Dagim (דָּגִים) is the Hebrew name for the constellation Pisces, the Fishes. The word is the plural of dag (fish), and its astrological glyph (♓) depicts two fish bound by a cord, swimming in opposite directions yet tied together.

Position on the Tree of Life

Dagim corresponds to Path 29 (Qoph), the twenty-ninth path of the Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom. This path links Malkuth (Kingdom) to Netzach (Victory), crossing the astral abyss of the unconscious. It is the final bridging path before the return to the material world, carrying the residue of all higher spheres into manifestation.

Astrological and Planetary Correspondence

Pisces is the mutable water sign, ruled by Jupiter (traditional) and Neptune (modern). In the Hermetic Qabalah, Dagim receives the planetary influence of Neptune—the sphere of illusion, dissolution, and oceanic mystery. The fish symbolism evokes the collective unconscious, the amniotic depths, and the dream-state where boundaries between self and other dissolve.

Historical Context

Dagim appears in the Hebrew Bible indirectly through the prohibition of fish without fins or scales (Leviticus 11:9–12), and the great fish (dag gadol) that swallows Jonah. The Talmud (Berakhot 59b) states that the constellation Dagim governs the month of Adar, the month of Purim, when the hidden hand of divine providence works through seeming coincidence. In the Sefer Yetzirah, Pisces is one of the twelve simple-letter constellations, associated with the sense of laughter (or the faculty of dissolution). Medieval Jewish astrologers like Abraham ibn Ezra (12th c.) integrated classical Greco-Roman astrological fish lore into commentary on the zodiac, noting that Dagim’s two fish represent the tribes of Joseph and Benjamin (or Israel and Judah). In Christian Kabbalistic works such as Knorr von Rosenroth’s Kabbala Denudata, Dagim is linked to the concept of the Messiah—the fish that comes from the depths—and to the Hebrew letter Qoph, which pictures the back of the head or the eye of a needle, symbolizing the entry into a hidden world. Crowley in 777 lists Dagim as the Heaven of Assiah for Path 29, connecting it to the Tarot card The Moon (Atu XVIII), the 29th path formula of Yesod-Malkuth interaction, and the image of the scorpion (Qoph = Qoph = 100 = scorpion venom). This creates a triple tie: Dagim (fishes), Qoph (eye/back of head), and The Moon (reflected light, terror of the threshold).

In the table of Liber 777, Dagim appears at Path 29 under the column "The Heavens of Assiah," representing the astrological heaven of the material world, a key that unlocks the hidden geometry of the zodiac as a potent symbol of the final stage of descent into matter.