Pisces: Personality and Compatibility
A mutable water sign that closes the zodiac. Pisces is the sign of dreams and empathy that accepts and merges with everything.
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- Dates (approx.)
- 19 February – 20 March
- Element
- Water
- Modality
- Mutable
- Ruling planet
- Neptune (traditionally Jupiter)
- Keywords
- empathy, intuition, dreams
- Body
- Feet
- Lucky colors
- Sea blue and lavender
- Ecliptic longitude
- 330° – 360°
1.The Pisces personality
Strengths
Sensitive and imaginative, you feel others' pain as your own, and you are gifted in the arts.
Things to watch
You go with the flow and may escape from reality. Bad at saying no, you can be pushed around.
2.Love and work
Love: A romantic, you give devoted love to your partner.
Work: Art, music, film, medicine and social care, psychology and religion: work that uses sensitivity and compassion.
3.Signs that get along with Pisces
The other water signs (Cancer and Scorpio) share your values, while the earth signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) bring out the best in you.
4.The dates shift a little each year
A sign begins at the moment the sun reaches 330° of ecliptic longitude, so the boundary moves by about a day from year to year. Exact dates in Japan Standard Time:
| Year | Pisces (JST) |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Feb 19, 2026 0:52 – Mar 19, 2026 |
| 2027 | Feb 19, 2027 6:33 – Mar 20, 2027 |
If you were born on a boundary day, check with the Sun, Moon and Rising sign reading.
5.Not just the Sun sign: the Moon sign too
Horoscope columns use your Sun sign, but the sign the Moon was in when you were born shows your private face and how your feelings move. See also the basics of Western astrology.
6.One sign earlier in Indian astrology
Indian astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, which sits about 24° behind the tropical one, so most people born as Pisces are Aquarius there. Read more in What is Indian astrology?