Home › Glossary › Letter P

Piscean

Astrology
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

Want to hear it? Click the Listen button to hear the browser speak the word using text-to-speech!

The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Relating to Pisces, the mutable water sign of compassion and illusion. Poetry pisceans dissolves boundaries or swims in dreamy oceanic depths.

Detailed Definition
Piscean, Jupiter/Neptune ruled, empathizes masses. In verse, it fishes in mystical poems like Coleridge's. Literary flows symbolize surrender. The term's fluid sign poeticizes transcendence, where Pisces merges souls, inspiring themes of unity, sacrifice, and the watery veil of spiritual immersion.
Example
Example in poetry:
In W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming," the Piscean age drowns in slouching beasts, signaling zodiacal shift from fish-like faith to turmoil; Ezra Pound's "The Cantos" weaves Piscean mysticism into watery visions of ancient rites; Modern feminist poet Adrienne Rich in "Diving into the Wreck" embodies the Piscean diver seeking submerged truths; In Homer's "Odyssey," Piscean seas cradle Odysseus' trials, educating on fluid destinies.|Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Complaint of Mars" contrasts Piscean depths with martial fire; Sylvia Plath's "The Colossus" swims Piscean currents of maternal myth.|In Rainer Maria Rilke's "Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes," Piscean shadows veil the underworld's flow; Pablo Neruda's "Twenty Love Poems" flows with Piscean tides of passion.|In T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," Piscean baptism fails in the dry chapel of modernity.
Additional Notes
Piscean energies dissolve egos in Neptunian seas, mutable water blending intuition with escapism; ruled by Jupiter/Neptune. In poetry, they swim dreamscapes like in Coleridge's oceans—related to 12th house; tip: balance with Virgo opposite for clarity; students learn to use for compassionate themes, building on def to interpret illusion motifs in Romantic transcendentalism.
Also Known As
Fish Age Age of Pisces Pisces
Skip to main content