♓ Pisces: dates, element and traits
The last sign of the cycle and the third water sign, Pisces is traditionally linked to sensitivity and imagination: the image is of someone empathetic and intuitive, drawn to art and to feeling what others feel, but with a hard time staying grounded.
- Date range
- 19 Feb – 20 Mar
- Element
- Water
- Quality
- Mutable
- Ruling planet
- Jupiter
Traditional traits
- artistic sensitivity
- empathy
- tendency to drift
Element compatibility
In the astrological tradition, signs that share the same element (Cancer, Scorpio) are usually read as a natural fit. Virgo, the opposite sign in the cycle, is read as the pairing with the most tension — and, for some astrologers, also the most mutual growth.
Cuidado
Tradition, not prediction
How to read Pisces's element and quality
Pisces is a water sign with a mutable quality in traditional astrology. It shares its element with Cancer and Scorpio, which the tradition reads as a kinship of temperament between the three, even though each one's quality changes how that element shows up.
The sign traditionally "opposite" Pisces in the cycle is Virgo — six months apart on the calendar — and traditional astrology reads that specific pairing, Pisces and Virgo, as tension that can also become complementarity: each tends to have what the other lacks.
The 19 Feb–20 Mar period assigned to Pisces follows the Western tropical zodiac convention, which splits the year into 12 equal parts starting from the March equinox — which is why that particular start and end date can shift by a day depending on the year, since the civil calendar and the solar cycle don't line up perfectly.
Glossário: os termos desta página
Zodiac sign
One of the 12 equal divisions of the tropical zodiac, each tied to a period of the year, an element and a quality in Western astrological tradition.
Astrological element
Each of the four groups (fire, earth, air, water) that bring together three zodiac signs, traditionally associated with a shared temperament.
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