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Pisces personality, love and compatibility The sign that feels everything.

Pisces is the twelfth sign of the zodiac, a mutable water sign ruled by Jupiter and, in modern astrology, Neptune. It usually runs from 19 February to 19 March. By the zodiac's geometry, its easiest matches are Cancer and Scorpio, and its hardest are Gemini and Sagittarius.

Pisces people are intuitive, imaginative and deeply kind, and they pick up on feelings nobody has named yet. They are the zodiac's dreamers and its most compassionate sign.

Dates
19 February to 19 March
Element
Water
Mode
Mutable
Ruler
Jupiter and Neptune
Symbol
The Fish
Opposite
Virgo
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Pisces on the zodiac wheelPisces sits at the top of the wheel. Trines, the easiest angle, run to Cancer and Scorpio; sextiles to Taurus and Capricorn; squares, the friction, to Gemini and Sagittarius; and the opposite sign is Virgo.ARITAUGEMCANLEOVIRLIBSCOSAGCAPAQUPIS
Pisces and the other eleven signs. TrineSextileSquareOpposite

Love

A Pisces in love gives everything

Pisces is one of the most romantic signs in the zodiac. They fall for the soul of a person, often quickly, and they love with imagination: the song that reminds them of you, the note left in your coat pocket. They are intuitive partners who know what you feel before you say it.

The danger is losing themselves, or loving someone for who they could become. Pisceans need partners who are kind, steady and honest, and who will not take advantage of their generosity. With the right person, a Pisces makes love feel like the most natural thing in the world.

Personality

Pisces feels what others miss

Pisces is a mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern astrology by Neptune. It is the last sign of the zodiac, and Pisceans often seem to carry something of all the others. They are empathetic, artistic and spiritual, drawn to music, film, water and anything that blurs the edges of ordinary life.

Their openness makes them kind and makes them vulnerable. A Pisces can take on other people's troubles as if they were their own, and needs time alone to recover. Deadlines and conflict feel harsh to them, and escape is a constant temptation. The Pisceans who thrive give their sensitivity a form: art, care work, music, faith, or a quiet room of their own.

CardinalFixedMutable
FireAriesLeoSagittarius
EarthCapricornTaurusVirgo
AirLibraAquariusGemini
WaterCancerScorpioPisces
Pisces sits where water meets mutable. It shares its element with Cancer and Scorpio and its mode with Gemini, Virgo and Sagittarius.

At their best

Compassionate, imaginative, intuitive, gentle, artistic, and able to understand people without judging them.

Under pressure

Escapist, indecisive, self-sacrificing and hard to pin down. A stressed Pisces disappears into sleep, screens or daydreams.

What they need

Gentleness, creative outlets, time alone to recharge, and people who protect their softness.

From the book

What the reading says when Pisces turns up in a chart

Chapter 2Sun in Pisces

You feel the room before anyone speaks.

That intuition is real, and it is expensive. You know who is about to call, which friend is not fine, which plan will fall apart, and you absorb all of it whether you want to or not. You are kind past the point of self-interest, imaginative, and easily moved by music, water and other people's stories. You are the one people cry in front of.

Your work is boundaries. You say yes to keep the peace and pay for it later in a tiredness that has no obvious cause. The sentence that changes a Pisces life is small: I will tell you tomorrow. Not because you become harder, but because the people who stay are the ones who can wait, and you finally have the room to find out what you want.

Chapter 3Moon in Pisces

You absorb the moods around you and do not always know which are yours.

You walk into a room and feel what happened in it an hour ago. Other people's sadness sticks to you; other people's joy lifts you. It makes you compassionate past the point of sense and tired in ways that have no obvious cause. You need quiet water: time alone, music, sleep, the sea, anything that lets the borrowed feelings drain.

Protect that quiet like a job. The Pisces Moon that never rests becomes a sponge with nothing left to give and no idea why. And learn one question, asked several times a day: is this mine? Half of what you carry belongs to someone else, and you are allowed to put it down.

Chapter 6Venus in Pisces

You love without borders, and that is the beauty and the danger.

Your affection is compassionate, romantic and self-giving. You see the best in people, sometimes a best that is not there yet, and you love them into it. You are drawn to the wounded, the artistic, the ones who need saving, and you give without keeping accounts.

The risk is choosing partners you can rescue rather than partners who can hold you, and dissolving into someone else's life. The one who fits is one you admire, not one you fix. Venus in Pisces deserves to be adored back, and it takes a lifetime for some to believe it.

