- Greco-Roman zodiac: Pisces
- direction, mutable; water, rulers exalted
- Roman/Western associations:
- animals, Fishes, Dolphins; plant, Opium Poppy
- stone, Bloodstone or Aquamarine; gem, Pearl; color, red violet
- Amerindian associations:
- animal is Cougar, plant is plantain, mineral is turquoise, color is blue-green
- Chinese animal associations: Tiger, Snake, Cock or Rooster
- Eck-Vidya associations - Garavata, Jade, March, Doreti, Years of the Brilliant Sun
4.3.4.1 Western Zodiac: Pisces (Walker 293)
- to the Greeks, Ikhthus, the Fish; to the Persians, Mahik the Fish
- in Sanskrit, Mina the Fish
- Babylonians called it the Two Tails
- sometimes divided the constellation into two parts
- the Southern Fish: Simmah, the Swallow
- the Northern Fish: Anurutum, the Goddess
- fish traditionally sacred to the Moon-Goddess
- sign represents two crescent moons, one waxing and one waning
- meant waxing and waning of the moon's cycle
- moon considered world's source of water
- the two crescents early suggested two fish
- the constellation now contains "the first point of Aries"
- reached by the Sun about March 22
- "First Point of Aries" still marks the beginning of the astronomical year
- Pisces used to be ruled by Jupiter until the discovery and naming of Neptune
- Neptune named for Latin sea-god, "Neptune the Mystic"
- astrologers then transferred its allegiance
- general feminine implications with water, fish, sea, moon:
- still give Pisces personalities many qualities usually viewed as feminine
- domesticity, sensitivity, receptivity, imaginativeness, love of home
- also supposed faults of dreaminess, unreality, laziness & intellectual dishonesty
- Piscians said to be friendly and dependable on behalf of those whom they love
- often display strongly spiritual tendencies
4.3 Cougar - Big Winds Moon
4.3.2 Comparisons of the Western Zodiac, the Medicine Wheel, and the Chinese Zodiac
4.3.4 Western Zodiac
4.3.4.2 Western Planet Associations: Jupiter; Neptune (Walker 209-210, 214-215)
- Jupiter (see Elk, Sagittarius)
- Neptune - Latin name of Greek sea god Poseidon
- like most male deities of earth's deep places or abysses, he carried a trident
- in case of this oceanic deity, interpreted as a fish spear
- same trident now represents planet Neptune
- discovered in 1846 after extensive investigation of its action on the orbit of Uranus
- this late discovery of the outer planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
- caused consternation in astrological circles
- previously, unsuspected "planetary influences" would have to be considered
- as a rule, Neptune came to be regarded as highly mysterious, mystical, occult
- perhaps chiefly because of the resemblance of its trident symbol to one of the conventional symbols of the devil
4.3.4.3 Zodiac: Pisces, Anubis (Phenomenon 92-95)
- direction is mutable; feminine, Water sign
- Ruler is Jupiter or Neptune; exaltation is Venus
- Hebrew, Arabic, Greek and Hieroglyphic symbols are associated with Pisces
- body part is feet, meridian is small intestine
- alchemical, projection; tarot, moon; geomancy, Laetitia; Genii, Tarob
- Egyptian Anubis of the Netherworld
- Greek Poseidon, Roman Neptune; weapons, the Magic Mirror; perfume, Ambergris
- Pisces dissolves the boundaries of matter
- it is emotionally receptive, self-sacrificial, rhythm, impressionable
- effected externally, indiscriminate, karmic, vague, and olated
- psychic, sensitive
- prisoners and guards, poets, mystics, sufferers, underpriviledged
- alcoholics and addicts, social workers, physicists
