Purely Pisces

Free Will Astrology [August 7-13]

2008-08-06T18:42:19Z

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): "Dear Rob: If you were, like me, setting out on a ten-year project to become a beautiful truth-teller, having the simple goal of actually expressing the things that Everyone Ought To Say But Doesn't, what would you do? Other than to bother your favorite truth-tellers for advice, of course! - Aspiring Fount of Truth." Dear Aspiring Fount: In its highest expression, the Piscean style of telling the truth is ripe with emotional intelligence and a deep thoughtfulness that's devoted to staying focused on the big picture. One of the best ways to increase your mastery of this approach is to regularly tell yourself the truth about yourself with kick-ass kindness.

Free Will Astrology [July 31 - Aug 6]

2008-07-31T15:28:13Z

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Two friends of mine, a couple engaged to be wed, rode their bicycles for days up the Northern California coast from San Francisco to Oregon. They saw many other riders pedaling from north to south during their trip, but they rarely encountered anyone heading in the same direction they were. Why? The wind was blowing against them the entire way. When they stopped to rest they would sometimes meet and talk with bicyclists whose destination was San Francisco. "Why are you riding against the wind?" the other travelers inevitably wanted to know. My friends enjoyed replying, "We're building our characters so we'll be strong enough to stay in love after we're married." They're your role models for the coming weeks, Pisces. Do some against-the-wind work to prepare yourself for your next big assignment, which is to make your intimate relationships more interesting and invigorating and enduring.

Free Will Astrology [July 24-30]

2008-07-24T18:10:53Z

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): In her book *Zen Miracles,* Brenda Shoshanna defines the "shadow" as being the unacceptable aspects of ourselves that we dump into our unconscious minds. As we avoid looking at that hidden stuff, it festers. Meanwhile, we project it onto people we know, imagining that they possess the qualities we're repressing. The antidote to this problem, says Shoshanna, is to "eat our shadow" -- haul it up from out of the pit and develop a conscious connection with it. Doing so not only prevents our unacknowledged darkness from haunting our thoughts and distorting our relationships; it also liberates tremendous psychic energy. I'm telling you this, Pisces, because it's an excellent time to eat your shadow.

Free Will Astrology [July 10 - 16]

2008-07-09T05:35:46Z

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): The world's oldest penises are 400 million years old. Discovered in Scotland in 2001, they're part of the fossilized remains of an arachnid species known as daddy longlegs. In reporting their find, the paleontologists marveled that the reproductive organ was two-thirds the size of the entire creature. Let's make this ancient genital a power symbol for you, Pisces. (If you prefer, you can focus on the 400-million-year-old daddy longlegs' vaginas that were also found.) I hope it inspires you to think back to the time when your sexual desires first began to stir. The future of your intimate relationships will benefit from you reconnecting to the primal purity of your original erotic urges.

Free Will Astrology

2008-07-02T02:44:16Z

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): What are the differences between tacky, meaningless fun and beautiful, constructive fun? What are the distinctions between dumb, trivial pleasure and smart, life-exalting pleasure? I'm hoping that meditations on these subjects will inspire you to overcome any laziness you might have about cultivating happiness. It's a perfect time for you to attempt this monumental accomplishment, you see. You're at a potential turning point in your astrological cycle, a time when you could get in the habit of treating your hero's journey as if it were an ever-evolving celebration.

Free Will Astrology [June 5-11]

2008-06-04T05:14:01Z

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It's Blame All Your Problems on God Week. You have license to shun responsibility for the pain you feel and the messes you've made, and instead ascribe it all to the Divine Mischief Maker. The secret of achieving success in this enterprise is to act as if your dilemmas really do have nothing to do with anything you've done, but have been entirely caused by God's mistakes, his intentional cruelty, or his wicked sense of humor. By the way, Accept Total Responsibility for Your Problems Week is coming up next, and to observe that holiday correctly you will have to be thoroughly sincere about this week's.

P.S. It's crucial that you really do blame everything on God, and not on actual human beings.

