Pisces Paradox

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Pisces: Year of the Snake 

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Neptune, the watery planet which rules Pisces, is the source of the portrait of Snake-Pisces by Thierry Chatelain. As it rises at the top of his painting, an exquisite Snake uncoils with scales of black and smoldering orange, the color of the embers of a fire. Fire is the element of the Snake and its warmth enlivens Chatelain’s serpent with a glowing and intense vitality. Two bright orange fish swim like visual parenthesis around the Snake. We are clearly in the element of water; a trio of Pisces’ beautiful water lilies float above their pads suggesting a world of order and serenity, and Pisces’ cool aquamarine, lilac, and sea blue colors provide the background. The artist creates a perfect composition tailored to pull us into the aquatic world which is the habitat of Snake-Pisces.

Yet, Chatelain paints a surprise. In center foreground we see what looks to be a vortex swirling downward and into some void. The painting begins with Neptune and ends — where? That we do not know. The sense we have is that Snake, fish, and perhaps this watery world will disappear. It is a brilliant maneuver, and we can not foresee what fate awaits Snake-Pisces. This is a combined zodiac sign of great sensitivity. Deep emotions and feelings rule. A sense of mystery and calm surround them, and these subjects are capable of great subtlety and spiritual insights. Pisces is the sign of eternity, of reincarnation and of spiritual rebirth. Pisces are loyal, unselfish and unwavering in their devotion to others. The challenge is really with the Snake side of the sign. For all its deep intuition, the serpent is prone to cynicism, and its profound worldliness is a challenge to positive thinking.

It is a great connectedness to life that is the gift of Snake-Pisces. But the vortex is in many ways a metaphor for this combined zodiac sign. Chatelain knows this, so paints a warning for Snake-Pisces — continue on the best path or be pulled downward.