Sun in Pisces

You cried at the ad. Not the sad one: the one with the old man and the dog, which everyone else found mildly sweet.

The cord between the fish

Pisces is drawn as two fish swimming in opposite directions, one toward the world and one toward the dream. In the constellation they are tied together by a long cord, and the star at the knot is called Alrescha, from the Arabic for the cord. Your Sun lives on that cord: pulled two ways, and held.

The Sun passes through Pisces last in its round and leaves it at the March equinox to begin again. Astrologers say the last sign holds a little of every sign before it, which is one way to explain why you understand almost everyone, including people you have no reason to like. The host is Jupiter, the old ruler, with Neptune beside it in modern charts.

What people bring you

People bring you the things they cannot say to anyone else, and they leave lighter, and you carry a little of it home. Friends bring you their worst news first, because you will not try to fix it. At work you notice the intern who is struggling before anyone else does, and your ideas arrive sideways in a meeting and are the answer by lunch.

A song for every feeling

You have imagination to spare, and a gift for music, pictures and stories. You have a song for every feeling and a private world you can walk into on any bus. Faith comes easily to you, in something, even when you could not say what, and it has carried you further than anyone knows.

Drifting

Without a firm edge, you drift. You give too much, look away from a hard truth, and disappear into daydreams or into other people’s needs. Saying no is hard. Saying what you want is harder, and so you end up, kindly, living someone else’s plan.

You have been through more than people guess, and you stayed kind. That is Jupiter’s gift to this Sun, faith and the staying power that comes with it, and it is why the gentle one is the one still standing at the end.