In this article you will read about the:
- Pisces Man
- Pisces Woman
- Pisces Child
- Pisces Boss
- Pisces Employee
The PISCES Man
We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.
William Shakespeare was a Taurus, but he left this message for anyone who is
considering becoming involved with a Pisces man:
.There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
If you're about to fall over the dam for a Neptunian, you should paste those lines on
your compact mirror, where you can see them every time you powder your nose.
They may possibly make or break your future, not to mention your heart.
Try to untangle your probably rosy state of mind and make sure that Pisces fellow
you're about to join in a moonlight swim knows when the tide is coming in. If he
takes it at the flood, you're as lucky as any girl can be. On to fame and fortune! But
if, perchance, your Pisces lad can't see the tide for the stardust in his eyes, and he
misses that big flood-well, let me warn you that those Neptunian shallows can result
in some of the most dismal miseries you'll ever know.
A Pisces man can be everything you want him to be- or everything you don't want
him to be. A tide in his affairs is synonymous with opportunity. It requires a firm
decision, determined action, and the ability to drown any old, soggy dreams that
prevent success. The trouble is that some Pisces men never recognize that tide at its
flood, even when it sloshes over their feet.
The Pisces man isn't weak. It's just that he may linger too long on a fading, silver
star, and miss the bright sunlight of success. Not all Pisceans are gentle dreamers.
But more of them than you can scatter with a pebble are. However, there is hope.
There's always hope, where there's life. Although the world needs his lovely
imagination only too desperately, there comes a time when the Pisces male has to go
about the business of earning his potatoes. When he does that, he has a snap of it,
because the Neptune intuition coupled with his clever mind can turn him toward
sensible goals which could bring him fame and recognition-even wealth and
immortality. If not all that (you can't hit the jackpot every time), then at least
respectability and comfortable security. Let's hope that's the kind of Pisces male
you're sailing with. Practically no other Sun sign can stop his potential under those
circumstances.
However, if, say by the age of twenty-five or so, he hasn't recognized that tide in his
affairs, frankly, his future isn't too hopeful. You think that's unfair? All right, make
it by the age of thirty-five, but you're gambling. When I said his future isn't too
hopeful, I meant with you. As a wife-with the family routine. His personal future
can be more or less satisfactory. Lots of Pisces men who can't bury stale dreams and
dig up fresh ideas for success live fairly contented lives. That's because all they need
is that dream, rusty as it is around the edges. Add a jug of wine, a loaf of good rye
bread, and he's as happy as most of us other misfits. Ahl You noticed I stopped short
of one item. It's a loaf of bread, a jug of wine and Thou-right? I'm glad you're up on
the Rubaiyat. But you see, I left "Thou" out on purpose. The dreamy, sensitive,
artistic fish can exist nicely on bread and wine-even thrive on it. But such a diet
won't feed a wife, one to five little bundles of joy, and who knows, maybe even
some goldfish and guppies (considering his Sun sign). You need things like
stockings and cosmetics and shoes and spinach and rent money and celery and milk
and light bulbs and, well, you know what I mean.
There's only one way out with this kind of fish: Be an heiress. No, there is another
way out: Get two jobs-one for you and one for him, and work at both of them your-
self like the very dickens.
Now, I didn't say you wouldn't be happy in the romantic hours. That's one thing no
kind of Pisces ever born will ever be short of-romance. They fairly breathe it. It's
just that it's no substitute for spinach and baby shoes, or your sanity. The planets, in
their wisdom, take care of such complications of life by giving oodles of chances for
this dreamy, unworldly type of Piscean male to become a proteg6. If he finds a
patron or patroness (much more likelihood of the latter, but it can be either), he can
turn into a great painter, a great writer, a great composer, a great musician-or at least
just a great guy. But how is he going to find a patron, let alone a patroness, if he has
you and those bundles of joy and the goldfish and the guppies and all cluttering up
the artistic simplicity of his existence?
You have to admit it just won't work. Better say farewell to him right now. You'll
cry a little, and it may hurt-even deeply. But not as much as being married to a
walking, talking dream, and having to face the landlord with nothing but empty
wishes m your pocketbook. That really hurts.
Now that we've been brave and practical about the bread and wine type, we can talk
about the other kind of Pisces, the one who grabbed the tide at its flood. Obviously,
he's a real catch for any girl. There's always the chance he could turn out to be an
Einstein or a George Washington, which would be simply wonderful. You couldn't
ask for much more, though I suppose Einstein might have been a little engrossed in
his equations on weekends and George may have brought a few problems home
from the office at night. But you don't have to seek perfection. Even a super
practical Capricorn or an aggressive, driving Aries man can have little flaws. The
point is that a Piscean who fights his way upstream will have plenty of chances to
lay the twin gifts of fame and fortune at your feet And he's quite a guy in other
ways, too.
A Pisces man has no prejudices. He'll never judge an Indian until he's walked a few
miles in his moccasins, or a nudist until he's tried going barefoot. Even then he'll
understand and not pass critical judgment. He's very short on cold accusations and
very long on warm tolerance. He'll even make a stab at trying to understand his
mother-in-law, and how many men do that? The Neptune male possesses a rare
sympathy of spirit. His friends confide in him and never worry that he'll be shocked.
It takes a real blockbuster to shock the fish. If you and I and your Piscean were all
three sitting in a room, and a man walked in and told us he was a little worried
because he was a bigamist, with four different wives in four different states- you
might glare at him and think he deserved to go to jail;
I might sneer at him and call him a skunk; but your Pisces man would probably ask,
"What four states? Were you in love with any of them?" The fish is curious, but
totally shockproof. As far as he's concerned, the fellow needs heaps of sympathy
and a darned good lawyer.
He might tell a secret or two accidentally, never on purpose. Pisces sometimes
speaks before he realizes the possible damage. It's a little tough for him to
comprehend that what he says could perhaps be interpreted in the wrong light by
more severe souls with less relenting attitudes. (It would take some thought, for
example, for him to grasp that people like his sister or your mother wouldn't
understand the domestic difficulties of that poor bigamist.) However, once the fish
has been specifically requested to keep it under his fin, he'll be close-mouthed and
reliable, and you can trust him with your darkest secrets.
An occasional Pisces who's the victim of an afflicted Mercury talks very fast,
fluently and frequently. But the typical Neptunian speaks slowly, thinks gently, and
tries to mind his own business, even though he's continually subjected to the
problems of friends, relatives and neighbors. They flock to him because Neptune
listens so beautifully. You'll find yourself tempted to confide your own little worries
with the broken hair dryer, your father's sinus trouble and your overdrawn bank
balance, but try to go easy. If there's anything a Pisces husband or boy friend doesn't
need, it's more tribulations dropped in his lap. Others have been dropping them all
day. Bundles of them. He needs some relief when he's with you. People don't mean
to impose on Pisces. They seldom realize that the Neptune nature is so receptive it
just soaks up all the vibrations around, good or bad, joyful or fearful, dark or light.
The life of an absorbent, spiritual sponge can be kind of wearing on the psyche, as
any mystic can tell you. (Many of them are Piscean.) The very fact that he's sensi-
tive means that he vividly feels the emotions of those who seek his ear and get his
heart. Pisces people often have to rest for long periods. The Neptune soul must be
alone at times so fresh breezes can blow through to heal the wounds of all those
vicarious troubles and bring back calm, undefiled individuality. So never begrudge
your Pisces man his moments of silence. He sorely needs them. If he feels like being
alone or taking a walk by himself, let him go. Too much togethemess can spoil the
beauty of Pisces love. It needs space to grow untangled.
Remember that the fish is sensitive and can be easily hurt. His shyness is due to a
painful consciousness of his own limitations, whatever they may be, and he feels
them keenly. He needs to know that his virtues are counted by someone he admires.
You. Never hold back encouragement from him.
He may try Yoga and Zen, or experiment with occult beliefs, and hell probably be
interested in astrology and numerology, even reincarnation. Like the Scorpio, he
was born with an understanding of esoteric principles, and these things are usually
good for him. They help keep his emotions stable, and they provide an anchor for
his vivid imagination. Pisces men get upset now and then, but their anger is seldom
violent or long lasting. When it's over, the waters grow placid again, and life is just
as peaceful as before. Some Neptune males do a little yelling around the house, but
it's harmless. It's almost impossible for the fish to really bellow, like Taurus the bull,
for example. See how lucky you are?
Although he's difficult to fathom himself, Pisces has no problem in seeing all the
subtleties of others clearly. It's difficult to fool him; he'll look right through to the
other side. Yet, he can fool you when he takes a notion to do so, through some quirk
he has which makes him want to keep his personal affairs safely hidden from close
scrutiny.
One Piscean I know carries this trait so far he has actually been able to fool the
government, and thafs no easy trick. All his life he has managed to avoid the census
taker. The Internal Revenue knows less about him than they kirow about a native in
Pago Pago. He gets away with it because he's a writer. His phone is listed under a
fictitious name, and he's never applied for a social security card or a driver's license.
He has a horror of some imaginary Big Brother turning him into a number and
knowing all his private secrets.
Your fish may not be quite so neurotic about it, but there will probably be times
when he'll tell you he was at the cleaner's when he was really buying a cigar. Why?
I really don't know. Nor does he. It's a sort of mild deception the Piscean (also the
Geminian) seems to enjoy. As long as he's wearing green suspenders and people
think he's wearing orange suspenders-or no suspenders-he feels secure, somehow.
Since it makes him happy, let him have his little mysteries. Why make a big deal of
it? Even if you know he wasn't at the cleaner because you saw him in the cigar store
yourself, ask him if his slacks were ready. When he tells you the man said they
won't be ready until Monday, remark that the cleaner is as slow as molasses and let
it go at that. He could have far worse habits than practicing a little harmless make-
believe just to keep his vivid imagination oiled up and in top working condition.
There won't be many tremendous surges of jealousy. Or if there are, he's such an
excellent natural actor (if you let him practice) that hell probably pretend them
away. But he's a man, for all his poetic, tender nature, so he'll expect your technical
loyalty when everything is said and done. You may have to control your own
jealousy, however, because he'll have warm friends of both sexes, and he'll be
sympathetic to them, sometimes at odd hours. It's his nature to be gregarious. He
can't help it. There's danger here if you're the violently possessive type. An Aries or
Leo girl had better chase another moonbeam. He does admire beauty, and he may
stare at pretty legs from time to time. But you can keep that in bounds and innocent
with a little extra effort, and your reward will be a gentle husband who's both a
romantic lover and a companion who can talk about everything under the sun.
When those spells of loneliness and depression cause the gloom to gather, toss your
apron in the comer behind the aquarium, throw on a yellow dress and a golden
smile, buy some green tickets to a happy show, and trick him right out of it.
Pisoeans are particularly vulnerable to suggestion. You may hit a few snags trying
to get him to be economical and cautious about money. Neptune people, frankly,
aren't noted for their triple A credit ratings (unless he has a Capricorn ascendant or
strong planets m Taurus, Aquarius or Cancer, for example). He'll learn, but don't
compound the situation by being extravagant yourself, if you can help it. One loose
spender per family goes a long way-toward the poor house. He needs a good
example. It's surprising how that works with the Pisces character in a sort of follow-
the-leader manner. That is, if the leader is close to him and someone he respects.
The Piscean nature is vividly receptive to the vibrations around him, especially if
they're intensified by emotion.
The children will find him one whale of a lot of fun. Chances are hell take them
boating and swimming and snorkel diving. He'll play the part of the Wicked
Crocodile and Little Boy Blue until they think they've found a human nursery
rhyme, in living color. He may sprinkle them with a little way-out philosophy, sing
them some mildly salty ballads, or teach them to stand on their heads, yoga style.
They'll probably adore him, and they just may turn out to be well-balanced, well-
adjusted adults, thanks to his rare ability to hold a tiny bird in his hand without
crushing it or frightening it. You do the spanking and hell do the listening to their
young problems-you keep their noses and their clothes clean and he'll keep their
minds active. It should work out fine.
Never tread on this man's dreams-he won't forgive that, or forget it. Give him a
chance to turn them into realities by helping him find a good, firm star to hitch his
wagon to -one that will sparkle instead of fizzing out in an eclipse of common
sense. In love, Pisces is a leaner emotionally, which means he needs boundless
reassurance and faith, but it also means you musn't lean on him with imaginary
complaints. His enthusiastic hopes need to be watered with understanding affection,
and make sure you supply the rich soil of a happy home life. Keep the deadly
insects of nagging and criticism away from the roots, and someday those wild and
crazy hopes of his will change from useless weeds into tall money trees in the
backyard, high enough to reach a few of your own private dreams. Hope springs
eternal in the Piscean heart. Don't knock it. It may shower you with some gigantic
and surprising luck if you nurture it tenderly.
