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The Ascendant
The twelve rising signs
Your rising sign (the Ascendant) is the sign coming up over the eastern horizon at the minute you were born. It changes about every two hours, which is why the birth time matters: it sets the first house, so the whole wheel of houses turns with it, and its ruling planet becomes the chart ruler — the planet that speaks for the chart as a whole.
In plain words
Your rising sign is the sign that was coming up on the horizon when you were born. It is how you come across before people know you. Pick yours below to read what it is like.
- Aries risingruled by Mars · initiative, courage, a quick start
- Taurus risingruled by Venus · steadiness, pleasure, what lasts
- Gemini risingruled by Mercury · curiosity, words, connection
- Cancer risingruled by Moon · belonging, care, memory
- Leo risingruled by Sun · warmth, expression, being seen
- Virgo risingruled by Mercury · craft, discernment, service
- Libra risingruled by Venus · balance, relating, taste
- Scorpio risingruled by Mars and Pluto · depth, intensity, transformation
- Sagittarius risingruled by Jupiter · meaning, range, the long view
- Capricorn risingruled by Saturn · structure, ambition, endurance
- Aquarius risingruled by Saturn and Uranus · ideas, independence, the group
- Pisces risingruled by Jupiter and Neptune · empathy, imagination, dissolving edges
Every page here is computed from the same Swiss Ephemeris that powers the Natal Wheel app — a precise tropical natal chart with transits, progressions, returns, synastry and the traditional techniques, free.