Pisces rising
Pisces rising meets the world softly and is felt more than seen. Gentle, intuitive and hard to describe afterwards, you leave people feeling understood.
People you have just met confide in you within a quarter of an hour, and you hear what they meant rather than what they said.
Pisces was coming up in the east when you were born, and it is the sign the world meets first. Pisces is two fish tied by one cord, swimming different ways, and the last sign of the zodiac, the end of winter in the northern year. You meet people the way the tide meets sand: quietly, taking a little of them with you.
Hard to pin down
Your face is expressive and your moods show in it: people read sadness or delight on you before you have named it yourself. You change a little with every person you talk to, warmer with the shy, quieter with the loud, and some people find it hard to say afterwards what you are like, only how you made them feel.
Crowds tire you. You arrive bright and leave early, full of other people’s feelings.
Jupiter and Neptune
Your rising sign answers to Jupiter by old rule and to Neptune in modern astrology, and together they rule your chart. Jupiter gives you faith and a generous heart. Neptune gives you imagination and a wish to dissolve the line between you and whatever you love: a song, a person, the sea.
Pisces is one of the rarest rising signs in the north, where it clears the horizon as quickly as Aries, and one of the commonest in the south, where it climbs slowly.
The practical one opposite
As Pisces rose, Virgo was setting, and it opens your seventh house, the house of the person across from you. You love people who are capable, careful and good with details: the one who remembers the keys and books the tickets. They keep your feet on the ground. You show them what the ground is for.
Decide one thing each day before you check how anyone else feels about it.
What stays
People forget what you wore and what you talked about. They remember that for an hour, with you, they felt completely understood.
Were you born with Pisces rising?
The eastern horizon turns through all twelve signs every day, some quickly and some slowly, so your rising sign depends on the minute and the place you were born. Pisces takes 52 minutes to rise in London, 1 hour 11 minutes in New York and 2 hours 23 minutes in Sydney.
Two people born on the same day a few hours apart have different rising signs. Your chart, below, finds yours to the degree.
Find your own rising sign
Your chart is free and takes a moment: the wheel, your Sun, Moon and rising sign, and every planet in its sign and house.