You may have heard or read that Pisces is the sign of "self-undoing," and that could
make you all nervous and negative, but don't let it frighten you. True, there's always
a bit of self-undoing in all Neptune men, but just "do him back up again," like you
would a package that comes untied. If you make the knots tight enough, it won't
happen often. Serve him a dream for breakfast, a clever joke for lunch, and Chopin
for dinner, with Browning for a chaser. After that, you're on your own. Don't be
afraid to jump in. The water's fine.
William Shakespeare was a Taurus, but he left this message for anyone who is
considering becoming involved with a Pisces man:
.There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
If you're about to fall over the dam for a Neptunian, you should paste those lines on
your compact mirror, where you can see them every time you powder your nose.
They may possibly make or break your future, not to mention your heart.
Try to untangle your probably rosy state of mind and make sure that Pisces fellow
you're about to join in a moonlight swim knows when the tide is coming in. If he
takes it at the flood, you're as lucky as any girl can be. On to fame and fortune! But
if, perchance, your Pisces lad can't see the tide for the stardust in his eyes, and he
misses that big flood-well, let me warn you that those Neptunian shallows can result
in some of the most dismal miseries you'll ever know.
A Pisces man can be everything you want him to be- or everything you don't want
him to be. A tide in his affairs is synonymous with opportunity. It requires a firm
decision, determined action, and the ability to drown any old, soggy dreams that
prevent success. The trouble is that some Pisces men never recognize that tide at its
flood, even when it sloshes over their feet.
The Pisces man isn't weak. It's just that he may linger too long on a fading, silver
star, and miss the bright sunlight of success. Not all Pisceans are gentle dreamers.
But more of them than you can scatter with a pebble are. However, there is hope.
There's always hope, where there's life. Although the world needs his lovely
imagination only too desperately, there comes a time when the Pisces male has to go
about the business of earning his potatoes. When he does that, he has a snap of it,
because the Neptune intuition coupled with his clever mind can turn him toward
sensible goals which could bring him fame and recognition-even wealth and
immortality. If not all that (you can't hit the jackpot every time), then at least
respectability and comfortable security. Let's hope that's the kind of Pisces male
you're sailing with. Practically no other Sun sign can stop his potential under those
circumstances.
However, if, say by the age of twenty-five or so, he hasn't recognized that tide in his
affairs, frankly, his future isn't too hopeful. You think that's unfair? All right, make
it by the age of thirty-five, but you're gambling. When I said his future isn't too
hopeful, I meant with you. As a wife-with the family routine. His personal future
can be more or less satisfactory. Lots of Pisces men who can't bury stale dreams and
dig up fresh ideas for success live fairly contented lives. That's because all they need
is that dream, rusty as it is around the edges. Add a jug of wine, a loaf of good rye
bread, and he's as happy as most of us other misfits. Ahl You noticed I stopped short
of one item. It's a loaf of bread, a jug of wine and Thou-right? I'm glad you're up on
the Rubaiyat. But you see, I left "Thou" out on purpose. The dreamy, sensitive,
artistic fish can exist nicely on bread and wine-even thrive on it. But such a diet
won't feed a wife, one to five little bundles of joy, and who knows, maybe even
some goldfish and guppies (considering his Sun sign). You need things like
stockings and cosmetics and shoes and spinach and rent money and celery and milk
and light bulbs and, well, you know what I mean.
There's only one way out with this kind of fish: Be an heiress. No, there is another
way out: Get two jobs-one for you and one for him, and work at both of them your-
self like the very dickens.
Now, I didn't say you wouldn't be happy in the romantic hours. That's one thing no
kind of Pisces ever born will ever be short of-romance. They fairly breathe it. It's
just that it's no substitute for spinach and baby shoes, or your sanity. The planets, in
their wisdom, take care of such complications of life by giving oodles of chances for
this dreamy, unworldly type of Piscean male to become a proteg6. If he finds a
patron or patroness (much more likelihood of the latter, but it can be either), he can
turn into a great painter, a great writer, a great composer, a great musician-or at least
just a great guy. But how is he going to find a patron, let alone a patroness, if he has
you and those bundles of joy and the goldfish and the guppies and all cluttering up
the artistic simplicity of his existence?
You have to admit it just won't work. Better say farewell to him right now. You'll
cry a little, and it may hurt-even deeply. But not as much as being married to a
walking, talking dream, and having to face the landlord with nothing but empty
wishes m your pocketbook. That really hurts.
Now that we've been brave and practical about the bread and wine type, we can talk
about the other kind of Pisces, the one who grabbed the tide at its flood. Obviously,
he's a real catch for any girl. There's always the chance he could turn out to be an
Einstein or a George Washington, which would be simply wonderful. You couldn't
ask for much more, though I suppose Einstein might have been a little engrossed in
his equations on weekends and George may have brought a few problems home
from the office at night. But you don't have to seek perfection. Even a super
practical Capricorn or an aggressive, driving Aries man can have little flaws. The
point is that a Piscean who fights his way upstream will have plenty of chances to
lay the twin gifts of fame and fortune at your feet And he's quite a guy in other
ways, too.
A Pisces man has no prejudices. He'll never judge an Indian until he's walked a few
miles in his moccasins, or a nudist until he's tried going barefoot. Even then he'll
understand and not pass critical judgment. He's very short on cold accusations and
very long on warm tolerance. He'll even make a stab at trying to understand his
mother-in-law, and how many men do that? The Neptune male possesses a rare
sympathy of spirit. His friends confide in him and never worry that he'll be shocked.
It takes a real blockbuster to shock the fish. If you and I and your Piscean were all
three sitting in a room, and a man walked in and told us he was a little worried
because he was a bigamist, with four different wives in four different states- you
might glare at him and think he deserved to go to jail;
I might sneer at him and call him a skunk; but your Pisces man would probably ask,
"What four states? Were you in love with any of them?" The fish is curious, but
totally shockproof. As far as he's concerned, the fellow needs heaps of sympathy
and a darned good lawyer.
He might tell a secret or two accidentally, never on purpose. Pisces sometimes
speaks before he realizes the possible damage. It's a little tough for him to
comprehend that what he says could perhaps be interpreted in the wrong light by
more severe souls with less relenting attitudes. (It would take some thought, for
example, for him to grasp that people like his sister or your mother wouldn't
understand the domestic difficulties of that poor bigamist.) However, once the fish
has been specifically requested to keep it under his fin, he'll be close-mouthed and
reliable, and you can trust him with your darkest secrets.
An occasional Pisces who's the victim of an afflicted Mercury talks very fast,
fluently and frequently. But the typical Neptunian speaks slowly, thinks gently, and
tries to mind his own business, even though he's continually subjected to the
problems of friends, relatives and neighbors. They flock to him because Neptune
listens so beautifully. You'll find yourself tempted to confide your own little worries
with the broken hair dryer, your father's sinus trouble and your overdrawn bank
balance, but try to go easy. If there's anything a Pisces husband or boy friend doesn't
need, it's more tribulations dropped in his lap. Others have been dropping them all
day. Bundles of them. He needs some relief when he's with you. People don't mean
to impose on Pisces. They seldom realize that the Neptune nature is so receptive it
just soaks up all the vibrations around, good or bad, joyful or fearful, dark or light.
The life of an absorbent, spiritual sponge can be kind of wearing on the psyche, as
any mystic can tell you. (Many of them are Piscean.) The very fact that he's sensi-
tive means that he vividly feels the emotions of those who seek his ear and get his
heart. Pisces people often have to rest for long periods. The Neptune soul must be
alone at times so fresh breezes can blow through to heal the wounds of all those
vicarious troubles and bring back calm, undefiled individuality. So never begrudge
your Pisces man his moments of silence. He sorely needs them. If he feels like being
alone or taking a walk by himself, let him go. Too much togethemess can spoil the
beauty of Pisces love. It needs space to grow untangled.
Remember that the fish is sensitive and can be easily hurt. His shyness is due to a
painful consciousness of his own limitations, whatever they may be, and he feels
them keenly. He needs to know that his virtues are counted by someone he admires.
You. Never hold back encouragement from him.
He may try Yoga and Zen, or experiment with occult beliefs, and hell probably be
interested in astrology and numerology, even reincarnation. Like the Scorpio, he
was born with an understanding of esoteric principles, and these things are usually
good for him. They help keep his emotions stable, and they provide an anchor for
his vivid imagination. Pisces men get upset now and then, but their anger is seldom
violent or long lasting. When it's over, the waters grow placid again, and life is just
as peaceful as before. Some Neptune males do a little yelling around the house, but
it's harmless. It's almost impossible for the fish to really bellow, like Taurus the bull,
for example. See how lucky you are?
Although he's difficult to fathom himself, Pisces has no problem in seeing all the
subtleties of others clearly. It's difficult to fool him; he'll look right through to the
other side. Yet, he can fool you when he takes a notion to do so, through some quirk
he has which makes him want to keep his personal affairs safely hidden from close
scrutiny.
One Piscean I know carries this trait so far he has actually been able to fool the
government, and thafs no easy trick. All his life he has managed to avoid the census
taker. The Internal Revenue knows less about him than they kirow about a native in
Pago Pago. He gets away with it because he's a writer. His phone is listed under a
fictitious name, and he's never applied for a social security card or a driver's license.
He has a horror of some imaginary Big Brother turning him into a number and
knowing all his private secrets.
Your fish may not be quite so neurotic about it, but there will probably be times
when he'll tell you he was at the cleaner's when he was really buying a cigar. Why?
I really don't know. Nor does he. It's a sort of mild deception the Piscean (also the
Geminian) seems to enjoy. As long as he's wearing green suspenders and people
think he's wearing orange suspenders-or no suspenders-he feels secure, somehow.
Since it makes him happy, let him have his little mysteries. Why make a big deal of
it? Even if you know he wasn't at the cleaner because you saw him in the cigar store
yourself, ask him if his slacks were ready. When he tells you the man said they
won't be ready until Monday, remark that the cleaner is as slow as molasses and let
it go at that. He could have far worse habits than practicing a little harmless make-
believe just to keep his vivid imagination oiled up and in top working condition.
There won't be many tremendous surges of jealousy. Or if there are, he's such an
excellent natural actor (if you let him practice) that hell probably pretend them
away. But he's a man, for all his poetic, tender nature, so he'll expect your technical
loyalty when everything is said and done. You may have to control your own
jealousy, however, because he'll have warm friends of both sexes, and he'll be
sympathetic to them, sometimes at odd hours. It's his nature to be gregarious. He
can't help it. There's danger here if you're the violently possessive type. An Aries or
Leo girl had better chase another moonbeam. He does admire beauty, and he may
stare at pretty legs from time to time. But you can keep that in bounds and innocent
with a little extra effort, and your reward will be a gentle husband who's both a
romantic lover and a companion who can talk about everything under the sun.
When those spells of loneliness and depression cause the gloom to gather, toss your
apron in the comer behind the aquarium, throw on a yellow dress and a golden
smile, buy some green tickets to a happy show, and trick him right out of it.
Pisoeans are particularly vulnerable to suggestion. You may hit a few snags trying
to get him to be economical and cautious about money. Neptune people, frankly,
aren't noted for their triple A credit ratings (unless he has a Capricorn ascendant or
strong planets m Taurus, Aquarius or Cancer, for example). He'll learn, but don't
compound the situation by being extravagant yourself, if you can help it. One loose
spender per family goes a long way-toward the poor house. He needs a good
example. It's surprising how that works with the Pisces character in a sort of follow-
the-leader manner. That is, if the leader is close to him and someone he respects.
The Piscean nature is vividly receptive to the vibrations around him, especially if
they're intensified by emotion.
The children will find him one whale of a lot of fun. Chances are hell take them
boating and swimming and snorkel diving. He'll play the part of the Wicked
Crocodile and Little Boy Blue until they think they've found a human nursery
rhyme, in living color. He may sprinkle them with a little way-out philosophy, sing
them some mildly salty ballads, or teach them to stand on their heads, yoga style.
They'll probably adore him, and they just may turn out to be well-balanced, well-
adjusted adults, thanks to his rare ability to hold a tiny bird in his hand without
crushing it or frightening it. You do the spanking and hell do the listening to their
young problems-you keep their noses and their clothes clean and he'll keep their
minds active. It should work out fine.
