If you're asking this question, you’re probably a Pisces who is insecure. If you don’t feel valued, it’s not because being a Pisces is bad, but because society as a whole generally undervalues soft skills like intuition and sensitivity. Your challenge is to start viewing these things as talents instead of impediments.

Describing a Pisces’ personality can be difficult because Pisces tend to evade distinction. Their behavior changes significantly based on who they’re around. Pisces are just permeable membranes that pensively let things flow through them. They are cerebral sea sponges. They are boundless, diluting themselves with larger personalities to avoid having to form coherent identities.

Most of the qualities usually associated with Pisces (dreaminess, emotionality, imagination) are internal processes that are difficult to observe from the outside. Pisces are primarily inward-facing. They are not self-absorbed, but they are absorbed in themselves.

Ultimately, a Pisces wants to dissolve. To wrest themselves of a physical form and diffuse into everything they touch as love. To exist in the gossamer liminal layer that hangs just barely above the material. To live their life like a romantic poem. To understand that reality and fantasy are neighbors on the same infinite plane.

The true Pisces weakness is that they’re often the cause of their own turmoil. They’re a little bit addicted to melancholy. Pisces want to feel things intensely. Pisces find sorrow's poignance pleasurable. They would rather marinate in a voluptuous pit of despair than have no feelings at all. The search for heart-rending emotional experiences sometimes causes Pisces to seek out situations that are subconsciously self-defeating.

Pisces are generally good at making friends. They find it easy to relate to most people.

Pisces are loyal in their own way. They’ll send a text saying, “I’m here if you need to talk” right as their phone dies. They try to always be there to listen. It may be difficult for them to not internalize other people’s problems and make them worse in the process. Pisces can be gossips, not maliciously, but because they’re genuinely interested in other people’s personal lives. They vacillate between codependent friendships and needing lots of alone time.

It’s difficult for a Pisces to get angry until there has been a gradual slow build up. They are quick to dismiss small feelings of discomfort, blaming themselves and their own sensitivity. When the situation finally erupts, it’s messy and awkward and it’s hard to understand where all this resentment is coming from. They expect others to be emotional mind readers; all of a sudden they decide they actually weren’t ok with things they initially said were fine. And they respond with “But you should’ve known I wasn’t fine!”

Pisces are happiest when submerged in something oceanic. They experience an immeasurable amount of pleasure when they feel like they’re being swallowed up by something larger than themselves. Pisces enjoy the immersion of sensory experience: the feeling of sand beneath their toes, the smell of a lover’s skin, the music of a summer breeze. They like to feel like they’re dissolving.

Many Pisces like to be around other Pisces, or other at least people they have a deep emotional connection with.

It is easy for a Pisces to lose themselves in other people. Creative work grounds them. Pisces must learn that a main contributor for their happiness is finding an outlet for their creative expression. Pisces are always looking to the future. They always have hope. Pisces can acknowledge the past as they put things behind them and move forward.