The Most Amazing Thing Has Happened To Me,
The High Priestess in Full Manifestation
Discovering Telesford
I don’t even know where to begin, but I must apologize to my regular customers for my absence yesterday, and my sporadic availability right now. When you read this blog, I am sure you will understand why!
I am elated, joyful, overwhelmingly surprised and shocked. I am optimistic, happy, curious, and anxious and confused, all at the same time.
Those of you who are regulars know that I had a very special bond with my father, and some of you are aware that there was a great mystery surrounding my father’s natural father. It has been a family secret for 80 years, and yesterday, my dearest friends, IT WAS SOLVED!!!!!
I can’t say for sure, but this must be the feeling that adopted children feel when they find their birth parents after having given up hope, at least it’s highly similar!
All of my life, I did not know my true heritage on my paternal grandfather’s side. I knew that my paternal grandmother was English, from Yorkshire. I knew that my mother was one half Irish from Dublin and one half Czechoslovakian.
Do to the etymology of my father’s surname before it was changed, being “Delfino” we believed that we were Italian, (Sardinian) or Spanish in origin, but we had no way of knowing for certain.
Growing up in a small, northeastern U.S. “coal town”, we did not fit in as our gene pool evidently kicked out five very Mediterranean looking children when my parents produced us. Those around us were blonde, blue-eyed and not very open minded about diversity while growing up in the 60’s and 70’s and we were kind of “misfits”.
We,(including my father), were only told by our paternal grandmother that our biological grandfather was named Telesford Delfino and that he was a world champion light weight boxer under the name of “Pedro Campo” back in the roaring 20’s. She would give us no other information and she ostracized both my father and his children, having little to no contact with our family during my formative years.
She had another “husband” and three other children, dad was treated like the skeleton in the closet by that entire side of the family, as were we as his children. It hurt. It confused me as a child, but now, yesterday, a good deal of my questions were answered, the skeleton leapt out of the closet, and our family secrets were revealed!!!
It was 5:48 p.m. on August 11, 2008 when I was getting ready to log in to start taking calls, having had personal errands to run and experiencing a late start to my day when my phone rang, displaying a long distance number and a name I did not recognize. I could tell it was coming from a residential number and not a solicitor or business call, so out of curiosity I immediately (unlike my normal behavior, I usually let unknown callers go to voicemail), answered the phone.
I strange voice, friendly but seemingly a little uncomfortable to my ear said “Is this Bridget?” I replied yes. (At first I thought it was a client looking to schedule a session with me).
The voice on the other end of the phone picked up a notch in happy anticipation. She said, is this “Bridget Delfine”, again I affirmed. I could hear the smile on her face. She said, “I saw your post on the ancestry site I just joined three weeks ago, you are looking for your grandfather, Telesford Delfino?” Again, with my heart beginning to beat very fast, I said “Yes”.
She said, “Your dad is Kenneth Appleton Delfine (Delfino)?”, “Oh My God, Yes!”….body temperature rising, pulse beating out of my wrist! The voice was raising in excitement just as my emotions were too, and she said, “He is my grandfather too! I saw your post and we have been searching for you and for your dad all of our lives!!! “
She continued “My name is Alma, my mother’s name is Josephine, you had two uncles and another aunt and we have found our “SONNY BOY”!”
I was in shock and disbelief, how could this be? I had been chasing Telesford’s ghost for 30 years! I had found some obscure boxing statistics, but little else. Due to the etymology of the name, as stated, I had focused my search on the United States and Europe.
Alma continues, “My grandfather was married to Olive Appleton from Philadelphia and my grandfather could not find Sonny Boy, he had a picture of him when he was about three years old and he always sang the song “Sonny Boy” by Al Jolson. My mother and her brothers and sister have been searching for Sonny Boy for all of their lives and when I saw your post on the Ancestry site looking for descendants, I couldn’t believe it. The post was dated 1999 and you had a webtv email address, and I have been googling and googling to find you, I found your tarot site and kept searching and searching and I was hoping this was your phone number!”
I was flabbergasted!!!!
Telesford fell in love with Alma’s grandmother after he and my grandmother, Olive, separated and they had four more children together! I had more Aunts and Uncles and Cousins that I never even knew of! Alma said, “I saw your picture on your website, you look just like my cousin! Oh, you are my cousin! I have twin cousins!”
Alma proceeded to tell me that my grandfather was from the Filipines, he was born in Davao City and came to the U.S. to box in 1922. He met my grandmother, who was in her late teens, at that time. She was the reigning “Beauty Queen” of Philadelphia at that time. She told me that Telesford was born on January 5, 1901 and then she gave me HER MOTHER’S phone number in Canada! She was still alive! Only 61 years old! Her name is Josephine! My Aunt Josephine!!!!
I called Josephine and got even MORE information.
My grandfather had come looking for my dad after my grandmother Olive left the Filipines with him around 1930 when my dad was only five years old. Olive’s family told my grandfather that Olive was dead!!! They also stated that they had no idea where Sonny Boy was! LIARS!!!!! They knew right where he was!
Olive was protecting her second, ILLEGAL marriage!!! She never divorced Telesford! Telesford was a Filipino Catholic, there would be no divorcing! So she went and married her second husband anyway!
Huh, and WE were the BLACK SHEEP????
Oh, this is a BIG SKELETON!
No wonder she would never give us any information and there were no photographs! We were lucky we had dad’s birth certificate the way that woman covered her tracks!
Telesford, now believing Olive to be deceased, proceeded to marry Josephine’s mother, Alma’s grandmother.
Of course, now there has been a joyous exchange of familial photographs, and initial arrangements are being made for a meeting with my beautiful new cousin Alma and my Aunt Josephine (whom I somewhat resemble). How amazing to finally be able to identify a family resemblance that up until now, I could only see in my father and my siblings and children! None of my cousins on either my father’s nor my mother’s side have any real resemblance to us, we are very “Mediterranean” in appearance, I would assume that our ancestors in the Filipines are of Spanish descent due to the etymology of the name, and when I researched it further, it is a Castilian name in origin, which is why I was trying to find Telesford in Spain, never thinking to look in the Filipines, especially with his boxing moniker being “Pedro Campo”.
I have never seen a baby picture of my father, which I will add to this post once I upload it, etc., nor have I ever, ever seen a picture of my real grandfather, Telesford. The picture that Esel, Alma’s younger sister, also my cousin, has sent to me via email is from 1955, and although Telesford is in it, there is a crease across the picture, still obscuring his full face, so I am ever hopeful that they will forward more pictures where I can clearly see the man who was my grandfather and who searched his lifelong for his “Sonny Boy”, my father.
Esel also forwarded the picture of my father, age three years old! My son Justin is the spitting image of him!
I received pictures of Esel, Josephine and Alma as well!
Unfortunately, Dad, and his other three siblings have passed on, never reuniting with each other, and Telesford passed in 1976, a last attempt at finding my dad occurred in either the late 60’s or early 70’s, but he never gave up. Dad grew up thinking that his father did not want him or care what became of him, all because of one woman’s selfish need to bury a secret that she took to her grave with her.
Josephine wishes to visit Dad’s grave upon her visitation here, which I will surely see to, and I now have a new, beautiful, extended family that I am sure will take much of my leisure time learning about!
The High Priestess in Tarot is all about “Secrets Yet To Be Revealed” and this lifelong secret has now made itself known to me!
Sonny Boy
Performed by Al Jolson
Climb up on my knee Sonny BoyThough you're only three Sonny BoyYou've no way of knowingThere's no way of showingWhat you mean to me Sonny Boy.When there are grey skies,I don't mind the grey skies.You make them blue Sonny Boy.Friends may foresake me.Let them all foresake me.I still have you Sonny Boy.You're sent from heavenAnd I know your worth.You made a heaven For me here on earth.When I'm old and grey dearPromise you won't stray dearFor I love you so Sonny Boy.When there are grey skies,I don't mind grey skies.You make them blue Sonny Boy.Friends may foresake me.Let them all foresake me.I still have you Sonny Boy.You're sent from heavenAnd I know your worth.You've made a heavenFor me here on earth.And the angels grew lonelyTook you because they were lonelyI'm lonely too Sonny Boy.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Top Ten Ways to Stay Single For Life!
Top Ten Ways to Stay Single For Life
I was once told that successful blogging is inclusive of providing your audience with lists, so, not one to avoid testing a theory, I decided to post this list for my blog audience and clients to peruse.
It may be a bit “Tongue in Cheek”, but I can tell you, it will work for you!
