Pisces horoscope

From the Moon. This is the single biggest difference between a Vedic reading and the Western one most people have seen: Jyotish treats the Chandra rashi — the sign the Moon occupied at birth — as primary, and reads the Sun sign as a secondary indicator of vitality and standing. So a daily Pisces rashifal is written for people whose Moon is in Meena, not for people born between Feb 19 – Mar 20. If you know your Moon sign, read that one. If you do not, cast a free Kundli and it will tell you, along with your nakshatra.

Because there are two zodiacs and they no longer line up. Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, which pins 0° Aries to the spring equinox; Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, which is fixed to the actual stars. The equinox drifts against the stars by about one degree every 72 years, and the gap has now opened to roughly 24 degrees — that offset is the ayanamsa. So tropical Pisces runs Feb 19 – Mar 20 while sidereal Pisces runs Mar 15 – Apr 13, and the Sun's actual entry into Meena is Meena Sankranti. Both sets are given on this page: the tropical dates because they are what you recognise, the sidereal ones because they are what the reading is computed from.

Jupiter — and only Jupiter. You will often see Pisces given as ruled by Jupiter and Neptune, which is a modern Western attribution: Neptune was not discovered until long after the classical texts were written, and Jyotish works with nine grahas — the seven visible bodies plus Rahu and Ketu, the Moon's two nodes. Neptune is not among them, so nothing on this site computes anything from it. Jupiter owns Meena, and it is Jupiter's condition in your chart that a Pisces reading actually turns on.

Three, always. Purva Bhadrapada (pada 4, ruled by Jupiter); Uttara Bhadrapada (all four padas, ruled by Saturn); Revati (all four padas, ruled by Mercury). The arithmetic is exact rather than approximate: 27 nakshatras of four padas each is 108 padas, and 108 divided among 12 rashis is nine padas per rashi with nothing left over. Purva Bhadrapada is split across the boundary here, so two people can share it and sit in different rashis. Your nakshatra decides your Vimshottari dasha sequence, so it matters more for timing than the rashi does.

Dual signs close each quarter and correspond to the cadent houses. They carry both qualities and are read as transitional — matters begun here tend to happen twice, or in two phases, and the classics treat them as the natural signs for teaching, trade and negotiation. Meena is one of the four dvisvabhava rashis, along with the three at 90, 180 and 270 degrees from it. In practice this is what an astrologer reads before anything else when choosing a muhurta, because it decides whether a thing started under that sign is likely to move, hold or repeat.