Never tread on this man's dreams-he won't forgive that, or forget it. Give him a
chance to turn them into realities by helping him find a good, firm star to hitch his
wagon to -one that will sparkle instead of fizzing out in an eclipse of common
sense. In love, Pisces is a leaner emotionally, which means he needs boundless
reassurance and faith, but it also means you musn't lean on him with imaginary
complaints. His enthusiastic hopes need to be watered with understanding affection,
and make sure you supply the rich soil of a happy home life. Keep the deadly
insects of nagging and criticism away from the roots, and someday those wild and
crazy hopes of his will change from useless weeds into tall money trees in the
backyard, high enough to reach a few of your own private dreams. Hope springs
eternal in the Piscean heart. Don't knock it. It may shower you with some gigantic
and surprising luck if you nurture it tenderly.
You may have heard or read that Pisces is the sign of "self-undoing," and that could
make you all nervous and negative, but don't let it frighten you. True, there's always
a bit of self-undoing in all Neptune men, but just "do him back up again," like you
would a package that comes untied. If you make the knots tight enough, it won't
happen often. Serve him a dream for breakfast, a clever joke for lunch, and Chopin
for dinner, with Browning for a chaser. After that, you're on your own. Don't be
afraid to jump in. The water's fine.
The PISCES Woman
'Well, what are you?" said the Pigeon. "I can see you're
trying to invent something!" "I-I'm a little girl," said Alice, rather doubtfully.
She found herself at last in a beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and
the cool fountains.
The line forms to the right. And please don't crowd. There may not be enough
Pisces women for every man, but that's no reason to be unruly. You'll have to take
your turn, and hope for the best.
Even without astrology, rumors have spread about the charms of a Pisces female.
She has her negative points, to be sure, but at first glance she's every man's grade
school valentine, with maybe just a touch of a Playboy bunny to add some pepper.
We might as well admit that the modern, emancipated woman, with her cast-iron
image, has made the Pisces girl's value shoot even higher. With all that freedom
from the feminine mystique clouding the air over lover's lane, the demure, pretty,
helpless Neptune creature has to beat off the men with big sticks.
It's hardly surprising that she's at a premium. The Neptune female seldom tries to
overshadow her man, married or single. She hasn't the slightest hidden, neurotic
desire to dominate him in any way. He can pull out her chair, put on her coat,
whistle for the taxi, light her cigarette and talk about how wonderful he is to his
heart's content. All she wants is that he should protect her and care for her. She's
happily content to lean on his big broad shoulder and let him know, with wide-eyed
wonder, how strong he is, and how much she needs him in this scary world. Just
think of all those wolves out there, waiting to devour Red Riding Hoods. It's enough
to make a girl get out her smelling salts. Even if she isn't quite as Victorian as all
that (though plenty of girl fish are), she'll be a charming listener to all his troubles,
and what is referred to as a good egg through every crisis.
A Pisces woman thinks her mate, lover, boy friend, brother, father-in fact, any man-
can lick the whole world with one hand tied behind his back, and it takes a
surprisingly small amount of her touching faith to convince them of the same thing,
men being the way they are. And you wonder why she's so popular? The Pisces girl
is a cozy, calm haven of tranquility for her proud male, far from the noise of the
frame and the ticker tape machines. The lights in her fish pond are soft and dim.
They soothe tired eyes which have been blasted by neon and all those silly little
figures at the stock market she couldn't understand to save her life. (Though if it
would really save her life, she would sharpen her pencil.)
In the winter she wears fluffy angora mittens. In the Spring she wears dainty, full
skirts. Summers will find her in a brief bikini. In the fall she'll look adorable sitting
beside you at football games, with her hands in your pockets to keep them warm,
and asking you the score. She is eternally feminine in all seasons. At the risk of
making an understatement, men are drawn to her like bumblebees to a honey pot.
A short conversation with her, and a man instantly relaxes. He pictures a glowing,
crackling fire on a chilly night, or he sees himself in a hammock on a balmy spring
day, with no one to nag him. She makes it clear that she'll never blame him for any
problems in his career or any accidental mistakes. It's always someone else's fault.
Not her man's. Shell never press him to get ahead faster. His own pace is perfect
with her. Need I explain why the female fish makes the most dangerous other
woman of all the Sun signs? Flash! Maritime warning: After marriage she may
nudge a little. To be truthful, she may nudge a lot. In a way, it serves you right for
letting yourself be so blinded by her charms. Lots of times she'll even be bitterly
sarcastic, but every woman has to have some flaws, and the Pisces girl will be
gentle far more often than she's quarrelsome. She has to be goaded by extreme
cruelty or laziness in a mate to be a shrew-and who's to say a cruel or lazy husband
doesn't deserve it? Not me. I'm with her.
Besides, her delectable femininity covers any minor deficiencies, and most of the
time the typical Neptune girl is soft, dreamy and womanly. Since the fish swims in
both directions at once, she adapts beautifully and quietly to conflicting situations
that would turn other women into nervous Nellies. Of course, now and then, some
cranky words and irritable chatter may bubble up from her normally placid stream
of thought. Occasionally a sensitive Neptune female who has suffered harsh
treatment at an early age will allow bitterness to break the two symbolic fish of her
sign apart-and this can be very sad. She becomes a lonely, miserable Piscean,
always swimming furiously, and meeting herself everywhere she dives down to
escape-never realizing that the turning inward of her endless love and sympathy
toward herself is the real poison. Drugs and drink and false illusions hide the truth
from her and blind her to the rocks in the river that might destroy her. But the
average Neputune girl keeps both symbolic fish joined firmly together in smooth
action, gliding softly first back, then a little forward, so you're never quite sure
exactly which way she's headed. Pisces is said to be a deep, mysterious sea, into
which all rivers flow. You'll have a better chance of catching her if you know some
of her elusive secrets. What makes her swim?
First of all, she's subtle. Ask Nicky Hilton, Michael Wilding, Eddie Fisher and
Richard Burton-each of whom married a Pisces. As a matter of fact, the same
Pisces. She is not only subtle, she's sometimes a bit deceptive when she practices
her art of wrapping you around her emerald earrings.
Now, you may know a Neptune lady who wears a gingham apron and a shy smile,
and who is the epitome of the devoted wife, homemaker and tender mother. You're
thinking that she's neither subtle nor deceptive. Forgive my directness, but you are
wrong. As for that Pisces lady you think is different, I know her, too, or one just like
her.
She's a widow who lives in the Bronx, and her name is Pauline. She also wears a
gingham apron and a shy smile -the whole setup. How can such a Fannie Farmer
image be subtle or deceptive? I'll tell you. First of all, she wraps everyone around
her apron strings. (She doesn't have any emerald earrings. Next year, maybe.) She's
a short woman who has managed to stand up to the loss of a dear child, heartbreak,
boredom, tragedy, fear, poverty, and even the confusion of sudden, very brief
riches. She's coped with little boys' bruised knees, braces, lost galoshes; a husband's
sloppy Sunday cook-ins in her neat kitchen-and the biggest mixture of in-laws-all
speaking eight languages at once-you ever saw outside the United Nations. She has
faced all this mishmash of fate like Rocky Graziano. That's gentle? That's delicate?
To this very moment, her two sons think of her as a charming, girlish, helpless,
fluttery and soft little creature, who needs to be protected, and who can't quite
understand how the lock works on the front door.
She's delightfully vague and dreamy. She doesn't know a thing about economics, but
she manages to dress as though she was turned out by Sophie of Saks, cook frequent
seven-course dinners for assorted grandchildren, pay the rent on time, and send
exquisite gifts on holidays and birthdays- all on a monthly income about the size of
one of Jack Benny's tips. She has the open love and affection of two daughters-in-
law, and an incongruous group made up of the librarian, the super, the owner of the
comer delly, the fruit man, half a dozen stray cats and children, the butcher, the
newsboy, and would you believe it, even the landlord. She may have one enemy.
The man she turned down before she married her husband. He probably joined the
Foreign Legion in disappointment, and now I doubt if she even remembers his
name. Heartless females, these Pisces women. Subtle and deceptive. (But don't try
to tell their neighbors that.)
Like the March winds, your Pisces girl will have many a mood. She's terribly
sentimental, and when her feelings are wounded she can cry buckets. She'll look at
you so reproachfully you'll feel as if you'd just shot a small rabbit. Pisces females
sometimes get the idea they're hopelessly unequipped for the fierce battles and
driving ambition required to survive. Then deep depression sets in. At these times
you'll have to tell her she's admired for her deep, mysterious wisdom and her
blessed understanding by every single human she has ever graced with her
friendship. It's usually the gospel truth. The hardest lesson she has to learn is to
overcome her timidity and her doubts. If the fears go deep, she'll shut herself off
from others, then wonder why she's lonely. She's often afraid of imposing, pushing
too hard, taking advantage, when such thoughts are in no one's head but hers.
Now and then a Pisces girl will cover her shyness and vulnerability with wisecracks,
a sophisticated veneer and a frigid independent personality, but it's merely a cloak
of protection, worn to hide her uncertainty from the prying eyes of rough people
who would bruise her genfle heart if she exposed it. I know one who pours out her
real soul by writing lovely song lyrics with a secret message woven in the shades of
her soft, very private dreams. When she's not writing, she's the picture of the brittle,
callous, career woman she wants people to see. Yet, even this type of Pisces is
unable to fight her Sun sign. With all her make-believe independence she waits on
the curb and lets the man whistle for the cab. There are some things one just doesn't
do, as far as Neptune women are concerned; not acting like a lady in public is one of
them. She fools a lot of men who could quiet her inner fears and make her take back
her frequent claim of, "Who needs a husband? They only mess up your life."
Imagine a statement like that from a Piscean, who needs to belong to someone more
than she needs to sleep, eat or breathe.
A Pisces girl will give all of her heart to her children, except for the large chunk she
saves for you. She'll love them all, but the ones who are uglier, weaker, smaller or
sicker may have a slight edge with her. Only a Pisces movie star would pass up the
little dimpled darlings and adopt a tiny, crippled tot with frightened eyes. Female
fish are the greatest women in the world for understanding the shyness of small
boys and the growing pains of awkward adolescent girls. A Piscean mother spins a
thousand wispy, cobweb dreams over each bassinet. She'll sacrifice anything so her
children can have what she was denied as a child. She may be too permissive.
Administering discipline is difficult for her, and she must realize that a lack of
firmness is often as bad as severe neglect. In a way, it is neglect, of building the
small characters in her care, who need firm guidance to leam to swim alone. If she's
guilty of too much softness, explain it to her kindly. She'll comprehend without
bitterness, and begin to give the hairbrush a workout. Still many Neptune mothers
manage a happy medium between discipline and kindness, and their offspring do
them credit.
A Pisces woman will gladly let you cam the bacon and cggplant. She'll probably
prefer not to enter the brutal competition of the commercial world, unless you
desperately need her to. She had enough of that (if she's a typical Neptune girl)
when she worked for that big, confusing company while she was waiting for you to
rescue her. Some, not all, but some Pisces women are a wee little bit extravagant.
She may need some help figuring out why the bank's balance doesn't reconcile with
her stubs, written in Sanskrit. Still, when an emergency forces her to adapt her
champagne taste to a skim milk pocketbook, she'll manage.
She listens to the ocean, and it tells her things. In the> midst of the city, she still
hears the waves of Neptune whispering to her Pisces heart more, perhaps, than she
wants to know. Don't forget her birthday or your anniversary or the day you
proposed. She won't. I'll always remember the Pisces friend I went to school with in
West Virginia. She was tiny, with long, dark hair and those strange Neptune lights
in her greenish brown eyes. She married (among several other men) a big football
star; it was a totally unexpected elopement. I remember when she asked him why he
proposed. She was curious. "Well," he told her, "it was the funniest thing, Shorty. I
didn't have the slightest idea of proposing that day. We were in the park, near the
pool. The chicks who were lying around getting a tan had wet, stringy hair from
swimming, and they looked all hot and sweaty on the benches. You were sitting
there under that tree in a white lace dress, and you looked so cool and different from
the others. You looked like-well, I guess you sorta looked like a girl." That's the
subtle secret of the Pisces woman. Whether she follows Neptune's call as a
dedicated nun in a convent or as a sultry songstress in a noisy nightclub-she's a girl.
All girl. One hundred percent.
trying to invent something!" "I-I'm a little girl," said Alice, rather doubtfully.
She found herself at last in a beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and
the cool fountains.
The line forms to the right. And please don't crowd. There may not be enough
Pisces women for every man, but that's no reason to be unruly. You'll have to take
your turn, and hope for the best.
Even without astrology, rumors have spread about the charms of a Pisces female.
