A sign · Pisces · 330° to 360°

The three decans of Pisces.

The Sun is in Pisces about 18 February to 20 March each year, ten days in each of its three decans. The Golden Dawn gave each decan a numbered card, so a Pisces birth is one of three: the Eight, Nine and Ten of Cups, depending on the day. Which one is yours is below, with the planet that rules it and what the tradition reads into a birth there.

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The Sun, now☉ 1.8° Libra, Two of Swords

The Moon from the 1909 Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith — The Moonthe card of Pisces

Which decan of Pisces am I?

Eight of Cups, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith, 1909

Eight of CupsPisces I · Saturn · 0° to 10° · Lord of Abandoned SuccessBorn about 18 to 28 February

Saturn in Pisces. The old reading is a seeker who can walk away from a good thing because it is not the whole thing.

Nine of Cups, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith, 1909

Nine of CupsPisces II · Jupiter · 10° to 20° · Lord of Material HappinessBorn about 28 February to 10 March

Jupiter at home in Pisces. The old reading is generosity and appetite together: a full table, and a host who wishes for more of it.

Ten of Cups, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith, 1909

Ten of CupsPisces III · Mars · 20° to 30° · Lord of Perfected SuccessBorn about 10 to 20 March

Mars in Pisces. The old reading is feeling that fights for the household, and finds its whole strength there.

The boundary between decans moves by a day or so from year to year, so a birthday on the edge can fall either side. The birth card page settles it from an ephemeris rather than a table.

Which tarot cards are Pisces?

The Moon, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith, 1909 — **The Moon**the sign itself

King of Cups, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith, 1909 — **King of Cups**Pisces I and II

Queen of Wands, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith, 1909 — **Queen of Wands**Pisces III, and into Aries

Six, in the Golden Dawn's scheme. The Moon is the card of the sign itself. The Eight, Nine and Ten of Cups are its three decans. And two court cards hold thirty degrees each across it: the King of Cups over Pisces I and II, and the Queen of Wands over Pisces III and the first two decans of Aries. A reading here that turns any of them says so.

Why a sign has three cards and not one

A decan is ten degrees of the zodiac, a third of a sign, and there are thirty-six of them around the year. Book T (1888) gave one to each numbered card of the minor arcana, which is the whole reason a card can carry a date. All thirty-six · where the Sun is today · who rules each decan, in both orders.

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