Question: I have found two styles of presentation most common with Gemini rising people. One style is bubbly, changeable, talkative, and a little quirky. These natives are interesting and fun. They constantly explain things, whether it’s their own behavior and opinion or those of the world around them. Another distinct “style” is a rather cool and…...
In the case of many planets in this part of the chart, your view of life is colored and very varied. With a greater variety of faces to wear, sometimes it might seem as if you’re wearing them all at once, but at other times you may choose to put only your best face forward, so…...
The Ascendant, ruled by the element of FIRE, is naturally the first energy we project outward into the world. It’s where we first entered into life, and it’s symbolic of our first breath. Everyone born in the world on our date has generally the same set-up of planets – everyone born close to us in time will…...
With Pluto square the Ascendant it can give overpowering conflicts and a constant war with your identity, which is profoundly touched by the Plutonian aspects of life. Such an aspect also invariably brings in Pluto’s natal house themes, and it works at cross purposes in your life. While it gives a tremendous amount of power, the…...
The degree of the zodiac which was on the eastern horizon at the moment you drew your first breath is called your Ascendant. It is the ‘dawn point’ of your human experience and expression, and it is the beginning point of the first house of identity. When I think about the Ascendant, I can’t help but…...
You have a “public you” and a “private you.” Close friends may know you for what you are; the rest of the world knows only what is shown by the Ascendant. The Ascendant in the chart represents how others see, view, and perceive you in outer life. Most people have an awareness of how they appear in…...
The Sun, Moon and Ascendant blending show the body as garment (Asc), Soul as memory (Moon), and Spirit as God (Sun). The triad of the threefold nature of body, soul, and spirit. We possess a body with which to explore on this plane of mass and matter. By analogy, spirit and soul are related to each…...
The Sun One is what one is. The Sun in the chart reflects a fundamental creative urge to be yourself. But what does that mean? When astrologers use words like ‘individuate’ and ‘purpose,’ mostly we mean to do something significant that fills the life with meaning and that you feel it right in the center of…...
Howard Sasportas relates our birth Asc to the hatching of the egg and once had a funny rundown in an astrological seminar showing the style of pecking our way out of the egg. For example, if we have Gemini rising, we’ll come out cheeping and be looking around curiously. If we have Leo rising, then we…...
Whatever your relationships in social situations might be, you have to admit you behave differently when nobody’s looking. Also, you’ll also act differently in different situations. Take, for example, how someone could be very shy and subdued in the company of strangers, but when in the company of family and friends is extroverted. It is the ascendant which reveals…...