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Rising sign calculator
Your Rising sign, or Ascendant, is the sign that was coming up over the eastern horizon at the minute and place you were born. Fill in the sentence and Nadir works it out: free, with no account, and without storing your details.
What it is
The door of the chart
The Rising sign changes about every two hours, which is why two people born on the same day can have different ones. In a chart it is the door: how you arrive, and what others meet first. It also sets the houses, the twelve areas of life a chart is divided into.
Small print
Questions
- Can I find my Rising sign without my birth time?
- No. The Rising sign changes about every two hours, and the birth time is what fixes it. If you cannot find the time on a birth certificate or from your family, Nadir shows the rest of your chart and leaves the Rising sign out rather than guess.
- How exact does the time need to be?
- The Ascendant moves about one degree every four minutes. A time that is right to within a quarter of an hour usually gives the right sign. If the result falls in the first or last degrees of a sign, a small error could change it, and Nadir shows the degree so you can tell.
- Is the Rising sign the same as the Ascendant?
- Yes. They are two names for the same point.