1) Find yourself an unavailable man, i.e., married, emotionally unavailable, noncommittal, workaholic, alcoholic or otherwise occupied.
Decide he is the only one for you, put your entire life on hold waiting for him to give up his marriage, his girlfriend, his second job, his booze, his drugs, or whatever his particular obsession or situation may be.
DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, DATE ANYONE ELSE WHO MAY ACTUALLY BE AVAILABLE DURING THIS TIME, FOCUS! FOCUS! FOCUS!
2) When you are online dating, stop looking as soon as you meet one guy in person and focus all of your energy and attention on him, put your life on hold waiting for his next call, your next date, his next text message or email and then, when he moves on, repeat the process repeatedly.
3) ALWAYS be available for his calls, texts and emails, never close your IM window so you know when he logs in and out and stalk him on the net watching his every move, neglect your own social life and worry about his.
Respond immediately each and every time he makes contact.
4) When he doesn’t call you in a timely manner make every excuse in the book as to why he is not communicating with you for him, his job, his kids, his hobby, they are all taking up his time and he will call you eventually, sit by the phone and wait.
5) Panic if one day goes by and he doesn’t call you.
Do not let twenty-four hours go by without communication, immediately pick up your phone and call or text him, email him, forward him those annoying group emails to see if he opens it, repeat in increasing frequencies when he does not answer his phone and you get voicemail.
6) Convince yourself that you are in a relationship that does not exist.
He smiles at you when you pass in the hall at work, begin obsessing that he is going to ask you out and focus all of your energy into making your work day revolve around crossing his path. Transfer departments to get the office next to his!
This also applies to the ex that you keep chasing after that occassionally sleeps with you, but never takes you out. Hold on to that ex even when he doesn't call, write or care!
Or better yet, totally stalk a guy you were never even involved with, send him presents and cards and messages. That good old restraining order will help to ensure you stay single!
7) Convince yourself that a casual dating situation is a real relationship.
He doesn’t call you more than once every ten days or so, you only see him once or twice a month, but heck, he’s busy with his kids, job, business, hobby, etc., Repeat List Item #4.
DO NOT DATE ANYONE ELSE DURING THIS TIME!
Project into the future about how things will be when he asks you to marry him.
8) Chase him!
Go where you know he will be. Show up with friends as if you were going there anyway and spend all of your time trying to get his attention and get him into your social group, ignore your friends, they were just “the beard” anyway.
Join all of his forum discussion groups, chat groups, and internet sites and be sure to let him know you are there!
If you met him on the internet and you live far apart, move to his city! Buy the house next door!
9) Be overly critical.
You are at a party where you don’t know too many people, just mildly aquainted, they seem to be his friends, he is off socializing and had you on his arm, but you wanted his undivided attention so you went off to sit on the sofa alone and he did not follow you immediately.
In front of all of his friends, tell him how rude he is to ignore you and have the nerve to socialize with other people and assume that he was including you.
Perhaps you may want to buy him a leash?
10) Be a total narcissist.
Analyze how each and every action he takes affects you.
He’s going to visit his mother on your cat’s birthday?
How dare he, doesn’t he know how important that cat is to you?
His mother is dying and he has to spend time sharing shifts with his siblings caring for her?
How dare he! Doesn’t he know that you need to go out to dinner and a movie tonight! His mother is just being spiteful by holding onto life and not dying, he should realize that she is just trying to keep him away from you and she should just die already!
He spends time with his friends.
How dare he! Doesn’t he know that YOU are the only friend he needs?
Make sure you tell him all of these things every time he takes a breath that does not include you or calculate how it will affect you.
So, my dear friends, here is a handy guide to the Top Ten Ways to Stay Single for Life.
There are many more ways, but these are just the best ways. Even applying just one of these will give you some pretty heavy insurance that you will never have to truly deal with that messy thing called a “Relationship”.
*Any similiarity to any persons living or dead is purely coincidental.*
Copyright © 2008 Brigid Bishop
This content may not be copied or reproduced in any way without the express written permission of the author. You are welcome to link to or bookmark this page, but please contact the author via Keen Mail if you wish to reproduce this article in whole or in part.
I was once told that successful blogging is inclusive of providing your audience with lists, so, not one to avoid testing a theory, I decided to post this list for my blog audience and clients to peruse.
It may be a bit “Tongue in Cheek”, but I can tell you, it will work for you!
1) Find yourself an unavailable man, i.e., married, emotionally unavailable, noncommittal, workaholic, alcoholic or otherwise occupied.
Decide he is the only one for you, put your entire life on hold waiting for him to give up his marriage, his girlfriend, his second job, his booze, his drugs, or whatever his particular obsession or situation may be.
DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, DATE ANYONE ELSE WHO MAY ACTUALLY BE AVAILABLE DURING THIS TIME, FOCUS! FOCUS! FOCUS!
2) When you are online dating, stop looking as soon as you meet one guy in person and focus all of your energy and attention on him, put your life on hold waiting for his next call, your next date, his next text message or email and then, when he moves on, repeat the process repeatedly.
3) ALWAYS be available for his calls, texts and emails, never close your IM window so you know when he logs in and out and stalk him on the net watching his every move, neglect your own social life and worry about his.
Respond immediately each and every time he makes contact.
4) When he doesn’t call you in a timely manner make every excuse in the book as to why he is not communicating with you for him, his job, his kids, his hobby, they are all taking up his time and he will call you eventually, sit by the phone and wait.
5) Panic if one day goes by and he doesn’t call you.
Do not let twenty-four hours go by without communication, immediately pick up your phone and call or text him, email him, forward him those annoying group emails to see if he opens it, repeat in increasing frequencies when he does not answer his phone and you get voicemail.
6) Convince yourself that you are in a relationship that does not exist.
He smiles at you when you pass in the hall at work, begin obsessing that he is going to ask you out and focus all of your energy into making your work day revolve around crossing his path. Transfer departments to get the office next to his!
This also applies to the ex that you keep chasing after that occassionally sleeps with you, but never takes you out. Hold on to that ex even when he doesn't call, write or care!
Or better yet, totally stalk a guy you were never even involved with, send him presents and cards and messages. That good old restraining order will help to ensure you stay single!
7) Convince yourself that a casual dating situation is a real relationship.
He doesn’t call you more than once every ten days or so, you only see him once or twice a month, but heck, he’s busy with his kids, job, business, hobby, etc., Repeat List Item #4.
DO NOT DATE ANYONE ELSE DURING THIS TIME!
Project into the future about how things will be when he asks you to marry him.
8) Chase him!
Go where you know he will be. Show up with friends as if you were going there anyway and spend all of your time trying to get his attention and get him into your social group, ignore your friends, they were just “the beard” anyway.
Join all of his forum discussion groups, chat groups, and internet sites and be sure to let him know you are there!
If you met him on the internet and you live far apart, move to his city! Buy the house next door!
9) Be overly critical.
You are at a party where you don’t know too many people, just mildly aquainted, they seem to be his friends, he is off socializing and had you on his arm, but you wanted his undivided attention so you went off to sit on the sofa alone and he did not follow you immediately.
In front of all of his friends, tell him how rude he is to ignore you and have the nerve to socialize with other people and assume that he was including you.
Perhaps you may want to buy him a leash?
10) Be a total narcissist.
Analyze how each and every action he takes affects you.
He’s going to visit his mother on your cat’s birthday?
How dare he, doesn’t he know how important that cat is to you?
His mother is dying and he has to spend time sharing shifts with his siblings caring for her?
How dare he! Doesn’t he know that you need to go out to dinner and a movie tonight! His mother is just being spiteful by holding onto life and not dying, he should realize that she is just trying to keep him away from you and she should just die already!
He spends time with his friends.
How dare he! Doesn’t he know that YOU are the only friend he needs?
Make sure you tell him all of these things every time he takes a breath that does not include you or calculate how it will affect you.
So, my dear friends, here is a handy guide to the Top Ten Ways to Stay Single for Life.
There are many more ways, but these are just the best ways. Even applying just one of these will give you some pretty heavy insurance that you will never have to truly deal with that messy thing called a “Relationship”.
*Any similiarity to any persons living or dead is purely coincidental.*
Copyright © 2008 Brigid Bishop
This content may not be copied or reproduced in any way without the express written permission of the author. You are welcome to link to or bookmark this page, but please contact the author via Keen Mail if you wish to reproduce this article in whole or in part.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Reading Death, A Cause for Refusing General Tarot Readings
Reading Death
This is one of the few topics that I will not professionally read on as I believe that in the case of answering this particular question the slightest error or misinterpretation can cause irreversible harm. I do NOT claim to be 100% accurate; I do not believe that there is a Reader in existence who is.
