Word origin · etymology
Latin constellation and sign name.
Pisces means fishes; it is a plural Latin animal-name.
How we know · epistemology
Zodiac convention with traditional symbolism
Pisces is the final equal sector, traditionally mutable water, ending where longitude wraps back to zero. The symbolic fish and assigned qualities do not provide a psychological assessment of sensitivity, imagination or susceptibility.
Deborah Houlding: absolute zodiac longitude ↗Ptolemy: Tetrabiblos I.4–24, Robbins translation ↗Astrodienst: The four Elements and the Signs (practitioner account) ↗
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