She has her negative points, to be sure, but at first glance she's every man's grade
school valentine, with maybe just a touch of a Playboy bunny to add some pepper.
We might as well admit that the modern, emancipated woman, with her cast-iron
image, has made the Pisces girl's value shoot even higher. With all that freedom
from the feminine mystique clouding the air over lover's lane, the demure, pretty,
helpless Neptune creature has to beat off the men with big sticks.
It's hardly surprising that she's at a premium. The Neptune female seldom tries to
overshadow her man, married or single. She hasn't the slightest hidden, neurotic
desire to dominate him in any way. He can pull out her chair, put on her coat,
whistle for the taxi, light her cigarette and talk about how wonderful he is to his
heart's content. All she wants is that he should protect her and care for her. She's
happily content to lean on his big broad shoulder and let him know, with wide-eyed
wonder, how strong he is, and how much she needs him in this scary world. Just
think of all those wolves out there, waiting to devour Red Riding Hoods. It's enough
to make a girl get out her smelling salts. Even if she isn't quite as Victorian as all
that (though plenty of girl fish are), she'll be a charming listener to all his troubles,
and what is referred to as a good egg through every crisis.
A Pisces woman thinks her mate, lover, boy friend, brother, father-in fact, any man-
can lick the whole world with one hand tied behind his back, and it takes a
surprisingly small amount of her touching faith to convince them of the same thing,
men being the way they are. And you wonder why she's so popular? The Pisces girl
is a cozy, calm haven of tranquility for her proud male, far from the noise of the
frame and the ticker tape machines. The lights in her fish pond are soft and dim.
They soothe tired eyes which have been blasted by neon and all those silly little
figures at the stock market she couldn't understand to save her life. (Though if it
would really save her life, she would sharpen her pencil.)
In the winter she wears fluffy angora mittens. In the Spring she wears dainty, full
skirts. Summers will find her in a brief bikini. In the fall she'll look adorable sitting
beside you at football games, with her hands in your pockets to keep them warm,
and asking you the score. She is eternally feminine in all seasons. At the risk of
making an understatement, men are drawn to her like bumblebees to a honey pot.
A short conversation with her, and a man instantly relaxes. He pictures a glowing,
crackling fire on a chilly night, or he sees himself in a hammock on a balmy spring
day, with no one to nag him. She makes it clear that she'll never blame him for any
problems in his career or any accidental mistakes. It's always someone else's fault.
Not her man's. Shell never press him to get ahead faster. His own pace is perfect
with her. Need I explain why the female fish makes the most dangerous other
woman of all the Sun signs? Flash! Maritime warning: After marriage she may
nudge a little. To be truthful, she may nudge a lot. In a way, it serves you right for
letting yourself be so blinded by her charms. Lots of times she'll even be bitterly
sarcastic, but every woman has to have some flaws, and the Pisces girl will be
gentle far more often than she's quarrelsome. She has to be goaded by extreme
cruelty or laziness in a mate to be a shrew-and who's to say a cruel or lazy husband
doesn't deserve it? Not me. I'm with her.
Besides, her delectable femininity covers any minor deficiencies, and most of the
time the typical Neptune girl is soft, dreamy and womanly. Since the fish swims in
both directions at once, she adapts beautifully and quietly to conflicting situations
that would turn other women into nervous Nellies. Of course, now and then, some
cranky words and irritable chatter may bubble up from her normally placid stream
of thought. Occasionally a sensitive Neptune female who has suffered harsh
treatment at an early age will allow bitterness to break the two symbolic fish of her
sign apart-and this can be very sad. She becomes a lonely, miserable Piscean,
always swimming furiously, and meeting herself everywhere she dives down to
escape-never realizing that the turning inward of her endless love and sympathy
toward herself is the real poison. Drugs and drink and false illusions hide the truth
from her and blind her to the rocks in the river that might destroy her. But the
average Neputune girl keeps both symbolic fish joined firmly together in smooth
action, gliding softly first back, then a little forward, so you're never quite sure
exactly which way she's headed. Pisces is said to be a deep, mysterious sea, into
which all rivers flow. You'll have a better chance of catching her if you know some
of her elusive secrets. What makes her swim?
First of all, she's subtle. Ask Nicky Hilton, Michael Wilding, Eddie Fisher and
Richard Burton-each of whom married a Pisces. As a matter of fact, the same
Pisces. She is not only subtle, she's sometimes a bit deceptive when she practices
her art of wrapping you around her emerald earrings.
Now, you may know a Neptune lady who wears a gingham apron and a shy smile,
and who is the epitome of the devoted wife, homemaker and tender mother. You're
thinking that she's neither subtle nor deceptive. Forgive my directness, but you are
wrong. As for that Pisces lady you think is different, I know her, too, or one just like
her.
She's a widow who lives in the Bronx, and her name is Pauline. She also wears a
gingham apron and a shy smile -the whole setup. How can such a Fannie Farmer
image be subtle or deceptive? I'll tell you. First of all, she wraps everyone around
her apron strings. (She doesn't have any emerald earrings. Next year, maybe.) She's
a short woman who has managed to stand up to the loss of a dear child, heartbreak,
boredom, tragedy, fear, poverty, and even the confusion of sudden, very brief
riches. She's coped with little boys' bruised knees, braces, lost galoshes; a husband's
sloppy Sunday cook-ins in her neat kitchen-and the biggest mixture of in-laws-all
speaking eight languages at once-you ever saw outside the United Nations. She has
faced all this mishmash of fate like Rocky Graziano. That's gentle? That's delicate?
To this very moment, her two sons think of her as a charming, girlish, helpless,
fluttery and soft little creature, who needs to be protected, and who can't quite
understand how the lock works on the front door.
She's delightfully vague and dreamy. She doesn't know a thing about economics, but
she manages to dress as though she was turned out by Sophie of Saks, cook frequent
seven-course dinners for assorted grandchildren, pay the rent on time, and send
exquisite gifts on holidays and birthdays- all on a monthly income about the size of
one of Jack Benny's tips. She has the open love and affection of two daughters-in-
law, and an incongruous group made up of the librarian, the super, the owner of the
comer delly, the fruit man, half a dozen stray cats and children, the butcher, the
newsboy, and would you believe it, even the landlord. She may have one enemy.
The man she turned down before she married her husband. He probably joined the
Foreign Legion in disappointment, and now I doubt if she even remembers his
name. Heartless females, these Pisces women. Subtle and deceptive. (But don't try
to tell their neighbors that.)
Like the March winds, your Pisces girl will have many a mood. She's terribly
sentimental, and when her feelings are wounded she can cry buckets. She'll look at
you so reproachfully you'll feel as if you'd just shot a small rabbit. Pisces females
sometimes get the idea they're hopelessly unequipped for the fierce battles and
driving ambition required to survive. Then deep depression sets in. At these times
you'll have to tell her she's admired for her deep, mysterious wisdom and her
blessed understanding by every single human she has ever graced with her
friendship. It's usually the gospel truth. The hardest lesson she has to learn is to
overcome her timidity and her doubts. If the fears go deep, she'll shut herself off
from others, then wonder why she's lonely. She's often afraid of imposing, pushing
too hard, taking advantage, when such thoughts are in no one's head but hers.
Now and then a Pisces girl will cover her shyness and vulnerability with wisecracks,
a sophisticated veneer and a frigid independent personality, but it's merely a cloak
of protection, worn to hide her uncertainty from the prying eyes of rough people
who would bruise her genfle heart if she exposed it. I know one who pours out her
real soul by writing lovely song lyrics with a secret message woven in the shades of
her soft, very private dreams. When she's not writing, she's the picture of the brittle,
callous, career woman she wants people to see. Yet, even this type of Pisces is
unable to fight her Sun sign. With all her make-believe independence she waits on
the curb and lets the man whistle for the cab. There are some things one just doesn't
do, as far as Neptune women are concerned; not acting like a lady in public is one of
them. She fools a lot of men who could quiet her inner fears and make her take back
her frequent claim of, "Who needs a husband? They only mess up your life."
Imagine a statement like that from a Piscean, who needs to belong to someone more
than she needs to sleep, eat or breathe.
A Pisces girl will give all of her heart to her children, except for the large chunk she
saves for you. She'll love them all, but the ones who are uglier, weaker, smaller or
sicker may have a slight edge with her. Only a Pisces movie star would pass up the
little dimpled darlings and adopt a tiny, crippled tot with frightened eyes. Female
fish are the greatest women in the world for understanding the shyness of small
boys and the growing pains of awkward adolescent girls. A Piscean mother spins a
thousand wispy, cobweb dreams over each bassinet. She'll sacrifice anything so her
children can have what she was denied as a child. She may be too permissive.
Administering discipline is difficult for her, and she must realize that a lack of
firmness is often as bad as severe neglect. In a way, it is neglect, of building the
small characters in her care, who need firm guidance to leam to swim alone. If she's
guilty of too much softness, explain it to her kindly. She'll comprehend without
bitterness, and begin to give the hairbrush a workout. Still many Neptune mothers
manage a happy medium between discipline and kindness, and their offspring do
them credit.
A Pisces woman will gladly let you cam the bacon and cggplant. She'll probably
prefer not to enter the brutal competition of the commercial world, unless you
desperately need her to. She had enough of that (if she's a typical Neptune girl)
when she worked for that big, confusing company while she was waiting for you to
rescue her. Some, not all, but some Pisces women are a wee little bit extravagant.
She may need some help figuring out why the bank's balance doesn't reconcile with
her stubs, written in Sanskrit. Still, when an emergency forces her to adapt her
champagne taste to a skim milk pocketbook, she'll manage.
She listens to the ocean, and it tells her things. In the> midst of the city, she still
hears the waves of Neptune whispering to her Pisces heart more, perhaps, than she
wants to know. Don't forget her birthday or your anniversary or the day you
proposed. She won't. I'll always remember the Pisces friend I went to school with in
West Virginia. She was tiny, with long, dark hair and those strange Neptune lights
in her greenish brown eyes. She married (among several other men) a big football
star; it was a totally unexpected elopement. I remember when she asked him why he
proposed. She was curious. "Well," he told her, "it was the funniest thing, Shorty. I
didn't have the slightest idea of proposing that day. We were in the park, near the
pool. The chicks who were lying around getting a tan had wet, stringy hair from
swimming, and they looked all hot and sweaty on the benches. You were sitting
there under that tree in a white lace dress, and you looked so cool and different from
the others. You looked like-well, I guess you sorta looked like a girl." That's the
subtle secret of the Pisces woman. Whether she follows Neptune's call as a
dedicated nun in a convent or as a sultry songstress in a noisy nightclub-she's a girl.
All girl. One hundred percent.
The PISCES Child
Eager eye and willing ear, Lovingly shall nestle near. In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a
dream?
Most babies, as everyone knows, were found under a cabbage leaf. A few are
carried in that long diaper, hanging from the stork's bill or were brought to the
hospital in the doctor's black bag. Not your little Pisces bundle. He came straight
from fairyland, clutching a moonbeam. If you look closely, you'll still see the
reflection of elves and magic wishing trees in his dreamy little eyes, maybe even a
trace of stardust smudged behind his left ear. His wings may have disappeared by
the time he gets to the delivery room, but there's probably a small bump where they
were once fastened.
You've seen those congratulation cards for new mothers, with pictures of dimpled,
pink and white painted babies, fragile and gauzy, flying around over the verse. The
artist used your Pisces babe as a model. This could make you think you can lead
your Neptune child by the toe, or that after you've scrubbed that shiny stardust out
of his ears you can mold him into any shape you like. Why not, when he's such a
gentle, delicate little lump of clay? Think again. He'll get his own way just as surely
as the yelling red-faced Aries baby, the demanding, regal Leo baby or the stubborn,
tough little Taurus baby. The only difference is that hell get it by charming you to
death, and drowning you in oceans of sweet smiles and winning ways.
As soon as the ink is dry on the birth certificate, turn in the name of your little
Pisces boy for the lead in the first future production of Peter Pan or the girl for
Alice in Wonderland. Peter Pan and Alice will be the Neptune children's favorite
roles, and they won't need a stage to act the parts superbly. They'll still be starring in
them when they're eighty. Parents who breathe the age-old prayer, "I wish baby
never had to grow up," will get their wish if baby was born under the sign of the
fish. The years won't leave any lasting impression: there will always be a childish,
dreamy, magical quality of make-believe hanging like a mist over the Pisces. It will
drench him in mystery and unreality forever-and-three-days.