My practice is based more on Life Coaching and Relationship Coaching than pure psychic interpretation of Tarot, those who understand this generally benefit greatly from my sessions, those who do not may either walk away dissatisfied or satisfied, dependent upon how accurately I have read for them. The clients who go to the “next level” with me, The Coaching Process, are those who find my services the most useful.
So, suppose I get a question from a querent that goes like this “Is my father going to die soon?” My response is “I am sorry but I will not read death”. I refuse to do so as suppose I answer “no” and he passes away within the near future, this person may not have taken the time to get the closure or resolve any unresolved issues with their father because they had faith that they had time. (Some people, unfortunately, do take their readings too seriously, I constantly advise against it, but yet, some people continue to do so.) Anyway, suppose I answer “yes” and the querent goes into a panic, but I am wrong, and the father lives on and on, yes he will pass someday, but I am not God, and I cannot name the date, nor will I attempt to. This querent may well live in a state of psychological panic for a long time. Unnecessarily.
It gives me bad vibes just to hear a question like that and the energy clings to me for days, sometimes even forcing me to take time away from reading professionally, like having a metaphysical flu, if you will.
I have actually had a client ask me this question, and when informed that I would not read it, she said, “Ok, well, can you tell me if I will be making funeral arrangements soon?” Ugh. Same question, different wording, you cannot bypass my decision to refuse to read on death by rephrasing your question and I explained this to her as gently as I could. She has never called me again, we were not a good client/advisor match.
Sometimes I do see death in the cards even though I do not want to.
The first time I saw death in the cards I did not understand how to interpret it until after the fact, it was twenty years ago. My children were in daycare and one of the workers was teaching my son Justin, a gifted artist, how to draw human faces and forms, he was only three, but his drawings already had the appearance of a much more mature hand and Elaine was a very talented artist in her own right. Elaine had an eighteen year old daughter at the time and Elaine loved when I read tarot for her, she bartered with me, art lessons for Justin for readings from me.
One day Elaine asked me to read her daughter, Katherine.
I agreed, but for some reason I felt uncomfortable. At first I thought that it was because Katherine was so young, (I won’t read anyone under eighteen), but she was eighteen and it was her mom asking me to read her, so I just pushed the feeling aside.
So there we were, at the preschool after hours, Justin in the back getting his lesson, Zachary watching cartoons contentedly, and Katherine and I at the front table doing the reading.
I asked Katherine if she had a specific question, she said no, so I did a general reading on her.
The cards that came up, the impression I got, the chill that went up my spine just made me feel like I was viewing something I shouldn’t be looking at. It honestly looked like Katherine had no future at all.
Rather than give her an upsetting reading I reverted to the text book novice way of reading the cards and went through them individually by position and by text book meaning, not combining them together, that would have spelled disaster. I was puzzled by the reading and when Katherine got up from the table, I wrote it down to review later. She was unimpressed with the process, and rightly so, but pleasant just the same. The reading was not cohesive.
Katherine used to babysit my kids when I went out on a Friday or Saturday night, I was a newly divorced single mom, and I truly cared for her and my kids just loved her. She was a little bit of a “wild child”, she already had a tattoo on her ankle, (pretty wild in the late 80’s for one so young), and I truly was concerned about what I saw.
So we headed home, went our separate ways, I still felt ill at ease about the reading.
At four a.m. that Saturday morning, (this all happened on a Friday), we heard multiple sirens and emergency vehicles kept running up and down our road for what seemed like hours.
On the news that morning was the story of a fiery car wreck that took the lives of six young people from our town, there were no survivors. They had been at a graduation party evidently and were out late night jammed into a 1985 Mustang that was known around town to speed around irresponsibly.
Elaine called me.
She had to go to the mortuary and she needed a ride.
It was 9 a.m.
I got a friend to watch my kids and I took her.
Elaine identified Katherine by her tattoo.
Katherine was Elaine’s only child.
I had no doubt what the spread was telling me.
Could I have prevented Katherine’s death? No. I didn’t see a car wreck or the horrible ending to a bright light, I just couldn’t pull a future out of the cards.
This is why I do not do general readings. I may see something I do not want to see, and in case I misinterpret the cards, why should I cause a querent unnecessary anxiety.
What do I do now if I see something that looks like death in a reading?
I keep it to myself and stick to the question that is asked.
I do not do general readings because you just don’t know what the universe will tell you when you go down that path and I am not 100% accurate, no one is.
God Bless Katherine and keep her safe.
This is one of the few topics that I will not professionally read on as I believe that in the case of answering this particular question the slightest error or misinterpretation can cause irreversible harm. I do NOT claim to be 100% accurate; I do not believe that there is a Reader in existence who is.
My practice is based more on Life Coaching and Relationship Coaching than pure psychic interpretation of Tarot, those who understand this generally benefit greatly from my sessions, those who do not may either walk away dissatisfied or satisfied, dependent upon how accurately I have read for them. The clients who go to the “next level” with me, The Coaching Process, are those who find my services the most useful.
So, suppose I get a question from a querent that goes like this “Is my father going to die soon?” My response is “I am sorry but I will not read death”. I refuse to do so as suppose I answer “no” and he passes away within the near future, this person may not have taken the time to get the closure or resolve any unresolved issues with their father because they had faith that they had time. (Some people, unfortunately, do take their readings too seriously, I constantly advise against it, but yet, some people continue to do so.) Anyway, suppose I answer “yes” and the querent goes into a panic, but I am wrong, and the father lives on and on, yes he will pass someday, but I am not God, and I cannot name the date, nor will I attempt to. This querent may well live in a state of psychological panic for a long time. Unnecessarily.
It gives me bad vibes just to hear a question like that and the energy clings to me for days, sometimes even forcing me to take time away from reading professionally, like having a metaphysical flu, if you will.
I have actually had a client ask me this question, and when informed that I would not read it, she said, “Ok, well, can you tell me if I will be making funeral arrangements soon?” Ugh. Same question, different wording, you cannot bypass my decision to refuse to read on death by rephrasing your question and I explained this to her as gently as I could. She has never called me again, we were not a good client/advisor match.
Sometimes I do see death in the cards even though I do not want to.
The first time I saw death in the cards I did not understand how to interpret it until after the fact, it was twenty years ago. My children were in daycare and one of the workers was teaching my son Justin, a gifted artist, how to draw human faces and forms, he was only three, but his drawings already had the appearance of a much more mature hand and Elaine was a very talented artist in her own right. Elaine had an eighteen year old daughter at the time and Elaine loved when I read tarot for her, she bartered with me, art lessons for Justin for readings from me.
One day Elaine asked me to read her daughter, Katherine.
I agreed, but for some reason I felt uncomfortable. At first I thought that it was because Katherine was so young, (I won’t read anyone under eighteen), but she was eighteen and it was her mom asking me to read her, so I just pushed the feeling aside.
So there we were, at the preschool after hours, Justin in the back getting his lesson, Zachary watching cartoons contentedly, and Katherine and I at the front table doing the reading.
I asked Katherine if she had a specific question, she said no, so I did a general reading on her.
The cards that came up, the impression I got, the chill that went up my spine just made me feel like I was viewing something I shouldn’t be looking at. It honestly looked like Katherine had no future at all.
Rather than give her an upsetting reading I reverted to the text book novice way of reading the cards and went through them individually by position and by text book meaning, not combining them together, that would have spelled disaster. I was puzzled by the reading and when Katherine got up from the table, I wrote it down to review later. She was unimpressed with the process, and rightly so, but pleasant just the same. The reading was not cohesive.
Katherine used to babysit my kids when I went out on a Friday or Saturday night, I was a newly divorced single mom, and I truly cared for her and my kids just loved her. She was a little bit of a “wild child”, she already had a tattoo on her ankle, (pretty wild in the late 80’s for one so young), and I truly was concerned about what I saw.
So we headed home, went our separate ways, I still felt ill at ease about the reading.
At four a.m. that Saturday morning, (this all happened on a Friday), we heard multiple sirens and emergency vehicles kept running up and down our road for what seemed like hours.
On the news that morning was the story of a fiery car wreck that took the lives of six young people from our town, there were no survivors. They had been at a graduation party evidently and were out late night jammed into a 1985 Mustang that was known around town to speed around irresponsibly.
