Man Sweeping the Interpreter’s Parlour by William Blake Before 1827 {{PD}}

This coming Solar year, through to your next birthday, you’ll enjoy an unusually acute intuition, dear Pisces, and you’ll need it, as you’ll also be dealing with every ignored, denied, or abandoned thing, come back in material form or through the environment itself. I’m afraid it’s like this: you had the chance to deal with, face, or otherwise settle a number of issues, but chose to sweep them under the symbolic rug–and now they are back. Many will take different forms than they first appeared in, so you may not immediately recognize them; you can be fairly sure, though, that if you scratch the surface you’ll find a familiar dilemma beneath. In many cases, this will be a good thing; you are much better equipped now to handle these matters successfully than you were at the time they originated, and you may see that it was the wisdom of your Higher Self acting in your best interests that delayed what must be done until now. You should feel good about that, because delaying was a smart thing to do; know that it’s important during the coming year that you take care of things, once and for all, as the way you handle things will in many ways determine your life direction, especially involving partnerships, for some time to come. Happy Birthday, Pisces, and good luck!

‘The Castle Gate’ Ferdinand Knab 1881 {{PD}}

This Solar year, through to your next birthday, dear Pisces, you’ll need to do two things: adjust your Self-expression to suit the direction you’d like your life to go, and refuse to allow negativity, rage, or obstacles to distract you from your Path. How do you handle those darker elements that threaten? By dealing with matters you’ve lately been ignoring or in denial about right away, so that they hold no power to affect what happens to you, and by becoming as conscious as possible about who you are and what you want, which will make it that much easier to make choices that take you in the direction you want to go. The social circle/ the public and power players in your world will be open to supporting you, when your ideas are original or when you can add skills or leadership to the group, and the stronger and more confident you are in general, the more easily you’ll be able to attract assets and material rewards–and you should earn quite a few. Happy Birthday, Pisces, and good luck!

Bosschaert: Flower Still Life, 1614 {{PD}}

You’ve been enjoying a fantastic creative stretch, dear Pisces, and now it’s time to collect your reward, whether it’s Love, Money, or something else you care about, that using your creativity has manifested–and if you don’t soon find your arms full of roses and doubloons? You may have mistaken an illusion for something of real worth, or pursued an idea or project that dissolved before your eyes, or in some way you believed someone when you shouldn’t have–and now you are where you are, and need to begin again. Luckily, you will have some serious resources at your disposal, whether you were deluded or used your creativity productively, and that means you can continue to create or start over, depending on your needs. If you’ve been doing well, then good, continue; and if you made a few mistakes, and need a fresh beginning, it’s yours for the taking–just remember two things: the tide doesn’t continue to rise forever, and aim for something you truly care about. Happy Birthday, Pisces, and good luck!

Don’t be distracted by the road not taken, Pisces. Antoine Chintreuil – ‘Pommiers et genêts en fleurs’ {{PD}}

You have enormous potential this coming Solar year, dear Pisces, through to your next birthday, to express the creativity of your Soul more clearly, accurately, and completely than you ever have before, and you can attract significant money and/ or Love in the process–or, you could fall prey to the most massive delusion you’ve ever mistaken for the real thing. How can you make sure you show your creativity, rather than totter down a disastrous path? Keep values firmly in mind, no matter what the social sphere says; stay true to your most unusual or original ideas, whether they find immediate support or acceptance or not; don’t allow darker moods to cloud your thoughts–brooding will only lead to distraction and even anger, especially over the ‘road not taken’, and what good would being upset about the past do now? And remember, your biggest muscle is your brain, figuratively speaking, so keep using it to keep it in shape! You can ‘live the dream’ if you’ll only trust yourself to stay focused, and true to what’s important to you. Happy Birthday, Pisces, and good luck!

Respect your feelings, Pisces–it’s the only way to know what to accept, and what to walk away from. John Everett Millais The Black Brunswicker 1859 {{PD}}

You may be caught this year, dear Pisces, in an ongoing conflict between your emotional viewpoint and the reality of the situation(s) you face. There may be a great deal of pressure from external sources encouraging you to suppress or abandon your thoughts and feelings on the way things are–but that would be a terrible mistake, if you were to comply. You are experiencing one of those life periods where we are required to choose ourselves, our feelings, our well-being over the demands of the environment. Does that mean you are free to abandon your obligations and forget your promises? No, but it does mean you must learn to distinguish between those things you do because of love, friendship, or the rightness of the act, and those things you feel you have to do because someone else wants you to. Make that distinction clear within your own mind, and you will see what to stay with and what to walk away from, with the added benefit that your new internal clarity will enhance both relationships and earning/ attractive power. Happy Birthday, Pisces, and good luck!

