Meena

Meena, the fish, is the twelfth and last sign. Iyer's translation of the Brihat Jataka draws two fish lying side by side, the head of one near the tail of the other. The book assigns it the feet of the Kalapurusha, the last limb of the zodiac-body. The book's list of alternate names ends with Antyabha, and Iyer excepts that one, along with Kulira, from his comment that the others are Greek.

Jupiter rules the sign and Venus is exalted here at the twenty-seventh degree, with Mercury in its fall at the fifteenth. Meena is a day sign that rises by head and foot together. Iyer's notes call it dual, female and northern, the color of a fish, and an aquatic sign. The first navamsa, one of nine equal parts of the sign, is Cancer, and the last navamsa counts as a Riksha sandhi, a junction between signs.

Meena holds the last quarter of Purva Bhadrapada, all of Uttara Bhadrapada and all of Revati. The star at the end of Revati, zeta Piscium, stands where the old texts put the start of the count, so this sign closes where Mesha opens. For a Moon in Pisces, the Brihat Jataka chapter lists perfect limbs, a bright body, a long nose, a large head and learning. The calculator reads Meena as sidereal longitude 330 to 360 degrees.