Elaine called me.
She had to go to the mortuary and she needed a ride.
It was 9 a.m.
I got a friend to watch my kids and I took her.
Elaine identified Katherine by her tattoo.
Katherine was Elaine’s only child.
I had no doubt what the spread was telling me.
Could I have prevented Katherine’s death? No. I didn’t see a car wreck or the horrible ending to a bright light, I just couldn’t pull a future out of the cards.
This is why I do not do general readings. I may see something I do not want to see, and in case I misinterpret the cards, why should I cause a querent unnecessary anxiety.
What do I do now if I see something that looks like death in a reading?
I keep it to myself and stick to the question that is asked.
I do not do general readings because you just don’t know what the universe will tell you when you go down that path and I am not 100% accurate, no one is.
God Bless Katherine and keep her safe.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Want to Seduce an Pisces?
Want to Seduce a Pisces?
By Brigid Bishop
Oooooh! Who wouldn’t want to seduce one of these sensitive, psychic and caring people?
With these lovable creatures, whether they are a male or female by gender, you can take the lead in romance and they will surely appreciate your efforts!
Pisces Men and Women need to be aware of how you feel about them, and reminded often. Little notes or messages telling them how you care for them will be tenderly appreciated.
Pisces people need love, they sink into depression without it, and when hurt by love it can be more devastating for them than for any other sign, so if you are just looking to “play around” please leave the tender fishes alone!
Pisces Women tend to be attracted to men that they feel that they can heal in some way. If you have a wound, visible or not, physical, psychological or emotional, the Pisces Female will nurse you back to health in a loving way that fulfills her need to give to you.
Pisces Men tend to like to rescue women. This can be problematic for them in today’s world, as few modern women need rescuing, but, if you are into a Pisces Male, let your feminine side show, let him help you. You don’t have to feign helplessness, but gracefully accept his assistance, if you don’t, he may wander off to someone who will appreciate his help.
More than any other lover of the Zodiac, the Pisces lover will sacrifice for you. They want you to have all of your heart’s desires and will forego the necessities they themselves require in order to give it to you. This does not come without a price. You must love them, unconditionally, and show it to them frequently.
The Pisces lover would never intentionally hurt you and will be shocked and extremely upset when someone they love hurts them.
When the Pisces Male is hurt, he turns off for life. It is extremely infrequent that they will allow you back into their world once you have struck a blow against their hearts, so if you want it to last, try your best to consider his feelings when you are making choices.
When the Pisces Female is hurt, she, more than any other sign in the Zodiac will forgive, but she will not forget. She may let you back in, just once, but she will be ever vigilant to ensure that you do not hurt her again. It is best if you don’t hurt her in the first place if you wish to keep her in your life.
This sign is the most romantic, the most shy and the most sensitive sign of the Zodiac. They are all a bit psychic too, so they can tune into you empathically more easily than other partners you may have had. Oh, and due to their heightened sensitivities to your feelings, both sexes of this sign will lie to save your feelings. They are of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” mindset when it comes to painful truths and will fabricate elaborate stories in order to spare you pain.
The Pisces Personality Type
Want to Seduce an Aquarius?
How Does Your Sign Match Up With Pisces?
The Aquarius Personality Type
Around The Wheel With Aquarius
By Brigid Bishop
Oooooh! Who wouldn’t want to seduce one of these sensitive, psychic and caring people?
With these lovable creatures, whether they are a male or female by gender, you can take the lead in romance and they will surely appreciate your efforts!
Pisces Men and Women need to be aware of how you feel about them, and reminded often. Little notes or messages telling them how you care for them will be tenderly appreciated.
Pisces people need love, they sink into depression without it, and when hurt by love it can be more devastating for them than for any other sign, so if you are just looking to “play around” please leave the tender fishes alone!
Pisces Women tend to be attracted to men that they feel that they can heal in some way. If you have a wound, visible or not, physical, psychological or emotional, the Pisces Female will nurse you back to health in a loving way that fulfills her need to give to you.
Pisces Men tend to like to rescue women. This can be problematic for them in today’s world, as few modern women need rescuing, but, if you are into a Pisces Male, let your feminine side show, let him help you. You don’t have to feign helplessness, but gracefully accept his assistance, if you don’t, he may wander off to someone who will appreciate his help.
More than any other lover of the Zodiac, the Pisces lover will sacrifice for you. They want you to have all of your heart’s desires and will forego the necessities they themselves require in order to give it to you. This does not come without a price. You must love them, unconditionally, and show it to them frequently.
The Pisces lover would never intentionally hurt you and will be shocked and extremely upset when someone they love hurts them.
When the Pisces Male is hurt, he turns off for life. It is extremely infrequent that they will allow you back into their world once you have struck a blow against their hearts, so if you want it to last, try your best to consider his feelings when you are making choices.
When the Pisces Female is hurt, she, more than any other sign in the Zodiac will forgive, but she will not forget. She may let you back in, just once, but she will be ever vigilant to ensure that you do not hurt her again. It is best if you don’t hurt her in the first place if you wish to keep her in your life.
This sign is the most romantic, the most shy and the most sensitive sign of the Zodiac. They are all a bit psychic too, so they can tune into you empathically more easily than other partners you may have had. Oh, and due to their heightened sensitivities to your feelings, both sexes of this sign will lie to save your feelings. They are of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” mindset when it comes to painful truths and will fabricate elaborate stories in order to spare you pain.
The Pisces Personality Type
Want to Seduce an Aquarius?
How Does Your Sign Match Up With Pisces?
The Aquarius Personality Type
Around The Wheel With Aquarius
Today's Moon, February 20, 2008
Today's Moon
Today’s Moon goes “Void of Course” at 2:53 p.m. EST and remains Void of Course until 7:06 p.m. EST this evening when it enters the Astrological Sign of Virgo.
While The Moon is Void of Course it is best not to try to take on any tasks that are new or out of the ordinary as you may find it more difficult to launch or complete them. These hours will be best used for quiet, solitary activities rather than activities that may require group efforts, etc. Expect delays, hesitations and false starts during these hours.
When The Moon moves into Virgo this evening, Virgos will more easily and readily get their way and Pisces should just lay low and allow the world to wash over them until The Moon moves forward into Libra on the 23rd.
When The Moon is in Virgo, it is a good time for house cleaning, organizing your office, cleaning up your computer files or doing your taxes! Unless you ARE a Virgo, not a good time to apply for a loan or try to fight that speeding ticket. Authority figures are critical at best, so best not to push the envelope if you must meet with them during this period. Try to avoid discussions with your partner concerning issues you may have unless you are a Virgo yourself, it can lead to arguing on very fine points.
To learn more about the cycles and influences of The Moon, please read "Making The Moon Work For You" by Brigid Bishop.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
How Speeding Things Up Can Slow Things Down
How Speeding Things Up Can Slow Things Down
I have written extensive blogs on relationships and the dynamics that are common throughout them, and, quite frankly, have taken a bit of a break on my writings. So unless you are clicking specifically on Brigid Bishop’s Blog and reading through it, you may not have had a chance to read them if you are relatively new to Keen, or if you just check the main blog page and scroll down through that day’s posts.
I have written extensive blogs on relationships and the dynamics that are common throughout them, and, quite frankly, have taken a bit of a break on my writings. So unless you are clicking specifically on Brigid Bishop’s Blog and reading through it, you may not have had a chance to read them if you are relatively new to Keen, or if you just check the main blog page and scroll down through that day’s posts.
So, again, as in my blog, “I Want It All, and I Want It Now!”, I’d like to discuss how a woman taking action to “speed up” their relationships actually slows things down in the big picture.
There are days when I am inundated with calls from clients who are in a relationship situation where they are “on a break” with the man that they care for.
There are days when I am inundated with calls from clients who are in a relationship situation where they are “on a break” with the man that they care for.
This is not uncommon.
Frequently, relationships need to have periods where there is a clean break in order for the male in question to experience life without you in order to truly appreciate life WITH you.
Sometimes it’s not even on a break, so to speak, but it’s initiating contact, and the female can’t wait for him to initiate, so she does it herself. There are many blogs written by me on this subject under the category link on my blog, Brigid Bishop, Relationship Coach. When you have time you may want to peruse them to gain some insight into these behaviors inside of your own relationships.
So, for the purpose of this particular blog, let’s talk about the “Break” situation.
