Pisces and health

Hi all,

I was just wondering if there are any pisces people or people who have asc ruler in 12th house who could share their favourite ways on staying healthy, fit and trim. I have read many articles stating that pisces is a sign that doesn't like to exercise and is more fluidy than other signs. I will have to admit that I see many pisces people who are slim and look good, but those that I know seem to severely restrict diet. Others I know like to dance or swim.

I myself have asc ruler in 12th house and I find I love swimming, dancing, and yoga.

Does anyone have any other insights to share. Im very much interested how this sign stays slim.

I did hate exercise for most of my life, and I attribute that to my Pisces and Taurus planets (for my sweet tooth also). For me, getting started was the hardest part because I felt so lacking in energy but once I started, I had more energy and endurance than I thought. When Pluto transited my 6th house planets I became more serious about my diet and exercise routine. My diet is low sugar and starch, I'm also a fan of running, Pilates, and strength training.

I'm not into swimming because it messes with my hair (Leo ASC...water stay back). I like dancing, for recreation.

Pisces deals with the health of the soul, whilst Virgo deals with health of the body. Together Pisces/Virgo represent the axis of soul/body. Virgos stay healthy by exercising, following healthy life style, having self control, checking the doctor. Pisces on the other hand stay healthy by meditation, praying, cleaning the soul from intoxicating emotions, spiritual alternative herbal healings method. In order to keep ourselves healthy, both body and soul need to be taken care of.

sibylline said:

I did hate exercise for most of my life, and I attribute that to my Pisces and Taurus planets (for my sweet tooth also). For me, getting started was the hardest part because I felt so lacking in energy but once I started, I had more energy and endurance than I thought. When Pluto transited my 6th house planets I became more serious about my diet and exercise routine. My diet is low sugar and starch, I'm also a fan of running, Pilates, and strength training.

I'm not into swimming because it messes with my hair (Leo ASC...water stay back). I like dancing, for recreation.

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Cardio is good for Leo ascendant. I love cardio exercises. Leo equal heart. But I have a hard time controlling my body and doing all those exercises moving my legs up and down..etc. I LOVE SPICY FOOD A LOT AND IT IS MY WEAKNESS

theV said:

Cardio is good for Leo ascendant. I love cardio exercises. Leo equal heart. But I have a hard time controlling my body and doing all those exercises moving my legs up and down..etc. I LOVE SPICY FOOD A LOT AND IT IS MY WEAKNESS

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Indeed, cardio has been good to me.

theV said:

But I have a hard time controlling my body and doing all those exercises moving my legs up and down..etc. I LOVE SPICY FOOD A LOT AND IT IS MY WEAKNESS

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Get your workout music...

I wholly dislike spicy foods, no weakness here.

My Pisces Stepmom always kept model thin and was in great shape. She was a Pisces rising with Sun in the first. But she had Mercury and Venus in Aries in the 1st too. So I think that helped a lot. She was really into JAZZERCISE classes and always tried to drag my Taurus rising butt off there with her. I went but was never as bouncy and energetic as she was.

She also barely ate. She would order cheesecake in a restaurant just to have one bite and push it away. My Jupiter in Taurus conjunct the Ascendant was always aghast.

katydid said:

She would order cheesecake in a restaurant just to have one bite and push it away. My Jupiter in Taurus conjunct the Ascendant was always aghast.

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I could only imagine. I love cheesecake (or any cake, really) so I give myself times off to enjoy them.

What were her Mars sign and aspects?

My girlfriend is a Pieces Sun/Venus/Asc and she's in great shape. Her strong Venus is conjunct the asc and loosely conjunct Sun. She also has Mars conjunct Jupiter in Taurus, so I'm not sure if that adds to her fitness or if it just makes her a candy loving person....like myself.

katydid said:

My Pisces Stepmom always kept model thin and was in great shape. She was a Pisces rising with Sun in the first. But she had Mercury and Venus in Aries in the 1st too. So I think that helped a lot. She was really into JAZZERCISE classes and always tried to drag my Taurus rising butt off there with her. I went but was never as bouncy and energetic as she was.

She also barely ate. She would order cheesecake in a restaurant just to have one bite and push it away. My Jupiter in Taurus conjunct the Ascendant was always aghast.

