Sun in Pisces
Sun in Pisces means you take in the mood around you before you've worked out what you feel yourself. That openness is what makes you kind, and it's also why you sometimes go home from a party carrying someone else's bad day.
The Sun is in Pisces from about February 19 to March 20, so leap-day birthdays on February 29 are always Pisces. The start and end dates move by a day with the year, so if you were born on an edge, check your year with the sun sign calculator.
Picking up the room
Pisces is mutable water, the last sign of the zodiac. Its traditional ruler is Jupiter and its modern one is Neptune. Day to day, that adds up to unusually fine reception. You know a friend is upset before they've said hello. You can tell a meeting has gone wrong from the way people are holding their coffee. Music, films and other people's stories hit you physically, and you're the one quietly crying at a commercial.
There's a side to this that gets less credit. In a real crisis Pisces suns are surprisingly steady. While everyone else is panicking, you've already felt the worst of it, and you're calm enough to sit with the person who needs it.
Where you stop and they start
The honest tension is about edges. Because you feel what others feel, saying no feels like causing pain, so you say yes, and then you need to disappear for a day to recover. Friends experience this as warmth followed by a vanishing act, with no warning in between.
The other cost is that it's hard to tell which feelings are yours. After a long day around people, you need time alone just to sort your own mood from everyone else's. The Pisces suns who look after themselves treat that time as necessary, not as a luxury they have to justify.
How your Moon and rising give it edges
The Sun is your steady center; the Moon and rising sign decide how porous you seem. A Pisces sun with a Virgo Moon, the opposite sign, has a practical streak that surprises people, and the compassion comes with a to-do list. With an Aries or Capricorn Moon, you're tougher and more decisive than your Sun suggests, and you take on far less of other people's weather.
If your Moon is in Pisces too, the openness goes all the way through, and alone time stops being optional: see Moon in Pisces. Pisces rising gives a soft, dreamy first impression. In the Northern Hemisphere Pisces rises quickly, so it's one of the rarer rising signs there.
Questions
Is a February 29 birthday a Pisces?
Yes. February 29 always falls inside Pisces season, so every leap-day baby has the Sun in Pisces.
Are Pisces suns too sensitive?
They're sensitive in the literal sense: they pick up more than most people. That's a strength once they get regular time alone to sort out what they've taken on.
Is Pisces compatible with Virgo?
They're opposite signs, both mutable. Pisces brings feeling and Virgo brings method, and it works when each values the other's way of caring instead of correcting it.