Jupiter in Pisces

Ptolemy, in Ashmand's 1822 translation, gives Pisces to Jupiter together with Sagittarius, and the translator's footnote records it as his night house. Lilly 1659 agrees and allots him degrees 9 to 14 as terms and 11 to 20 as face, which meet across degrees 11 to 14. Venus also claims the sign as her exaltation, so two planets the old books list among benefics share it.

Later writers argued about the ownership. Heindel 1919 makes Neptune a co-ruler with Jupiter, Adams 1928 treats Neptune as ruler, and Alan Leo's The Art of Synthesis (before 1917) reports that some believe Neptune the real ruler. Heindel 1918 still says that Jupiter, as ruler, strengthens the morals, a judgment of his own time.

Lilly's table makes the sign cold and moist, so it agrees with Jupiter's moisture alone. Modern popular astrology reads compassion, imagination and a spiritual bent into this placement, and those words are modern. Nothing in the sources connects any of it to a specific person's life.