 (c)
1999 Annie Kidney
Pisces
is the last of the zodiacal signs, and also
provides the backbone for Aries which then
springs into action.
There
are many Piscean myths that have a connection
with pagan Egyptian, Babylonian times, and also
to the Christian era. This ties in with the
Piscean age, of 2000 years ago, of Christ the
great redeemer and saviour, and also represents
religious rituals, which still goes on to to-day
in communion, with the eating of bread and wine
which represents the blood and body of Christ.
The
earliest Egyptian and Babylonian stories about
the heavenly fishes are associated with the
Syro-Phonenician fish cult of the great goddess
Atargatis, her temples, had pools of fish. These
fish were sacred, and no one was allowed to touch
them, although the fish were ritually eaten.
According
to the Babylonians story two fishes find an egg.
A dove comes and settles on the egg, until it
hatches. The Goddess Atargatis emerges from the
egg. At her request the Goddess provide a place
in the heavens, so that they will be honored.
The
dove represents sprit and peace also Aphrodite
the Goddess of love. The fish represents the
mother and son in the eternal struggle with one
another, the son being part of and immersed in
mother's water, and her creative yet primal
energies.
One
of the fishes represents great fertile mother and
the other is the son. She has the more
distasteful qualities of the sign and the son the
healing qualities of Christ. Both characters in
actual fact are part of one another. The mother
is the power and the son the victim, or redeemer.
Pisces
are born either a victim who can overcome their
pain with compassion, and so therefore becomes
the saviour the healer, and all the excellent
attributes that they posses. But this does tend
to be a struggle, which needs to be overcome.
Pisces are sometimes referred too as twice born.
Because they have this ability to break through,
their own suffering, and then to become someone
else's saviour.
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