A Rising Sign Is the Sign That Was Rising from the Horizon
A rising sign is also called the ascendant in astrology, and is the sign that was rising from the eastern horizon when you were born. Whereas a sun sign is determined by the Sun's position on the day you were born and a moon sign is determined by the Moon's position, a rising sign is determined by its relationship to the horizon.
The horizon differs for each place of observation. For that reason, to determine a rising sign, you need not only the day you were born, but both the time and the place you were born. Even if you were born on the same day, in the same hospital, if the time differs, the rising sign changes. Conversely, if you were born in a different place, it can change even at the same time.
In About 2 Hours, One Sign Changes
A rising sign is sensitive to time because of the Earth's rotation. The Earth rotates once in 24 hours, and in line with that movement, the sign rising from the horizon also moves. As a guide, it changes by one sign in about 2 hours.
Because of this speed, if the birth time is off by just a few hours, the rising sign can move to the neighboring sign. The more accurate the time recorded in documents such as a maternal and child health handbook, the more accurately the rising sign can be determined. If the time record is rough, the rising sign may not be fixed. In that case, without deciding by guesswork, a form centered on the sun sign is accurate. In a fortune-telling reading, handling known information and unknown information separately is the foundation of trust.
Sun, Moon, Rising — The Differences Between the Three Roles
The sun sign, moon sign, and rising sign each have a different object to read. The sun sign is the direction aimed for and the way of proceeding on the surface. The moon sign is how things are received inside and how you switch over. And the rising sign is read in connection with the impression that appears first and how you enter into things.
A rising sign is often likened to an entrance. It is a part that tends to appear in the impression you give to a person you meet for the first time, and in the first way of proceeding when you enter new work. If you read it not as the content itself, but as a habit of how you enter, it becomes easier to understand. For example, there are ways of entering where you enter carefully at first and raise speed afterwards, and ways of entering where you show the overall picture first and then enter the details. It is not a matter of which is better; if you know your own way of entering, you can adjust the order in which things are conveyed to the other person.
Why Habits of Entering Are Questioned in Your Forties and Fifties
As you gain experience, there are more scenes where evaluation divides not by the content of work itself, but by how you enter. In a new department, with a new business partner, and in a relationship with a subordinate for the first time, the way of proceeding in the first few times becomes the foundation of trust afterwards.
A rising sign reading becomes material for thinking about the habits of that first way of proceeding. Are you a way of entering where you check conditions first, a way of entering where you first listen to the other person, or a way of entering where you show the overall policy? If you know your habit, room arises to change how you enter to match the scene. In particular, in situations where you hand things over, matching how you enter to the other person reduces misunderstandings after handing over. This is because the other person's way of moving changes between a way of entering where you give instructions down to the details at first, and a way of entering where you show only the purpose and hand it over.
As a concrete work example, if you consider the first time handing over to a new person in charge, the order of understanding on the receiving side changes between a way of entering where you hand over all the materials and then explain, and a way of entering where you talk about the purpose first and then hand over the materials. Even if the content is the same, how it is conveyed differs by the order at the entrance. A rising sign reading is for being conscious of that order.
How to Read When You Do Not Know Your Rising Sign
There are not a few people who do not know their birth time. In that case, a rising sign cannot be used, but the reading as a whole does not cease to hold.
This site's monthly horoscope is written with the sun sign as an entrance, in a form that can be read without a birth time. A rising sign is additional material for a person whose time is known accurately, to read the habits of how they enter more deeply. If the time is not known, on that premise, reading by the sun sign and the cycles of the stars is a way of using it without strain. Leaving an unknown part as unknown is also an important line to draw for keeping a reading accurate.
Even if the birth time is known, we do not decide a reading by the rising sign alone. If you take an order of checking the direction with the sun sign, layering how things are received with the moon sign, and looking at how you enter with the rising sign, the three kinds of material do not mix, and each can be used in its own role. The more material there is, the more important it becomes to read it with roles divided.
Rising Sign and Sun Sign, Which to Look at First
When both a rising sign and a sun sign are known, you can be lost over which to look at first. In order, a form where you place the sun sign first as the foundation, and layer the rising sign as how you enter on that foundation, is easy to understand. It is a division where the direction aimed for and the center of how work proceeds are read by the sun sign, and how you appear in a first-time scene and how the first step is placed are read by the rising sign.
This division can also be used in relationships with people. How a sun sign proceeds is conveyed to a person you associate with for a long time, and how a rising sign enters is conveyed first to a person you meet for the first time. For that reason, when it is said that the first impression and the impression after association has become long differ, it can be explained as being because the two signs have different roles. It is not a matter of which is real; the order in which things are conveyed differs.
The same applies in your own case: when you feel that a first-meeting scene is not going well, there are times when it is not a problem of content, but a problem of the order of how you enter. If you know your rising sign tendency, room arises to rearrange the order of what to show first and what to place afterwards to match the scene. The more your position is one where first-meeting scenes increase as you age, the more this adjustment of order works.
Another use of a rising sign is preparation for a period of entering a new environment. In a period when first-meeting scenes continue, such as a transfer, a new business partner, or a first role, preparation of how you enter determines the result as much as preparation of content. If you know the habits of how you enter, you can decide in advance what to show first in the first place. Depending on whether or not that preparation exists, even with the same content, how the other person receives it changes.