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As a fellow Taurus asc.....I have to ask, Katy. Did you ever get fat? Don't take offense to this, please! It's just a question as I've read that people with Jupiter on the asc were prone to excess and with a Taurus asc I can only imagine that came in the form of chocolatey, savory, juicy, tender deliciousness.

Blaze said:

My girlfriend is a Pieces Sun/Venus/Asc and she's in great shape. Her strong Venus is conjunct the asc and loosely conjunct Sun. She also has Mars conjunct Jupiter in Taurus, so I'm not sure if that adds to her fitness or if it just makes her a candy loving person....like myself.





As a fellow Taurus asc.....I have to ask, Katy. Did you ever get fat? Don't take offense to this, please! It's just a question as I've read that people with Jupiter on the asc were prone to excess and with a Taurus asc I can only imagine that came in the form of chocolatey, savory, juicy, tender deliciousness.

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Yes. My weight has fluctuated wildly. When I was very athletic it was under control. But now I am fluffy.

Thank you!! I'm so happy for the responses as ive been thinking about this for such a long time. Mainly because my chart has strong themes of the 12th house and 6th house dualities, I feel very much that I need to balance out pisces and virgo when it comes to health of mind and body.

Some of you have indeed confirmed that dancing is a common theme for pisces. As for restricting food like the cheesecake scenario - OMG!! I've seen this with so many pisces and I just don't get it at all. How on earth can one bite satisfy an appetite?!?!

Katydid I also have Jupiter in 1st house conjunct moon and south node square venus and mars and the weight fluctuates as well. Sometimes im fluidy and chubby, other times really fit and athletic looking, but still firm and meaty. Im sure your step mum was slim because her strong 1st house (me first) placements. Also, she did dance so that's exercise. My auntie has sun and north node in 1st house with nothing afflicting it and she could do anything she wanted diet wise and no-one ever questioned her about it.

Sibylline I agree totally that it's hard to get started. And then once you get going you feel fantastic. This may be the reason why I am so hesitant to quit my exercise routines for holidays or injuries because once the fluid kicks in and the muscle atrophy occurs, starting over needs a lot of work!

I didn't think much about asc but that makes sense. My asc ruler is in 12th house which explains why it takes motivation to exercise, but asc is scorpio, so at the same time, living without exercise is torture. But if you look at traditional rulers, my ruler is mars in virgo. So that explains the pisces virgo duality.

theV - I agree that meditation and prayer are pisces ways of being healthy and slim, however for me, it is in terms of 'praying to be slim and healthing, therefore getting the goal in my head, and then somehow it manifests.' If I don't think of the situation psychologically (which still needs lots of work) then I get out of control. Meditation hasn't worked for me yet. I need regular moderate exercise otherwise my lymphatic system suffers.

The thing that fascinates me the most though is the whole 'eating one bite out of food and being full.' Im trying to relate this to myself here. Im someone who actually relies heavily on exercise so that my stomach can feel full when I eat throughout the day. All I need is 45 mins of exercise that somehow tightens the stomach area and gets the blood flowing there so that throughout the day my appetite is controlled. If I don't do this, my stomach expands and I can fit more and more in as the weeks go by. Then I end up with skinny arms and legs and a huge pregnant belly. Of course this would be the Jupiter moon square venus mars, but surely there could be another '12th house' way of solving this, no?

sibylline said:

I could only imagine. I love cheesecake (or any cake, really) so I give myself times off to enjoy them.

What were her Mars sign and aspects?

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She had Sun @28PI, Mercury conjunct Venus @9 and 10 aries---also Saturn was there at about 6 Aries---maybe that is the control mechanism that restricted her food intake?

Her Mars was in Scorpio inconjunct the Merc/Venus in Aries

It is an interesting topic indeed, Abby. I've struggled most of my childhood and my pre-puberty with heavy weight. I think it was during transit Pluto trine the Sun and Mars conjunct transit Saturn when I had achieved great amount of weight loss. And that occurred during my teen years. I became very healthy afterward, thanks to Pluto that shed the light on the bad things in my life.

Lately these three year I gained weight and I feel sometimes depressed because of it. I want to get back to the weight I weighed in high school. I think it is due to transit Neptune opposite my sun and square my moon -in 2013/2014- and parallel my Mars. I feel Neptune caused me a lot of hormone unbalance, lot of sleeping,and it did increase indulgence and made me lose my gained self control during Pluto period.

