Find Your Rising Sign
The rising sign is the sign climbing over the eastern horizon at the moment you were born. Unlike the sun sign it cannot be worked out from the date alone: it depends on the time and the place.
What is a rising sign?
Earth turns on its axis about once every 24 hours. Because of that turn, the sign appearing over the eastern horizon keeps changing: a new one begins to rise roughly every two hours, and all twelve pass in the course of a day. Whichever was rising at the moment of your birth is your rising sign. Your sun sign says which day of the year you were born; the rising sign says at which hour, and where on Earth.
What does it mean in astrology?
Astrological tradition reads the ascendant as the face turned outward: first impression, bearing, the way one meets the world. It is also where the house system starts in a birth chart, so it decides which area of life each planet falls into. Those are interpretations, not measurements — the degree on this page is the measurement.
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The ascendant is only one point of a birth chart. Cast yours for every planet, the houses and the aspects between them.
The ascendant is computed by spherical trigonometry from the local sidereal time of the moment, the latitude of the place and the obliquity of the ecliptic. It is not an estimate or a lookup table. Time zone and daylight saving are applied from the historical records for the city you pick.
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