Pisces Moon sign
A Pisces Moon sign means the Moon was in Pisces when you were born. It crosses the sign in about two and a half days, roughly once a month. This page says what the tradition makes of it, how it mixes with each Sun sign, and when the next six crossings are.
- 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.
Pisces Moon personality
Feeling without edges, easily coloured by whoever is in the room.
- GiftsOpenImaginative, fluent with words, quick to feel what others need, and a vivid dreamer. Leo connects this Moon with clear dreams and psychic receptivity.
- StrugglesUnanchoredChanges its mind easily, loses heart quickly, takes things too seriously, and looks for a way out when life presses too hard.
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 Moon is one placement among many. See your whole birth chart, free, on Natal Chart Maker.
Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899, the chapter on the Sun and Moon combined
A Pisces Moon with each Sun sign
Alan Leo read the Moon together with the Sun. Find your Sun sign below.
Aries Sun, Pisces Moon
Not an easy pair: the Aries Sun is too strong for this Moon, which can leave a restless, worrying mind. At its best it calms the Aries rush and adds generosity, and a pull towards the deep and the hidden.
Taurus Sun, Pisces Moon
Steadier than Aries and less restless. Hospitable, kind and quick to notice what others need. Leo counts it a fortunate pair, where success comes easily.
Gemini Sun, Pisces Moon
More restless and more irritable, with a great hunger to know, often by intuition. Drawn to mysteries, and suited to unusual writing and uncommon work.
Cancer Sun, Pisces Moon
A very harmonious pair, both water. Deep feeling, a rich imagination and a sense for what the public wants. Leo expected success in life from it.
Leo Sun, Pisces Moon
Little harmony here: the head and the feelings pull different ways, which brings discontent. It leans to poetry, inspired speaking and dreaminess, and at times to too much passivity.
Virgo Sun, Pisces Moon
Receptive and hospitable, but restless and fond of change. Leo warns of a lack of self-reliance, and of not looking after the health.
Libra Sun, Pisces Moon
Restless, yet hardworking and persistent. More inclined to dream than to act, and at its best when kept busy with practical work.
Scorpio Sun, Pisces Moon
Restless and anxious, with an unexpected head for numbers and an easy opening to the psychic. Leo warns that it can bend towards evasion.
Sagittarius Sun, Pisces Moon
Too much worry, but a prophetic, religious and charitable streak when the mind is at rest. Works best under someone else's direction.
Capricorn Sun, Pisces Moon
Anxious and careful with money. In some it gives persistence and a love of learning, in others an easy-going, careless streak.
Aquarius Sun, Pisces Moon
Better than most Pisces pairs, Leo says: persistent, careful, and it wakes the studious side of the Pisces Moon.
Pisces Sun, Pisces Moon
Hospitable, with a very keen imagination, but over-anxious and restless, and it can sink into melancholy.
Alan Leo wrote this in 1899, and a whole chart says far more than two placements. See your Sun and Moon together, free.
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
What does a Pisces Moon sign mean?
That the Moon was in Pisces at the moment you were born. In astrology the Moon stands for feelings and instinct, so a Pisces Moon is read as a gentle, imaginative and very receptive emotional nature.
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.