Pisces — The Fish
The last sign of the zodiac, Pisces is a Neptune-ruled water sign that closes the wheel as winter turns to spring. As a mutable sign it is traditionally read as fluid and impressionable, taking in the moods around it. In astrology it is tied to imagination, empathy, and intuition, with a dreamy, creative inner life; its traditional ruler is Jupiter. It is often seen as the most sensitive and artistic of the signs, feeling the moods of everyone around it.
What tradition gives Pisces
- Traditionally linked to imagination and empathy
- Associated with intuition and creativity
- A sign of the dreamer in tradition
The myth underneath
Two fish tied together, from the myth of Aphrodite and Eros escaping Typhon.
Tradition pairs Pisces most easily with Cancer, Scorpio, Capricorn — a folk pattern about temperaments, not a rule about people.
When the Sun is actually here
Across a century of computed positions, the Sun holds Pisces from about February 19 to March 20.
The edges, honestly
Sign boundaries are not fixed calendar dates — the Sun's ingress moves by a day or so from year to year. Computed across 1930–2030, these dates near Pisces's edges belong to different signs in different years:
| Date | Usually | Sometimes |
|---|---|---|
| February 18 | Aquarius in 96% of years | Aquarius otherwise |
| February 19 | Pisces in 83% of years | Aquarius otherwise |
| March 20 | Pisces in 80% of years | Aries otherwise |
| March 21 | Aries in 96% of years | Aries otherwise |
Born on one of these dates? The year decides. Compute your chart and the question closes in a second.
The Sun is one placement of ten
A Pisces Sun says nothing about your Moon, your rising sign, or where the rest of the sky sat. The free calculator draws the whole wheel — on your device, in a second.