For some reason, including but not limited to any of the following reasons; “I don’t have time for a relationship right now”, “I am not ready for a relationship right now”, “Let’s keep it as friends”, “I have to focus on career, school, my kids, my divorce, etc.”, the man in your life has called it off. Perhaps you were the one to call it off because your needs were not being met, but now, you want the relationship back.
It hurts.
You love him.
You feel abandoned.
You feel a sense of internal panic without the consistency of him in your life.
You cry.
You want him to change his mind and come back.
You aren’t sure what to do.
You call an advisor for some insight and some advice or reassurance. You want to see if the Tarot Cards can clue you in as to what is going on inside him and as to what he will likely do about your relationship in the future.
You are not alone.
You need to talk to someone and get a handle on the situation.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with experiencing this. You are a caring, feeling human being, and the feelings you are experiencing right now are unpleasant to say the least, and they are also very distracting, making it hard for you to focus on other areas of your life.
So, you get a reading and you are going to get an answer in one of two directions, either (a) the gentleman in question is not coming back and the break is going to be a permanent one, or (b) he is going to realize that he misses you and get in touch with his feelings for you and return.
If your answer is (a), it hurts, but hearing it from an experienced and compassionate advisor may help you to let go, heal, and subsequently move on.
If your answer is (b), you feel a bit better, but, in 9 out of 10 cases, your next question will be “When?”.
This is usually where the female querent gets a bit frustrated. Timing with the Tarot is exceptionally difficult.
Unless the woman is the one who broke the relationship and did something hurtful, it is usually best to allow the male to work through his feelings and allow him to initiate the contact leading toward reconciliation.
Why?
It’s usually best because this way, when he returns, he returns without any doubt of what he wants, he has made the decision himself and he is likely to be more committed upon his return than he ever was before.
So, what happens if the female tries to speed things up?
Well, in varying degrees she may be unsuccessful and push him farther away, delaying reconnecting or disallowing it all together if she is too intense in her pursuit, or, she can actually cause the reconnection to occur sooner.
If she is successful, the problem is, the success is generally short-lived or temporary.
When a break occurs, it occurs for a reason. If you do not allow the male to work through whatever his issues or doubts were in his own time, they will resurface and you are highly likely to experience the break cycle again, often more severe, and possibly permanently.
His return happens because you pushed for it, not because he chose to return on his own.
Now he knows that he can break up with you and not truly sacrifice his relationship with you because you will be there for him the next time he gets ants in his pants.
You may get the “immediate gratification” of putting things back together, but your foundation is not solid, it is built on your actions, not his. He is back, but now he knows that he’s not risking losing you if he leaves again because you have taught him that you will chase him if he does.
Now, in the event that you do wait it out, it may take weeks or even months longer to reconcile, however, when he does come back to you of his own free will, without your pushing and pulling him to you, he will most likely be more committed to you because he did lose you and you were gone, and you put the “work” in his lap. He will realize how close he came to losing you permanently, and allowing him to work through whatever feelings of ambivalence about your connection he had has allowed him to truly commit to you and the relationship. He will be unlikely to leave again.
Waiting out this process is very difficult for many of us of the feminine persuasion.
We want our man back in our life and worry and pine over them during these breaks. This is normal when you care about someone, but it is in the best interest of the relationship overall if you can just communicate to him very simply “I wish things were different, but I understand your decision, take care”, and let go.
Many of us feel incapable of doing so, we want it, and we want it now, so we don’t follow this advice and we contact them and we pour our hearts out, and we may very well get them back, but we get them back on their terms, not ours, frequently with even less of a commitment than we had before. We then become so afraid of losing them again that we tolerate poor behavior, missed phone calls, lack of attention to our needs and postponements for dates, etc.
We may feel that rush of accomplishment at having “won him back” initially, but it is usually quickly followed by frustration and perhaps even more phone calls to an advisor asking questions such as “when will he call, when will he commit”, while, if we had just let him work through his feelings and let go when we had the chance we would have gotten a strong return from him with consistency in communications and a deeper level of commitment to our relationship.
So, if you are finding yourself on a break and wondering what you should do, if you are not the one who did the “breaking”, do nothing. Let him work through his feelings. Move forward. Socialize, date others, let him know you wish that things were different before you do move on without him, but move forward just the same. It is difficult, but you will find that if you are not focused on his return you will feel better and you will also find that he will miss you more in the absence of your energy and he will return more quickly and with a renewed sense of value for you and your relationship.
If you push for a premature reconnection and you successfully achieve it, you must be aware that within six to eight weeks or sooner you are likely to be repeating a pattern of his pulling away or breaking off with you.
So, immediate gratification or long-term satisfaction, is it worth the wait to you?
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Brigid Bishop's Tarot Thought for the Day
Brigid Bishop's Tarot Thought for the Day
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008, brings us under the influence of the Five of Cups.
This is a card that brings the energies of whether or not we are the type of person who sees the cup as half empty or half full.
The one word definition of this card boils down to "Disappointment".
A lone figure, shoulders bent, faces away from two cups that are still standing, containing the liquids of happiness and love, and focuses on three cups which have spilled and are laying on their sides. His body language is depressive, head bowed, shoulders bent, a sense of sadness comes off of the card as we view it.
The melancholy vibration of this card can indicate mourning over a loss or change within a relationship. This card indicates that the Querent may be dwelling on the negative and refusing to see the positive polar influence of each loss and change.
Remind ourselves that each change in our life brings an opportunity for growth and that we should try to focus on what yet remains, (the two standing cups), and not what we have lost.
The positive tone of this card is the ability to contemplate what one still has and move forward optimistically. All the figure in the card need do is turn around to see this.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008, brings us under the influence of the Five of Cups.
This is a card that brings the energies of whether or not we are the type of person who sees the cup as half empty or half full.
The one word definition of this card boils down to "Disappointment".
A lone figure, shoulders bent, faces away from two cups that are still standing, containing the liquids of happiness and love, and focuses on three cups which have spilled and are laying on their sides. His body language is depressive, head bowed, shoulders bent, a sense of sadness comes off of the card as we view it.
The melancholy vibration of this card can indicate mourning over a loss or change within a relationship. This card indicates that the Querent may be dwelling on the negative and refusing to see the positive polar influence of each loss and change.
Remind ourselves that each change in our life brings an opportunity for growth and that we should try to focus on what yet remains, (the two standing cups), and not what we have lost.
The positive tone of this card is the ability to contemplate what one still has and move forward optimistically. All the figure in the card need do is turn around to see this.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Making The Moon Work For You
Making the Moon Work for You
by Brigid Bishop
The Moon, as it orbits our earth, moves through the zodiac much more quickly than any other significant celestial body.
The Moon is one of the most potent astrological forces that we experience, and as it cycles through the signs on a regular schedule of approximately 2.5 days, we can use its’ energy to enhance our daily lives in many matters, including, but not limited to:
Signing contracts, beginning projects, attending job interviews, applying for loans, changing residence, approaching authority figures, travelling, shopping, and putting an end to something, convincing others to come around to your way of thinking.
How do we do this?
It’s rather simple.
Look at your sun sign and watch the movements of The Moon for when it will next be residing in the same sign as your sun. When The Moon is in your sign, you can expect things to work out to your favor regardless of how difficult you may find the situation to be.
When The Moon is in your sun sign, these are your “best” days of the month, and these are the days when things will go more strongly in your favor than at any other time during the month.
At the opposite end of the scale, we have you “worst” or “lowest” days each month as well.
These occur during the 2.5 days that The Moon visits your polar opposite sign. For example, when you are an Aquarius, your lowest days of the month occur when The Moon is in Leo, if you are a Pisces, your lows are when The Moon is in Virgo, and so on around the astrological wheel.
When you are in the 2.5 day phase of your low, just kick back and don’t try to change things, wait for better timing, as you will find it most difficult to get your way during this phase.
The low points are good times of the month to meditate, be spiritual, be more kind to others and let negativity roll off your back like the proverbial duck. Try to avoid dealing with important business matters during these times if it is at all possible.
Every 2.5 days The Moon goes “Void of Course” as well. The length of the Void of Course Moon varies greatly, sometimes, it can be a fleeting few seconds, at others, it can last a few days. A lunar phase calendar can help you to track The Moon.
A Void of Course Moon occurs when the last major aspect happens prior to changing to the next sign, hence, its’ frequency being an approximate 2.5 days. The Void ends when The Moon successfully enters the next sign.
