My mercury is in pisces too.
I always had the feeling of having a different view of art and literature. When I go to art exhibitions with friends, I drive everyone crazy, because I look at seemingly simple and mundane paintings until everyone is annoyed and wants to move on. Maybe this is were Pisces comes out to play.
I think that Pisces is also connected to the black aspect, at least I always saw it that way. It is a very spiritual zodiac sign but also very isolated and a bit up in space.
Yes, there is no neutral environment, so of course things like that can push a certain planetary power or oppress another. A rough environment wakes up the Aries but in my teenage years I felt naturally drawn to harsh environments, so I guess there is a push and pull effect.obnoxion wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:45 am I also think that environment counts. I remember when I was in my early teens, we had to move to a very difficult neighbourhood. There was much violence, poverty, mental illness and alcoholism. Many of the adults there were mentaly ill, and they often tried to attack us kids, sometimes with knives. Those were very gruesome and desperate surroundings where one always needed to be on guard. If one is inclined to be an Aries, that sort of environment will make it happen.
Meanwhile I enjoy quiet places much more and Pisces as well as Saturn are more present. Aries ist mostly present at my job, sports and if I have the feeling that somebody is treated unfair.
This is a very piscian statement and I feel the same way. I don't think pure mundanity even exists, it might just be a filter set by our concious mind.obnoxion wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:45 am But I also see a deeper sort of influence in environment. I feel there is a sort of poetic geomancy in the physical surroundings - one that is not unlike astrology. It can reveal a cosmic scale of beauty in the most mundane and seemingly disorganized spaces. Even if one doesn't always sense it, when you do, it becomes impossible to think that it doesn't have a subtle effect on any conscious being. I think great architecture and much of modern art is about becoming awake to this kind of spiritual depth of the mundane.