I was born a natural indulger. I have Moon conjunct Jupiter in Saggitarius in the 5th house trine Ascendant and square Sun/Venus. This is a combination of self indulgent, luxury, and laziness right away. My mars isn't even strong enough to pump me with energy to be active. It is setting in the 4th house conjunct north node and square Neptune/Uranus. Neptune/Uranus causes to mars energy level to lower, and possible indulgence too.

I feel also being overly sexual kinda let to weight gain. I feel when I can control my sexual impulses, fantasies, I feel pure and clear. My sun is in the 2nd house house of earthy sex-sex for stimulation of the senses, five senses- and it is also the house of indulgence. So imagine. I have been hyper sexual lately. Neptune is in the 8th house transit opposite the Sun and Leo ascendant. I think it all reflects bad on me. I want to control it, but after many attempts, I fail.

katydid said:

She had Sun @28PI, Mercury conjunct Venus @9 and 10 aries---also Saturn was there at about 6 Aries---maybe that is the control mechanism that restricted her food intake?

Her Mars was in Scorpio inconjunct the Merc/Venus in Aries

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I do think that Venus/ Saturn conjunction, and her Mars/Venus 150 degree aspect what lead her to self control around food. Her self control stems from a need to maintain beautiful, healthy self, social, and body image. Venus of course represents our physical body, our self worth, our feelings towards our body. Saturn conjunct Venus make her feel obsessed about her body image and self worth. This is possibly she might think she is not good (saturn) enough physically. Saturn always tries to perfect things, sculpture them. Saturn tries to perfect Venus, and this through maintaining physical beauty by excessive care of our selves, what we eat and what we dress, what we use as body lotions.

Venus/Mars is being socialist, accepted socially, social aggressive person, physical beauty, androgyny. Mars/Venus Social acceptance might stem from the idea of being fit and sexy. The obsessive aspect 150 degree make her also obsessive about what I mentioned above.

theV said:

It is an interesting topic indeed, Abby. I've struggled most of my childhood and my pre-puberty with heavy weight. I think it was during transit Pluto trine the Sun and Mars conjunct transit Saturn when I had achieved great amount of weight loss. And that occurred during my teen years. I became very healthy afterward, thanks to Pluto that shed the light on the bad things in my life.

Lately these three year I gained weight and I feel sometimes depressed because of it. I want to get back to the weight I weighed in high school. I think it is due to transit Neptune opposite my sun and square my moon -in 2013/2014- and parallel my Mars. I feel Neptune caused me a lot of hormone unbalance, lot of sleeping,and it did increase indulgence and made me lose my gained self control during Pluto period.

I was born a natural indulger. I have Moon conjunct Jupiter in Saggitarius in the 5th house trine Ascendant and square Sun/Venus. This is a combination of self indulgent, luxury, and laziness right away. My mars isn't even strong enough to pump me with energy to be active. It is setting in the 4th house conjunct north node and square Neptune/Uranus. Neptune/Uranus causes to mars energy level to lower, and possible indulgence too.

I feel also being overly sexual kinda let to weight gain. I feel when I can control my sexual impulses, fantasies, I feel pure and clear. My sun is in the 2nd house house of earthy sex-sex for stimulation of the senses, five senses- and it is also the house of indulgence. So imagine. I have been hyper sexual lately. Neptune is in the 8th house transit opposite the Sun and Leo ascendant. I think it all reflects bad on me. I want to control it, but after many attempts, I fail.

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OMG!! You are exactly like me. Id love to see your chart. So let me get this straight. You have sun and venus in virgo, square moon Jupiter in sag? I also have moon and Jupiter in sag square venus and mars in virgo. Talk about overindulgence. I hate it. And yeah the sex, totally agree with you there. Holding out over time does help, otherwise the addiction can lead to overindulgence in food too.
Like you, I have also put on a lot of weight with this Neptune hovering in pisces mostly in 2013 and 2014. And in my teens I was very skinny. At that time t pluto was sextile natal sun and part of beauty in 12th house and dancing kept me in great shape!!

I think it's safe to say that difficult transits/aspects to 12th house planets or Neptune or planets in pisces leads to fluidy and fatty weight gain. Right now im experiencing heavy pluto square sun then pluto aspects and I had the Uranus opposition as well. Having this tense up the 12th house has also attributed to the weight gain. God I cant wait for better transits. This weight is ****.

