Ascendant Chart
Your rising sign comes from the exact minute and place you were born, so there is no way to look it up. Cast it here, see what the ascendant changes about the rest of the chart, then keep it.
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Enter the exact minute and place you were born. The ascendant moves about one degree every four minutes, so an estimated time can land it in the wrong sign.
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The Ascendant Sets the Whole Chart
“The sign rising on the eastern horizon at your birth decides which house every planet falls into, and which planet rules the chart. Move the birth time by four minutes and the degree moves with it. Move it by two hours and the entire house structure changes.”
What the ascendant is →Charts With an Attested Rising Sign
Every sign, counted across the corpus
Each tile is a published birth chart with a rising sign we can stand behind, filed by the sign itself.
115 of 251 charts have an attested rising sign
Charts Cast From Published Records
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Sun, moon and rising for one person, cast from a published birth record with the source named.
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