Pisces

Standing last in the sequence, this sign carries the second disputed crown. Ptolemy, in Ashmand's 1822 translation, gives it to Jupiter, and Lilly 1659 agrees. Alan Leo 1899 only says Neptune is supposed to govern it to a considerable extent, Heindel 1919 makes Neptune and Jupiter co-rulers, and Adams 1928 names Neptune alone. No book before Neptune's finding in 1846 could have said so.

Venus is exalted here by Ptolemy's account, because the planet's moisture matches the damp of the season, while Mercury has his fall. Lilly gives Mercury his detriment here as well, so one planet holds both weak seats in this single sign. Those terms describe the placement in the system and imply nothing for a person.

Alan Leo admits that this sign is hard to write about and claims that few born under it will own up to their character. The 1697 English Manilius lists mariners, pilots, shipwrights and fishers, sailors of the kind the Fishes might suggest. Dreamy and empathic are the favorite words of modern popular astrology, and they are closer to Adams than to Lilly.