Signs (rashis)

Pisces (Meena) in Vedic astrology

The 12th rashi is Pisces (Meena). Measured in the sidereal zodiac, it spans 330° to 360°. Jupiter rules this dual water sign. Venus is exalted here. Mercury is debilitated here. Parts of the nakshatras Purva Bhadrapada, Uttara Bhadrapada and Revati lie in this sign.

Updated Nov 3, 2026

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Pisces: what it means and how the API computes it

Pisces is pictured as two fish swimming in opposite directions, and tradition links it to the feet. It is the last sign, and it stands for endings, dreams and letting go. People here are said to be kind, imaginative and tuned in to the feelings of others. They are often drawn to art, music and faith.

The risk is escape, from hard facts into daydreams or worse. A Moon in Pisces is read as soft and sensitive, with deep sympathy for people who are suffering. Measured against the stars, the Sun is in Pisces from about March 14 to April 13. So most people with a Western Pisces Sun have it in Aquarius here.

A Pisces ascendant (rising sign) makes Virgo the 7th house of marriage and Sagittarius the 10th house of career. That is because every house is one whole sign (CH-06). Any planet in Pisces comes back from POST /v1/planets with sign_number 12 and its degree within the sign.

For a Moon sign reading of Pisces, call GET /v1/rashi/{sign}/today.

Get it from the API

The birth chart or any divisional chart as an SVG or PNG image. Here is the call to API for Astrology (apiforastrology.com) for our sample, John Doe, born Aug 15, 1990, 10:30 AM, New York.

POST /v1/chart/svg

# John Doe, born Aug 15, 1990, 10:30 AM, New York
curl -X POST "https://apiforastrology.com/api/astrology/v1/chart/svg" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ASTROLOGY_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"year":1990,"month":8,"day":15,"hour":10,"minute":30,"second":0,"latitude":40.7128,"longitude":-74.006,"timezone":"America/New_York"}'

Answer (long lists shortened)200 OK

{
  "meta": {
    "ayanamsa": "lahiri",
    "ayanamsa_value": 23.7260727,
    "julian_day": 2448119.10483,
    "ephemeris": "JPL DE440s",
    "node": "true",
    "timezone": {
      "source": "zone",
      "offset_hours": -4,
      "zone": "America/New_York",
      "abbreviation": "EDT",
      "dst": true,
      "dst_hours": 1,
      "ambiguous_resolved_by_fold": null,
      "note": "read from the IANA tz database at this instant, so daylight saving and historical offset changes are included"
    }
  },
  "style": "north",
  "chart": "D1",
  "divisions": 1,
  "title": "Rasi chart",
  "size": null,
  "ascendant": {
    "name": "Ascendant",
    "sign": "Virgo",
    "sign_number": 6,
    "house": 1
  },
  "positions": [
    {
      "name": "Sun",
      "sign": "Cancer",
      "sign_number": 4,
      "house": 11,
      "degree_in_sign": 28.7753409,
      "retrograde": false
    },
    {
      "name": "Moon",
      "sign": "Taurus",
      "sign_number": 2,
      "house": 9,
      "degree_in_sign": 24.5750352,
      "retrograde": false
    },
    {
      "name": "Mars",
      "sign": "Aries",
      "sign_number": 1,
      "house": 8,
      "degree_in_sign": 27.7149328,
      "retrograde": false
    }
  ],
  "svg": "<svg class=\"chart\" viewBox=\"-6 -6 412 412\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Rasi chart\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><polygon points=\"100,100 200,0 300,100 200,200\" class=\"cell first\" fill=\"#f4f4f2\" stroke=\"#0a0a0a\"…"
}

Where the API returns it

POST	/v1/chart/svg	The birth chart or any divisional chart as an SVG or PNG image
GET	/v1/rashi/{sign}/today	Daily reading for a Moon sign, no chart
POST	/v1/planets	Planet positions and the ascendant
POST	/v1/varshaphal	The Tajik annual chart (varshaphal) for one year
POST	/v1/varshaphal/dina	Tajik daily return (dina pravesh) for a day or a short window
POST	/v1/ascendant	The ascendant only

What the API reference says

Each line is quoted from the reference page of the endpoint named above it.

POST /v1/chart/svg · The birth chart or any divisional chart as an SVG or PNG imageThe top diamond is house 1, and each house prints its sign number, 1 for Aries to 12 for Pisces.
GET /v1/panchang/dailyThe last is panchaka (when the Moon is in Kumbha or Meena, the signs Aquarius and Pisces).
POST /v1/chart/svg · The birth chart or any divisional chart as an SVG or PNG imageThe signs never move: Pisces is top-left, then they run clockwise.

Feature page: Kundli and birth charts. Who uses it: Astrology apps. The classical rules the API follows are in the rulebook.

How we check the numbers

Every value here starts from planet positions worked out from NASA JPL planet data (DE440). We test them against NASA JPL Horizons, NASA's planet position service. On 25,571 positions from 1850 to 2149, the Sun and planets agree within 0.001 arc seconds. The Moon agrees within 0.011. On 2,000 random birth charts, the rising sign agrees with Swiss Ephemeris within 0.004 arc seconds. An arc second is 1/3,600 of a degree. A practicing astrologer reviews the rules behind these answers. See how we test.

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POST /v1/planets200 OK

RisingVirgoHast
SunCancerAshlesha
MoonTaurusMrigashira
MarsAriesKrittika

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