Everything for a Pisces Venus is a daydream or a nightdream; limerent and liminal; a poem or a fantasy pushing into the expanse until backing up against an unknown earthly boundary - at most inappropriately, or at least too-much-edly - but often transcendently. It can be otherworldly, melancholy and divine. There is home for Venus in Pisces within the ether and the projection, between life and death. The magnitude at which it operates is occasionally so unhinged it’s fabulously hilarious. They’re sacrificing themselves for us, for the poetic anguish. They’re laughing and crying at the same time, dripping in jewels. A sweet inner child with unrequited longing to be swallowed whole—by you, by everything, by God. As Hans Christian Andersen (Pisces Venus) said: “If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.”
As always, all the following people possess this placement. Close your eyes and count backwards from 10. . .9. . .8. . .
Mike Leigh - clips from Secrets & Lies, 1996Laura Dern, Natasha Lyonne, Julia Louis DreyfusCatherine O’Hara as Lola Heatherton on SCTVStephen Tashjian aka Tabboo!’s flyer for PyramidStephen Tashjian aka Tabboo!’s East Village apartmentHubert de Givenchy, SS 1992𝒫𝒾𝓈𝒸𝑒𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓃𝓊𝓈 𝐹𝒶𝓈𝒽𝒾𝑜𝓃 could best be captured by Vogue’s description of this image of Audrey Hepburn in “a cocoon of romance-y pink tulle with an inner layer of embroidery—mother-of-pearl, pailettes, sequins, glittery pink and silver threads—and yards of white tulle stole”, Givenchy, 1963Christian Dior, 1950 & 1949Diana RossClaes Oldenburg - 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘦, 1961-2The Lady ChablisLee Radziwill- English Estate (1971) & Fifth Ave NYC apt (1975)Eugéne Delacroix - Portrait of Chopin (1838; posthumously cropped). Chopin & Delacroix both had Venus in PiscesRobert Wyatt, Sea Song, 1974Pier Paolo Pasolini - 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘭 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘵. 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘸, 1964Errol Morris, Gates of Heaven, 1978Rachel Whiteread, 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦, 1993Josef Albers, 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘦: 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘙𝘢𝘺𝘴, 1959Maggie Nelson, excerpt from Bluets, 2009Joseph CampbellMikhail Baryshnikov