More Than Just First Impressions: The Ascendant's Power

Your Rising Sign, or Ascendant (ASC), is the zodiac sign that was rising on the eastern horizon at your exact moment and location of birth. It's arguably as important as your Sun and Moon!

Why? It represents your social personality, the 'mask' you wear when meeting the world, your initial reactions, and even sometimes influences your physical appearance. It's the filter through which people first perceive you, and through which you perceive the world starting out.

It also sets up the entire house system of your birth chart, determining which sign rules which area of your life (e.g., if you have Leo Rising, your 10th house of career will start in Aries). Understanding your Ascendant helps make sense of why people might perceive you differently than your Sun sign suggests, and how you instinctively navigate new beginnings.

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