Pisces RisingThe Symbols:This person has come into the world wearing the mask of the Mystic, the Psy

Pisces RisingThe Symbols:This person has come into the world wearing the mask of the Mystic, the Psychic, the Contemplative or the Visionary. Other images for Pisces Rising include include the Priest/Priestess, the Meditator, the Illusionist, or the Dreamer.Less than optimal responses to this Ascendant might include the Space Cadet, the Fragile Flower, the Addict, the Ungrounded One, or the Burnout.The Style:This Ascendant is particularly complex to describe in modern Western terminology with its typically external orientation, so we’ll spend some extra time here.A man or woman with Pisces rising has reached an evolutionary stage where he or she must present a gentle, expansive, compassionate face to the world. Virtually essential is the development of what’s usually considered a mystical sensibility: that there is a fundamental, underlying unity to all existence and a spiritual equality to all sentient beings, and that there are far more dimensions of reality than the ones we see on the evening news. Those attitudes need to ooze out through a Pisces Ascendant’s pores. Those attitudes are usually easier to maintain if they’re supported by a regular meditative-like process, some sort of non-damaging altered state.Basically, this meditative process has two steps. The first step is disengaging the ego’s or personality’s attention from the outside world and putting it on hold, so that we can cease to identify the ego as the totality of our being. the second step is turning the attention inward, so that we can observe ourselves as consciousness as well as personality. If we do the first step with doing the second, then we daydream, lose track of time, forget things, or may deliberately numb the personality in less that healthy ways. Alcohol and drugs are two possibilities for such numbing. However, any behavior that becomes addictive or compulsive–eating, sleeping, sex–and that leaves us in a trance-like, more or less numbed state without our taking the second step of observing our consciousness, can function as a substitute for this meditative process.How can a Pisces rising person enter this process in a healthy way? Meditation is one method, but so are: creativity in which we can lose ourselves; prayer; contemplation; quiet time; inner work; watching sunsets; doing yoga; “runner’s high;” mind-body centering techniques, etc. As I’ve heard a yoga teacher say, “Almost anything can function as a meditation, as long as you maintain awareness of what part of you is performing that action and of what part of you is watching yourself perform that action.” Such behavior helps a Pisces Ascendant maintain an outer style of warmth, compassionate, gently humorous attunement to others.If the rest of the chart is more linear, bold, harsh or self-contained, this Ascendant is meant to soften this person’s presentation and help it be warmer and more flexible. If the rest of the chart is mild, subjective or imaginative, the Ascendant is meant to reinforce it, give it a transpersonal dimension and help it express itself. In either case, this rising sign’s demeanor should convey the message: “Here is a person who gets the ‘cosmic joke:’ that everyone is a combination of soul and personality, of consciousness and ego, and that the posturings of people who don’t know that yet are best approached with sympathy and humor if possible, rather that with anger and judgment.”If the childhood circumstances were rough, stronger people with Pisces rising may have an extra tendency to retreat into a well-defended fantasy world as their “altered state,” until they learn that such retreats can carry dangers all their own. More fragile people may retreat into addictive behavior. The may also or alternatively reproduce the ambiance of the traumatic childhood in situations that are eerily reminiscent of it, until they recognize that Now is not Then–for Pisces rising, reality and time can be very fluid–and that they can make better choices now.–Jodie Forrest, The Ascendant -- source link

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