Water · mutable
Pisces zodiac sign
In Western astrology, Pisces stands for compassion, imagination, and permeable boundaries.
In everyday language it's just called your zodiac sign. What's meant is your sun sign: the sign the Sun was in when you were born.
Das Zeichen Pisces. Das gleichnamige Sternbild steht heute woanders, tippen zeigt es.
- Sensing subtle moods and connecting things creatively
- compassion, retreat, and room for imagination
- naming wishes, limits, and facts clearly
Pisces: strengths and challenges
The two sides traditionally attributed to this sign.
Strengths
Pisces picks up on undertones, thinks in images, and can sit with ambiguity without rushing to a hard judgment.
Challenges
It gets difficult when boundaries stay vague, uncomfortable decisions get postponed, or a strong impression gets mistaken for a settled fact.
Where do you need a clear commitment today, instead of continuing to react to a mood?
Pisces in love and relationships
Pisces looks for empathy, romance, and the feeling of really being understood. Reciprocity gets easier when wishes, limits, and responsibility are named concretely.
Pisces at work
At work, their strengths are creative design, empathy, and staying open to questions. Deadlines, ownership, and visible interim steps give the ideas a workable frame.
Getting along with Pisces
A friendly tone and a little time help, but arrangements still need to be unambiguous. Ask before you interpret a mood, and put important agreements in writing.
Horoscopes for Pisces
From today's general impulse to your personal year-ahead preview.
Today's impulse for Pisces
A concrete impulse for the day and a question that needs no invented backstory.
Read todayNext 14 daysYour personal preview
Concrete transit dates for your own birth chart — with an actual date, not a generic sun-sign text.
Open the previewNext 12 monthsYour year at a glance
The longer transits from Jupiter to Pluto, their date ranges, and the days they turn exact.
Open the year aheadMake the idea concrete
put it in one sentence and add how you'll know it's workable.
Where do you need a clear commitment today, instead of continuing to react to a mood?
When does the Pisces zodiac season begin?
The Sun is in Pisces from February 18, 2026 at 04:51 PM CET to March 20, 2026 at 03:45 PM CET.
The Sun's next entry into Pisces is on February 18, 2027 at 10:33 PM CET — about 6 hours later than this year.
Why the exact time matters
Listings like "21 May to 21 June" are just rules of thumb. The entry shifts by a few hours every year. If your birthday falls close to the sign change, your birth year, time, and time zone decide — that's why Leitstern calculates the Sun's position.
Element, Ruler, and Origin
The astrological assignment
- Element
- Water
- Quality
- mutable
- Ruler
- Jupiter
- Modern ruler
- Neptune
This assignment appears in Ptolemäus, Tetrabiblos I,17 to 19. Neptune was added after the planet's discovery; the classical assignment to Jupiter still stands alongside it.
Where the name comes from
Pisces is Aphrodite and Eros, who turned themselves into fish while fleeing Typhon (recorded by Hyginus, De astronomia II). Jupiter as ruler is in Ptolemäus, Tetrabiblos I,17; Neptune was added after its discovery in 1846.
Sign and constellation aren't the same today: Western astrology counts tropically from the spring equinox, while the constellations slowly drift because of the precession of Earth's axis.
There's more than your sun sign
Your sun sign only shows the Sun. The Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars and — with an exact birth time — the Ascendant round out the picture. Calculate the key positions for free from your birth details.
Calculate my birth chartWhich signs are compatible with Pisces?
As a rule of thumb, the same or complementary elements make for an easier start. Opposite signs and signs with a very different core nature can be just as attractive, but usually need more attunement.
Often easier together
Here, pace, expression, or needs tend to be more alike.
TaurusBuilding things patiently and creating reliabilityWater brings closeness and a feel for nuance, Earth brings steadiness and practical reliability. Clear words keep care and expectation from getting mixed up.
CancerCreating closeness and noticing what people needBoth signs share the element Water. Closeness, loyalty and a fine sense for each other can feel familiar fast. Direct words help, so not everything runs on mood alone.
ScorpioGetting to the bottom of complex issuesBoth signs share the element Water. Closeness, loyalty and a fine sense for each other can feel familiar fast. Direct words help, so not everything runs on mood alone.
CapricornPlanning for the long term and carrying responsibilityWater brings closeness and a feel for nuance, Earth brings steadiness and practical reliability. Clear words keep care and expectation from getting mixed up.Often needs more attunement
Here, pace, expression, or needs tend to differ more often. Clear agreements help.
AriesStarting things boldly and getting decisions movingPisces and Aries often set different priorities and work at a different pace. That can be enriching once expectations get said out loud instead of assumed.
GeminiPicking up new things fast and explaining them clearlyBoth signs are mutable. Both adapt flexibly to new situations. Without an agreed close, too much can stay open-ended.
LeoCreating things and carrying others alongPisces and Leo don't share the same basic language right away. Things get clearer once both say what they mean by closeness, reliability and a good next step.
VirgoLooking closely and finding solutions that actually workPisces and Virgo are opposite signs. The differences themselves can be what attracts and shows new sides; over time it takes clear agreements about pace, closeness and decisions.
LibraBringing different interests together fairlyPisces and Libra don't share the same basic language right away. Things get clearer once both say what they mean by closeness, reliability and a good next step.
SagittariusSeeing the big picture and giving people confidenceBoth signs are mutable. Both adapt flexibly to new situations. Without an agreed close, too much can stay open-ended.
AquariusThinking independently and designing new solutionsPisces and Aquarius often set different priorities and work at a different pace. That can be enriching once expectations get said out loud instead of assumed.For a personal comparison, the sun sign alone isn't enough. Synastry checks the planets in both birth charts and shows the actual angles.
Compare two birth chartsFrequently asked questions about Pisces
In 2026, the Sun is in Pisces from February 18, 2026 at 04:51 PM CET to March 20, 2026 at 03:45 PM CET. These times are calculated from orbital data. They shift by a few hours every year because the solar year isn't a whole number of days. Listings with only calendar days are therefore rules of thumb.
That's decided by the exact moment of birth, not just the calendar day. It takes the date, the time, and the time zone that belongs to the birthplace. The calculated position of the Sun always falls in exactly one sign.
Pisces belongs to the element Water and has mutable quality. The classical ruler is Jupiter; Neptune is also assigned in modern practice. This assignment is recorded in Ptolemäus, Tetrabiblos I,17 to 19.
Traditionally, signs of the same element, plus complementary element pairs, are read as an easier start. The opposite sign, Virgo, is read more as an attracting but demanding contrast. A closer comparison needs the planets from both birth charts.
Pisces looks for empathy, romance, and the feeling of really being understood. Reciprocity gets easier when wishes, limits, and responsibility are named concretely. For a personal picture, Venus, Mars, the Moon, and the aspects across the whole birth chart are considered too.
Yes. In everyday language, "zodiac sign" means the sun sign — the sign the Sun was in at the moment of birth. The Moon sign, the Ascendant, and the other planets are additional parts of the birth chart.
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