These periods are best used for “quiet times” for everyone. Things tend to go wrong or get confused during the void, stress levels rise, patience wanes and everyone is just a little bit more difficult to talk to. It is not an exceedingly strong influence, but it has its’ moments. It is best to avoid taking assertive actions during these voids, simply wait for them to pass.
by Brigid Bishop
The Moon, as it orbits our earth, moves through the zodiac much more quickly than any other significant celestial body.
The Moon is one of the most potent astrological forces that we experience, and as it cycles through the signs on a regular schedule of approximately 2.5 days, we can use its’ energy to enhance our daily lives in many matters, including, but not limited to:
Signing contracts, beginning projects, attending job interviews, applying for loans, changing residence, approaching authority figures, travelling, shopping, and putting an end to something, convincing others to come around to your way of thinking.
How do we do this?
It’s rather simple.
Look at your sun sign and watch the movements of The Moon for when it will next be residing in the same sign as your sun. When The Moon is in your sign, you can expect things to work out to your favor regardless of how difficult you may find the situation to be.
When The Moon is in your sun sign, these are your “best” days of the month, and these are the days when things will go more strongly in your favor than at any other time during the month.
At the opposite end of the scale, we have you “worst” or “lowest” days each month as well.
These occur during the 2.5 days that The Moon visits your polar opposite sign. For example, when you are an Aquarius, your lowest days of the month occur when The Moon is in Leo, if you are a Pisces, your lows are when The Moon is in Virgo, and so on around the astrological wheel.
When you are in the 2.5 day phase of your low, just kick back and don’t try to change things, wait for better timing, as you will find it most difficult to get your way during this phase.
The low points are good times of the month to meditate, be spiritual, be more kind to others and let negativity roll off your back like the proverbial duck. Try to avoid dealing with important business matters during these times if it is at all possible.
Every 2.5 days The Moon goes “Void of Course” as well. The length of the Void of Course Moon varies greatly, sometimes, it can be a fleeting few seconds, at others, it can last a few days. A lunar phase calendar can help you to track The Moon.
A Void of Course Moon occurs when the last major aspect happens prior to changing to the next sign, hence, its’ frequency being an approximate 2.5 days. The Void ends when The Moon successfully enters the next sign.
These periods are best used for “quiet times” for everyone. Things tend to go wrong or get confused during the void, stress levels rise, patience wanes and everyone is just a little bit more difficult to talk to. It is not an exceedingly strong influence, but it has its’ moments. It is best to avoid taking assertive actions during these voids, simply wait for them to pass.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Around the Wheel With Aquarius
Around The Wheel with Pisces
(Compatibility Profiles)
By Brigid Bishop
Here are some basic “Rules of Thumb” for Piscean Compatibility Profiles. Of course, these are based on Sun Sign only, in order to truly plot compatibility it is best to have a professional compatibility profile done between the two charts, but this is a general description of the core energies to be expected.
Pisces Male and Aries Female
This may be a difficult combination unless other aspects within the chart are positive. The Pisces Male is sensitive and caring and the Aries Female is a fiery and independent and action-oriented energy. The Pisces Male wants to sit back and dream a little while the Aries Female wants to go, go, and go. Without an elemental balance within the charts the connection can be fleeting at best.
Pisces Female and Aries Male
This mix can actually work out a bit better than its’ reverse as the masculine and feminine biological energies can enhance the connection. The Pisces Female will idolize the Aries for his take charge approach to life and feel cherished and protected, while the Arian Male will find her femininity and dreaminess quite appealing. She will want to create a comfort zone for him to recharge in and he will want to “lasso the moon” for her.
Pisces Male and Taurus Female
The Pisces Male and the Taurean Female are a very positive blend of the elements of Water and Earth. The Pisces Male will provide for and nourish the Taurean Female, and the Taurean Female will bloom and blossom for the Piscean Male. The dreaminess of the Pisces Male is put into action by the earthy Taurean Female and a firm foundation can be built that has the potential to last a lifetime.
Pisces Female and Taurus Male
The Pisces Female will simply adore the sensual and earthy Taurus Male. Physical chemistry here will be off the charts! She will give him everything she can both emotionally and physically and will stretch her proficient imagination to its’ most outer limits to come up with new and exciting ways to please him. The Taurean Male will not fail to notice this and will work long and hard to give her the best of everything that the world has to offer.
Pisces Male and Gemini Female
The Pisces Male will be genuinely fascinated by the Gemini Female and will be hard-pressed to keep up with her acrobatic mind as she switches from subject to subject and twin to twin, but he will do his best! His daydreams take on a surreal quality that entrances him when she explains to him how to put his thoughts into action. The Pisces Male will actually be able to get the Gemini Female to slow down a bit, to stop and smell the roses, and the Gemini Female can spur the Pisces Male into making his fantasies reality.
Pisces Female and Gemini Male
Unlike the reverse pairing of these signs, biologically, this makes for a difficult match. The duplicitous nature of the Gemini Male confuses the Piscean Female to a point of utter distress. Although much love and attraction can exist between them, without other positive aspects, the Piscean Female may feel much distrust for the Gemini Male, undermining the relationship, due to his lack of consistency and inability to be the same man day to day as he undergoes his transformations from twin to twin. She needs a little more stability to feel safe.
Pisces Male and Cancer Female
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink! The Pisces Male and the Cancer Female are said by traditional astrologers to be well-matched due to their common elemental influence of water, and this can well be so as long as both parties are able to comfortably allow the other to swim to the deep end of the pool of emotion without feeling a sense of abandonment, or hold on so tightly that they begin to pull each other under and succumb to the smothering influences of water. They will understand each other quite well, thank you, but they need to be able to balance practicality with sentiment.
Pisces Female and Cancer Male
A better mix than the reverse genders as the Pisces Female responds well to the nurturing that the Cancer Male naturally provides. When these two dive into the pool of emotion they tend to come out refreshed and reenergized, ready to face forward with optimism, the Pisces Female knowing that her Cancer Man will be there to catch her if she should slip, and the Cancer Male knowing that it is safe to dream and feel his emotions while in her company.
Pisces Male and Leo Female
The Pisces Male will be attracted to the Leo Female, well, just because she is who she is and pulls no punches about it. She will enjoy his admiration of her and he will enjoy her generous spirit. The Leo Female will have the energy to move the Pisces Male to action absent nagging or cajoling, he will want to do for her to be able to enjoy the warmth of her sunlight. Her fire can certainly make his water boil.
Pisces Female and Leo Male
The Pisces Female will be energetically attracted to the Leo Male. His passion and zest for life will be infectious to her, to say the least, and she will muse that in days gone by he could well have been her knight in shining armor. The Leo Male will feel self-actualized by the sense she gives him of being “all man” and will cherish her for the sheer fact of her admiration for him. The problem is, the rose colored glasses have to be taken off sooner or later, and when she sees him as a mere mortal, unless there are other balancing factors in their charts, she may lose interest.
Pisces Male and Virgo Female
The polar oppositions of the suns of these two create a sense of balance. He is imaginative and creative where the Virgo Female is practical. The Pisces Male is sensitive and precognitive, she wants hard facts and figures. The pair is quite capable of a balancing act that can last a lifetime. The Virgo Female keeps the Pisces Male, who is one to drift to other dimensions, grounded here on earth.
Pisces Female and Virgo Male
The Pisces Female is lilting and ethereal while the Virgo Male is down to earth and pragmatic. She dreams ahead in time, he lives in the here and now. At its best, the pairing will bring balance to each other’s lives, at it’s worse, they will be in constant conflict due to not allowing the energy of the other to flow freely. The Virgo Male may be so down to earth that he tries to bind her here against her will. This will not due for the Pisces Female, she will swish her tail and swim away leaving him all alone. If he allows her to dream freely and enjoy her musings and reminds her that he is here in the “real” world waiting patiently, they can last a lifetime.
Pisces Male and Libra Female
The Pisces Male finds the Libra Female hauntingly beautiful and the Libra Female finds the Pisces Male handsome and charming and optimistic. The Pisces Male will so romanticize the Libran Female’s natural beauty that he may not be capable of fulfilling her intellectual needs. This is a woman with a beautiful mind as well, and he needs to appreciate the charm of her wit as well as her feminine wiles to keep her interested.
Pisces Female and Libra Male
The Pisces Female and the Libra Male make an excellent pair. He is totally open to her fantasies and musings and actually loves her precognitive abilities and finds them quite fascinating. He will turn to her when he needs to weigh out a decision for her psychic abilities rather than for practical advice. The two are capable of building a happy dream world together, even with their own language that is impossible for anyone else to interpret.
