Folks, we’re all wrong about the rising sign.

The birth chart is a map of the sky at the moment we emerge from the sweet, salinious swamp of the womb and into the broken, beautiful world of being and breathing. And the rising sign, interchangeably called the Ascendant, is essential in the birth chart because it dictates where the chart begins.

However, according to astrologer-influencer Aliza Kelly , we’ve long mixed meaning and metaphor to effectively muddy what a rising sign is and how it operates in and through us. 3

To suss out the rising sign, you need to know the exact time and place of your birth, as it indicates what zodiac sign was rising up and out of the eastern horizon the moment you took your first breath of air.

Can dig.

To find your birth chart and your rising si

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