The Zodiac - Pisces

The Myths and Legends of Pisces

Christ, the Fisher of Men

The fishes are both a Christian and a pagan symbol. They date back to the dawn of civilisation and first appear in an early myth, pushing a giant egg out of the waters of the river Euphrates, in what is now Iraq.

From the egg emerged the love goddess Atagartis. Both she and her son-lover, Ichthys, took the form of fishes and in all her temples there were sacred fish ponds. This early fish cult, which centres around the mother goddess and her son, who dies annually and is reborn, has many things in common with the Christian story, and Christ, the Fisher of Men who divided the loaves and the fishes, was known as Ichthys, which means Fish, in early Christian times.

The Age of Pisces and the Star of Bethlehem

The beginning of the Age of the Fishes, when the spring equinox moved on after its 2000-year stay in Aries into Pisces,
roughly coincided with Christ's birth, now dated by most people at around 7 BC. In that year, Jupiter and Saturn met,
at the point marking the new Piscean spring equinox in the skies. Their combined light appeared to make one exceptionally
bright star which, in the winter months, could have guided the three Wise Men due south from Jerusalem to Bethlehem.

Pisces is a water sign and ruled by Neptune. It is considered to be the most mystically inclined of all the signs and, as the last
of the twelve, it represents the return to the great ocean from which life first evolved, and where all boundaries are dissolved.