In the seventeenth century, it was suggested that it should be divided in four subdivisions — the northern and the southern fish, and the northern and the southern cord. In the following century, it was proposed that a part of Pisces should be observed as a separate constellation called Testudo the Turtle.
Stars in the constellation of Pisces are faint, and none of them is brighter than fourth magnitude and this makes it challenging to see them in the night sky with the naked eye.
The mythology behind the constellation of Pisces has its roots in Syria as Atagartis, the goddess of love and fertility.
Pisces Compatibility - Love, Sex, Trust & Life
She was represented by a half-woman, half-fish figure, and is thought to be the inspiration for the Greek goddess Aphrodite and the Roman goddess Venus. Mostly, the constellation of Pisces is linked to the story of Aphrodite and her son Eros, who escaped from the monster Typhon by leaping into the sea and transforming themselves into fish.
By a different version, they were by the river Euphrates at the time, and jumped into the river, not the sea. When they jumped into the water, they tied themselves together with rope, in order not to lose each other. On Syrian shores of river Euphrates, eating fish is still considered taboo.
There is another version of this myth in which Aphrodite and Eros jumped into the water and two fish came to their rescue.
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It is in the nature of Pisces to run away from all sorts of monsters. They are easily frightened and the myth tells about their ability to change shapes and put on different masks in order to avoid getting hurt. In case of a very good planetary position in connection to Pisces, it will help a person hold on to a secret that they will benefit from.
If the position is not that positive, panic and fear might take over and hiding will become the way of life.
Horoscopes
Zodiac Signs - Pisces. Pisces needs a dominant partner of role model in their life or they will very easily fall into a pit of self-pity and self-undoing. When they are independent and inspired by life's events, their creativity comes shining through but they are unable to be on their own for long before they start dreaming in their imaginary world of happy people and happy endings.
They need other people to keep them grounded and on the right track. Pisces will go out of their way to help a friend. They are extremely sensitive and loyal. They will take a friend's problem and make it their own and suffer with them.
This is the weak spot but any friend of this zodiac sign should know that although they are attracted to people with severe problems who desperately need help, this actually does more harm them good.
Even though they will offer to make everything right, do not allow them to take on all your problems because they will lose their identity in your situation. They need a strong positive friend to make them strong. They like adventure, new situation and social events.
A Pisces friend will always have something exciting in mind and it is a very fulfilling, long lasting friendship. Pisces does not take well to a position of leadership or high business person, they are too sensitive and lacking in self-discipline and lacking self-confidence for a positions such as that. They are extremely creative and can use their skills of creativity and their understanding of people to inspire others.
Unfortunately, most take the easy way out in life and never attain the degree of fame that they possibly could, they have to stop self-doubting themselves because they are capable of being good role models and leaders to others, people do look up to them.
The Pisces personality is hard to pin down, it is very mysterious and elusive. They are molded by their surroundings, they incorporate their experiences and surroundings into themselves.
They have extreme compassion and they feel the pain of others. If something is wrong in the world that affects them, it affects them deeply, they take it to heart and feel extreme feelings regarding the matter.
When they are happy, they are extremely happy and when they are sad, they are extremely depressed. Pisces have an intuitive and psychic ability more then any other zodiac signs. They trust their gut feelings and if they do not, they quickly learn to because they realize that their hunches are usually correct.
A major downfall is their sensitivity and their inability to reject another person. They do not like rejection and they try to treat others the way they want to be treated so they will rarely say no to a person for fear of hurting their feelings.
They will help another person with their problems and like to do so because making others feel good in turn makes them feel good.
Pisces is the zodiac sign of self-undoing. People born under this zodiac sign are not susceptible to bad luck and unfortunate events, they bring them on themselves by overindulging, laziness and a knack for picking poorly suited partners and friends. They want people in their life who stir their emotions because this helps them to practice emotional stability.
The inner conflict is extremes of temperament and conflicting emotions. They are trying to pinpoint themselves on the real world while their spiritual world can cloud their vision, they will try to escape or avoid a situation instead of confronting it.
Their eternal struggle is to learn to use their powers and their imagination in a positive, productive way and vying for emotional stability by not giving away their emotions to everyone else, they need to help themselves.
Pisces is the sign of mysticism, mystery and the spiritual unknown. They live in two worlds, the real world and the spiritual or mystical world where they interpret what they see into what they want.
They do this to avoid all the realities of pain and suffering in the world. They have extremes of emotions and feel both good and bad intensively. They have a formidable intuitive ability, most are somehow involved with occult or spiritualism. They are very good at understanding people for they have the ability to delve into the psyche and see behind a person's motivations.
Offten being prone to drug addiction and indulging lifestyles because of their eternal search for themselves and their fear of confrontation and having to change a situation, also they justify drug use by allowing it to get closer with their 'spiritual selves'. Once they aware this is why they are doing it, it will be easier to kick the habit.
They are not the pushovers that they may seem, in fact they have strength of character and will stand up for what they believe in and and they can do hard work for something they believe in. They can be very lazy but only in matters that they do not care about.
Pisces is the most sensitive of all zodiac signs.