Printed word for word from the Skyprint reading. A chart with the Sun in Pisces gets the first page. The Moon and Venus pages appear only when those planets were in Pisces too, and your own chart decides which of the twelve versions you read.
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Compatibility

How Pisces gets on with each of the twelve signs

Pisces's easiest matches are Cancer and Scorpio, the other two water signs, which sit in trine. Taurus and Capricorn, a sextile away, come next. Virgo, directly opposite, is the classic pull of opposites. The hardest angles are the squares to Gemini and Sagittarius.

  1. CancerTrine, 120°Easy flow

    Cancer offers home and Pisces offers understanding, and both feel safe with the other.

  2. ScorpioTrine, 120°Easy flow

    One of the deepest matches Pisces has. Scorpio's intensity feels safe to Pisces, and Pisces understands Scorpio without being afraid.

  3. TaurusSextile, 60°Open door

    Taurus gives Pisces a steady shore and Pisces gives Taurus romance. A gentle, sensual, loyal pairing.

  4. CapricornSextile, 60°Open door

    Capricorn steadies Pisces and Pisces softens Capricorn. A quietly supportive couple who bring out each other's best.

  5. VirgoOpposition, 180°Opposites attract

    Virgo is practical, Pisces intuitive, and each has what the other lacks. Tender, helpful and complementary.

  6. PiscesSame sign, 0°Mirror

    Two Pisceans understand each other perfectly and float along happily together. Someone has to handle the practical side of life.

  7. AriesSemi-sextile, 30°Neighbours

    Aries protects Pisces and Pisces softens Aries. Aries has to learn how much its bluntness can hurt.

  8. AquariusSemi-sextile, 30°Neighbours

    Both care about the world and think outside the norm. Aquarius can seem distant to Pisces, who needs closeness.

  9. LeoQuincunx, 150°Adjustment

    Leo is bright and bold, Pisces soft and dreamy. Pisces adores Leo, and Leo has to learn to give Pisces quiet as well as attention.

  10. LibraQuincunx, 150°Adjustment

    Both are romantic and gentle, and both avoid conflict. Lovely together, as long as someone speaks up when something is wrong.

  11. GeminiSquare, 90°Friction

    Both are changeable, one through thought and one through feeling. Charming and confusing in equal measure.

  12. SagittariusSquare, 90°Friction

    Both are idealists linked to Jupiter. Sagittarius explores the world and Pisces the inner world, and without a shared anchor they drift.

The angle between two Sun signs is one of dozens that a full compatibility reading measures. What each angle means, and the chart for all twelve signs.

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Pisces dates

Born on 18 or 19 February? The year decides

Horoscopes round the dates. We measured the moment the Sun entered Pisces in every year from 1940 to 2030 with Astronomy Engine, the engine behind every Skyprint reading.

The Sun entered Pisces on

  • 18 February38 of 91 years
  • 19 February53 of 91 years

It moved on into Aries on

  • 20 March64 of 91 years
  • 21 March27 of 91 years
Dates are in UTC, so your local calendar date can differ by one. If your birthday is one of these days, your birth time and place settle it: check your exact Sun sign, free.

Your whole sky

Your Pisces Sun shares the sky with seven other placements

The Sun sign comes from your birth date alone. The Moon changes sign every two to three days and the rising sign roughly every two hours, so two people born under Pisces a week apart can read very differently. Your birth date, time and place draw the whole sky, computed to the arcminute.

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Questions

Pisces questions, answered

When are the Pisces dates?

Pisces usually runs from 19 February to 19 March. The start moves by a day: between 1940 and 2030 the Sun entered Pisces on 18 February in 38 years and 19 February in 53 years, in UTC. If you were born on one of those days, your birth time and place decide your sign.

Who is Pisces most compatible with?

By the geometry of the zodiac, Pisces's easiest matches are Cancer and Scorpio, the other water signs, followed by Taurus and Capricorn. Virgo, the opposite sign, brings the strongest pull and the most work, and the squares to Gemini and Sagittarius are the hardest angles. A real match also depends on the Moon, Venus, Mars and rising sign in both charts.

Why are Pisces so sensitive?

Pisces is a mutable water sign and the last of the zodiac, and astrology reads it as the most porous: it picks up feelings from people and places easily. That sensitivity is the source of Pisces' kindness and creativity, and it needs time alone to settle.

What does a Pisces need from a partner?

Gentleness, honesty and steadiness. Pisceans need someone who takes their feelings seriously, gives them room to dream, and helps with the practical side without making them feel foolish.

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All signs and the compatibility chart. How this page was made: Skyprint is built and edited by Khalil Yazouri. The text was drafted with AI assistance. The sign dates were measured with Astronomy Engine for every year from 1940 to 2030, the compatibility follows the angles between the signs, and the sample pages are printed word for word from the reading's own library.