Pisces Male and Scorpio Female
This pairing is one that is absolutely metaphysical in chemistry. They frequently can read each other’s thoughts and feelings, even when continents divide them. The sexual energy between these two is very sensual and mystical in nature and forms a deep bond between the two. Lovers for life can occur here. The Scorpio Female will not, however, forgive or forget any transgressions on the Piscean Males’ part.
Pisces Female and Scorpio Male
These two are real fire crackers in the sack. There is no fantasy or wish that one will not fulfill for the other. Experimentation and sensuality in all aspects of their relationship, even in sharing a meal, will keep the fire burning between these two for decades. They can easily read each other’s thoughts and feelings and frequently communicate with no verbalization at all. These two easily can become lovers for life.
Pisces Male and Sagittarius Female
The Sagittarian Female’s blunt honesty hurts the Piscean Male’s feelings on a frequent basis. When she feels that she is just cluing him in, he feels he is being criticized. The Pisces Male will swim quickly away when the female horse stomps through his favorite swimming hole spreading her truth and honesty. Although her fiery nature may appeal to him, his sensitive nature cannot endure it for long.
Pisces Female and Sagittarius Male
The Sagittarian Male’s need for adventure, travel and independence will make the Piscean Female feel a bit abandoned. She won’t want to travel too much on his adventures with him as she would rather spend her days weaving her cloth of dreams and fantasies and possibilities, while he wants to rush straight forward into the next journey. She will find his blunt and honest approach to communication painful and although he doesn’t mean to hurt her feelings, he will. Without more elemental balance in the charts this will be a painful experience for the Pisces Woman.
Pisces Male and Capricorn Female
The Pisces Male and Capricorn Female make a straight forward and openly honest pair. She will be practical and he will be dreamy, but he will work to make those dreams come true for her, led by her example. The Pisces Male may like to socialize a bit more than she, but they will find a balance. She will encourage him to aim his socialization at those who form a network to enhance his chances at success, thus compromising their styles in a positive way.
Piscean Female and Capricorn Male
The Goat Man may very well fall off of his mountain peak here, and fall deeply in love with this Female Fish. She is like a siren calling to him just out of sight of the beach, and he must plunge into the water to answer this call. Her mystical nature fascinates him, although he may choose to not believe that she is psychic, inside, he will know she truly is. She will open up his spiritual and metaphysical side and perhaps even teach him that there is more to life than material gain.
Piscean Male and Aquarius Female
The Pisces Male may think the Aquarian Female is just a little bit “out of this world” with her thoughts and actions and his sensitive nature cannot take the constant onslaught of thoughts and ideas without system overload if other aspects of the chart do not create more balance. The Aquarian Female will try to herd the Piscean Male into the life that she feels is best for him, and he is a slippery fish that is not easily led. Power struggles are common in this pairing, as is passive-aggressive behavior on the part of our friend Mr. Fish.
Piscean Female and Aquarius Male
The Pisces Female is the biggest dreamer in the zodiac and the Aquarian Male absolutely loves her for it! Her imagination combined with his creative abilities make a pair that can create an ideal life together. He doesn't feel the need for independence as strongly with this sign as he does with the others, as she and her dreamy ways bring him a sense of inner peace. Someone has to remember to go to the grocery store here or you two might just dream away!!! Wake up!!!
Pisces Female and Pisces Male
These two can be the best of friends, the most sensual of lovers and the most creative and successful business partners that you have ever met as long as ONE of them has enough fire in their chart to turn their dreams into realities. Psychic connections between these two are almost visible to the naked eye! Herein the problem lies, there is no way to lie to each other. If these two ever part company they will totally go their separate ways, although they can have a great love, the ending of that great love is something the Pisces would rather not be reminded of through friendship with an ex.
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(Compatibility Profiles)
By Brigid Bishop
Here are some basic “Rules of Thumb” for Piscean Compatibility Profiles. Of course, these are based on Sun Sign only, in order to truly plot compatibility it is best to have a professional compatibility profile done between the two charts, but this is a general description of the core energies to be expected.
Pisces Male and Aries Female
This may be a difficult combination unless other aspects within the chart are positive. The Pisces Male is sensitive and caring and the Aries Female is a fiery and independent and action-oriented energy. The Pisces Male wants to sit back and dream a little while the Aries Female wants to go, go, and go. Without an elemental balance within the charts the connection can be fleeting at best.
Pisces Female and Aries Male
This mix can actually work out a bit better than its’ reverse as the masculine and feminine biological energies can enhance the connection. The Pisces Female will idolize the Aries for his take charge approach to life and feel cherished and protected, while the Arian Male will find her femininity and dreaminess quite appealing. She will want to create a comfort zone for him to recharge in and he will want to “lasso the moon” for her.
Pisces Male and Taurus Female
The Pisces Male and the Taurean Female are a very positive blend of the elements of Water and Earth. The Pisces Male will provide for and nourish the Taurean Female, and the Taurean Female will bloom and blossom for the Piscean Male. The dreaminess of the Pisces Male is put into action by the earthy Taurean Female and a firm foundation can be built that has the potential to last a lifetime.
Pisces Female and Taurus Male
The Pisces Female will simply adore the sensual and earthy Taurus Male. Physical chemistry here will be off the charts! She will give him everything she can both emotionally and physically and will stretch her proficient imagination to its’ most outer limits to come up with new and exciting ways to please him. The Taurean Male will not fail to notice this and will work long and hard to give her the best of everything that the world has to offer.
Pisces Male and Gemini Female
The Pisces Male will be genuinely fascinated by the Gemini Female and will be hard-pressed to keep up with her acrobatic mind as she switches from subject to subject and twin to twin, but he will do his best! His daydreams take on a surreal quality that entrances him when she explains to him how to put his thoughts into action. The Pisces Male will actually be able to get the Gemini Female to slow down a bit, to stop and smell the roses, and the Gemini Female can spur the Pisces Male into making his fantasies reality.
Pisces Female and Gemini Male
Unlike the reverse pairing of these signs, biologically, this makes for a difficult match. The duplicitous nature of the Gemini Male confuses the Piscean Female to a point of utter distress. Although much love and attraction can exist between them, without other positive aspects, the Piscean Female may feel much distrust for the Gemini Male, undermining the relationship, due to his lack of consistency and inability to be the same man day to day as he undergoes his transformations from twin to twin. She needs a little more stability to feel safe.
Pisces Male and Cancer Female
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink! The Pisces Male and the Cancer Female are said by traditional astrologers to be well-matched due to their common elemental influence of water, and this can well be so as long as both parties are able to comfortably allow the other to swim to the deep end of the pool of emotion without feeling a sense of abandonment, or hold on so tightly that they begin to pull each other under and succumb to the smothering influences of water. They will understand each other quite well, thank you, but they need to be able to balance practicality with sentiment.
Pisces Female and Cancer Male
A better mix than the reverse genders as the Pisces Female responds well to the nurturing that the Cancer Male naturally provides. When these two dive into the pool of emotion they tend to come out refreshed and reenergized, ready to face forward with optimism, the Pisces Female knowing that her Cancer Man will be there to catch her if she should slip, and the Cancer Male knowing that it is safe to dream and feel his emotions while in her company.
Pisces Male and Leo Female
The Pisces Male will be attracted to the Leo Female, well, just because she is who she is and pulls no punches about it. She will enjoy his admiration of her and he will enjoy her generous spirit. The Leo Female will have the energy to move the Pisces Male to action absent nagging or cajoling, he will want to do for her to be able to enjoy the warmth of her sunlight. Her fire can certainly make his water boil.
Pisces Female and Leo Male
The Pisces Female will be energetically attracted to the Leo Male. His passion and zest for life will be infectious to her, to say the least, and she will muse that in days gone by he could well have been her knight in shining armor. The Leo Male will feel self-actualized by the sense she gives him of being “all man” and will cherish her for the sheer fact of her admiration for him. The problem is, the rose colored glasses have to be taken off sooner or later, and when she sees him as a mere mortal, unless there are other balancing factors in their charts, she may lose interest.
Pisces Male and Virgo Female
The polar oppositions of the suns of these two create a sense of balance. He is imaginative and creative where the Virgo Female is practical. The Pisces Male is sensitive and precognitive, she wants hard facts and figures. The pair is quite capable of a balancing act that can last a lifetime. The Virgo Female keeps the Pisces Male, who is one to drift to other dimensions, grounded here on earth.
