The Ascendant
The Ascendant or Rising Sign of the birth chart pertains to the actual moment of birth. The Ascendant reveals where 0 degrees is in you chart. Where your wheel begins and what the stars looked like at the exact moment of your birth.
If your birth certificate does not show a specific time, you can order a full birth certificate from the town where you were born. Without this information you will not know which houses your planets are in and which zodiac sign is your Rising Sign.
Our Rising Sign or Ascendant is an indicator of our physical body and physical persona. How fast do we walk, how loud do we speak, what does our voice sound like when we speak.
Some people describe it as the information a person receives about you the moment you enter a room and they see you for the first time.
Sometimes that energy is very different from your Sun sign. Some people fall into the energy of their Ascendant and fall away from their Sun sign. The Ascendant energy is exclusively how we present ourselves and how we physically move about the world. It is not meant to be our character, our personality. If that happens it can actually exhaust us. Our Sun gives us energy and replenishes us over and over. The Ascendant is a crucial piece of the chart, but should be understood for the very specific role it plays and how to keep it in that role.
The Personality Planets
Why book a reading?
We know ourselves. Even by the time we are 7 years old, we are aware of our personality. By 15, we know our skill sets. By 25, we understand our communication style. But few people have the language to describe how our personality and our communication styles work together or perhaps how they wage a constant war in our life.
Sometimes the way we learn, is at odds with our love language. Sometimes our love language is at war with our rational mind. Astrology acknowledges the many similar or diverse pieces of ourselves and how they work to put together our adult persona.
As a healer, I am most intrigued by how people exhaust themselves by not fully understanding their own internal dynamics. How people fight against their own personal karmic directions to pursue lives that are at odds with their chart.
A reading offers validation about what is intrinsically yours in this life, and what may be a cloak you have chosen from someone else’s life.