金鱼
Pisces brings out the best in Venus. It elevates and refines the sentiments
and gives a capacity for humble, self-abnegating cooperation. People born
with this combination are endowed with a profound appreciation of beauty,
but the art most valued is the art of loving.
Less voluptuous than the earthy Venusians of Taurus and less contriving than
the socially ambitious Venusians of Libra, their emotions are tender and
solicitous. They are more vulnerable to hurt, but the suffering they endure
is often a purifying force in their lives and may be transmuted into
sympathetic understanding of the woes of others. Their willingness to be
helpful is seldom confined to family and friends but diffuses into a general
compassion for all who are in distress.
Venusian Pisceans are particularly fond of music. Even when they do not
produce it themselves they are strongly affected by the moods music creates.
They also have a fondness for art, poetry, and dancing, especially the
ballet.
If a capacity for discipline is not shown elsewhere in the chart, this
proclivity to be emotionally swayed may give way to maudlin sentimentality,
as though the Piscean waters were melting the practicality of Venus into a
shapeless slush.
In matters of love such individuals may be too easygoing and submissive,
yielding to inveiglement when a firm stand would be better for all concerned
. Venus in Neptune's sign would never be deliberately hurtful, but it can be
muddlesome owing to deviousness and an inability to face facts.
People with Venus in Pisces believe that marriages are made in heaven, and
idealize their partners. They cannot live for themselves alone but want to
share their pleasures with an appreciative companion from whose reactions
they derive a vicarious satisfaction. Their eagerness to merge their
personality with that of their loved one in a romanticized relationship may
induce them to sacrifice their own best interests for an insubstantial dream.
There may be times when these tenderhearted people should be prodded into
standing up for their rights, even if it involves saying "no" to a friend,
relative, or spouse. Otherwise, an unconscious resentment against those who
draw unduly upon their time and resources may build up beneath a facade of
charity or devotion and lead to a vicious circle of guilt and atonement.
Although there is always a possibility of neurotic self-denial, Venus is
sufficiently well-placed in Pisces to confer a genuine desire to be of
assistance.
From a metaphysical viewpoint, the exaltation of Venus in Pisces shows that
love is the final goal of the evolutionary process. The journey of Venus
through the zodiac gives a marvelous symbolic picture of the soul's
circuitous passage through the signs, as it endeavors first to engross
itself in the material world and then to extricate itself.
Venus starts out in detriment in Aries, where Saturn in its fall represents
the original fall of man as related in myth and legend. Then, in Taurus,
Venus appears as the alluring earth-goddess of love whose arousal of
instinctive desires provides the incentive for further progress. In the
positive, Venus-ruled sign Libra, love becomes more intellectualized and
socially oriented. The exaltation of Saturn in Libra renders the process
lawful, as desire based on the fluctuating rhythms of nature is bonded into
the enduring structure of the marriage relationship. Here, the exalted
Saturn limits and disciplines the passions in order that their autochthonous
forces may be channeled into conventionally acceptable alliances. Finally,
in Pisces, Venus is exalted. The work of Saturn has ended, and there
supervenes the sacrificial (or sacred) love of Neptune, planet of
transcendence.
The Venusian Piscean is completing one stage of their earthly journey. They
may have other rounds to travel, but at this point they should be capable of
experiencing some measure of the reverence for life which is the seed of
the divine compassion by whose grace Matter is redeemed and made to shine
from within.
