This whole thing started with a bad decision I saw brewing. Honestly, I never cared much about February versus March Pisces before. A sign is a sign, right? Wrong. The more I got into the weeds with my business partner, the more I realized I had to figure out this calendar split, or we were going to lose money, big time.
I needed a simple, practical way to know which kind of Pisces I was dealing with. Forget the fancy decan stuff and the 29-degree mumbo jumbo. I needed real-world evidence. So, I began the dive.
The Practical Tracking Process
My method wasn’t some starry-eyed deep-read. It was just sheer data-tracking, the kind of boring stuff that actually gives you answers. I opened up a huge spreadsheet—the kind I use for inventory control, not for charting stars—and started logging every Pisces I could think of. Friends, family, ex-colleagues, famous figures, characters in TV shows I knew the birthday of. I wasn’t judging their traits yet; I was just cataloging them and the exact calendar day.
I scraped a few movie databases for birth dates, specifically looking for ones known for being super creative or super spacey. I drilled down into the February 20th to March 20th window. What I started noticing right away was that the famous ones—the truly iconic, emotionally deep, often tragic artists—almost always huddled around the February-end to early-March boundary. But the real flaky, always-late, can’t-keep-a-schedule ones? They were pretty evenly spread. The simple date wasn’t enough.
Next, I split the data into two general piles: Pre-March 1st and Post-March 1st. This is where things got interesting. I developed a quick five-point scale for a few key behaviors, things that actually matter when you’re trying to launch a product, like:
- Ability to meet a hard deadline (1=never, 5=always).
- Willingness to stick to an initial concept without floating away (1=floats, 5=anchored).
- Level of grounded, practical pessimism (1=zero, 5=high).
I graded about forty people I actually knew, using that scale. This wasn’t astrology; this was behavioral logging. I had to cross-reference old emails, text message logs, and even calendar invites to prove their deadline reliability.
The Real Reason I Got Obsessed
Why did I care enough to practically stalk my acquaintances’ reliability? Well, it all boiled down to one guy: my friend and business partner, Alex. We were trying to launch this small e-commerce service, a side hustle that needed sharp focus and commitment.
I’m a Taurus, man. We like money, and we like it on time. Alex is a Pisces, born March 15th. He’s the sweetest guy ever, truly visionary. But he was driving me insane. Every time we’d finalize a product design, he’d suddenly send a text at 2 AM with a new “vision”—a complete overhaul that meant another three weeks of work. His motto was always, “It needs to feel right.”
We had an investor meeting scheduled. I had the proposal ready; Alex was supposed to deliver the polished prototype visuals. Three days before the meeting, he called me, completely unbothered, and said he’d ditched the design because the colors “didn’t resonate with the collective unconscious.” He was still building the new one.
I blew up. I realized I couldn’t manage his creativity; I had to predict his creativity. That’s when I decided to prove that March Pisces—the later ones, the fully immersed ones—were the true, untethered dreamers and the core of the sign’s reputation for being lost at sea. I desperately wanted to find some pattern that would let me say, “Hey, March 15th guys are always like this, so I need to step in and save the practical work.”
What I Finally Figured Out
After all that tracking and grading, the simple Feb vs. March split was a bust. I realized that the core intensity of the Pisces traits—the deep sensitivity, the boundless creativity, and the subsequent tendency to get totally lost—it was absolutely tied to the late-March dates, the ones closer to the Aries cusp. Those March folks, especially the mid-March to late-March group, were the ones consistently scoring low on the ‘hard deadline’ and ‘anchored’ scales. They were the unfiltered visionaries, the ones who truly lived in the water.
The February Pisces? They were often still highly sensitive, but they had a solid edge, a bit more backbone, maybe just a slightly stronger link to the preceding sign, Aquarius. They seemed to channel the vision into something achievable. The March folks? They were the vision. Trying to pin them down was like trying to scoop water with a net.
My conclusion? The core, textbook, high-intensity Pisces energy, the one that makes them amazing artists but terrible business partners, definitely clusters in March. That’s the heart of the sign. I learned that if you’re trying to build something concrete, you need a February Pisces. If you’re trying to build a fantasy world, you need a March one. I took that knowledge and simply restructured our entire workflow so Alex only ever handled the “vibe” and I handled the dates. It’s been okay since, but man, I wasted two weeks trying to prove something a calendar could only hint at.
That spreadsheet is still open, by the way. You just never know when you’ll need to anticipate another March 15th vision quest.
