The Moon in Pisces
The Moon crosses Pisces in about two and a half days, roughly once a month. This page says what the tradition makes of that position and gives the exact local times of the next six crossings.
- Ruled by Jupiter, and by Neptune in modern astrology
- No dignity for the Moon here
- About two and a half days a month
The Moon in Pisces
Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899. Public domain, and the full text is readable online.
In a birth chart
Feeling without edges, easily coloured by whoever is in the room.
Leo describes a quiet, retiring and easy going personality, restless and fond of variety, easily changing its mind, irresolute, and rather easily discouraged. It likes reading of a romantic or emotional kind, and music and poetry that go straight to the feelings.
As a speaker or writer he calls it fluent, copious, imaginative and diffuse. It inclines to religion but feels rather than reasons, and can want buoyancy: too serious, too easily depressed, short on matter of fact common sense. He also warns about intemperance, and about a tendency to be less than straightforward under pressure.
The doctrine of dignities, standard in Western astrology since the Hellenistic period
Where the tradition places it
The tradition gives the Moon no special strength or weakness here.
There are only four signs where the Moon has a formal dignity. It rules Cancer, is exalted in Taurus, is in detriment in Capricorn and is in fall in Scorpio. In the other eight, including this one, the tradition treats it as a guest that takes the colour of the house it is standing in.
So the reading of these days comes from the sign itself rather than from the Moon's standing in it, which is what the section below sets out.
The doctrine of the elements and the modes, and habit built on top of it
What these days are used for
Rest, music, and work that does not need a hard edge.
- WaterHeldWater holds. The tradition gives these days to feeling, memory and what is not said, and to anything that has to be finished rather than begun.
- MutableTurningA mutable sign ends a season, so the days are read as turning: the impulse is to change, to sort, and to let go.
The tradition gives these days to imagination and to sleep, and reads them as poor days for signing anything.
This is tradition and habit, not a measured effect. It is here because it is what the sources say, and each part carries the name of the source it came from.
The next six Pisces Moons
| Enters Pisces | Time | Leaves for Aries | Time | Stays |
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The three that come up most
Questions people ask
How long is the Moon in Pisces?
About two and a half days each month. The exact length changes a little because the Moon's speed changes, and the table above gives the real figure for each crossing.
Is a Pisces Moon the same as being a Pisces?
No. A Pisces Sun means the Sun was in Pisces at your birth, which is late February to late March. A Pisces Moon can happen in any month of the year.
Does the Moon sign depend on where I was born?
The sign itself is the same everywhere at the same moment, because it is measured from the centre of the Earth. What changes with your place is the local clock time it starts and ends, which is exactly what decides your sign if you were born near a crossing.
Positions and times are calculated in your browser with an open astronomy library and match published ephemerides to the minute. The birth chart reading is written from Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899, which is in the public domain. The dignities and the doctrine of the elements are standard traditional astrology. Tradition is labelled as tradition throughout, and the sources page sets out what is calculated and what is not.