ascendants in the signs
Aries was rising at your birth. This is a cardinal, movable, and fiery sign. This gives much energy and activity both of body and mind, much impulse and enthusiasm, with many changes in the course of life. You are courageous, enterprising, frank and outspoken. You can face difficulties promptly and bravely; you know your own mind, and are seldom at a loss what to do or say when called upon to decide. You are ambitious, self-reliant, and adventurous; and you will win your way in the world largely through these qualities and through your confidence in your own ability to succeed. You are a great lover of freedom and independence, and you get along badly when you are in any way hampered, restricted, or interfered with. You are brave and courageous and do not shrink from controversy or dispute if it is thrust upon you. You are generous and quickly responsive to appeals to the emotions. You are a zealous and energetic supporter of any person or cause that enlists your sympathies. Most of your misfortunes will arise through too much hastiness and impulse, whether in action, in judgment, or in the feelings. You are somewhat lacking in coolness, in calm deliberation, and self-restraint; and you do not find it easy to give way to others even when justice or prudence demands it. Mars is the ruling planet of the sign Aries.
Taurus was rising at your birth; a fixed earthy sign. In disposition you are loving and affectionate, fond of pleasure, and an admirer of beauty in all things. The sign Taurus often gives a love of music or art, with good taste in color, in melody, in dress, in ornaments, and elegance generally. You are cool, self-contained, firm, and strong-willed; a lover of peace, quiet, and harmony. You are also practical and desirous of putting everything to the test of practice and experience, and you value persons, things, and ideas largely for the use to which they can be put. You have much perseverance and quiet firmness, are somewhat reserved and self-centered, and you can show great obstinacy upon occasion. You do not change very easily, and are a little lacking in adaptability. Your course of life tends to move from day to day and even from year to year in its accustomed channels with comparatively little alteration. You are not easily influenced by other people, but are a persistent and patient worker in your own way and according to your own ideas. You are slow to anger but are apt to harbor resentment. You have fixed opinions, keen feelings and desires, and are capable of strong passions; but are also good-natured and fond of comfort and repose. Venus is the ruling planet of the sign Taurus.
Gemini was rising at your birth; a sign belonging to the element air and to the common or mutable quality. You have good mental abilities and an active and flexible mind. This is one of the intellectual signs, and those who are born under it usually have abilities for writing, studying, speaking or thinking. You are fond of books and reading, you can learn easily from books or lectures, you can apply your mind to a variety of subjects and are ingenious and inventive. You are suitable for receiving a good education and are adapted for almost any literary pursuit or clerical work. You have good reasoning powers, a thoughtful mind, and are fluent either of speech or pen. You have ability for languages and science and are also fond of travel. You have comprehensiveness of mind and a quick adaptability to various pursuits and studies, but you are somewhat lacking in concentration and perseverance. You are rather irresolute, uncertain, and changeable at times, do not feel sure of yourself and may even hold or express contradictory opinions. You are liable to worry and irritation and are easily upset by little annoyances. You are kind, humane and sympathetic, but you know what it is to have fits of shyness, nervousness, and reserve, when you withdraw into yourself. Reason and understanding are your strong faculties, but you are liable to lack continuity and strength of will. Mercury is the ruling planet of the sign Gemini.
Cancer was rising at your birth; a sign belonging to the element water and to the cardinal or movable quality. This gives you much sensitiveness and receptivity, active feelings and emotions, and love of sensation and novelty. You have a strong domestic and social nature, warm affections, and are fond of home life. You are easily influenced by those whom you love or admire, but are apt to be cold, reserved, and distrustful to those you do not know well or whom you dislike. You have an active imagination and fancy, and often live the past over again in your mind and anticipate the future. You have much prudence and forethought, are careful and cautious, and have a good deal of tenacity and firmness. You have some natural ability for trade and business management and might gain success in this direction, as you have a sense of value and economy. You have a practical mind and you put everything ultimately to the test of practical use, and with care you may make a reputation as a useful and practical person in your own line of life. You live a good deal in the senses, and at times are changeful and capricious, but you also have patience and perseverance. The Moon is the ruler of the sign Cancer.
