller in the body than Cancer rising.
- The walk
- A rolling walk much like Cancer's, with the feet often turned in.
- The face
- A medium complexion and a large, flat nose.
- The eyes
- Blue and watery.
These are types, written a century ago. Planets close to the ascendant, and where Jupiter stands, change the picture, and pure types are rare.
Pisces rising
personality
After the Heindels, chapters V and XIX
Pisces rising tends towards a gentle, timid nature, quick to tears and fond of leisure, doing only the work they must. These people love a change of scene and often wander from place to place without a fixed aim. They enjoy good food and drink, and the old books warn that drink in particular can get the upper hand.
When many planets also stand in Pisces, the old books describe a harder road: a love of dreaming over taking up life's burdens, a pull towards mysticism and the hidden arts, choices led by likes and dislikes more than by reason, and a feeling of being out of place in ordinary working life.
There is a higher side. This sign asks for complete self-sacrifice and non-resistance, more than most can live up to, so the pull is to drift and dream of future greatness. The Heindels' answer is steady effort of will: without it, life tends to feel unfulfilled and necessity later forces the change. The Sun rising here adds energy and ambition.
The Pisces rising
mind
The Heindels read the rising sign as the shape of the mind, first by the sign itself and then by the group it belongs to.
The common signs
Its group, also called mutable
Like all the common signs on the angles, it makes the mind versatile and changeable, quick to move between things but apt to stay on the surface.
Questions
It depends on where you were born, because signs take different lengths of time to rise. In London Pisces takes about 52 minutes of every day to rise, less than the two-hour average, so it is rarer there. In Sydney it takes about 2 hours 23 minutes, more than the two-hour average, so it is a little more common there.
No. Being a Pisces usually means the Sun was in Pisces, which happens from late February to late March. Pisces rises every day of the year for a few hours, so a person born in any month can have it.
Jupiter in traditional astrology, and Neptune in modern astrology. The ruler of the rising sign is called the chart ruler, and where it stands in your chart colours the whole reading.