P.P.S. If you're an atheist, it's Blame All Your Problems on Your Parents Week.

So, as an agnostic can I blame half of my problems on god and the other half on my parents?

Today's Horoscope...

2008-06-02T23:23:38Z

Daily Extended Forecast for June 02, 2008
Provided by Astrology.com	Daily

The greatest thing about the energy you'll be feeling today is that it will give you all the focus you need to take the most complicated ideas and make them simple enough for anyone to understand. That makes today a wonderful day for teaching people things or showing someone how to do something. You are a born teacher, although you rarely get the chance to play that role to your full potential. You can communicate with others in a way no one else can.

"They say she's a Pisces, I heard they are fiesty"... Are we really as fiesty as people think we are?

Today's Horoscope...

2008-05-28T15:40:10Z

Daily Extended Forecast for May 28, 2008
Provided by Astrology.com

Your mind is extremely sharp today, and it is eager to organize! Now don't go out of your way to look for chaotic situations, but you should by all means welcome new ideas, changes in plans, and new additions to the schedule. Get ready to start one of the most challenging and rewarding phases of life that you have had in a very long time. This is a powerful time for collaboration, too. So if anyone out there wants to pitch in on your projects, you should let them!

Today's question: Which sun sign to do you NOT get along with?

Today's horoscope

2008-05-27T23:44:41Z

Daily Extended Forecast for May 27, 2008
Provided by Astrology.com

A person from your past will come back into your life today, and their transformation will be remarkable -- but not necessarily in a good way. Give them the benefit of the doubt and do not jump to conclusions about what has caused the changes that you are seeing. You yourself have changed probably more than you realize -- so accept the fact that people don't stay the same. Give them a chance to re-introduce themselves to you. Keep an open mind.

Today's question for the day... how have you yourself changed?

purely_pisces @ 2008-05-23T12:07:00

2008-05-23T19:07:20Z

This horoscope, from my favorite astrologer, Caeriel Crestin (Sign Language), really kicked my ass this week. I'm in my last month of the quarter at school and was feeling so overwhelmed that I just shut down and started watching a bunch of television instead of doing the things I was supposed to do. I have worked really hard to get to where I am -- after several years of part-time community college I am in my first quarter at a good four-year university. This made me wake up and realize that I needed to check myself before I wrecked myself.

Pisces (Feb. 19–March 20)

Laziness, reluctance to be embarrassed, and excessive caution are your worst enemies right now. You can pretend there are outside factors, but really you're the only one holding you back right now. There's no easy, perfectly safe way to get what you want. You quite simply have to go out on a limb and make some real effort. You need to risk humiliation and try with all your might. Anything less and you might as well just give up and go home. Do that, though, and don't expect ever to be invited back. Chances are you'd get the door slammed in your face the next time you came around.

(crossposted to pisces_people)

And Today's Horoscope says...

2008-05-23T18:36:48Z

Daily Extended Forecast for May 23, 2008
Provided by Astrology.com	Daily Teen Forecast

Let someone else be the sensible leader while you spend some time on the wackier side of things for a while. Your conservative side has been in power for a long time -- so today, it's time to let your wild child out! You need a vacation from organization, a break from the staid stuff of life, and an overall mood renovation. Today, re-visit your childhood and give yourself permission to stop taking things so seriously! The big things in life will iron themselves out eventually.

Question for the day: What's your dream job?

You know us Pisces are always dreaming!

Free Will Astrology [May 22-28]

2008-05-20T20:41:32Z

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): A professional dominatrix I know says that many of her clients are men whose jobs give them excessive authority over other people. When she's bossing around these honchos, she sees herself as an agent of karmic correction, counteracting a dangerous lopsidedness in their psyches. I bring this up, Pisces, because you're in a phase when you should rectify any imbalance of power that exists in your own sphere. If you're a swaggering alpha male or female, put in a stint as a humble servant. If you're normally a timid soul, flex your willpower with feisty abandon. If you're neither a control freak nor a doormat -- and thus have no karma to balance -- spend quality time meditating on how to gain more power over the wild ebbs and flows of your imagination.

