Pisces-Aries Threshold

Originally written in March 2022. See part two, which includes a look at the Pegasus constellation, written in March 2024 here.

In the Greco-Arabic elemental model, springtime is associated with moisture and heat. Where I live, I feel the wetness of last winter snows, early spring rains, and the warming of the Earth. The Sun is moving out of a water sign and into a fire sign. Moisture and heat. The Sun’s movement into its sign of exaltation marks the Spring Equinox. We begin the climb toward heat and light.

If Aries is a beginning, then Pisces is a kind of ending. A reasonable question might be what is ending? It’s a transitional moment, which is always full of paradox. Pisces is about death as birth, birth as death. Endings as beginnings, beginnings as endings. Sacrifice as abundance, abundance as sacrifice.

In Mesopotamian astrology, the constellation Pisces was experienced as a fish tied to a swallow by a cord (White, 2008). Fish and bird together told a story of abundance from both l…