Your rising sign, or ascendant, is the sign rising on the eastern horizon at your birth, and it shapes how you meet the world and how others first see you.
Why It Matters
It acts as the doorway to your chart, the mask and the style of your first steps into any room. It needs an exact birth time to calculate.
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