Libra rising
Libra rising meets the world graciously. Easy to talk to and hard to dislike, you put people at ease on sight, and you weigh every choice for longer than anyone guesses.
You can disagree with someone so pleasantly that they thank you for it.
Libra was rising at the minute you were born, so it is the face your chart shows strangers and the start of your first house. Libra begins at the northern autumn equinox, when day and night are the same length, and it gives you an instinct for balance you use on everything: a conversation, an outfit, an argument between two friends.
There are a lot of you in the north, where Libra is among the slowest of the twelve to rise, and fewer in the south, where it is one of the quickest.
Pleasant on purpose
You look good without seeming to try, choose the kind word over the true one when the difference is small, and remember how each person likes to be greeted. People call you easy company. What they do not see is the work: you read every face as you talk, and you smooth the way before anyone feels a bump.
The cost is decisions. Asked where to eat, you list three places and the case for each.
Venus for harmony
Venus rules Libra, which makes it the ruler of your chart. Where Taurus rising wants comfort from Venus, you want harmony: things in proportion, a picture hung straight, people getting along. Where Venus stands in your chart is where you put your sense of beauty to work.
The fighter across from you
Opposite your rising sign, Aries was setting in the west, and it opens your seventh house, the house the old astrologers gave to marriage and to open rivals. You fall for people who say what they want without checking first: bold, quick and occasionally rude. They teach you to take your own side. You teach them that winning an argument is not the same as being right.
Say the first answer that comes to you before you weigh it; you can change it afterwards.
The second word
Ask anyone who knows you and the first word is easy. The second, from the ones who know you well, is fair.
From a real analysis
In her chart: Libra rising · 14°39′ Libra
“Talking to you is like being let off the hook.” Someone in your life has said a version of this, and it fits: within a few minutes of meeting you, people stop performing and start sounding like themselves. Your rising sign, the sign coming up over the horizon as you were born, is how people first read you, and yours is Libra, the sign of balance, fairness and partnership. It is the only sign drawn as an object, a pair of scales, and you carry those scales into every first meeting: you notice who has not spoken yet and turn to them, you soften a blunt remark before it stings anyone.
Were you born with Libra 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. Libra takes 2 hours 50 minutes to rise in London, 2 hours 31 minutes in New York and 1 hour 20 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.