Horoscope and Question of the Day...

2008-05-19T18:49:45Z

Daily Extended Forecast for May 19, 2008
Provided by Astrology.com	Daily Teen Forecast

The universe is finally giving you the green light to proceed with your plans -- even if doing so requires you to skip over the authority figures in your life! Their ideas are not as valuable to you right now as the ideas from your peers, so listen to them instead. Closely observe the people who are at your level. What are they doing, and how are they doing it? You will learn from their mistakes -- and more importantly, you'll gain insight from their successes.

Who or what inspires you?

Free Will Astrology [May 1 - 7]

2008-05-01T02:49:08Z

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Rumor has it that you are overflowing with so many fresh, hot ideas that you can't use them fast enough. So why not give some away? Like for instance donate a few to me. I'll be glad to take them off your hands and find a decent home for them. If I use your brilliant notions to make lots of money, I may even give you a kickback. So don't let your surplus of brainstorms bog you down, Pisces. Send your excess to me at uaregod@comcast.net. (P.S. In case you can't tell, I'm joking. In fact, I'd love it if you kept all your smart ideas for yourself, and worked expeditiously to turn every one of them into some practical improvement in your life.)

Free Will Astrology [April 24 - 30]

2008-04-26T06:00:41Z

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): *The Washington Post* gave its readers an assignment: Come up with a statement they'd like to sneak on to President Bush's teleprompter during a major speech. Chances would be good that he'd probably just say it, right? The entries included "I shall make it my duty to eat a kitten for breakfast every day," "Global warming can be reversed if everyone just turned his air conditioner around," and "I wish to announce my conversion to Islam." I bring this to your attention, Pisces, because you're in peril of getting into a situation like that. Unless you're careful, you could end up saying things you don't mean or expressing yourself in ways that don't reflect your actual feelings. To make sure that doesn't happen, concentrate hard on communicating with maximum clarity and candor.

Free Will Astrology [April 10-16]

2008-04-09T04:06:39Z

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Please don't get sidetracked by the pursuit of minor dreams that would give you trivial satisfaction. And please talk yourself out of going after ephemeral rewards that would at best provide you with a false sense of accomplishment. Here's why this advice is even more important than usual: You have an intense but limited amount of driving ambition available to you at the moment, so you've got to make sure you use it on a project or projects that will still be meaningful to you a year from now.

Free Will Astrology [April 3-9]

2008-04-02T02:39:13Z

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson told The Washington Post the following fun facts: "There are more molecules of water in a cup of water than cups of water in all the world's oceans. This means that some molecules in every cup of water you drink passed through the kidneys of Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Abe Lincoln, or any other historical person of your choosing." Your assignment this week, Pisces, is to choose three heroes you'd most like to be influenced and inspired by. Every time you drink water, be conscious of the fact that some of it was once inside the bodies of those exceptional people. Say a prayer that their mojo will become available to you.

1. W. H. Auden
2. Philip K. Dick
3. My Grandpa

Free Will Astrology [March 27 - April 2]

2008-03-26T03:25:19Z

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You need more mayonnaise in your life. The omens suggest you should use it as a condiment with every meal, and even add it to smoothies and cocktails. To place yourself in maximum alignment with cosmic rhythms, make mayonnaise a part of your skin-care regimen, try it out as a brass polisher, and employ it to spice up your sex life. APRIL FOOL! You didn't seriously believe the planetary aspects are suggesting you should obsess on mayonnaise, did you? You do need a new spirit medicine, but it's not made from chicken eggs. Now here's your *real* horoscope, courtesy of philosopher Jonathan Zap: "Find your spirit medicine. And remember that what works for someone else, may not work for you (and vice-versa). Also what works for you when used consciously, sparingly, in just right the circumstances, might be disastrous as a habit."

