Maliea Croy, Astrologer & Psychotherapist, LCSW *
Blog  /  January, 27, 2023

Venus in Pisces

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.”

This is a special Venus in Pisces transit before Saturn fully comes into this sign for 3 years, tying a heavy stone to the dream, or building it up into something real. In many instances probably both! Saturn in Pisces is one of the 4 major transits of 2023 Georgia and I will be talking about and celebrating during our workshop on March 4th in Los Angeles. Spots are still available here!

In the meantime, enjoy the following parade of Pisces Venus:

Mike Leigh - clips from Secrets & Lies, 1996
Laura Dern, Natasha Lyonne, Julia Louis Dreyfus
Catherine O’Hara as Lola Heatherton on SCTV
Stephen Tashjian aka Tabboo!’s flyer for Pyramid
Stephen Tashjian aka Tabboo!’s East Village apartment
Hubert de Givenchy, SS 1992
𝒫𝒾𝓈𝒸𝑒𝓈 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, 1963
Christian Dior, 1950 & 1949
Diana Ross
Claes Oldenburg - 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘦, 1961-2
The Lady Chablis
Lee Radziwill- English Estate (1971) & Fifth Ave NYC apt (1975)
Eugéne Delacroix - Portrait of Chopin (1838; posthumously cropped). Chopin & Delacroix both had Venus in Pisces
Robert Wyatt, Sea Song, 1974
Pier Paolo Pasolini - 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘭 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘵. 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘸, 1964
Errol Morris, Gates of Heaven, 1978
Rachel Whiteread, 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦, 1993
Josef Albers, 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘦: 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘙𝘢𝘺𝘴, 1959
Maggie Nelson, excerpt from Bluets, 2009
Joseph Campbell
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Pisces Venus in Pisces Venus