Pisces zodiac sign: dates, traits and compatibility

Pisces at a glance

Pisces dates by year

Pisces ends at the moment of the March equinox: the Sun moves into Aries and the circle starts again. The table shows when the Sun entered and left Pisces, in Universal Time (UTC), from 1950 to 2031.

Calculated from JPL DE421 ephemerides; times in UTC.

Born February 18 or 19?

With Pisces, the boundary is especially fickle. “Usually from February 19” is only half true: in almost half of all years the Sun enters Pisces on the 18th. In 2026, for example, the change came on February 18 at 15:52 UTC — until that minute it was Aquarius, after it, Pisces.

In other years it's February 19. The earliest entry in the table is February 18, 2029, at 09:08 UTC, the latest February 19, 1952, at 16:56 UTC. Born on February 18 or 19? Then I need the year, and sometimes the time. It's all in the calculator.

At the other end, Pisces closes the circle: on March 20 or 21, at the March equinox, the Sun moves into Aries. Born then? See the Aries page too.

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Pisces personality

Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac, and astrologers often say it holds a little of all the others. The way I see it, Pisces can understand anyone. They hear a friend say “I'm fine” in a voice that's anything but, and by evening they're at her kitchen table.

The sign's symbol is two fish swimming in opposite directions. It's Pisces' endless inner debate: stay or swim away, dream or act, save everyone or finally save themselves. Water gives them depth of feeling, the mutable modality the ability to adapt — sometimes too easily. Neptune, the modern ruler, stands for imagination and blurred boundaries; Jupiter, the traditional one, for faith and generosity.

Pisces always has a secret world of their own: a playlist for every mood, a notebook of poems, a series they rewatch in hard weeks. It isn't running away from life but a way to recharge. The main thing is to swim back out in time.

Pisces strengths

• Senses other people's moods without a single word
• Comforts so that the truth is easier to bear
• Has a rich imagination and refined taste
• Forgives sincerely and doesn't keep score
• Drawn to music, film and anything that moves them
• Helps without waiting to be asked

Pisces weaknesses

• Takes on other people's problems and drowns in them
• Says “yes” when they mean “no”
• Puts off difficult conversations until the last minute
• Hides in daydreams when reality presses too hard
• Loses keys, deadlines and all sense of time

Pisces in love

Pisces love the way people love in the movies — with a soundtrack, coincidences and the feeling you've met before. They'll remember the song you first kissed to and, years later, play it at exactly the right moment. For Pisces, love isn't a contract but a state of being.

That state has one risk: Pisces see the best in a person, sometimes even what isn't there. They need a partner who doesn't mock their dreams but helps them come true. Someone they can tell “I'm sad, just sit with me” — and get no lectures or advice.

The best matches for Pisces in my table are water signs Cancer and Scorpio, who understand without words, and earth signs Taurus and Capricorn, who give them solid ground. Virgo, the opposite sign, is a pairing of dreams and order. Hard, but each misses something without the other.

The Pisces man

The Pisces man is gentle, wry and very attentive. He notices tiredness before the tired person does and can make you laugh on the hardest day. He often has a creative pursuit — music, photography, drawing — even if his job is something else entirely.

Harshness and pressure are hard for him: he doesn't shout back, he swims away. He's good for people who value tenderness and don't mistake it for weakness. Back his dream with deeds, not words, and he's capable of a great deal.

The Pisces woman

The Pisces woman seems fragile, but inside she has remarkable endurance: she'll ride out a storm and still calm everyone in the boat. She looks mysterious; really, she just reads people well and doesn't always show how much she sees.

She needs her world accepted whole — with its dreams, tears at the movies and sudden midnight ideas. Rudeness she forgives slowly and painfully, but kindness she remembers for years. To make her happy, do something small but exactly right for her.

Pisces at work and with money

Pisces needs meaningful work — with people or with images. Art, music, film, psychology, medicine, charity, work with children and animals: anywhere compassion and imagination matter. In a hard-edged corporate race Pisces burns out fast, even while doing brilliantly.

The Pisces relationship with money is hazy — very much in Neptune's style. They lend easily and feel too awkward to ask for it back. Simple fixes: automatic payments, a separate savings account and a Capricorn friend who sometimes asks, “Do you really need that?”

Pisces compatibility

The table shows how Pisces gets on with each sign, from one to five stars. I look at the angle between the signs and how their elements get along, as my bots do. Though Pisces usually care less about the rating than about what they feel on the second date.

Pisces Sun, Moon and rising sign

The Sun in Pisces is the foundation, but the Moon and ascendant can change the picture. A Pisces with an Aries ascendant looks quick and decisive, the dreaminess hidden deep. A Pisces with a Virgo Moon sheds a tear over a sad song, then writes tomorrow's to-do list.

To find your Moon and ascendant you need your birth date, time and city: the ascendant changes within a day, so a date alone isn't enough. It's like finding the missing pieces of your own portrait.

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