Q 01/05

What does the Latin name Pisces mean?

A) Sailors

B) Fishes

C) Waves

D) Nets

Answer · why

B) Fishes

The Greeks called it Ikhthyes, and both names are plural: there are two fish.

Q 02/05

Pisces is which sign in the order of the zodiac?

A) First

B) Tenth

C) Twelfth

D) Eleventh

Answer · why

C) Twelfth

It spans 330 to 360 degrees, ending at the spring equinox point where Aries begins.

Q 03/05

What was the classical ruling planet of Pisces?

A) Venus

B) Saturn

C) Mars

D) Jupiter

Answer · why

D) Jupiter

Modern astrologers hand the job to Neptune, discovered in 1846.

Q 04/05

Which planet rules Pisces in modern astrology?

A) Pluto

B) Neptune

C) Jupiter

D) Uranus

Answer · why

B) Neptune

The sea god's planet was an obvious fit for the sign of the fishes once it was discovered.

Q 05/05

Pisces belongs to which element and modality?

A) Mutable water

B) Fixed water

C) Cardinal water

D) Mutable air

Answer · why

A) Mutable water

Cancer is the cardinal water sign and Scorpio the fixed one.