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February 19 – March 20 · The fishes

Pisces

No clear edges: imagination, compassion and what cannot be seen.

  • Dreamy
  • Compassionate
  • Elusive
Element
Water
Mode
Mutable
Ruler
Jupiter · Neptune
Opposite
Virgo
Body
Feet and lymph
Degrees
330°–360°
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Strengths

What Pisces does best

You feel what others feel and imagine what others cannot. You are gentle, artistic and very forgiving.

Challenges

Where it trips up

Your boundaries are weak. Escaping into daydreams, other people or habits can feel easier than facing a hard problem directly.

Love

Pisces in love

You are romantic and devoted, sometimes more to an idea of a person than to the real person. You need tenderness and a partner who stays realistic.

Work

Pisces at work

You do well in art, music, healing, film and care, in any job that needs imagination or empathy. Protect your time and rest.

Compatibility

Pisces with the other signs

This uses Sun signs only, which is the simplest kind of compatibility. Tap a pair for love, friendship and work.

Easiest

Most challenging

Two of a kind

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What are Pisces’s dates?

Pisces season usually runs February 19 – March 20. In 2026 the Sun enters Pisces on 18 February 2026 at 15:52 UTC and leaves on 20 March 2026. If you were born near a change of sign, your exact birth time and place decide your sign.

What element and mode is Pisces?

Pisces is a mutable water sign. Its ruling planet is Jupiter. Modern astrology adds Neptune.

Who is Pisces most compatible with?

By sign alone, Pisces’s easiest matches are Cancer, Scorpio, Taurus. Its most difficult matches are Gemini and Libra. Real compatibility depends on whole charts: the Moon, Venus, Mars and rising signs.

What is Pisces’s opposite sign?

Virgo. Opposite signs have the same mode and elements that complete each other. Each sign has what the other one is learning.

What does it mean to have a Pisces Moon or rising sign?

A Pisces Moon has Pisces feelings and needs (dreamy, compassionate, elusive). A Pisces rising shows these qualities to other people. Use the birth chart calculator to find yours.