Western Astrology
Pisces (♓) — Mutable Water, The Dreamer
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Pisces occupies 330-360 degrees as the mutable water sign, the final sign of the zodiac, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern astrology co-ruled by Neptune. The Two Fish swimming in opposite directions symbolize the tension between transcendence and dissolution, governing the twelfth house of hidden things, confinement, and spiritual surrender. Ptolemy assigns Pisces a cold and moist temperament in the Tetrabiblos, making it the most receptive and boundary-dissolving sign in the zodiac. Cafe Astrology describes Pisces as the sign of empathic absorption and imaginative vision, where the mutable modality becomes permeability itself — the capacity to feel into what others cannot articulate.