It’s time to go after your dreams, Pisces. “Anthony van Dyck self portrait” by, who else? Anthony van Dyck – {{PD}}

Recently you’ve gathered support, empowered yourself, made a plan, brought together resources and honed talents–now what, dear Pisces? Time to tap directly into your creativity, and/ or to tackle the subjects of the House in the natal chart that contains Pisces–which of course is also the House where Neptune is currently transiting. Applying ideals, spiritual principals, imagination, and the ability to create the desired image to yourself or to what you’d like to manifest in life is your mandate this coming Solar year, through to your next birthday. It’s time to make ‘the Dream’ a reality, and to communicate it in any way you see fit. Happy Birthday, Pisces, and good luck!

John William Waterhouse – ‘Ulysses and the Sirens’ 1891 {{PD}}

There is some kind of pull you can feel right now, dear Pisces, some kind of Universal attractor, and you are convinced it has a material form–your Solar year, through to your next birthday, may be spent looking for it, but it’s the adventures you’ll have along the way that will matter, at this point. You are inspired, but in a way that hasn’t yet taken shape–and this both pulls you (at the prospect of finding this creative energy) and pushes you (out into the world, looking for the material manifestation of this energy), and the time may be spent in ways that indulge the senses, challenge the material surroundings, may lead to new relationships, and may, perhaps surprisingly, pay real-world dividends–and all of it because you’re following this siren song (though of course, you won’t be lured to crash on the rocks!)–instead, you’ll re-shape your life in ways you won’t be able to anticipate, and you’ll set the scene for those big, inspired changes to come. Happy Birthday, Pisces, and good luck!

It’s in taking care of the mundane that you create opportunity, Pisces. Van Gogh – Kartoffelsetzen 1884 {{PD}}

Empowering yourself and establishing a solid place in the world will likely be your aims this year, dear Pisces, through to your next birthday. Taking action will definitely be your motto–but there will be a single key to success, and it may be a very difficult one to implement: don’t try to fulfill ambitions and desires; instead, attend to every other matter that surrounds you. In taking care of everything else, your way to achieve your wants will come clear; but if you pursue ambitions headlong, you will fail. I know! Weird, right? It seems that at this point, when you focus on what you’d like to create, you somehow misinterpret what is needed to achieve your aims, and so neglect what would really be effective. The prescription, then, is to see to all the things you would judge to be unrelated to getting what you want–in taking care of these, you’ll smooth the way to your heart’s desire. Happy Birthday, Pisces, and good luck!

Hesiod and the Muse by Gustave Moreau (1870) {{PD}}

Initially this coming Solar year, through to your next birthday, you may be going on a kind of auto-pilot, dear Pisces; you may be so caught up in relationship or money-making or aesthetics issues that the focus may be tightly held on yourself and your world. Being focused like this, you might miss the real, underlying cause of so much tension. It’s not about the relationship, finances, or your creative output, but about two things that may seem separate, but which are in reality intimately connected: your personal expression of power in the world, and your connection to and part in Nature. Any internal discord you have concerning your ability to call the shots in your own life, and any disconnect you feel between who you are in daily life and your ‘natural roles’ (as a man or woman, as a part of Nature, as an animal, as a living being, as a sentient being) will propel your behavior and reactions–but it’s only in knowing that what occurs is not about surface matters, but about a need to re-connect consciousness with your innate power, that progress will be made. Happy Birthday, Pisces, and good luck!

Don’t be timid, Pisces. ‘The goldfish bowl’ Charles Edward Perugini c1870 {{PD}}

This coming Solar year, dear Pisces, tests your approach to life, with circumstances that require you show originality and use your own unique take on things for success. If you’re already oriented that way, looking for the power expression that’s right for you, ready to determine your territory and to hold sway over it, then things will go well for you; it’s the gentle fishes who are not so sure about their life direction, or who hide their individuality, or who deny their own power and authority, who will have problems. Do your best to step up, and accept that you are a significantly powerful and talented Being–and a few hints to help you this year: your energy supply may feel raw and difficult to gauge–take it easy; relationships and/ or finances may be in crisis this year, but don’t panic–in most cases, these issues can be put on hold–if they’re still there and enlisting your attention in 3 months, then you should address them (this implies that what’s not serious or permanent will drift away before then); and don’t underestimate the strength of your own unique viewpoint–your experiences have made you creative in unexpected ways–it’s time now to call on that. Happy Birthday, Pisces, and good luck!