Zero degrees of Pisces, and the old word for the crossing itself.
The record for 21 October 2026
0° Pisces
Waxing gibbous, about three quarters lit.
0h · 6h · 12h · 18h
Sign
Pisces, zero degrees
Phase
Waxing gibbous
Condition
Peregrine
The word to know today
Ingress
The moment a planet crosses from one sign into the next. The Moon makes one roughly every two and a half days, the quickest pace of the seven bodies the old astrologers counted as planets.
Pisces took her at 12:35 UTC, twenty-five minutes before this goes out, and she stands at the very start of the sign, zero degrees, a waxing gibbous about three quarters lit.
Ingress is the word for the crossing itself, the moment a planet passes from one sign into the next. The Moon makes one about every two and a half days, more often than any other body the tradition counted. The Arabic writers, Abu Ma’shar of ninth century Baghdad among them, cast charts for the Sun’s ingress into Aries to judge the year ahead.
Her last hours in Aquarius were void of course, the stretch after a Moon completes her final aspect in a sign and before she enters the next. It ran from 08:42 UTC until the crossing, three hours and fifty-three minutes, and it ended the instant she entered Pisces.
Pisces belongs to Jupiter in the traditional scheme, and it is the sign where Venus is exalted, raised to her highest dignity. The Moon holds neither office here. She is peregrine, a traveler without a home in the sign. At 16:52 UTC she makes a trine to Venus, the aspect of one-third of the circle that the tradition counted as harmonious.
She stays in Pisces until Friday evening, when she crosses into Aries at 19:53 UTC.
From the shelf
Abu Ma’shar
Ninth century Baghdad, among the Arabic writers who cast charts for the Sun’s ingress into Aries to judge the year.
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