Pisces Female and Virgo Male
The Pisces Female is lilting and ethereal while the Virgo Male is down to earth and pragmatic. She dreams ahead in time, he lives in the here and now. At its best, the pairing will bring balance to each other’s lives, at it’s worse, they will be in constant conflict due to not allowing the energy of the other to flow freely. The Virgo Male may be so down to earth that he tries to bind her here against her will. This will not due for the Pisces Female, she will swish her tail and swim away leaving him all alone. If he allows her to dream freely and enjoy her musings and reminds her that he is here in the “real” world waiting patiently, they can last a lifetime.
Pisces Male and Libra Female
The Pisces Male finds the Libra Female hauntingly beautiful and the Libra Female finds the Pisces Male handsome and charming and optimistic. The Pisces Male will so romanticize the Libran Female’s natural beauty that he may not be capable of fulfilling her intellectual needs. This is a woman with a beautiful mind as well, and he needs to appreciate the charm of her wit as well as her feminine wiles to keep her interested.
Pisces Female and Libra Male
The Pisces Female and the Libra Male make an excellent pair. He is totally open to her fantasies and musings and actually loves her precognitive abilities and finds them quite fascinating. He will turn to her when he needs to weigh out a decision for her psychic abilities rather than for practical advice. The two are capable of building a happy dream world together, even with their own language that is impossible for anyone else to interpret.
Pisces Male and Scorpio Female
This pairing is one that is absolutely metaphysical in chemistry. They frequently can read each other’s thoughts and feelings, even when continents divide them. The sexual energy between these two is very sensual and mystical in nature and forms a deep bond between the two. Lovers for life can occur here. The Scorpio Female will not, however, forgive or forget any transgressions on the Piscean Males’ part.
Pisces Female and Scorpio Male
These two are real fire crackers in the sack. There is no fantasy or wish that one will not fulfill for the other. Experimentation and sensuality in all aspects of their relationship, even in sharing a meal, will keep the fire burning between these two for decades. They can easily read each other’s thoughts and feelings and frequently communicate with no verbalization at all. These two easily can become lovers for life.
Pisces Male and Sagittarius Female
The Sagittarian Female’s blunt honesty hurts the Piscean Male’s feelings on a frequent basis. When she feels that she is just cluing him in, he feels he is being criticized. The Pisces Male will swim quickly away when the female horse stomps through his favorite swimming hole spreading her truth and honesty. Although her fiery nature may appeal to him, his sensitive nature cannot endure it for long.
Pisces Female and Sagittarius Male
The Sagittarian Male’s need for adventure, travel and independence will make the Piscean Female feel a bit abandoned. She won’t want to travel too much on his adventures with him as she would rather spend her days weaving her cloth of dreams and fantasies and possibilities, while he wants to rush straight forward into the next journey. She will find his blunt and honest approach to communication painful and although he doesn’t mean to hurt her feelings, he will. Without more elemental balance in the charts this will be a painful experience for the Pisces Woman.
Pisces Male and Capricorn Female
The Pisces Male and Capricorn Female make a straight forward and openly honest pair. She will be practical and he will be dreamy, but he will work to make those dreams come true for her, led by her example. The Pisces Male may like to socialize a bit more than she, but they will find a balance. She will encourage him to aim his socialization at those who form a network to enhance his chances at success, thus compromising their styles in a positive way.
Piscean Female and Capricorn Male
The Goat Man may very well fall off of his mountain peak here, and fall deeply in love with this Female Fish. She is like a siren calling to him just out of sight of the beach, and he must plunge into the water to answer this call. Her mystical nature fascinates him, although he may choose to not believe that she is psychic, inside, he will know she truly is. She will open up his spiritual and metaphysical side and perhaps even teach him that there is more to life than material gain.
Piscean Male and Aquarius Female
The Pisces Male may think the Aquarian Female is just a little bit “out of this world” with her thoughts and actions and his sensitive nature cannot take the constant onslaught of thoughts and ideas without system overload if other aspects of the chart do not create more balance. The Aquarian Female will try to herd the Piscean Male into the life that she feels is best for him, and he is a slippery fish that is not easily led. Power struggles are common in this pairing, as is passive-aggressive behavior on the part of our friend Mr. Fish.
Piscean Female and Aquarius Male
The Pisces Female is the biggest dreamer in the zodiac and the Aquarian Male absolutely loves her for it! Her imagination combined with his creative abilities make a pair that can create an ideal life together. He doesn't feel the need for independence as strongly with this sign as he does with the others, as she and her dreamy ways bring him a sense of inner peace. Someone has to remember to go to the grocery store here or you two might just dream away!!! Wake up!!!
Pisces Female and Pisces Male
These two can be the best of friends, the most sensual of lovers and the most creative and successful business partners that you have ever met as long as ONE of them has enough fire in their chart to turn their dreams into realities. Psychic connections between these two are almost visible to the naked eye! Herein the problem lies, there is no way to lie to each other. If these two ever part company they will totally go their separate ways, although they can have a great love, the ending of that great love is something the Pisces would rather not be reminded of through friendship with an ex.
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The Pisces Personality Type
by Brigid Bishop
Having a mother and an elder brother belonging to this sun sign has really given me an inside look at what makes both the female and the male Pisces tick. Every Pisces will be just a tad bit different than these generalities based on a full chart comparison, however, wherever you find Pisces in anyone’s chart, these characteristics will be displayed.
by Brigid Bishop
Having a mother and an elder brother belonging to this sun sign has really given me an inside look at what makes both the female and the male Pisces tick. Every Pisces will be just a tad bit different than these generalities based on a full chart comparison, however, wherever you find Pisces in anyone’s chart, these characteristics will be displayed.
Common to both sexes of the sign of The Fish is a need for true love, faith and inner peace. Without these influences in the lives of our friend Pisces, we see a tendency toward escapism and fantasy.
Pisces may well be the kindest sign in the zodiac, and due to this kindness, they are often shocked when others’ behave in ways that are unkind or cruel, hence, the myth that they can be “gullible” arises. Pisces are not gullible, they just expect the best from everyone, and assume that people don’t go around intentionally hurting each other because it is not a thing that they themselves would do.
They can, at times, be subject to depression, because they see life as mystical and magical and take it as karmic law when bad things happen to them or those they love.
Pisces are extremely romantic. Did I say extremely? I mean, mark this EXTREMELY ROMANTIC. Both the male and female of this loving sign believe that love itself is magic, destined, “meant to be”, fated, etc., etc., etc., and they firmly believe in happy endings.
Pisces love to take care of others.
The Pisces Female may so drown you in affection that you need to escape her from time to time, this will hurt her deeply, she just wants to show you how much SHE LOVES YOU! Try to be tolerant of this abundance of love and take your space as needed in positive ways, like joining a gym or club or group and making sure that while she is at work you attend. Pisces females are prone to a sense of abandonment when left alone too long, so always make sure that when you need your space you can give her a good reason for it, like volunteering at a hospital so that she can’t ring your cell phone every hour to check on you.
It’s NOT that she is needy, she wants to make sure that YOU have everything YOU need to be happy. This can be overwhelming to some of us more independent signs.
The Pisces Woman will do everything within her power and her remarkable imagination to fulfill all of your dreams, fantasies and desires. This is certainly not a bad thing!
Famous Pisces Women
Elizabeth Taylor, Drew Barrymore, Queen Latifah, Eva Longoria, Liza Minnelli, Cindy Crawford, Carrie Underwood, Chelsea Clinton, Kristin Davis, Chilli, Sharon Stone, Ali Larter, Dakota Fanning
The Pisces Male is a care giver extraordinaire as well. He will work long and hard to make your dreams come true. He too, will demonstrate the constant checking and rechecking of YOUR needs, but may not be quite as frequent in his assessments.
The Pisces Male can actually be quite shy, and this shyness can be misinterpreted as standoffishness or aloofness, it’s not the case, he just needs to feel his comfort zone before he goes public with his ideas and feelings.
Pisces Men are good at sorting out other people’s troubles and typically find themselves in some type of leadership position whether they want it or not.
Famous Pisces Men
Billy Crystal, Jon Bon Jovi, Albert Einstein, Bruce Willis, Johnny Knoxville, Rob Lowe, Johnny Cash, Freddie Prinze Jr., Benicio del Toro, Kurt Cobain, Billy Corgan, Michael Bolton
Both the Male and Female Fish are the types who may actually lie to spare your feelings. They do not want to be dishonest with you, but they can’t stand to hurt you.
The House where Pisces resides in your chart is where you peacefully get by and tend to have faith.
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