Sagittarius rising
Sagittarius rising meets the world openly and in good humour. Frank, restless and easy to like, you greet people as if a good story were about to start.
You have made friends on a train platform, in a line for tickets, and once in an elevator that stopped between floors.
That is Sagittarius rising, the sign coming up over the eastern horizon as you were born and the first thing the world sees of you. Sagittarius is the archer, half horse and half human, aiming at a target nobody else can see, and its season brings the longest nights of the northern year. You come across as someone already halfway to somewhere better.
Frank and friendly
You laugh easily and loudly, talk with your hands, and say exactly what you think, sometimes a little too soon. People find you refreshing: no games, no small talk that goes nowhere, a real opinion on everything from philosophy to the fastest way out of town.
Tact is your weak spot. You tell a friend the haircut is too short with such goodwill that nobody could stay cross.
Jupiter in charge
Sagittarius belongs to Jupiter, the planet of growth and generosity, so Jupiter rules your chart, and its house in your chart is where your luck runs and where you think biggest. Travel, study, a new language, a teacher who changes your mind: you grow by going further than you planned.
The details across from you
Gemini, going down in the west as you were born, opens your seventh house, the house of the people you choose to share a life with. The partners who hold you are quick, curious and fond of details you would skip. You bring the big picture; they ask what it means on a Tuesday. You need that more than you admit.
Count your yeses for a week before you add another.
The storyteller
Wherever you go, you come home with a story, and people pull up a chair to hear it. Half the fun, for them, is watching you tell it.
Were you born with Sagittarius 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. Sagittarius takes 2 hours 31 minutes to rise in London, 2 hours 22 minutes in New York and 1 hour 58 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.
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