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Rising Sign Calculator
Your rising sign is the sign on the eastern horizon when you were born. It needs your birth date, time and place.
Calculate it exactly
The free birth chart calculator finds your town among 60,000 places, applies its historical time zone and summer time, and gives your rising sign to the degree, with the Midheaven, the houses in seven systems and every planet.
A quick estimate
At sunrise your own Sun sign is rising, and a new sign follows about every two hours. Read your Sun sign's row at your birth hour (local sun time). Signs rise faster or slower with latitude, so near the edges use the calculator.
Every rising sign
- Aries risingYou meet the world head-on: quick, direct, energetic and sometimes impatient.…
- Taurus risingYou come across calm, steady and pleasant, with a strong physical presence.…
- Gemini risingYou seem young, curious and talkative, always moving and asking questions.…
- Cancer risingYou come across gentle, protective and sensitive, behind a careful shell.…
- Leo risingYou enter a room like the sun: warm, proud and noticed. People see confidence…
- Virgo risingYou come across modest, neat and observant. People see someone capable and…
- Libra risingYou come across charming, polite and attractive, a natural diplomat. People…
- Scorpio risingYou come across magnetic, private and intense, with a gaze that sees through…
- Sagittarius risingYou come across open, friendly, adventurous and frank. People see optimism and…
- Capricorn risingYou come across serious, reserved and capable, older than your years when…
- Aquarius risingYou come across friendly but different, independent and a little detached.…
- Pisces risingYou come across soft, dreamy and kind, with the air of an artist or a mystic.…
Questions and answers
What is my rising sign?
The zodiac sign that was rising on the eastern horizon at the moment you were born. It changes about every two hours, so it needs your exact birth time and place.
Can I find my rising sign without a birth time?
Not reliably. Without a time the Ascendant can be any of the twelve signs. A rough time (morning, evening) narrows it to two or three signs.
Is the rising sign more important than the Sun sign?
They do different jobs. The Sun is who you are; the rising sign is how you come across and how you begin things. Many astrologers read the rising sign first.