Pisces (Southern Hemisphere)

In the Southern Hemisphere, Pisces is the twelfth month of Our Zodiacal Hellenistic Mystery Calendar. In ancient Greece, this month was named according to the chart below.

The twelfth and final month of our Zodiacal Mystery Calendar is the last Changing month, representative of Energy in the Divine World under the rule of Demeter. Zeus, before he can grant the Soul, the Universe, and the Year its closure and new life, presents it to Demeter to fill it with Energy in the Divine World.

Herakles' Twelfth and final Labor is to confront, capture, and return with the gatekeeper of Hades, the three-headed guard dog Cerberus. This myth symbolizes one's own inevitable confrontation with death itself: in this myth, Herakles willingly descends into Hades while he is alive to retrieve Cerberus. He does not wait for death to come naturally to embrace that it is inescapable. The threshold between this world and the next seems to us to be as terrifying as a gigantic three-headed hell-hound, and the realm that Cerberus so fervently protects is unknowable beyond him. By marching straight to the gates of Hades to confront and retrieve Cerberus, Herakles demonstrates that one must confront one's fear of the unknown, and especially the ultimate fear of Death, before one's journey is complete.

Festivals in Pisces

References

Paian

Months Across City-States

Kallímakhos

Hellenic Zodiacal Calendar, Natural Laws of the Olympians