Puzzling Pisces

​Having a conversation with a Pisces can feel a lot like having a conversation with a toddler who’s just learned to speak. Repeating themselves, getting off subject, repeating themselves, talking in circles, repeating themselves…all executed with a certain kind of energy and off-the-wall humor that makes you question when your Pisces friend went from describing their day, to rehearsing their SNL audition without missing a beat. Combine this with their unpunctuality, ability to get lost, and countless broken iPhones, and you’ll start to wonder how they’ve been able to function in modern society. The answer is that they’ve been able to not just function, but rather excel on their lovable personalities. Now I’ve also met plenty of Pisces who aren’t the textbook ‘all over the place’ type. However, understanding the most Pisces of the Pisces is a good place to start when attempting to crack this complex enigma—the final sign of the zodiac.
 
Michael Scot is the perfect Pisces—a talkative goofball who leads with his emotions. He has the sort of personality that constantly makes the earthier types feel like they’re on the precipice of a mass explosion. And this is true for most Pisces. They feel so much, and expose so much that hanging out with them can feel like a chore, or like the greatest theatre performance you’ve ever attended. This all depends on your outlook and tolerance level of course. These performances only really feel like a chore when the vulnerable Pisces has been hurt.

It may seem immature when your Pisces moon friend breaks down crying because you didn’t offer them coffee in the morning. But listen to the words they’re spouting between incoherent sobs, and you’ll soon realize it’s not about the coffee. And if you let them cry it out, you’ll discover exactly what the problem is. They won’t hang on to their anger and use it against you later like a Scorpio. Pisces is far too genuine for that, and they didn’t want to submerge you in their deep sea of emotion in the first place. The difference between Pisces and the rest of the water signs is that Pisces love to maintain a positive attitude. However, they’re still a water sign.  They can’t start a single task until they’ve fully experienced the pain, but once they have, that’s it. You can continue your day, void of weirdness and anxiety.
 
Pisces pick up on astrology faster than Disney channel stars drop their first pop albums. It’s easy to grasp the sign descriptions you read in September’s issue of Cosmo, but the twelfth sign takes this to another level. One second you’ll be describing Aries’ essence, and the next they’ll be the star of the party, guessing everyone’s signs with 95% accuracy. “She’s an Aries, isn’t she?” Miranda will whisper. “That’s right. She is an Aries.” If you’re anything like me, this will prompt a combination of jealousy, pride, and admiration for the naturally-gifted water sign. It’s never long before my Pisces students, become the Pisces teachers, rewarding me with anecdotes such as “Libras don’t want you to think they’re crazy, but boy are they crazy.” Their gift lies in their ability to feel. They don’t overthink, they experience.

My theory is that somewhere between the lack of self-awareness and the perceptive feeler, lies the heart of every Pisces. As the twelfth sign, they carry the weight of the eleven signs before them in an almost spiritual fashion. Therefore, they can’t help but be a little lost in the clouds, a little distracted by all that they feel, yet mature enough to attempt positivity despite it. It’s their sensitive yet expressive nature that allows them to be so compassionate, creative, and charismatic. 

Sure, they miss minor details, like how much time it will take to drive from Plantation to Fort Lauderdale, or the number of times they stated their last sentence in varying ways. But it’s because they leave those monotonies to the Taureans and Virgos of the group. Pisces have bigger fish to fry. Get it? Because their symbol is the fish? …I apologize. I have too many planets in ​​​Pisces.