Spring Equinox Mishaps

2008-03-23T15:01:06Z

It's been a few days past, but I'm curious -- did anyone of you other Pisceans have a hard time during the Spring Equinox (Thursday, March 20)?

I was having a wonderful week last week (I'd even go so far as say I had a wonderful month) up until Thursday came along. It started with a small fight with my husband (a Taurus) at midnight and then followed by just having a very off-day. Several small things that would never usually go wrong at work, went wrong. I work the reception at a very busy medical fitness facility and I'm usually on top of everything but last Thursday, I made small mistakes that I never usually make -- during my lunch break, I even locked myself in the stairwell! When I got home, my mom (a Sag) messaged me on Skype and a pleasant hi-hello conversation turned into an argument! The entire day was quite frustrating.

Another Pisces friend told me she had a weird day as well ie, she got on the wrong bus to work, got into arguments, had a similarly frustrating rest of the day, etc.

Did anyone have an off-day last Thursday? Is it possible that the Spring Equinox has anything to do with this or am I reading too much between the lines?

Cross-posted to pisces_people.

purely_pisces @ 2008-03-09T15:28:00

2008-03-09T19:28:29Z

Because I'm sure by posting I have prevented galateadia from posting appropriate happy birthday posts, I will go ahead and do that now. :o)

Extra Happy Belated Birthday Wishes to These Fabulous Fishies!!!

Wednesday, March 5th: amikae sjh3585 undersea_rose

Thursday, March 6th: 3sublime6 4_leafclovers blueskies14 bootislove gita_monster jekyllvshyde mscissorhands snacktastic

Friday, March 7th: eruditepisces fluffylilbunny kill miss_silmarwen musikitty vlad_badger

Saturday, March 8th: celandine disney_punk10 human_mandala kate3878 philip8383

I hope you all had great birthdays!

And...

Happy birthday today!

danikalarae deceptaconica_ doomflower latia o0_babe_0o stargazer3982

I hope you all have a great birthday!

Oh, how very unPisces of you!

2008-03-09T19:26:30Z

We need some more fishie discussion here, so I have a fun topic for you all. :o)

So we all know what "typical" Pisces is, yes? Well, what are some things about you that are very atypical of a by-the-book Pisces?

I'll go first! :oD

-I prefer showers over baths.
-I project a very manic quality half the time and am very talkative.
-I am very anti-feet. I don't like touching feet, and I don't want anyone touching mine. Feet are nasty. (Not saying I don't want to have feet, they are quite useful to have.)

Ok, so I thought about this while I was taking a shower. haha And I thought I would have a bunch more, but while I was trying to come up with things, I realized just how much of a Pisces I am.

Free Will Astrology [March 6-12]

2008-03-05T05:53:11Z

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): It's time you acknowledged that you are a miraculous work of art, a masterpiece unlike any other ever created. I'm not pandering to your egotism by telling you that. When I say, "Be yourself," I don't mean the self that wants to win every game and use up every resource and stand alone at the end of history on top of a Mt. Everest-sized pile of pretty garbage. When I say, "Be yourself," I mean the self that says thank you to the wild irises and the windy rain and the people who grow your food. I mean the self who's joyfully struggling to germinate the seeds of love and beauty that are packed inside every moment. I mean the spiritual freedom fighter who's scrambling and finagling and conspiring to shower all of your fellow messiahs with your best blessings.

Happy Birthday Fishy Friends!

2008-03-05T05:50:49Z

Special Pisces Birthday Wishes go out to:

nicky_nak, st0nednjaded

Happy Birthday Fishy Friends!

2008-03-05T05:49:06Z

Special Pisces Birthday Wishes go out to:

__insolence__ , cutebandgeek, dawnsdream, lpiscez69, pareputiputi, thenewsgeek, very_confused07, holy_smokes

Happy Birthday Fishy Friends!

2008-03-05T05:47:43Z

Special Pisces Birthday Wishes go out to:

glory_to_glory, houfukuzettou, insane_clarinet, myfallen_star, spirit_wolf, tiarastar