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Sagittarius rising

An open, candid, wide-ranging way of meeting the world: you say what you think, you need a horizon, and you would rather be wrong out loud than right in silence.

What Sagittarius rising is like

Sagittarius rising is generous with itself. The manner is big — the laugh, the gestures, the opinions — and there is a restlessness that shows up as travel, study, sport or simply an inability to stay in one conversation for long. Jupiter rules the sign, and a Sagittarius Ascendant tends to expect the best and is often, though not always, proved right. Optimism is a practice for this sign, not a mood.

The shadow is tactlessness and overreach. The truth, told bluntly, is the Sagittarius Ascendant's gift and its liability; so is the promise made in enthusiasm and forgotten in the next enthusiasm. The sign needs meaning the way Gemini needs information: a philosophy, a faith, a cause or a long journey with a point. Without one it grows cynical, which sits badly on it.

Gemini falls on the Descendant, so partners tend to be the quick, curious, detail-minded ones, and the relationship is a running argument between the map and the territory. The chart matures when the big picture makes room for the small print.

The chart ruler: Jupiter

Jupiter rules Sagittarius, so its condition shows whether the expansiveness has a direction. Jupiter in Sagittarius, Pisces or Cancer gives faith and luck that tends to arrive; Jupiter in Gemini or Virgo, or squared by Saturn, gives the same appetite with more doubt and better judgement. Jupiter's house is where the person reaches for more.

The whole-sign houses for Sagittarius rising

With Sagittarius 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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