PISCES - Fishes; twelfth sign of the zodiac; of the watery element; ruler Neptune; keywords: sympathy, compassion, gentle energy. (NAD)

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Pancha makara:

the five tantric practices: mansa(meat), madhya(wine), matsya(fish), mudra(grain), and maithuna(sexual intercourse)

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Matsyendra:

Matsyendra ("Lord of Fish"): an early Tantric master who founded the Yogini-Kaula school and is remembered as a teacher of Goraksha

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Mina (Sanskrit) Fish; the twelfth zodiacal sign, Pisces, which corresponds to the number 5, and thus also conveys the idea of the five elements -- the usually accepted four plus the fifth or aether.

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Makaras (Sanskrit) The five words beginning with M that concern the lower tantric practices: madya (wine); mamsa (flesh); matsya (fish); mudra (mystic gesticulations); and maithuna (sexual intercourse).

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Definition and meaning of rotenone:

rotenone - a very potent general use pesticide found in the roots and stems of several tropical plants. Jewel vine (Derris spp.), Lacepod (Lonchocarpus spp.), and hoary pea (Tephrosia spp.) are the more common plants from which rotenone is derived. It used in some countries to kill predatory fishes prior to introducing parent fish for natural spawning or newly hatched fry. As an effective fish biocide, rotenone is also used for collecting fish specimens, and in some areas for fishing, where it is added to the water and the dead and dying fishes are collected as they float to the surface. In fishes, rotenone impedes circulation to the gills, causing asphixiation

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Dream Interpretation Aquarium

Seeing fish in an aquarium indicates small short pleasures you are going to have or having right now in your life. The condition of water (clear/murky) and the size and condition of fish are very important. They depict the quality and amount of pleasure.

Source: Dream-Land, http://www.dream-land.info

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Pisces The fishes; the twelfth sign of the zodiac, a watery, common or mutable sign; one of the houses of Jupiter; corresponding anatomically to the feet. This sign is the last of the circle, and consequently it again ushers in the first sign, Aries.

It is Omega in the saying, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end." It signifies the conditions preceding the beginnings of rebirth, where the close of one cycle heralds the birth of the next. Its emblem is a pair of fishes; and mythology presents us with many stories of jewels or money cast into the sea and found again in the belly of a fish; the story of Jesus has one such; the story of Polycrates another. This sign is associated with deluges, world saviors, the dawn of a new cycle after closing of the old, and fishes and Jonahs, and similar symbols and allegories.

In the Hindu system it is Mina (fish or fishes), equivalent to the number 5, which may be taken to indicate the five exoterically recognized elements (pancha-mahabhutas). This sign also suggests particularly the cosmic element water -- i.e. space. In the Brahmanical zodiac Mina is presided over by Agni, the god of fire (12 SZ).

Some Christians have held that Jesus was born at the moment the sun entered the sign of Pisces, but the real time of his birth is unknown, and both the Hindus and ancient Babylonians also associated their Messiahs with fishes (SD 1:653). It is also associated with the man-fish, Dagon or Oannes; and one is reminded of ancient Christian iconology and teaching that the Savior Jesus was the big fish, and that Christians themselves were the little fishes.

Assigning the twelve sons of Jacob in the Hebrew system to the twelve signs of the zodiac, Zebulon is ascribed to Pisces, he who dwells at the haven of the sea and is a shelter for ships.

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avatara:

avatara - a divine incarnation, e.g. Buddha. The ten avataras of Vishnu are: Matsya(the fish), Kurma(the tortoise), Varaha(the boar), Narasimha(the man- lion), Vamana(the dwarf), Parashurama, Rama, Krishna, Balarama, and Kalki. avidya - metaphysical ignorance

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Vaishnava's:

Vaishnava's: Devotees of Lord Vishnu. Persons who follow the vidhi's: no meat, fish, eggs, intoxication, illigimate sex or gamble with money, and daily chant 16 rounds japa (= mantra-meditation; praying in the Vedic way: mahamantra plus japa-mala: praying beads).

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Hippocentaurs (from Greek hippos horse + kentauros centaur)

Centaurs said to be half man, half horse. The prefix hippo distinguishes them from another kind of monster, the ichthyscentaurus -- half man, half fish. They are among the monsters resulting from nature's unaided attempts to create in the early stages of evolution.

