Oh yes, I do feel a latent quality about pisces.

Very interesting.

I HAVE been trying to come to terms with the rather confusing empathic part of myself (which is huge, I think). I'm a Pisces moon and mars and south node plus neptune conjunct ascendant. It's a huge part of my character. I think for years I denied that this was so, but the problem is that at times it's just too hard to separate my emotions from other's. It's especially hard for me to acknowledge because admittedly I am a huge skeptic. I grew up among atheists and even though they themselves have used intuition and the like, they would never admit to it on a spiritual or total level, the way that I think I identify with it.

The delayed reaction thing is also very interesting. I think this can be explained easily by the 'emotional overload' that happens when there are not healthy ways to purge the pent-up, absorbed dirty-dish-cloth emotional mind of the piscean person. When I get to this stressed, overloaded state, I almost always am so saturated and stressed--bombarded by the world that I just lose it. It takes a lot to bring me down from that level. Many times, I will either get physically ill or I will have an anxiety attack. I've struggled with anxiety, phobias, night terrors and all manner of things since I was little. I now believe that, in large part, this is due to my extreme emotional sensitivity to people and situations in my immediate environment.

I'm sure you all can relate! Half the battle is recognizing the sensitivity and doing your best to mitigate it, cleanse yourself of it, or otherwise let it flow through you. That's what an astrologer of many years told me. He said that because of the amount of water in my chart, I had to 'let emotions flow through me' because otherwise I'll get all this crap stuck 'in my guts'. Negative emotions are especially damaging, of course. I try to remind myself of this, but it's hard when you just go through life, or should I say 'feel your way' through life and before you know it, you're overwhelmed and don't know how you got there. That's why it's nice to come to forums like this or to simply talk to someone so that you can gain some perspective on it all.


Whew!

Your Uncle,

Hannah

WOW... I had to make a list when I was reading all of this.. COOL. It amazes me just how much of who I am is wrapped up here.
I am the youngest in my family of six. We are all fire sun signs. I call it growing up in the house of fire. My dad is one of the most disfunctional aries imaginable. I'm an aries too. He was very violent, but in a disciplinary way. My earliest role in my family was to defuse the old man. I could do or say something to shift his radical mood swings thus thwarting someones ass beating.
For me this moon signs manifests in a few ways. My first pinpointing of ability came one day at a dairy queen, they had a scratch off tic tac toe game where every card was a winner. I was sitting there and I just got this idea to put my finger over the gray spots. I went from one to the other and found that on some I felt heat. I could pinpoint the winning row before I started scratching. I won so many times that my friends would give me theirs to do. I grew up in Alaska and I am a fisherman, with a scorpio rising I have neptune in the first house. I am at home on the water. I can feel where the fish are. In the woods I put my arms out and my palms out and I can pick up and follow energy trails. At the end of the trail I find a bone or a feather ect.. I have this huge collection of things that I've found in this way. I feel animals alot also, In Alaska the nature vibe is so strong, its way fun to play in the woods.
I tell people that I am habitually single. It is easier this way in that I have to have time to stay in touch with my own vibe. I feel everything. By the way thanks for the post and the tribe Mary. I think that many of us are very old souls an/or not from here. the pisces moon is an avenue to use what we maybe have developed before.
Hannahs right on with the emotional over load concept, I can relate. Sometimes I feel things and don't know how to respond so I do nothing. I think I freak people out alot of times by the look on my face when I am reading them. Amanda said some cool stuff too. I can usually feel when I am going to meet a future girl friend. I start shaking uncontrollably and I know that they are going to show up in a couple of minutes.
Tia is right about the substance abuse. For me I "blame" it on neptune in the first house. I just love altered states. Alcohol I find that I just can't do. Its like I like the break from feeling too much and take it too far, then I get bit in the ass by not feeling trouble coming. More so when I was younger, I am starting to get this all down. I have been a pot head at times in my life also but don't like how it effects the memory of my dreams and also even though I can get way out there with it, its like I am looking at the spirit world through glass. It is way better straight.
How about directing energy? you guys play with that at all. It is a pretty promenent part of what I can do. I got into crystals way back when and feeling their vibrations has always been easy for me, but also sending energy through them, through my palm chakras.
I have to admit the down sides of this though. When I get hurt emotionally, it hurts way bad. My first broken heart messed me up for about 8 months. I don't ussually admit that but I am in good company here. I don't get hurt so bad anymore, I just won't hold it in. cry baby cry
I am glad to talk to you all about these things. I don't get to do this very often. best and highest to all