Pisces

Pisces in 4,000-year-old Babylonian astrology

In the cuneiform tablets of the Enuma Anu Enlil, Pisces-born are recorded as the dreamer through whom older worlds still speak. The constellation the Babylonians called Zib (the Tails) placed its children under the protection of Nin-mah — the deity whose presence informs every layer of your chart, from the way you make decisions to the rhythm of the windows you are given to act.

You are someone who feels other people's weather before they do — their grief, their longing, their fear — and you have spent your life mistaking it for your own. Nin-mah did not give her people boundaries. She gave them porousness.

How Pisces energy lives in you

• You can watch a film about a stranger and weep in a way that surprises you, because something in the film knew something about you that you had not let yourself know.
• You have at least one creative thing you do — write, draw, sing, build, dream — that you have never shown anyone, and you have a private fear that showing it would empty it of whatever made it sacred.
• You have stayed in one relationship at least one year longer than you should have, because the other person was suffering, and you could feel the suffering more clearly than you could feel your own preference for leaving.

If you have ever cried at something nobody else in the room found sad and not been able to explain why — that is Nin-mah's hand. The dreamer carries the rooms older worlds left unfinished.

The shadow side of Pisces

Every sign carries a counter-current. For Pisces, the temple scribes named it drifting where you should be deciding.

When you drift where you should be deciding, you wake up inside a life that other people have built around you — and you call it love because it almost is. The cost is not the drift. It is the version of yourself that was supposed to be here and is instead still upstream, waiting for permission to come.

The window Pisces is inside right now

The last six months have brought you a quiet, persistent feeling — neither sad nor happy, just unmistakable — and you have been waiting for it to clarify itself. The Babylonian reading shows what it has been trying to tell you.