Abby83 said:

OMG!! You are exactly like me. Id love to see your chart. So let me get this straight. You have sun and venus in virgo, square moon Jupiter in sag? I also have moon and Jupiter in sag square venus and mars in virgo. Talk about overindulgence. I hate it. And yeah the sex, totally agree with you there. Holding out over time does help, otherwise the addiction can lead to overindulgence in food too.
Like you, I have also put on a lot of weight with this Neptune hovering in pisces mostly in 2013 and 2014. And in my teens I was very skinny. At that time t pluto was sextile natal sun and part of beauty in 12th house and dancing kept me in great shape!!

I think it's safe to say that difficult transits/aspects to 12th house planets or Neptune or planets in pisces leads to fluidy and fatty weight gain. Right now im experiencing heavy pluto square sun then pluto aspects and I had the Uranus opposition as well. Having this tense up the 12th house has also attributed to the weight gain. God I cant wait for better transits. This weight is ****.

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astro twins kinda?



I blame over sexual behavior for my weight gain . but i can't control it. it seems like a way of escapism and emotional repression mars/neptune thing.

Oh wow, similar indeed. But born in a different generation. I was born with Neptune and Uranus in sag. You're still a baby . But yeah I can totally see the sex thing. Hard to control, unless you are forced to. You are lucky that you can keep that area going. There are many ppl out there who struggle.

Well ive got mars square Uranus natally too and ive gotta say it causes sexual friction for me, and accident prone.

Currently im experiencing progressed mars square Neptune (5th house ruler) and even though it's not affecting my sex life, it's making it impossible to set boundaries in life.

Hey I just realised your mars conjunct north node is conjunct my asc ruler pluto which is also sextiles my 5 th house ruler Neptune. Hmmm...... I think that's pretty awesome.

And yeah it does make sense that your weight gain is to do with the sex thing because 5th house ruler Jupiter is in it's home sign conjunct moon which is stomach. In my chart, second house ruler is Jupiter in sag conjunct moon. The way I find that playing out is if I have money, I spend it on food and overeat. And my values cause me to put on weight too because I work so hard to achieve my goals that it makes me overeat.

Abby83 said:

Oh wow, similar indeed. But born in a different generation. I was born with Neptune and Uranus in sag. You're still a baby . But yeah I can totally see the sex thing. Hard to control, unless you are forced to. You are lucky that you can keep that area going. There are many ppl out there who struggle.

Well ive got mars square Uranus natally too and ive gotta say it causes sexual friction for me, and accident prone.

Currently im experiencing progressed mars square Neptune (5th house ruler) and even though it's not affecting my sex life, it's making it impossible to set boundaries in life.

Hey I just realised your mars conjunct north node is conjunct my asc ruler pluto which is also sextiles my 5 th house ruler Neptune. Hmmm...... I think that's pretty awesome.

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I struggle actually like every other person to discipline myself. Sexuality seems like the biggest enemy I am facing. This is all to have both physical and psychobiological health I guess. Venus is strong in my chart, so mars and the fifth house.

That synastry combo sounds very creative, and fiery, and friendly.

theV said:

I struggle actually like every other person to discipline myself. Sexuality seems like the biggest enemy I am facing. This is all to have both physical and psychobiological health I guess. Venus is strong in my chart, so mars and the fifth house.

That synastry combo sounds very creative, and fiery, and friendly.

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This sounds about right. I mean in my chart the struggle of the square is to do with health and the overindulgence of food. So, venus and mars in virgo is totally all about eating healthy, not really caring about food, exercising, looking after stomach. Then that squares the Uranus, moon and Jupiter in my chart which wants to expand the stomach and shove as much in it as it can. To make it worse is that Uranus. It is a generational planet so I get lots of peer pressure to be an overindulgent junk food lover to make those around me happy. They hate the virgo health freak trait. That's the struggle I get. So I can completely understand how you would get that struggle of moving back and forth, you just have a different area than me. It's so hard to find that medium.

Stimulants

Pisces ruler Neptune also rules drugs. I have pisces moon in the sixth house. I had a weight problem at one point and over the years I've found that nicotine gum and ecigs helps keep the weight off. I know nicotine is very stigmatized but the truth is that it simply increases the risk of health problems. A less risky option in my opinion is caffiene. Say about four cups a day.