Mīna, the Fish, spans 330° to 360° of the sidereal zodiac — the final rāśi, the completion of the zodiacal cycle, the place of dissolution before the new beginning of Meṣa. It is depicted as two fish swimming in opposite directions, tethered to one another, a symbol of the dual, mutable water quality that pervades all of Mīna’s expressions: the capacity to flow between worlds, to contain multiple realities simultaneously, to dissolve and be dissolved. Parāśara classifies Mīna as a female (strī) sign of the brāhmaṇa varṇa, rising from both head and back (ubhayodaya), jala (water) tattva, dual (dvisvabhāva) quality — the only sign described as ubhayodaya, capturing its essential quality of in-between-ness.
Guru (Jupiter) rules Mīna and here expresses its most expansive, compassionate, and spiritually oriented qualities. Where Dhanus is Jupiter as the seeker and teacher, Mīna is Jupiter as the ocean itself — the limitless reservoir of wisdom, compassion, and the capacity to receive all streams without losing its essential nature. Śukra reaches its exaltation in Mīna at 27°, pointing to the remarkable compatibility between Venus’s desire for beauty and transcendence and the Mīna field of boundless, unconditional love. The exaltation of Venus here indicates that the highest expression of the Venusian principle is not sensory pleasure but spiritual devotion and selfless offering.
Mercury reaches its debilitation in Mīna at 15°, revealing the essential tension between the discriminating, categorizing, analytical Mercurian mind and the borderless, boundless, intuitive field of Mīna. In this sign, Mercury cannot apply its usual strategies: the boundaries dissolve, categories blur, and the precise verbal formulations on which Mercury depends become inadequate to contain the reality being experienced. This debilitation is not a failure — it is an invitation into a different mode of knowing, beyond language and logical structure.
The nakṣatras of Mīna are the last pāda of Pūrva Bhādrapadā (330°–333°20’), Uttara Bhādrapadā (333°20’–346°40’), and Revatī (346°40’–360°). Uttara Bhādrapadā — governed by Saturn and presided over by Ahirbudhnya (the serpent of the deep) — carries a quality of profound inner depth, the wisdom that comes from long dwelling in the unconscious realms. Revatī — the final nakṣatra, governed by Mercury and presided over by Pūṣan (the god who guides travelers) — closes the zodiac with a quality of safe passage, nourishment, and the gentle release of all that has accumulated.
In Praśna Jyotiṣa, Mīna lagna appears in questions about spiritual matters, foreign settlement, mokṣa, hidden retreats, institutional care, and the resolution of matters through surrender or release rather than through effort. The condition of Guru determines whether the dissolution indicated is liberating or disorienting. Muhūrta elections with Mīna involvement are chosen for spiritual practices, hospital visits, retreats, mokṣa-related ceremonies, and any undertaking where attunement to the invisible dimensions of reality is the primary requirement.