Mars in Pisces

Everyone expected you to push back, and you simply went round the whole thing, and got where you were going anyway.

Where water ran

Mars is a desert now, red with rust and very dry, but its surface is carved with old riverbeds, deltas and the shorelines of lakes. Water once ran there, and the shapes it left behind are still visible from orbit. Pisces, the last of the water signs, brings that older Mars back. Your drive moves the way water does: it finds the gap, goes round the rock, and wears it down in time without ever fighting it head on.

For others

Your strength comes most easily on someone else’s behalf. You will work through the night for a friend in trouble, a cause that moves you, anyone who can’t fight for themselves, and you will do it without asking for thanks. Asking for something for yourself is much harder, and you can drift for years without pushing for what you want.

Pisces has two rulers, Jupiter from the old astrologers and Neptune from the modern ones, and your drive carries both: a generous heart and a dreamer’s aim.

Instinct

You act on feeling. You can’t always explain why you chose one path over another, only that it felt right, and your instincts are better than people expect. Art, music, care work, anything that asks for feeling as well as effort brings out your best. Routine you can’t believe in drains you. Give you a reason that moves you, though, and you will swim against any current for as long as it takes.

Anger underwater

Your anger rarely comes out directly. It goes under, into tiredness, withdrawal, a sudden need to be alone, and sometimes it comes back as a sadness no one can explain. You avoid the direct fight so well that those nearby don’t realise one was needed.

Dissolving

You want to dissolve into another person, and you fall for their dream of themselves rather than the person actually there.

The things you have given your strength to are still growing, and most of the people they helped have no idea whose quiet effort got them there.