"Life is a journey, not a destination" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Rising Sign is the sign that was on the Eastern Sunrise at the moment of your birth. It is also referred to as the Ascendant, and represents the doorway or filter through which all the other influences of the Natal chart are expressed. This is typically the energy we experience when we meet someone for the first time and how you will be seen by others upon a first meeting.
The Rising Sign can also indicate the Soul's path and the life purpose and direction we are called upon to travel. So understanding our Rising sign can help us express ourselves more authentically and with more confidence as we learn to embrace and pioneer the chosen path we are meant to walk in this life.
Below you can read an introduction to your Rising Sign expression as well as gain additional insight on your Soul's potential path toward wholeness.
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Your Rising Sign
Aries Rising - You express yourself and others may see you as; independent, child-like, pioneering, impulsive, spontaneous, enthusiastic, selfish, active, athletic, adventurous, aggressive, high-spirited, expressive, honest, straightforward, a doer, an initiator, full of energy and headstrong.
Soul's Path: Your Soul's path is to inspire and initiate ideas selflessly and act with self-awareness so you may pioneer your path and empowered others to confidently forge theirs.
Taurus Rising - You express yourself and others may see you as; steadfast, calm, slow moving, stylish, beautiful, elegant, artistic, stubborn, hard working, persistent, strong-willed, dedicated, loyal, jealous, materialistic.
Soul's Path: Your Soul's path is to inspire peace and harmony around you through the development of your senses so you may build the high quality life you desire while working to offer similar beauty and creature comforts to others.
Gemini Rising - You express yourself and others may see you as; curious, chatty, mentally quick, tech savvy, fast talking, restless, scattered, antsy, intense, a powerful communicator, avid reader, writer, witty, social, silly, charming and flirtatious.
Soul's Path: Your Soul's path is to inspire good human relations by integrating heart and mind to teach with balanced focus so you and others can always be learning and growing.
Cancer Rising - You express yourself and others may see you as; sensitive, insightful, warm, loving, giving, adaptable, moody, impatient, possess great awareness, imagination and intuition, can absorb others’ feelings and thinking easily.
Soul's Path: Your Soul's path is to inspire more compassion in the world through your kind nurturing of others so you and the masses can feel a loving sense of belonging.
Leo Rising - You express yourself or others may see you as noble, proud, bighearted, a show-off, extravagant, larger-than-life approach, having great magnetism, confident, fortunate, aspiring to great heights, a leader, good organizer, love of children, creative, snobbish, egotistical.
Soul's Path: Your Soul's path is to inspire greatness through the confident expression of your creative will as an example of heart-centered leadership so everyone can shine as bright as the Sun.
Virgo Rising - You express yourself or others may see you as analytical, love of facts and info, details, strong willed and fixed opinions, shy, aloof, lacking in objectivity, importance of work, not easy to know, disguised well.
Soul's Path: Your Soul's path is to be of service and inspire wholeness through your work by letting go of the illusion of perfection and simply making completion of the steps the only requirement for successful improvement.
Libra Rising - You express yourself or others may see you as having a natural charm, grace, poise, social-minded, hopeful, desire for peace and harmony, fair, relationship importance, easily discouraged, angered by injustice.
Soul's Path: Your Soul's path is to inspire harmony within relationship by uniting and relating with others in a way that fairly creates balance for a mutually beneficial marriage of ideas and love.
Scorpio Rising - You express yourself or others may see you as intense, determined, clever, creative, resourceful, subtle dominance, secretive, sensitive, reserved, sharp-tempered, busy mind behind a cool façade.
Soul's Path: Your Soul's path is to inspire transformation through your personal transforming of darkness into light so all can experience deep heart healing.
Sagittarius Rising - You express yourself or others may see you as independent, freedom granting and seeking, optimistic, idealists, generous, restless spirited, love of challenge, impulsive, flirtatious, and honest.
Soul's Path: Your Soul's path is to inspire and uplift humanity through your personal quest for truth and wisdom that others can feel free to follow if they desire toward discovering their own answers.
Capricorn Rising - You express yourself or others may see you as cautious, quiet, reserved, shy, reliable, dependable, stable, intelligent, worriers, loyal, protective, strong will power and determination.
Soul's Path: Your Soul's path is to inspire work and purpose through a vocational calling that paves a powerful course others can travel as well toward building a greater good for all.
Aquarius Rising - You express yourself or others may see you as quick-witted, lively, friendly, truthful, inventive, humanitarian, an idealists, inflexible, forward-thinking, artistic, progressive, unconventional, sarcastic, funny.
Soul's Path: Your Soul's path is to inspire ideas and innovation that can benefit humanity by sharing your vision so the world can receive and adapt progressive possibilities for creating a better future for all.
Pisces Rising - You express yourself or others may see you as artistic, sensitive, sentimental, a worrier, moody, changeable, compassionate, intuitive, indecisive, love of fine food and wine.
Soul's Path: Your Soul's path is to inspire universal love in the world by being an example of how you can safely escape for connecting with the oneness of all life, while maintaining healthy boundaries for responsible living in reality with others.
Putting it all together
Once you read both your Sun, Moon and Rising signs, sit in quiet contemplation and perhaps with a journal. Ask yourself and take note about what sensitivities resonate and which do not.
When you read your horoscope, always take into account your personal Moon nature, because this can certainly influence how any current energies play out for you specifically.