By the time he's old enough to crawl into the jam pot and hide, this strange child of
yours will show a preference for living in a world of fancy. He'll enjoy diversions
that are far removed from everyday patterns and routines. When he's in the high
chair, he'll eat like an angel, if you pretend you're a queen or a clown while you're
feeding him. Wear a lampshade, dripping with all your old, sparkling necklaces, or a
mop for a wig; smear lipstick and chalk on your face. His imagination will supply
the rest. When he's a little older, he'U play happily on the front porch while you do
the washing if you hang up a few balloons, put some music on the record player,
toss around his stuffed animals, give him some popcorn and tell him he's at the
circus.
When he's old enough to start to school and begin to have those peculiar dreams at
night, you'll be tying his shoes one ordinary spring morning and get a shock. "Guess
who I saw last night?" hell remark confidentially. You'll mumble a polite rejoiner-
now where on earth is his green sweater? Oh, there it is-on the teddy bear he dressed
up yesterday, when he was pretending it was his best friend.
"Who did you see?"
He'll answer casually, "Grandma Stratton. We talked for a long time, then she had to
go. She said to tell you to be sure to water her geraniums and send Uncle Clarence
the money."
Since Grandmother Stratton died before he was bom, this could unnerve you a little,
on an empty stomach, before coffee. But it's nothing to the prickly sensation you'll
get after breakfast, when he's in school and the mailman delivers a letter from your
Uncle Clarence from whom you haven't heard in five years, asking for a loan to start
a new business.
The wisest parents have difficulty arranging a schedule that will stick with a Pisces
offspring. Schedules and routines are his natural enemies, and he'll do everything in
his fertile imagination to avoid them. Babies who live upside down-sleep all day
and stay awake all night-are often Neptune infants. He wants to eat when he's
hungry, sleep when he's tired and play when something attracts his fancy, whenever
that might be. Trying to get him to eat, sleep or play at any other time is quite a task.
Actually, it's rather a sensible attitude, but the times he gets hungry, tired or playful
may vary considerably from day to day and night to night. You might as well adjust
your schedule to his. He'll seldom throw tantrums, scream or balk to get you to
come around to his way, but he'll gradually win you over by evasive, elusive tactics,
and confuse you into Capitulation. You may even get charmed yourself by the 'sheer
freedom of it. Not feeling guilty when you chat with neighbors over coffee during
the feeding hour, playing a fascinating game of "Princess and Frog" in the still
magic hours of dawn-or sharing a bowl of vegetable soup and a cup of hot chocolate
with him in the middle of a dreary, gray winter afternoon can become strangely
attractive. He might even teach you there's no reason to let that silly clock be a
cruel, infallible dictator over your life. It's only a ticking hunk of metal.
The Pisces child will require a healthy amount of attention and appreciation. He'll
have to be noticed and encouraged, because he's uncertain about his abilities. Give
him as many bushels of it as he needs. Hell also require his moments of privacy.
When he goes into one of his mysterious moods of withdrawal, let him be. His mind
is a million light years away, and you can't follow. He'll return in plenty of time for
his vegetable soup and hot chocolate. Only by now, he'll have changed his lunch
hour to mid-evening. If he tells you he was out flying on a saucer with a man from
Mars, believe him. It just might be so.
Teachers are always confused when they try to put this odd-shaped peg into a round
or square educational hole. He may not fit into either. You'll probably have heaps of
struggles between his unique methods of learning and the school's stale routines.
Hell simply refuse to conform to a pattern not his own. Don't blame him too much.
The educational system has yet to catch up with Neptune's wisdom. Many Pisces
boys and girls are artistic, and most of them love music and dancing. Typical
Neptunian youngsters are light on their feet, regardless of their weight. The little girl
often longs to be a ballerina; the little boy usually chooses heroes like Beethoven,
Michelangelo, the astronauts or Saint Anthony over scientists, presidents and gen-
erals. They love all kinds of books and English may be a favorite subject, since
Pisces is a good story-teller. They love words, and poetry often enchants them.
Neptunians may find math hard to understand at first, but they'll have an uncanny
grasp of the abstract theories behind algebra and geometry later on.
There may be a lack of responsibility, which can be frustrating. Pisces children
follow their own rules. They're sensitive and easily stabbed to the quick by
harshness. Tears may be frequent. These youngsters ordinarily prefer the company
of adults to playing with other children. Even' at a tender age, they have a deep
wisdom and sympathetic understanding of situations over their heads. A child of
Neptune is often accused of lying, yet they aren't lies to him. There's no malicious
or cowardly intent. His young mind swims in fluid imagination which whispers a
thousand secrets, so utterly delightful and filled with such sheer beauty he can't help
trying to make them live in the cold, real world. The fact that these lovely dreams
soon die in the sterile, arid soil of a materialistic society is heartbreaking. He needs
your deepest pity, or he'll retreat into silent, moody despair.
The Piscean child hears songs of the sea he can never describe. The cold, ugly,
naked truth is too brutal for him to bear. He must dress it up occasionally or try to
warm it and color it with Neptune shades of romance. It's not fair to call it lying.
Instead, encourage him to gather all his clouds and moonbeams and weave them
into poems, plays or paintings. Soon enough, he'll learn to adapt to the normal world
of brutality, selfishness, cruelty and greed. Why thrust him into it rudely? He may
have trouble learning to conform to social and scholastic demands that stifle his
individuality. But his parents and teachers can learn from him the value of
compassion, understanding, beauty, tolerance, imagination and gentleness. It all
depends on the kind of diploma you want from life.
Someday, either the Piscean philosophy of freedom of expression or the conformist
concept will win. My money is on Pisces. Of course, your friendly, warm-hearted
little Neptunian must be taught that people expect him to adjust eventually to their
crazy-quilt, upside-down concepts in order to survive. But if he's shoved too hard by
stem, negative adults, he'll lose his way back to the other side of the looking-glass.
Don't steal his key. He needs to slip over there now and then, to refresh himself with
the true wisdom of the Red Queen and the White Knight. Then he can better cope
with the real world of war, poverty, disease, hypocritical ethics and ingratitude.
Your little fish needs a cloak of protection against the cold winds to come. Knit it
yourself with bright, gay sturdy yam. Try to understand his Neptune ways. Guide
him tenderly, wisely, and when he's tall enough, he may someday suddenly reach
out and catch one of his silver stars to bring home to you. Then you'll be glad you
didn't laugh at his dreams. Better clear off a spot on the mantle right now.
Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a
dream?
Most babies, as everyone knows, were found under a cabbage leaf. A few are
carried in that long diaper, hanging from the stork's bill or were brought to the
hospital in the doctor's black bag. Not your little Pisces bundle. He came straight
from fairyland, clutching a moonbeam. If you look closely, you'll still see the
reflection of elves and magic wishing trees in his dreamy little eyes, maybe even a
trace of stardust smudged behind his left ear. His wings may have disappeared by
the time he gets to the delivery room, but there's probably a small bump where they
were once fastened.
You've seen those congratulation cards for new mothers, with pictures of dimpled,
pink and white painted babies, fragile and gauzy, flying around over the verse. The
artist used your Pisces babe as a model. This could make you think you can lead
your Neptune child by the toe, or that after you've scrubbed that shiny stardust out
of his ears you can mold him into any shape you like. Why not, when he's such a
gentle, delicate little lump of clay? Think again. He'll get his own way just as surely
as the yelling red-faced Aries baby, the demanding, regal Leo baby or the stubborn,
tough little Taurus baby. The only difference is that hell get it by charming you to
death, and drowning you in oceans of sweet smiles and winning ways.
As soon as the ink is dry on the birth certificate, turn in the name of your little
Pisces boy for the lead in the first future production of Peter Pan or the girl for
Alice in Wonderland. Peter Pan and Alice will be the Neptune children's favorite
roles, and they won't need a stage to act the parts superbly. They'll still be starring in
them when they're eighty. Parents who breathe the age-old prayer, "I wish baby
never had to grow up," will get their wish if baby was born under the sign of the
fish. The years won't leave any lasting impression: there will always be a childish,
dreamy, magical quality of make-believe hanging like a mist over the Pisces. It will
drench him in mystery and unreality forever-and-three-days.
By the time he's old enough to crawl into the jam pot and hide, this strange child of
yours will show a preference for living in a world of fancy. He'll enjoy diversions
that are far removed from everyday patterns and routines. When he's in the high
chair, he'll eat like an angel, if you pretend you're a queen or a clown while you're
feeding him. Wear a lampshade, dripping with all your old, sparkling necklaces, or a
mop for a wig; smear lipstick and chalk on your face. His imagination will supply
the rest. When he's a little older, he'U play happily on the front porch while you do
the washing if you hang up a few balloons, put some music on the record player,
toss around his stuffed animals, give him some popcorn and tell him he's at the
circus.
When he's old enough to start to school and begin to have those peculiar dreams at
night, you'll be tying his shoes one ordinary spring morning and get a shock. "Guess
who I saw last night?" hell remark confidentially. You'll mumble a polite rejoiner-
now where on earth is his green sweater? Oh, there it is-on the teddy bear he dressed
up yesterday, when he was pretending it was his best friend.
"Who did you see?"
He'll answer casually, "Grandma Stratton. We talked for a long time, then she had to
go. She said to tell you to be sure to water her geraniums and send Uncle Clarence
the money."
Since Grandmother Stratton died before he was bom, this could unnerve you a little,
on an empty stomach, before coffee. But it's nothing to the prickly sensation you'll
get after breakfast, when he's in school and the mailman delivers a letter from your
Uncle Clarence from whom you haven't heard in five years, asking for a loan to start
a new business.
The wisest parents have difficulty arranging a schedule that will stick with a Pisces
offspring. Schedules and routines are his natural enemies, and he'll do everything in
his fertile imagination to avoid them. Babies who live upside down-sleep all day
and stay awake all night-are often Neptune infants. He wants to eat when he's
hungry, sleep when he's tired and play when something attracts his fancy, whenever
that might be. Trying to get him to eat, sleep or play at any other time is quite a task.
Actually, it's rather a sensible attitude, but the times he gets hungry, tired or playful
may vary considerably from day to day and night to night. You might as well adjust
your schedule to his. He'll seldom throw tantrums, scream or balk to get you to
come around to his way, but he'll gradually win you over by evasive, elusive tactics,
and confuse you into Capitulation. You may even get charmed yourself by the 'sheer
freedom of it. Not feeling guilty when you chat with neighbors over coffee during
the feeding hour, playing a fascinating game of "Princess and Frog" in the still
magic hours of dawn-or sharing a bowl of vegetable soup and a cup of hot chocolate
with him in the middle of a dreary, gray winter afternoon can become strangely
attractive. He might even teach you there's no reason to let that silly clock be a
cruel, infallible dictator over your life. It's only a ticking hunk of metal.
The Pisces child will require a healthy amount of attention and appreciation. He'll
have to be noticed and encouraged, because he's uncertain about his abilities. Give
him as many bushels of it as he needs. Hell also require his moments of privacy.
When he goes into one of his mysterious moods of withdrawal, let him be. His mind
is a million light years away, and you can't follow. He'll return in plenty of time for
his vegetable soup and hot chocolate. Only by now, he'll have changed his lunch
hour to mid-evening. If he tells you he was out flying on a saucer with a man from
Mars, believe him. It just might be so.
Teachers are always confused when they try to put this odd-shaped peg into a round
or square educational hole. He may not fit into either. You'll probably have heaps of
struggles between his unique methods of learning and the school's stale routines.
Hell simply refuse to conform to a pattern not his own. Don't blame him too much.
The educational system has yet to catch up with Neptune's wisdom. Many Pisces
boys and girls are artistic, and most of them love music and dancing. Typical
Neptunian youngsters are light on their feet, regardless of their weight. The little girl
often longs to be a ballerina; the little boy usually chooses heroes like Beethoven,
Michelangelo, the astronauts or Saint Anthony over scientists, presidents and gen-
erals. They love all kinds of books and English may be a favorite subject, since
Pisces is a good story-teller. They love words, and poetry often enchants them.
Neptunians may find math hard to understand at first, but they'll have an uncanny
grasp of the abstract theories behind algebra and geometry later on.
There may be a lack of responsibility, which can be frustrating. Pisces children
follow their own rules. They're sensitive and easily stabbed to the quick by
harshness. Tears may be frequent. These youngsters ordinarily prefer the company
of adults to playing with other children. Even' at a tender age, they have a deep
wisdom and sympathetic understanding of situations over their heads. A child of
Neptune is often accused of lying, yet they aren't lies to him. There's no malicious
or cowardly intent. His young mind swims in fluid imagination which whispers a
thousand secrets, so utterly delightful and filled with such sheer beauty he can't help
trying to make them live in the cold, real world. The fact that these lovely dreams
soon die in the sterile, arid soil of a materialistic society is heartbreaking. He needs
your deepest pity, or he'll retreat into silent, moody despair.