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Hippocentaurs (from Greek hippos horse + kentauros centaur)

Centaurs said to be half man, half horse. The prefix hippo distinguishes them from another kind of monster, the ichthyscentaurus -- half man, half fish. They are among the monsters resulting from nature's unaided attempts to create in the early stages of evolution.

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Daos (Chaldean) Sixth King (Shepherd) of the Babylonian Divine Dynasty who reigned for the 36,000 years. "In his time four Annedoti, or Men-fishes (Dagons) made their appearance" (TG 96).

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Cetus (Latin) (from Greek ketos whale)

An ecliptic constellation adjoining Pisces and Aries. In Hebrew mythology it can be connected with the marine monster that swallowed Jonah, the peregrinating dove; and is also connected with Poseidon, Dagon, and other fish deities.

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Angling

• To dream of catching fish is good. If you fail to catch any, it will be bad for you.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

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Definition and meaning of fishery:

fishery - all the activities involved in catching a species of fish (or other aquatic organisms) or a group of species; the sum of all fishing activities on a given resource, e.g. a shrimp fishery, or activity of catching fish from one or more stocks, e.g. the North Sea cod fishery, or it may also refer to a single type or style of fishing, e.g., trawl fishery

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Ichthus, Ichthys (Greek) Fish; used in a mystic sense of Jesus Christ, given acrostically by the initial Greek letters of the phrase 'Iesous Christos Thiou Yios Soter (Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter) meaning Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.

"The Gnostics had also a nickname for their ideal Jesus -- or the man in the Chrest condition, the Neophyte on trial, and this nickname was Ichthus, the 'fish.'

"With this fish, with the waters in general, and, for the Christians, with the Jordan waters in particular, the whole program of the ancient Mystery-Initiation is connected. The whole of the New Testament is an allegorical representation of the Cycle of Initiation, i.e., the natural birth of man in sin or flesh, and of his second or spiritual birth as an Initiate followed by his resurrection after three days of trance -- a mode of purification -- during which time his human body or Astral was in Hades or Hell, which is the earth, and his divine Ego in Heaven or the realm of truth" (BCW 11:495).

The word was also applied to Bacchus. It is similar to other figures associated with fish symbols, such as Jonas, Oannes, Dagon, Vishnu, etc.

See also FISH; PISCES

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Jonah, Jonas yonah (Hebrew) Dove; a Hebrew prophet, son of Amitai, about whom the Bible story relates that he heard the voice of the Lord commanding him to go to Nineveh and cry out against the city because of its wickedness.

But instead of following the command, Jonah set off upon a vessel bound to Jaffa, was subsequently cast overboard and swallowing by a "big fish," in which he remains three days. This is reminiscent of the three days allotted to the initiation experience, and also of the fact that fish is a mystery-term imbodying the idea of either an advanced adept whose consciousness swims in the ether of space or, as in this place, an emblem of the initiation chamber. Further, primitive Christians often spoke of Jesus as the big fish and of themselves as little fishes (pisciculi).

Mystically, there is likewise another convergence of ancient esoteric symbolic ideas, as Jonah means "dove," which has always been an emblem of the spirit or cosmically of the Second Logos; thus a dove or initiated human being entered for three days into a big fish, and upon the expiration of this term was again cast forth. Like all such mystery-tales, several different deductions may be drawn. Thus W. Q. Judge interprets the story as an astronomical cycle (Ocean 122).

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Odacon. The fifth Annedotus, or Dagon (See "Oannes") who appeared during the reign of Euedoreschus from Pentebiblon, also "from the Erythrean Sea like the former, having the same complicated form between a fish and a man" (Apollodorus, Cory p. 30).

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Svabhavika (Sanskrit). The oldest existing school of Buddhism. They assigned the manifestation of the universe and physical phenomena to Svabhava or respective nature of things. According to Wilson the Svabhavas of things are "the inherent properties of the qualities by which they act, as soothing, terrific or stupefying, and the forms Swarupas are the distinction of biped, quadruped, brute, fish, animal and the like ".

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Daos (Chald.) The seventh King (Shepherd) of the divine Dynasty, who reigned over the Babylonians for the space of ten sari, or 36,000 years, a saros being of 3,600 years’ duration. In his time four Annedoti, or Men-fishes (Dagons) made their appearance.

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Saubhari

A sage who while meditating under the water of the Yamuna saw a pair of fish mating and became sexually aroused. He then approached King Mandhata and begged from him the hand of his fifty daughters. After enjoying family life for some time, he revived his interest in renunciation.

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