Vermont is a Pisces
Pisces
March 4, 1791
This date marks the day in 1791 when Vermont, after functioning as an independent republic, was admitted to the Union as the 14th U.S. state, the first after the original thirteen.
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Vermont is an act of sheer, stubborn will. Its character is not coastal and mercantile, but inland, upland, and fiercely contrary. The state is physically defined by the Green Mountains, a granite spine that splits it in two and ensures that its people are, by nature, self-reliant.
It was never a royal colony. It was a 14-year-long argument. Known as the New Hampshire Grants, this land was furiously disputed by New York and New Hampshire, with both colonies selling deeds to the same plots. In response, the settlers formed their own militia, the Green Mountain Boys, led by the bombastic Ethan Allen. They were an insurgency against the other colonies, not just the Crown.
This spirit of defiant self-rule led them to declare the independent Vermont Republic in 1777. This wasn't just a political maneuver; it was a profound moral statement. Its constitution was the first in the New World to abolish slavery and the first to grant universal male suffrage, regardless of property. It was a nation built on an ideal, complete with its own currency, postal service, and flag.
On March 4, 1791, after settling its territorial feuds, it chose to join the Union. It was not one of the original thirteen ratifiers; it was the 14th state, the very first new member of the family. This set its identity forever: the outsider who joined on its own terms, a legacy that lives today in its town-hall politics and its progressive, fiercely local, and deeply independent spirit.
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Archetype: The Granite Mystic. The Stubborn Idealist. The Independent Republic.
Born March 4, Vermont is a Pisces, and this is the most powerful deception in the zodiac. You see the date and think: gentle, dreamy, go-with-the-flow. You are dead wrong.
Pisces is the sign of universal compassion and the dissolution of boundaries. Vermont is the weaponized version of this. It didn't just "dream" of a better world; it was the first to dissolve the boundary of slavery, making it law while more "pragmatic" states were still debating the cost. This is the Pisces that sees the ideal so clearly it will fight you for it.
This is the sign of the two fish swimming in opposite directions. One fish is the pastoral, maple-syrup-tapping, Ben & Jerry's idealist. The other fish is the Green Mountain Boy with a rifle, guarding his land from New York. This state holds both: a deep, almost spiritual connection to its land and an absolutely immovable, flinty stubbornness.
If Vermont were a person, he’s the quiet guy in the flannel shirt sitting in the back of the town hall meeting. You think he’s a pushover, maybe a little spacey. Then he stands up, quotes the state constitution from memory, and single-handedly kills your entire corporate proposal with three perfectly calm, devastating sentences. He’s the most empathetic person you'll ever meet, but his personal boundaries are made of 400-million-year-old stone. He feels your pain, but he will not let you build that condo.