The Piscean child hears songs of the sea he can never describe. The cold, ugly,
naked truth is too brutal for him to bear. He must dress it up occasionally or try to
warm it and color it with Neptune shades of romance. It's not fair to call it lying.
Instead, encourage him to gather all his clouds and moonbeams and weave them
into poems, plays or paintings. Soon enough, he'll learn to adapt to the normal world
of brutality, selfishness, cruelty and greed. Why thrust him into it rudely? He may
have trouble learning to conform to social and scholastic demands that stifle his
individuality. But his parents and teachers can learn from him the value of
compassion, understanding, beauty, tolerance, imagination and gentleness. It all
depends on the kind of diploma you want from life.
Someday, either the Piscean philosophy of freedom of expression or the conformist
concept will win. My money is on Pisces. Of course, your friendly, warm-hearted
little Neptunian must be taught that people expect him to adjust eventually to their
crazy-quilt, upside-down concepts in order to survive. But if he's shoved too hard by
stem, negative adults, he'll lose his way back to the other side of the looking-glass.
Don't steal his key. He needs to slip over there now and then, to refresh himself with
the true wisdom of the Red Queen and the White Knight. Then he can better cope
with the real world of war, poverty, disease, hypocritical ethics and ingratitude.
Your little fish needs a cloak of protection against the cold winds to come. Knit it
yourself with bright, gay sturdy yam. Try to understand his Neptune ways. Guide
him tenderly, wisely, and when he's tall enough, he may someday suddenly reach
out and catch one of his silver stars to bring home to you. Then you'll be glad you
didn't laugh at his dreams. Better clear off a spot on the mantle right now.
The PISCES Boss
"You are old" said the youth; "one would hardly suppose That your eye was as
steady as ever;
Yet you balance an eel on the end of your nose- What made you so awfully clever?"
Sample conversation in an office about a typical Pisces executive:
"What's the name of that new boss the firm hired last week?"
"You mean the one who took his coffee break with us yesterday?"
"No. The one who left this morning."
With only slight exaggeration, that's about the normal length 6f time the average
Piscean will remain in an executive position. There are a limited number of streams
for Pisees bosses, and we'll concentrate on those. In most corporate and industrial
areas, the Neptunian chief is as rare as a bathing suit at the North Pole. The great
majority of Neptune's children prefer to swim alone-uncon-fined-as writers,
salesmen, creative artists, actors, wandering minstrels or soldiers-of-fortune.
However, there are a few areas where he can apply his talents and make himself an
indispensable boss. He has top qualifications for radio stations, TV networks,
advertising and public relations outfits. Running any of these operations, hell go
around happily dispensing creative ideas from his superabundant fountain of
imagination. Pisces sees no reason to blurt out the plain and often brutal truth, as
certain other Sun signs do. Unlike Gemini, Sagittarius and Scorpio, the fish prefers
not to tell it like it is. He would rather tell people what he thinks will have the best
effect on them in the long run, or what they want to hear. It's not because he's
dishonest. He's learned through bitter experience that society does not want to hear
the cold and naked truth. Besides, he feels the soul requires the added dressing of
ritual and beauty painted over sound facts. Madison Avenue loves him.
He's a superlative director of stage and screen, also a capable producer (if he has a
good company manager). He can run a dance studio like a dream. As the head of a
detective or research bureau, his uncanny psychic ability to penetrate mystery leads
him straight to the top of the heap. Lots of travel agencies have Pisces executives,
and they're usually tremendously successful. He's often found as the head of a
charitable organization. Many fish happily lead orchestras or bands, and keep
rehearsals running smoothly, not to mention producing great music. They're
unexcelled as executive managers of country clubs or hotels (if there's a good
bookkeeper around). They can run a progressive publishing company, magazine or
newspaper competently, even brilliantly. You'll often find the fish heading up a
service business of some kind, and he's certainly in home waters as the director of a
camp, or in an official capacity in a church or synagogue. But that's just about it,
except for teachers and professors and a few administrators in medical or law
schools. Pisceans aren't cut out to be bosses, in the strict sense of the word.
With his sensitive nature, Pisces was born to serve mankind, not to accumulate
power or build huge empires. He can be a capable and competent stockbroker and a
shrewd trader, but he'll almost never take over as the head of a brokerage or bond
house. Too much responsibility. However, thanks to his quick, clever mind and his
sometimes uncanny grasp of figures, the fish can have a lot of fun juggling the
points of fluctuating shares, though it will be more like a game to him than actual
work.
If your boss was born in March, he may be the type to behave like a crosspatch
when he's irritated by something. He has a gift of words, and when he's being
brusque, it's a caustic brusqueness that can scald a little, but he'll seldom be
aggressively domineering or truly mean and petty. One minute he may shock you
with his unconventional ideas, then he'll do a rather slippery turnabout and appear to
be a conformist. You'll eventually catch on that he's neither a great liberal nor a
cautious conservative. On different occasions, he takes either view, to find out what
your ideas are. He can be, in other words, a mite tricky. When he finds your ideas
and your conversation interesting, your Pisces boss will listen with nattering
concentration, silently and sincerely, maybe even offer you a glass of sherry to
create a relaxed atmosphere. If he finds what you say boring, his mind will wander.
He'll probably daydream about far-off people and places while you're talking, care-
fully keeping a fixed smile on his face. Since every one of them is a born actor,
you'll think he's being attentive, but after a certain period, he'll get tired of his
mental wanderings, notice that you're babbling away, and suddenly interrupt. Then
he'll do the talking and you'll do the listening, sometimes for hours-and hours-and
hours.
He may be well-traveled, and if he isn't, he'll soon make up for lost time. Like the
Sagittarian and Geminian boss, the Pisces executive will keep a packed suitcase
behind the couch in his office. If not, he should. Why don't you suggest it to him?
He'll probably think it's a splendid idea. Besides, the knowledge that the bag is
zipped and ready to take off can give him strange comfort on dreary rainy days, or
in the dead of a slushy, bitter winter when he feels like jumping off the penthouse
roof with boredom. He'll have his depressed moods and they will be real
humdingers. Better stay away from him at those times, hum cheerful melodies while
you're working, and make sure he has his hot toddy, laced with the best bourbon.
Be nice to his wives-I mean his wife. (It's a natural mistake. Along with your
Gemini and Sagittarius boss, the Pisces boss is more apt to undergo multiple
double-ring ceremonies than other bosses.) His wife is probably a nice, sensible,
practical girl. If she were as imaginative and original as her husband, they'd likely
both drown together in an ocean of misty dreams and fancies.
The Piscean executive is somewhat partial to the creative thinkers in his firm. If you
tend more toward caution than imaginative strategy, you may not get as many
glasses of sherry or as many comradely smiles, but you probably won't get fired. He
may enjoy the others more, but fac needs you. He leans on your practical approach
and your organizational ability. The favored, highly inventive employee of a Pisces
boss is often shocked right out of his sparkling ideas when the firm has an economy
drive and the fish gently lets the ax fall on him, and keeps the steady, reliable, rather
stodgy worker on the payroll. The Pisces will wave farewell sadly, but he is a
shrewd judge of human nature, including his own. Although he enjoys the company
and the progressive contributions of the imaginative employees, his own brand of
creativity works more smoothly when it's backed up by the careful planning and
office discipline of the old gray heads of wisdom, even if they're young, blonde or
brunette heads. Discretion and conservatism aren't his greatest assets, and he's
clearly aware of his deficiencies. He can always find another daring, enthusiastic
dreamer when business picks up, but when the profits dip a little, he can't afford to
be without the workers whose noses are worn down by the grindstone. Meanwhile,
he figures he'll take care of the daring, enthusiastic dreams department himself until
things get better and he can put some more compatible blue-sky people on the
payroll. Of course, there are always exceptions to any rule, but it won't hurt to let
your Pisces boss know that you can be serious and sensational at the same time.
You've probably already learned that he's installed a Capricorn or Taurus as a
middleman to deal with employees who seek raises. He knows better than to let you
appeal to him personally. The Neptune nature is so constituted that he finds it
almost impossible to say no to a fellow human being who has a sincere need, or
even just a sincere desire. He learns early to insulate himself as best he can.
Remember, he lives in two different worlds. Such a division of nature can cause a
confused personality, but it can just as easily cause brilliance. His thoughts may be
as abstract and deep as Piscean Einstein's, who once said, "God doesn't throw dice."
Einstein meant that the law of mathematical probability isn't necessarily sacrosanct
Your Neptune boss feels the same way about accepted business procedures, and
time usually proves his first instincts are right, no matter how visionary they may
sound when he expresses them. He's a mystic at heart, a secret believer in the
unseen and the supernatural, though he may be a little bashful about it. He won't
practice Voodoo at his desk or meditate in the lotus position at the water cooler,
because he fears ridicule if people discover the undercurrent of his psychic
vibrations. But they find out anyway, for all his clever playing of the role of tough
realist.
Remember that time your heart was. broken by a boy friend who flew the coop and
took your engagement ring and all your dreams with him? Your Pisces boss casually
invited you to dinner, filled your sad head with the nicest compliments, then hurried
you to the theater. Afterwards, he took you backstage, introduced you to the leading
players, and then treated everyone to a late supper. With all that food and wine and
glittering conversation, he took your mind right off your fickle fiance. Though
sometimes he was gruff deliberately, so it wouldn't look obvious, for weeks
afterwards, he found little ways to cheer you up until the ache stopped aching. You
hadn't told a soul in the office about the breakup. Now, how did he know you
needed help over that black period? The gypsy who read his fortune one day by the
lines in his hand could have told you. She noticed right away that he has a rare mark
on his palm-which means he's a compassionate genius. There aren't very many of
them around. That's why he's a rare fish.
steady as ever;
Yet you balance an eel on the end of your nose- What made you so awfully clever?"
Sample conversation in an office about a typical Pisces executive:
"What's the name of that new boss the firm hired last week?"
"You mean the one who took his coffee break with us yesterday?"
"No. The one who left this morning."
With only slight exaggeration, that's about the normal length 6f time the average
Piscean will remain in an executive position. There are a limited number of streams
for Pisees bosses, and we'll concentrate on those. In most corporate and industrial
areas, the Neptunian chief is as rare as a bathing suit at the North Pole. The great
majority of Neptune's children prefer to swim alone-uncon-fined-as writers,
salesmen, creative artists, actors, wandering minstrels or soldiers-of-fortune.
However, there are a few areas where he can apply his talents and make himself an
indispensable boss. He has top qualifications for radio stations, TV networks,
advertising and public relations outfits. Running any of these operations, hell go
around happily dispensing creative ideas from his superabundant fountain of
imagination. Pisces sees no reason to blurt out the plain and often brutal truth, as
certain other Sun signs do. Unlike Gemini, Sagittarius and Scorpio, the fish prefers
not to tell it like it is. He would rather tell people what he thinks will have the best
effect on them in the long run, or what they want to hear. It's not because he's
dishonest. He's learned through bitter experience that society does not want to hear
the cold and naked truth. Besides, he feels the soul requires the added dressing of
ritual and beauty painted over sound facts. Madison Avenue loves him.
He's a superlative director of stage and screen, also a capable producer (if he has a
good company manager). He can run a dance studio like a dream. As the head of a
detective or research bureau, his uncanny psychic ability to penetrate mystery leads
him straight to the top of the heap. Lots of travel agencies have Pisces executives,
and they're usually tremendously successful. He's often found as the head of a
charitable organization. Many fish happily lead orchestras or bands, and keep
rehearsals running smoothly, not to mention producing great music. They're
unexcelled as executive managers of country clubs or hotels (if there's a good
bookkeeper around). They can run a progressive publishing company, magazine or
newspaper competently, even brilliantly. You'll often find the fish heading up a
service business of some kind, and he's certainly in home waters as the director of a
camp, or in an official capacity in a church or synagogue. But that's just about it,
except for teachers and professors and a few administrators in medical or law
schools. Pisceans aren't cut out to be bosses, in the strict sense of the word.
With his sensitive nature, Pisces was born to serve mankind, not to accumulate
power or build huge empires. He can be a capable and competent stockbroker and a
shrewd trader, but he'll almost never take over as the head of a brokerage or bond
house. Too much responsibility. However, thanks to his quick, clever mind and his
sometimes uncanny grasp of figures, the fish can have a lot of fun juggling the
points of fluctuating shares, though it will be more like a game to him than actual
work.
