Pisces Rising Sign

Pisces rising folks are gentle and sensitive. They have a deep understanding of people and a very tolerant, accepting, nonjudgmental approach to life. They will often withdraw when things get to busy and complicated because they aren't aggressive or forceful. They intensely dislike conflict. In fact, they tend to be somewhat passive, to wait, watch, observe, feel, and know much but act little. Their typical way of dealing with problems is to let things work themselves out in their own way, rather than directing or forcing their will upon them.

People with this ascendant are also very compassionate and forgiving. They cannot tolerate seeing a fellow creature suffer - human, animal, or even plant! People who are in need gravitate to them, sensing their sympathetic nature. Often they will continue to give to a person even when they realize the other person is taking advantage of them or becoming overly dependent upon them. They overlook and make excuses for other people's weaknesses, as well as for their own. Good judgment and self-discipline are not two of their strong points.

These folks may be as intelligent as anyone, but they don't approach life rationally. Trying to reach them through logic is often useless. Their feelings, intuition, and heart, not their head, lead them. This may infuriate or bewilder their more rational friends. They recognize that there is much more to life than can be explained intellectually and categorized into neat little boxes.

They may have a deeply religious or spiritual feeling about life, not necessarily in the orthodox sense, but in an intuitive sense of the immensity and underlying oneness of all life. To them, this makes so many human hopes and ambitions seem rather unimportant. They need peaceful surroundings in order to flourish. Periods of solitude are essential for their emotional balance and well being.

Pisces rising has an open, receptive attitude toward things like psychic phenomena, telepathy, and parapsychology. They are not as structured and rigid in their attitudes as many people are, which enables them to see various viewpoints and accept all of them as valid. This can lead them either to be vague, uncertain, and confused or to approach issues in a very flexible, holistic approach manner.

These folks may have large, dreamy eyes with a faraway look and an angelic face. They have a naive charm about them that people find attractive. They tend to act like everything's perfect and may be totally unaware that they have any faults.

As children, people with this rising sign tend to cry easily and become upset whenever others are hurt, physically or emotionally. The world of their imagination and fantasy is very real to them, a place to escape to when the outer world becomes too noisy, demanding, or simply uninteresting.

The ruler of Pisces is Neptune, the planet of imagination and idealism. Pisces rising tends to see the good in everything and aims toward a vision of their dreams coming true. This usually means they end of often seeing the forest, but not the trees. When Neptune is well aspected, they can do a lot of good with their idealism. If Neptune is not well aspected, they can swing from feeling high on life to feeling very down in the dumps and hopeless. Pisces rising can also get into trouble with substance abuse, as Neptune also rules drugs and alcohol.