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Aquarius rising

A cool, original, principled way of meeting the world: you stand a little apart from the group you belong to, you think for yourself, and you are friendlier than you look.

What Aquarius rising is like

Aquarius rising has a detachment that is easy to misread. The manner is courteous and a little formal, the ideas are unusual, and there is a sense that the person is observing the situation from a slight height. Saturn is the traditional ruler and Uranus the modern one; between them they give a sign that respects structure and wants to rebuild it. An Aquarius Ascendant tends to have opinions on how things should work and the patience to explain them.

The sign is humane rather than intimate: fond of people in general, cautious with people in particular. Friendship comes more easily than romance, and the group — the team, the movement, the network — is where the Aquarius Ascendant feels most at home. The shadow is a stubbornness that calls itself principle, and a coolness that leaves the people closest to it wondering where they stand.

Leo falls on the Descendant, so partners tend to be the warm, expressive, self-assured ones, and the relationship asks the Aquarius Ascendant to be personal, not just principled. The chart matures when the ideals are lived at close range.

The chart ruler: Saturn

Saturn rules Aquarius traditionally and Uranus in the modern scheme; read both. Saturn shows the discipline and the structures the person builds; Uranus shows where they break with expectation. A strong Saturn gives an Aquarius Ascendant its authority; a strong Uranus gives it its originality.

The whole-sign houses for Aquarius rising

With Aquarius on the first house, each following sign takes the next house in turn. In the whole-sign system (the oldest, and the one the traditional techniques use) that gives:

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