If your boss was born in March, he may be the type to behave like a crosspatch
when he's irritated by something. He has a gift of words, and when he's being
brusque, it's a caustic brusqueness that can scald a little, but he'll seldom be
aggressively domineering or truly mean and petty. One minute he may shock you
with his unconventional ideas, then he'll do a rather slippery turnabout and appear to
be a conformist. You'll eventually catch on that he's neither a great liberal nor a
cautious conservative. On different occasions, he takes either view, to find out what
your ideas are. He can be, in other words, a mite tricky. When he finds your ideas
and your conversation interesting, your Pisces boss will listen with nattering
concentration, silently and sincerely, maybe even offer you a glass of sherry to
create a relaxed atmosphere. If he finds what you say boring, his mind will wander.
He'll probably daydream about far-off people and places while you're talking, care-
fully keeping a fixed smile on his face. Since every one of them is a born actor,
you'll think he's being attentive, but after a certain period, he'll get tired of his
mental wanderings, notice that you're babbling away, and suddenly interrupt. Then
he'll do the talking and you'll do the listening, sometimes for hours-and hours-and
hours.
He may be well-traveled, and if he isn't, he'll soon make up for lost time. Like the
Sagittarian and Geminian boss, the Pisces executive will keep a packed suitcase
behind the couch in his office. If not, he should. Why don't you suggest it to him?
He'll probably think it's a splendid idea. Besides, the knowledge that the bag is
zipped and ready to take off can give him strange comfort on dreary rainy days, or
in the dead of a slushy, bitter winter when he feels like jumping off the penthouse
roof with boredom. He'll have his depressed moods and they will be real
humdingers. Better stay away from him at those times, hum cheerful melodies while
you're working, and make sure he has his hot toddy, laced with the best bourbon.
Be nice to his wives-I mean his wife. (It's a natural mistake. Along with your
Gemini and Sagittarius boss, the Pisces boss is more apt to undergo multiple
double-ring ceremonies than other bosses.) His wife is probably a nice, sensible,
practical girl. If she were as imaginative and original as her husband, they'd likely
both drown together in an ocean of misty dreams and fancies.
The Piscean executive is somewhat partial to the creative thinkers in his firm. If you
tend more toward caution than imaginative strategy, you may not get as many
glasses of sherry or as many comradely smiles, but you probably won't get fired. He
may enjoy the others more, but fac needs you. He leans on your practical approach
and your organizational ability. The favored, highly inventive employee of a Pisces
boss is often shocked right out of his sparkling ideas when the firm has an economy
drive and the fish gently lets the ax fall on him, and keeps the steady, reliable, rather
stodgy worker on the payroll. The Pisces will wave farewell sadly, but he is a
shrewd judge of human nature, including his own. Although he enjoys the company
and the progressive contributions of the imaginative employees, his own brand of
creativity works more smoothly when it's backed up by the careful planning and
office discipline of the old gray heads of wisdom, even if they're young, blonde or
brunette heads. Discretion and conservatism aren't his greatest assets, and he's
clearly aware of his deficiencies. He can always find another daring, enthusiastic
dreamer when business picks up, but when the profits dip a little, he can't afford to
be without the workers whose noses are worn down by the grindstone. Meanwhile,
he figures he'll take care of the daring, enthusiastic dreams department himself until
things get better and he can put some more compatible blue-sky people on the
payroll. Of course, there are always exceptions to any rule, but it won't hurt to let
your Pisces boss know that you can be serious and sensational at the same time.
You've probably already learned that he's installed a Capricorn or Taurus as a
middleman to deal with employees who seek raises. He knows better than to let you
appeal to him personally. The Neptune nature is so constituted that he finds it
almost impossible to say no to a fellow human being who has a sincere need, or
even just a sincere desire. He learns early to insulate himself as best he can.
Remember, he lives in two different worlds. Such a division of nature can cause a
confused personality, but it can just as easily cause brilliance. His thoughts may be
as abstract and deep as Piscean Einstein's, who once said, "God doesn't throw dice."
Einstein meant that the law of mathematical probability isn't necessarily sacrosanct
Your Neptune boss feels the same way about accepted business procedures, and
time usually proves his first instincts are right, no matter how visionary they may
sound when he expresses them. He's a mystic at heart, a secret believer in the
unseen and the supernatural, though he may be a little bashful about it. He won't
practice Voodoo at his desk or meditate in the lotus position at the water cooler,
because he fears ridicule if people discover the undercurrent of his psychic
vibrations. But they find out anyway, for all his clever playing of the role of tough
realist.
Remember that time your heart was. broken by a boy friend who flew the coop and
took your engagement ring and all your dreams with him? Your Pisces boss casually
invited you to dinner, filled your sad head with the nicest compliments, then hurried
you to the theater. Afterwards, he took you backstage, introduced you to the leading
players, and then treated everyone to a late supper. With all that food and wine and
glittering conversation, he took your mind right off your fickle fiance. Though
sometimes he was gruff deliberately, so it wouldn't look obvious, for weeks
afterwards, he found little ways to cheer you up until the ache stopped aching. You
hadn't told a soul in the office about the breakup. Now, how did he know you
needed help over that black period? The gypsy who read his fortune one day by the
lines in his hand could have told you. She noticed right away that he has a rare mark
on his palm-which means he's a compassionate genius. There aren't very many of
them around. That's why he's a rare fish.
The PISCES Employee
"// was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always
growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost
wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole-• and yet-and yet-it's rather curious, you
know, this sort of life!"
The abilities of the Piscean employee depend entirely on which pond he swims in.
He can be such a miserable misfit in an incompatible occupation or career that he
drifts from one place to another, until he eventually realizes that he's better off going
it alone with his own dreams for company.
To work successfully with other people or be part of a team, the fish must be doing
something that doesn't offend his sensitivity. It has to be a position that gives him
the opportunity to utilize his unsurpassed understanding of human suffering, or that
allows him to channel his unique imagination toward a progressive path. A job that
fails to supply one or both of these deep-seated Neptune needs will create a lazy,
disinterested, not to mention disheartened employee. When his needs are satisfied,
however, he can be a gem of a worker, often one-of-a-kind in his field- difficult, if
not impossible, to replace. There's a side to the fish that allows him to surprise you
with his painstaking attention to detail, when he's in the mood. It seems to be totally
inconsistent with his obvious mystical bent, but these people were born under the
Sun sign that encompasses the qualities of all other signs. It can be the "dust bin of
the zodiac," as it's often called in astrology, or the turning path to shining glory. The
glory needn't be achieved hanging from a star. It can be realized in a quiet way,
right in your office, if the fish is happy and content with what he's doing.
The most common remark heard around an office where there's a Pisces employee
is, "I can't understand him.
What's he up to?" They may never know. The Piscean man or woman is compelled,
possibly by inner doubt and confusion, to disguise motives and keep his true aims
hidden. If the fish revealed his entire nature it would startle or shock most people, so
he keeps his counsel. All the chattering of the occasional talkative Pisces is
deceptive. It still won't reveal what he really thinks, even if he talks all night, as
some of them do. The quiet ones can also drive you wild by keeping their most
interesting thoughts and ideas a secret. You never know what's going on inside
those dreamy Neptune heads.
He'll work with a terrific sense of duty if he's happy with his job. When he's not
happy, he withdraws. Only his body is there. Eventually it will also disappear,
leaving only the memory of his grin and his wise eyes. It's not easy to keep this
slippery employee peaceful. When the water gets stagnant, he swims away before
you have a chance to filter the pool, and that can be frustrating. If he would be more
open about his true desires, compromise might be reached, but too often the fish
chooses abrupt change to long, honest discussion that might turn things rightside up
again.
There's no doubt that the Pisces man or woman is more often found in the world of
the arts, but the term can cover more than you might suppose. Pisces is happy
adjusting the lights in a theater, hanging canvases in museums, stitching the lace on
doll dresses, polishing the' brass of musical instruments or designing the cover of a
book. He or she can spend hours blissfully teaching tots to dance, blowing up
balloons for a party, arranging flowers, planning a poster advertising campaign,
engrossed in creative writing, or experimenting with unusual hair styles. Now and
then you'll find a Piscean engaged in a mechanical occupation relating to
mathematics, engineering or computing, but he will always attack such subjects
from the abstract point of view.
Pisces people make excellent teachers, with uncanny insight into the natures of their
students and a deep grasp of the subject they teach. They seem to have a special
knack for both preparing and merchandising food and drink, either serving it in posh
restaurants or supervising the operation with social grace.
If your business concerns medicine, hospitals or phar-maceuticals, the Pisces
employee is probably your right arm. No one makes a finer nurse or servant to the
sick. They're right at home with drugs and medicines, too. Unfortunately, however,
the Piscean receptivity can cause them to saturate themselves in their surroundings,
with occasional adverse effects on their own mental, emotional and physical health.
If Pisces controls his instinct for instant empathy, he can be a shining light in the
field of health. Needless to say, social work is also a Pisces occupation, and you'll
find lots of Neptunes efficiently dis-pensing welfare to unfortunate humanity.
The fish takes on the color of his surroundings. If you shut your Pisces employee in
a small cubicle with drab furnishings, bare floors and drapeless windows, he'll begin
to look like the office itself. You'll look up one day and there he'll be-an exact
imitation of his immediate working world. His conversation will be drab, his ideas
bare and dull. As you stare at this listless, plain, cold and colorless creature with
nondescript clothing and a mousy personality, you'll wonder what happened to that
person you hired who was bright, sunny and full of fresh imagination, whose
conversation was rich and sparkling and who wore vivid, cheerful clothes. Believe
me, such a Neptunian transformation is easier to remedy than other personnel
problems.. Just hang some gay green drapes in his office, cover the floor with soft
emerald carpeting, and plunk a vase of happy daisies on his desk. Pipe in some soft,
low music, smile at him once an hour on the hour, and the fish you hired will
reappear in his true colors. The Piscean personality is elusive, but it's amazingly
easy to reel it in when you use the right bait.
Your Pisces secretary may be a little sloppy at home, but she'll probably be neat at
the office. She'll daydream on her own time and try to be methodical during
working hours. Of course, there are exceptions, when her mind can wander in odd
directions. There's a Pisces girl I used to work with in a radio station who had the
most peculiar filing system. I don't think it was permanent. It may have had
something to do with the fact that her mind was on a novel she was writing on
weekends. One day the boss asked her why the drawer in the filing cabinet marked
"L" was so full it was always popping open and cracking him on the shin. Her
answer was unexpected, to say the kast. "Because of all those letters," she informed
him efficiently. In all fairness to Pisces, however, she did have a Sagittarius
ascendant and an Aquarius Moon, which can make for a little loopiness when
they're mixed up like that.
After she left to peddle her novel in New York, the filing problems became really
tangled for a spell. The first week she was gone, one of the announcers needed a
music theme for a Notre Dame football game. Rushing over to the record file, he
hurriedly checked under N for Notre Dame. (He was looking for the song that goes,
"Cheer, cheer, for old Notre Dame" . . .) Not finding it under N, he checked the
letter C, thinking perhaps she had filed it under the lyric. It wasn't there, either.
Perspiring nervously, for it was now one minute to game time, he realized she might
have tucked it away under the title, "Victory March." He flipped open the file. No
such luck. The game went on the air sans music that day. Weeks later, the record
turned up. The Pisces had filed it under P. Why? You can't guess? For "Fighting
Irish," of course. It was perfectly logical to her. That's how everybody referred to
the team in the office pool. Well, it does make some sense.
The average female fish will be a little more conventional. She'll be gentle and
considerate, and get along beautifully with the other members of your staff. She
may even be a sort of den mother, if you can call the office a den. The other
employees will go to her with all their troubles, minor and major. You may cry on
her shoulder yourself on occasion, she's such a sympathetic listener. This girl may
read the cards for fun (though she'll secretly take it seriously), and it's a cinch she'll
be able to read your mind-so be careful what you're thinking when she passes your
desk.
An occasional Pisces employee can be fussy or critical, but they usually won't be
energetic enough about it to be really annoying. These people need nearly as many
compliments as Aries and Leo to feel secure, but be sure you're sincere, because
they'll sense it quickly if you're not. If you have reason to scold a Pisces, you may
wonder where the fish went for a day or so. He didn't leave. Not yet. There he is,
hiding behind the outgoing mail basket on his desk, trying to pretend he's invisible
by not speaking, barely moving and hardly breathing. He has been hurt, and you'll
have to do something very sweet and lovely to make him brighten. The fish is ultra
sensitive, remember. When your mood changes, so will his. Pisces has a way of
cutting himself off from others when situations become painful. He seeks the
sunlight and rosy, beautiful emotions. When gray or black appears, he dives down
deep to escape. A thoughtless word can make him weep inside, although he'll
probably tell a joke to disguise it. Pisces has a way with a clever line, and his
humor, though it's not ever obvious, is seldom faraway.
