Aquarius rising
Aquarius rising meets the world friendly and hard to place. Original, open and a little detached, you talk to everyone and take your time belonging to anyone.
After one evening with you, three people describe you three different ways, and all three are right.
Aquarius rose in the east at the minute of your birth, so it is the face your chart shows the world: your rising sign. Aquarius is the water bearer, pouring something out for everyone, and its season is the end of the northern winter, when the days are lengthening and nothing has bloomed yet.
Open, and a little apart
You are easy to talk to and hard to know. Strangers find you friendly, curious and refreshingly free of judgement; friends find that one part of you stays at a distance, watching how people work. You dress for yourself, notice what everyone else is copying, and do the opposite without making a point of it.
You are kind to everyone in general, and sometimes you have to be reminded to be kind to someone in particular.
Saturn and Uranus
Two planets rule your rising sign, and so your chart: Saturn by old rule and Uranus in modern astrology. Saturn makes you principled, and stubborn about what you believe. Uranus makes you inventive, and quick to break a rule that has stopped making sense. Where those two stand in your chart is where you go your own way.
The heart across from you
Leo was setting opposite your rising sign, and it begins your seventh house, the house of partnership. You choose people who are warm, expressive and unashamed of wanting attention: the ones who make you show up for your own feelings. They pull you in from the edge of the group. You remind them the group exists.
When someone you love wants your attention, give it before you give your opinion.
Ahead of time
People still repeat something you said years ago about where the world was going, and most of them think it was their own idea.
Were you born with Aquarius rising?
The eastern horizon turns through all twelve signs every day, some quickly and some slowly, so your rising sign depends on the minute and the place you were born. Aquarius takes 1 hour 9 minutes to rise in London, 1 hour 26 minutes in New York and 2 hours 25 minutes in Sydney.
Two people born on the same day a few hours apart have different rising signs. Your chart, below, finds yours to the degree.
Find your own rising sign
Your chart is free and takes a moment: the wheel, your Sun, Moon and rising sign, and every planet in its sign and house.