his romanticism is true tenderness and feeling.  These are pathetic Pisceans and their wives and lovers are frustrated women who have to be men most of the time and chafe violently against it.  Many Piscean men of this type gravitate toward the powerful signs in women:  Leo, Aries, Scorpio, Capricorn.  They have no strength of their own, and seek it in a partnership.

As you might guess, Pisces tends to run to extremes.  It's rare that you get a neutral Pisces.  It's generally one extreme or the other.

The Pisces man generally needs to feel 'understood' more than anything else.  This isn't so much a sign of physical passion as it is a sensuous sign, a sybaritic sign.  Dragging the woman off by the hair to the cave isn't generally Pisces' style.  Allowing himself to strike up a warm, sympathetic conversation and then allowing himself to be seduced by good wine, soft music, satin sheets and erotic underwear is much more his style.  Pisces is as happy being passive as a lover as he is being, literally or figuratively, the one on top.  It's his particular brand of masculinity.  Often he will make himself the buffoon, the clown, the victim, for he works a lot from sympathy and empathy.  Women love to protect him.  He can protect himself perfectly well.  But it isn't always in his interests to let you know that.

Trust him and you'll bring the best out of him.  See only the shadowy side of him and he'll have a devil of a time trusting himself.  He never trusts himself anyway; he's brutally realistic, beneath all those visions.  He needs the trust and loyalty of another person to bring out his own - the realistic trust, that is.  Accuse him of something, and he'll happily go out and do it, just to please.  His way of fighting is not to fight; it's to bend so far backwards that you fall on your face.  Impotence is also his way of fighting.  In this, you'll see the feminine side of the sign in strong colours.  Passive resistance is a technique dear to the Piscean heart.

You might think he can easily be dominated.  Think again.  In fact his world doesn't include dominant or submissive.  He'll play pliant on the surface because it's easier, because it's not that often important enough to draw blood.  Beneath that pliant surface, it isn't that he needs to control; he just wants to be left alone.  Try to dominate, and you'll discover you're empty-handed.  He's simply drifted away, without a fuss.

If you are the type who likes to have all your decisions made for you, don't choose a Pisces.  On the other hand, if you want someone to henpeck, pass on this one too.  Now you see him, now you don't.  No promise or marriage contract means anything to him if the fundamental values of the relationship have been abused.  And he'll see through all the games pretty quickly.  He just won't be there the next morning.  No note, no phone call.  Just gone.  Like the fish.

But if you want a relationship which is more nearly like the ideal vision of what the so-called 'liberated' woman seeks (and these are rare animals as well), you will find that Pisces is not one of your diehard male chauvinists.  Being strongly emotional himself, he usually has immense empathy for women.  He generally gets on with them better than men.  And with his profound understanding of human nature, you're not likely either to be the housekeeper or the sex object.  You get to be a person.  And that's worth quite a lot.

The Pisces Woman

Many paeans have been written to the Pisces woman, for her mystery, her gentleness, her compassion, her elusive charm, her pregnant silences.  And she may be, indeed, the archetypal feminine.  The lovely, gracious princess of the fairy-tale castle, waiting for the suitor to rescue her and cherish and protect her, is modeled on Pisces.  The Pisces woman has a unique ability to make a man feel terribly masculine, because she seems so often to need protecting, cherishing, and tenderness.  Because she has such a changeable range and depth of feeling, she often gives the impression of being slightly unformed.  It brings out the Pygmalion

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