Pisces Paradox

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Pisces: Year of the Tiger 

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The sky and sea merge in Thierry Chatelain’s depiction of Tiger-Pisces. Neptune, the ruling planet of Pisces is set as the top point of interest. It looks watery, an orb of swirling liquid in a sky that is decidedly undifferentiated from the sea. In this watery world Chatelain paints a glorious Tiger, and what a specimen! His tongue reaches out for a drink and a sleepy languor pervades his topaz eyes. This is clearly a Tiger at rest, but definitely still watchful. There is always a strategy that goes on in the Tiger’s mind. Of all the Chinese zodiac signs, the Tiger has the most passion and strength, which can be disguised at will and explode outward without warning and just as quickly return to a state of almost invisible stillness.

If we can’t estimate the Tiger’s state of mind, neither can we estimate the direction of Pisces. Chatelain shows four beautifully painted Koi swimming in all directions intent on different goals and ambitions. Pisces has been labeled as indecisive and too free-flowing, and certainly the artist paints his fish as scattered jewels in the water.

But Chatelain gives us a hint at what Tiger-Pisces may achieve when these two forces of power and mutability come together. Pisces has the greatest understanding of human nature for they are the last sign in the Western zodiac and have accumulated the wisdom of the other eleven. Their changeability is never as formless as it seems; Pisces just knows more that the rest of us. The Tiger is the Eastern zodiac’s great humanitarian. It was these great cats that came to the defense of human beings when the animal kingdom rose against them.

The artist carefully paints four lotus blossoms rising up as if from the Tiger’s aura. The lotus is the Eastern world’s great symbol of enlightenment and its presence bodes well. This combination has the chance for great achievements; to some, perhaps, this is the greatest of the combined zodiac signs. The potential for good and luck is unlimited in Tiger-Pisces.


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