Money won't mean a lot to your Pisces employee. He'll talk a good salary and
bonus, but he'll hardly notice if he has to take a temporary cut in pay when business
is slow (unless he has a large family to feed). Actually, many Pisces men and
women are happy with a reasonable wage, as long as you're open-minded about
loans. The fish will often approach you with empty pockets and a big smile a day or
so before payday, and charmingly ask for a light touch to see him through. He may
forget to pay it back unless you remind him. His intentions are honest, but there's
always something extra he needs. The chances are just as good he gave it to
someone else. Money ordinarily passes through Pisces like water through a sieve.
He's sort of a middle man for cash. He'll borrow a hundred from you, then turn
around and hand it to a man whose wife needs an operation. As neglectful as Pisces
may be to repay your loan to him, he'll happily give you his last dime if you're
temporarily short, and he probably won't be in any more of a hurry to get it back
than he was to return the hundred he got from you earlier. In fact, it sometimes gets
so confusing you may forget who owes what to whom. That's the way the typical
Pisces sees the whole monetary setup anyway. In a hazy way, he feels money was
created to spread around. When a person needs it, the cash should be there. When
you don't need it, you pass it on. It's a kind of bread-cast-on the-waters theory. It
works surprisingly often for the fish, but such Neptune philosophy can bewilder
other Sun signs. (Of course, a Virgo, Cancer or Capricorn ascendant, or perhaps an
Aquarius or Taurus Moon can spoil all the fun.)
More Pisces employees quit than are fired. They're too elusive and too shrewd about
human nature to wait for the painful hook. Sensing your displeasure in advance, the
fish will wriggle away before you get a chance to embarrass him. You'll find the
single Piscean man less apt to leave a job lightly than the married one, whose wife
probably works. ,In fact, her willingness to work if necessary may have been one of
her main attractions, though romantic love was probably equally important. The girl
fish may only be marking time until some man comes along to rescue her from
repulsive competition, unless she's involved in a creative endeavor she thinks of as a
career.
There's little danger the Pisces employee is after your job. He probably secretly
pities you for the responsibilities you carry. After all, it's tough to move around with
burdens on your back, and Pisces seeks a changing scene. The length of time he
brightens your office will depend on the variety of changes it offers his wandering
nature. When the snails begin to bore him, or when the whales and sharks threaten
to devour him, he'll glide away. The Neptune employee will never get stuck in a
bunch of seaweed.
growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost
wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole-• and yet-and yet-it's rather curious, you
know, this sort of life!"
The abilities of the Piscean employee depend entirely on which pond he swims in.
He can be such a miserable misfit in an incompatible occupation or career that he
drifts from one place to another, until he eventually realizes that he's better off going
it alone with his own dreams for company.
To work successfully with other people or be part of a team, the fish must be doing
something that doesn't offend his sensitivity. It has to be a position that gives him
the opportunity to utilize his unsurpassed understanding of human suffering, or that
allows him to channel his unique imagination toward a progressive path. A job that
fails to supply one or both of these deep-seated Neptune needs will create a lazy,
disinterested, not to mention disheartened employee. When his needs are satisfied,
however, he can be a gem of a worker, often one-of-a-kind in his field- difficult, if
not impossible, to replace. There's a side to the fish that allows him to surprise you
with his painstaking attention to detail, when he's in the mood. It seems to be totally
inconsistent with his obvious mystical bent, but these people were born under the
Sun sign that encompasses the qualities of all other signs. It can be the "dust bin of
the zodiac," as it's often called in astrology, or the turning path to shining glory. The
glory needn't be achieved hanging from a star. It can be realized in a quiet way,
right in your office, if the fish is happy and content with what he's doing.
The most common remark heard around an office where there's a Pisces employee
is, "I can't understand him.
What's he up to?" They may never know. The Piscean man or woman is compelled,
possibly by inner doubt and confusion, to disguise motives and keep his true aims
hidden. If the fish revealed his entire nature it would startle or shock most people, so
he keeps his counsel. All the chattering of the occasional talkative Pisces is
deceptive. It still won't reveal what he really thinks, even if he talks all night, as
some of them do. The quiet ones can also drive you wild by keeping their most
interesting thoughts and ideas a secret. You never know what's going on inside
those dreamy Neptune heads.
He'll work with a terrific sense of duty if he's happy with his job. When he's not
happy, he withdraws. Only his body is there. Eventually it will also disappear,
leaving only the memory of his grin and his wise eyes. It's not easy to keep this
slippery employee peaceful. When the water gets stagnant, he swims away before
you have a chance to filter the pool, and that can be frustrating. If he would be more
open about his true desires, compromise might be reached, but too often the fish
chooses abrupt change to long, honest discussion that might turn things rightside up
again.
There's no doubt that the Pisces man or woman is more often found in the world of
the arts, but the term can cover more than you might suppose. Pisces is happy
adjusting the lights in a theater, hanging canvases in museums, stitching the lace on
doll dresses, polishing the' brass of musical instruments or designing the cover of a
book. He or she can spend hours blissfully teaching tots to dance, blowing up
balloons for a party, arranging flowers, planning a poster advertising campaign,
engrossed in creative writing, or experimenting with unusual hair styles. Now and
then you'll find a Piscean engaged in a mechanical occupation relating to
mathematics, engineering or computing, but he will always attack such subjects
from the abstract point of view.
Pisces people make excellent teachers, with uncanny insight into the natures of their
students and a deep grasp of the subject they teach. They seem to have a special
knack for both preparing and merchandising food and drink, either serving it in posh
restaurants or supervising the operation with social grace.
If your business concerns medicine, hospitals or phar-maceuticals, the Pisces
employee is probably your right arm. No one makes a finer nurse or servant to the
sick. They're right at home with drugs and medicines, too. Unfortunately, however,
the Piscean receptivity can cause them to saturate themselves in their surroundings,
with occasional adverse effects on their own mental, emotional and physical health.
If Pisces controls his instinct for instant empathy, he can be a shining light in the
field of health. Needless to say, social work is also a Pisces occupation, and you'll
find lots of Neptunes efficiently dis-pensing welfare to unfortunate humanity.
The fish takes on the color of his surroundings. If you shut your Pisces employee in
a small cubicle with drab furnishings, bare floors and drapeless windows, he'll begin
to look like the office itself. You'll look up one day and there he'll be-an exact
imitation of his immediate working world. His conversation will be drab, his ideas
bare and dull. As you stare at this listless, plain, cold and colorless creature with
nondescript clothing and a mousy personality, you'll wonder what happened to that
person you hired who was bright, sunny and full of fresh imagination, whose
conversation was rich and sparkling and who wore vivid, cheerful clothes. Believe
me, such a Neptunian transformation is easier to remedy than other personnel
problems.. Just hang some gay green drapes in his office, cover the floor with soft
emerald carpeting, and plunk a vase of happy daisies on his desk. Pipe in some soft,
low music, smile at him once an hour on the hour, and the fish you hired will
reappear in his true colors. The Piscean personality is elusive, but it's amazingly
easy to reel it in when you use the right bait.
Your Pisces secretary may be a little sloppy at home, but she'll probably be neat at
the office. She'll daydream on her own time and try to be methodical during
working hours. Of course, there are exceptions, when her mind can wander in odd
directions. There's a Pisces girl I used to work with in a radio station who had the
most peculiar filing system. I don't think it was permanent. It may have had
something to do with the fact that her mind was on a novel she was writing on
weekends. One day the boss asked her why the drawer in the filing cabinet marked
"L" was so full it was always popping open and cracking him on the shin. Her
answer was unexpected, to say the kast. "Because of all those letters," she informed
him efficiently. In all fairness to Pisces, however, she did have a Sagittarius
ascendant and an Aquarius Moon, which can make for a little loopiness when
they're mixed up like that.
After she left to peddle her novel in New York, the filing problems became really
tangled for a spell. The first week she was gone, one of the announcers needed a
music theme for a Notre Dame football game. Rushing over to the record file, he
hurriedly checked under N for Notre Dame. (He was looking for the song that goes,
"Cheer, cheer, for old Notre Dame" . . .) Not finding it under N, he checked the
letter C, thinking perhaps she had filed it under the lyric. It wasn't there, either.
Perspiring nervously, for it was now one minute to game time, he realized she might
have tucked it away under the title, "Victory March." He flipped open the file. No
such luck. The game went on the air sans music that day. Weeks later, the record
turned up. The Pisces had filed it under P. Why? You can't guess? For "Fighting
Irish," of course. It was perfectly logical to her. That's how everybody referred to
the team in the office pool. Well, it does make some sense.
The average female fish will be a little more conventional. She'll be gentle and
considerate, and get along beautifully with the other members of your staff. She
may even be a sort of den mother, if you can call the office a den. The other
employees will go to her with all their troubles, minor and major. You may cry on
her shoulder yourself on occasion, she's such a sympathetic listener. This girl may
read the cards for fun (though she'll secretly take it seriously), and it's a cinch she'll
be able to read your mind-so be careful what you're thinking when she passes your
desk.
An occasional Pisces employee can be fussy or critical, but they usually won't be
energetic enough about it to be really annoying. These people need nearly as many
compliments as Aries and Leo to feel secure, but be sure you're sincere, because
they'll sense it quickly if you're not. If you have reason to scold a Pisces, you may
wonder where the fish went for a day or so. He didn't leave. Not yet. There he is,
hiding behind the outgoing mail basket on his desk, trying to pretend he's invisible
by not speaking, barely moving and hardly breathing. He has been hurt, and you'll
have to do something very sweet and lovely to make him brighten. The fish is ultra
sensitive, remember. When your mood changes, so will his. Pisces has a way of
cutting himself off from others when situations become painful. He seeks the
sunlight and rosy, beautiful emotions. When gray or black appears, he dives down
deep to escape. A thoughtless word can make him weep inside, although he'll
probably tell a joke to disguise it. Pisces has a way with a clever line, and his
humor, though it's not ever obvious, is seldom faraway.
Money won't mean a lot to your Pisces employee. He'll talk a good salary and
bonus, but he'll hardly notice if he has to take a temporary cut in pay when business
is slow (unless he has a large family to feed). Actually, many Pisces men and
women are happy with a reasonable wage, as long as you're open-minded about
loans. The fish will often approach you with empty pockets and a big smile a day or
so before payday, and charmingly ask for a light touch to see him through. He may
forget to pay it back unless you remind him. His intentions are honest, but there's
always something extra he needs. The chances are just as good he gave it to
someone else. Money ordinarily passes through Pisces like water through a sieve.
He's sort of a middle man for cash. He'll borrow a hundred from you, then turn
around and hand it to a man whose wife needs an operation. As neglectful as Pisces
may be to repay your loan to him, he'll happily give you his last dime if you're
temporarily short, and he probably won't be in any more of a hurry to get it back
than he was to return the hundred he got from you earlier. In fact, it sometimes gets
so confusing you may forget who owes what to whom. That's the way the typical
Pisces sees the whole monetary setup anyway. In a hazy way, he feels money was
created to spread around. When a person needs it, the cash should be there. When
you don't need it, you pass it on. It's a kind of bread-cast-on the-waters theory. It
works surprisingly often for the fish, but such Neptune philosophy can bewilder
other Sun signs. (Of course, a Virgo, Cancer or Capricorn ascendant, or perhaps an
Aquarius or Taurus Moon can spoil all the fun.)
More Pisces employees quit than are fired. They're too elusive and too shrewd about
human nature to wait for the painful hook. Sensing your displeasure in advance, the
fish will wriggle away before you get a chance to embarrass him. You'll find the
single Piscean man less apt to leave a job lightly than the married one, whose wife
probably works. ,In fact, her willingness to work if necessary may have been one of
her main attractions, though romantic love was probably equally important. The girl
fish may only be marking time until some man comes along to rescue her from
repulsive competition, unless she's involved in a creative endeavor she thinks of as a
career.
There's little danger the Pisces employee is after your job. He probably secretly
pities you for the responsibilities you carry. After all, it's tough to move around with
burdens on your back, and Pisces seeks a changing scene. The length of time he
brightens your office will depend on the variety of changes it offers his wandering
nature. When the snails begin to bore him, or when the whales and sharks threaten
to devour him, he'll glide away. The Neptune employee will never get stuck in a
bunch of seaweed.