Of the 3 water signs, I think that Pisceans feel emotions the strongest. Sure Scorp and Cancer have strong feelings, but Pisceans can sense others feelings as well as their own. It's easy to be overwhelmed by the sensory overload of strong emotions when you are a fish.

I'm very careful here in my old age to be cautious of who's feelings I connect with because certain people are painful to connect with on that level. I have an aversion to what I like to call "ouch cube" people who wallow in their own self pity or are purposefully depressive. Those are feelings within myself that I seek to let go of, and don't need to suck them in from the outside.

Scorps and Cancers have good empathic abilities as well, but the Ego is so strong in both those signs they can often ignore the importance of others feelings. I have a tendency to stare at others feelings like they are an 800 pound gorilla sitting in the middle of the room with us. Especially if there is drama involved.

To me, I make a distinction between "feelings" and "emotions." "Feelings" are like weather....they flow through my soul. I believe that Pisces people have feelings like the Ocean.....sometimes light and breezy, a million kinds of weather, sometimes unfathomable. I believe that no feelings are wrong. They are just feelings. You can DO something with 'em (let them inspire you to art, music, love, dancing, singing, etc.) or you can let them go; but FEELING them is essential.

Words from Astrologer David Pond:
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The Sun in Pisces, the spiritual, the deep, the profound, the compassionate, the feeling and sensitive and definitely artistic. Pisces has this gift of imagination and imagery. The two fishes: one swimming on the surface, interacting with the outer world, just as everybody else does. And the other fish, swimming in the deeper, inner private waters. How you relate to those 2 fishes is gonna tell a lot about your well-being. When people fight that and try not to have an inner world, as the world they grew up in, most guys, I guess, and many women, believe that moods and emotions and inward turning introspective energy, well, that’s not popular, that’s not the way. We celebrate the extroverts in our culture: “Ya gotta be up and sunny and bright and happy-go-lucky all the time, otherwise, we’ll fix you, we got programs that try to help water-sign people not be watery.” ;-)

But water is meant to be watery. If we look at the chart as a blueprint to what the soul intended. To be Pisces is to know these currents of your inner emotional world, the two fishes, and to move with them. When the spirit moves, the high tide pulls you into the outer world and it will, and you’re flirtatious and playful and interactive and communicative--Great! And when you feel this tug to the inner world, hopefully you surrender to that current and creatively engage the inner world. Spiritual rituals, meditations, prayers and practices of all sort, artistic expression, quality alone time.

So this, I suspect that you have done pretty good. Sometimes we have a split identity with Pisces, the two fishes, don’t we? It’s like you have this one world, and then a secret world. Well, it seems that your part of your job is to integrate the two more and more throughout this life.
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Emotions, to me, are more a case of "reacting" to the feelings, to be “MOVED” by the feelings.. One "emotes." I can cry at the drop of a hat....but I tend to do this at strange and inappropriate times. When I hear a song, read a story, watch a movie, I totally get absorbed into it (if it is good!). I remember when I was little, my Mom would have to come shake me and say, "It's just a MOVIE....!" I'd be so wrought up with all the emotions of the story, I'd forget who I was! (I still do!)

At other times, I can be totally calm when everyone around is losing their head. I'm good in emergencies. This COULD be from my Moon in Aquarius or Virgo Rising or Venus in Aquarius....but I give my Pisces Sun credit, too.

Pisces is a watery sign and (at least in my life) NEEDS to cry, and NEEDS to laugh, and NEEDS to FEEL all the different feelings that flow through. It's an OCEANIC FLOW...............................

Of course, at work, at my job, I must repress this tendency. I have to be "business-like." It's kinda like being an Actor. In fact, I have learned a LOT from a book called: ___Acting Techniques for Everyday Life: Look and Feel Self-Confident in Difficult, Real-Life Situations___by Jane Marla Robbins. Another book that has helped me is Harriet Lerner's ___The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate__.

Also, taking Assertiveness classes and Communications workshops helps me get past my emotionality enough to be able to speak to people in a calm, easy way, as well as to do some public speaking. But I still have a long way to go.....................;-)

Right now, I’m reading __The Astonishing Power of Emotions: Let Your Feelings Be Your Guide__ by Esther and Jerry Hicks, which is giving me yet another way to work with my feelings and emotions. It has to do with the “energy” potential of feelings. Here’s a quote from “Abraham,” the source for the book’s message:

“You are creators, and you are vibrational beings. You are more about electronics; you are more about electricity; you are more about vibration than you are about the physical stuff that you think you are about. This physical stuff that you think you are about is all vibrational.”

Abraham

I think scorps very much "show" or "wear" their emotions on their sleeves. The men seem extremely moody and brooding, while the women are lively and outgoing. Cancers? Totally bottle it all up inside.

I prefer being a Pisces :)