Pisces ♓︎

The last sign — and, for the past two thousand years, the first: the vernal equinox itself has stood among these stars since antiquity, so that every spring begins in Pisces. This is the record of the Fishes.

Babylon saw two fish joined by a cord — the “Tails,” bound at the star later named Alrescha, “the knot.” The cord is the sign’s whole grammar: two living things moving in different directions, held by one tie that does not break.

Rome inherited the tender version. Surprised by the monster Typhon on the bank of the Euphrates, Venus and Cupid leapt into the river and became two fish — tied together, the poets say, so that neither could be lost. For this rescue Venus is exalted in Pisces, the sign of her highest dignity.

There is a final distinction. The slow wobble of the earth has carried the vernal equinox out of Aries and into Pisces, where it has stood for roughly two millennia — the “Age of Pisces.” The wheel’s last sign quietly holds the year’s first morning. Its record is one canonical asset of twelve, native on Solana with an official representation on Base.