Pisces is a beautiful sign. It exalts Venus and Jupiter finds home within it. If the benefics are the nice planets, then Pisces is a sign that holds nice things.

But a Pisces isn’t just nice. That’s too trite to describe such a tremendous sign. Pisces is available. When it comes down to it, a Pisces will always give—give more time, more food, more passion, and more heart. A Pisces doesn’t keep track. A Pisces always believes that there is more than enough.

I’m not sure why so many Pisces stereotypes deal with sadness. A Pisces is always crying, always whining, and always avoiding. This hasn’t been true for the Pisces I’ve met and I’ve met several.

Pisces is the sign of availability. True availability—the ability to believe in your dreams with you, the ability to reside in time with you, and the ability to sleep next to you and fall asleep within the hour—is rare because it must be protected and cultivated and believed in. Pisces treats this rarity like they eat it for breakfast, lunch, and supper.

The stereotype of Pisces tells you that a Pisces mimics you because they can’t find it in themselves to be original. A Pisces laughs at your jokes with you, finds your humor a charm and a riot all at once, because they want to share more moments with you. A Pisces likes the same colors as you because they want to live the world through your eyes just for a day. A Pisces thinks about what you would do or say because they’ve already accepted that they live a life that includes you in it.

This isn’t insecurity or lack of originality. This is love.

If you’re not a stereotypical Pisces, then maybe you’ve somehow found the gall to not idealize avoidance.

The other stereotype of Pisces that we must address is laziness. When we think of Pisces as aesthetic, we think of spa days, cannabis, and binge watching television. I think that people connect these behaviors to Pisces because of the confusion between the twelfth house, which sometimes signifies rest, and Pisces.

Pisces is a sign that is ruled and conditioned by Jupiter. Jupiter is the god who is in charge of the heavens. Pisces is a driven sign. It’s a sign that looks for purpose and moves towards this meaning making with everything that they’ve got. They can be just as reckless as Sagittarius. They’re not afraid to lose everything they have just to gain the feeling of being alive. I once walked into a casino with a Pisces. “I’m ready to lose it all,” they whispered to me.

Pisces is Yumebo Jabami from Kakegurui. Pisces is Yagami Light. Pisces is ready to give everything for the right kind of catastrophe.

If you’re not a stereotypical Pisces, then you might prefer not to spend all of your time in a bathtub. Your movement through the world might feel less like drift and more like current. You take all of you with you all of the time.

This is part of Pisces’s availability, you see—they wear everything they have. They’re not interested in selection. They’re interested in everything. Because they’re interested in everything all at once, they’re also prepared to lose everything all at once.

Pisces, like Virgo, is peculiar about the details of things. However, unlike Virgo Pisces is not interested in tracking detail. Pisces is interested in detail because they want to inhabit experience. They want to smell it, touch it, and eat it.

The scariest thing that Pisces tends to do is to tell you that they would do anything for you. This is terrifying because they mean it when they say this. It is terrifying to understand that someone is ready for you, completely ready, and that they see no reason to wait and no reason to inhibit.

A Pisces understands that they must learn some sense in love, that they must give people time to show themselves, that they must give themselves time to prove trust, that they must be sensible! When it comes to love! But then they fall in love. And down they go. And love, like dancing or painting or hiking, makes Pisces into a hopeless fool.

And this is okay. Pisces contains all of the stuff that makes miracles happen—a sense of wonder, a little recklessness, and a lot of patience and compassion.

If you’re not a stereotypical Pisces, then you’re not someone who spends all their time crying or regretting or complaining. If you’re not a stereotypical Pisces, you cry and regret and complain just the right amount like the rest of us. If you’re not a stereotypical Pisces, then you’re more interested in what life can become than how it appears. You’re interested in miracles and you see the hilarity in everything.