Leo was rising at your birth; a sign belonging to the element fire and of the fixed quality. This gives you an open, candid and honorable disposition, magnanimous and generous. You have dignity and self-confidence that will sustain you in trouble and difficulty, and that will bring you to the front in life if you use your opportunities wisely. You do not under-rate your own value, but are ambitious and masterful with large and far-reaching aims and schemes. You have some degree of pride and fondness for display and ostentation at times, and the sense of the dramatic is strong in you. You have a warm heart and ardent affections and make a very faithful friend, one not liable to change or vacillate. You are compassionate, tender and sympathetic, and anxious to give help to those who need it and to protect those who need protection. Your pride is rather easily touched, and anger is sometimes quick to rise, but you are a forgiving enemy and prefer peace to war. You have a firm strong will and do not readily change your course when you have once decided on it, but are capable of persistent effort extended over a long period. You are cheerful, hopeful, sociable and companionable. Your feelings and emotions are quickly roused, you are rather fond of luxury and pleasure, and may need to put some curb upon this side of your nature. The Sun is the ruler of the sign Leo.
Virgo was rising at your birth; a sign belonging to the earthy element and to the common or mutable quality. This gives a disposition quiet, retiring, modest and reserved. You are careful and prudent, and are capable of exercising much forethought before you act. You are sympathetic and kind, but you do not wear your heart on your sleeve; and although you are very adaptable and almost capable of being all things to all men, you seldom show your real nature openly, and are at times difficult to understand. You are self-reliant and do not shirk responsibility. You have good mental abilities, can learn readily and are of a studious nature. You have a logical mind, good reasoning faculties, and have much adaptability for scientific or literary pursuits; but you are able to develop a fair amount of practical ability also, and can attend to small details skillfully and methodically. You are apt at times to worry unnecessarily, and to vacillate and change your mind. You are diffident and lacking in self-confidence and are too ready to give way before difficulties. You are not sufficiently hopeful. You will work best and be most fortunate if you follow a leader and rely upon him. Virgo is the sign of the servant, not the master. Mercury is the ruling planet of the sign Virgo.
Libra was rising at your birth; a sign belonging to the element air and to the cardinal or movable quality. This gives you a courteous, gentle, affable and kind disposition. Your feelings and affections are strongly developed and are likely to play an important part in your life. You are able to make many friends; you associate easily with other people; the social side of your nature is active and your growth will best be served by cultivating it wisely. You will be less fortunate if you live alone or dissociate yourself from others. You have a refined mind, are fond of beauty and orderliness, with a taste for music or painting. Your surroundings influence you very much and you are not happy unless they are neat, elegant and harmonious. Your mind is susceptible of considerable cultivation especially in connection with the more imaginative and idealistic subjects; but you have more intuition than reason, and emotion and affection are more to you than cold intellect. You are rather fickle and changeable, your likes and dislikes vary a good deal, and your ideas change with your moods. You are not quite constant either to persons or to ideas, and you are likely to experience many changes in your life. Companionship, friendship, partnership, association, and marriage are the keynotes of your nature, and you will not attain to your fullest possibilities without them. Venus is the planet ruling the sign Libra.
Scorpio was rising at your birth; a sign belonging to the element water and to the fixed quality. This gives you a strong and forceful character, positive and decided. You generally know your own mind and are clear and emphatic in your ideas and opinions. Irresolution is not usually one of the weaknesses of this sign. You have strong likes and dislikes towards both persons and ideas, and you do not easily change either your opinions or your habits of life. You have much strength of will; and although feelings, emotions, and passions sometimes sway you intensely, you have much endurance and persistence and you can work hard and long to achieve your ends. You have a good deal of pride and dignity, and are capable of much anger if either of these is wounded. You should have considerable executive ability and are capable of becoming a good practical worker if you turn your attention in this direction. You are a good fighter, and the critical, sarcastic, and analytical sides of your nature are active. You are ingenious and resourceful; at times too brusque and emphatic in manner and not sufficiently conciliatory towards those who differ from you; and you are ambitious and masterful. You have some taste for things mystical, occult, curious and secret. Mars and Pluto are the planets that rule the sign Scorpio.
Sagittarius was rising at your birth; a sign belonging to the element fire and to the mutable or common quality. This gives you an honorable and open-minded disposition, frank and candid. You are generous, kind and sympathetic, truthful and just. You have much sense of dignity and like neatness, orderliness, precision and correctness both in person and surroundings. You have also a love of beauty in form and outline and have much taste in clothes, ornaments, and decorations. You are a lover of freedom and independence; are generally active and restless, as well as hopeful and cheery. You are fond of out-door sports and exercises and may gain a good deal of skill in this direction. You are somewhat impulsive and fiery, sometimes a little too brusque and abrupt, but usually only when offended; for as a rule you are very ceremonious in your behavior and dislike anything like a. breach of etiquette. You are generous, humane, and benevolent. You are versatile in mind, and have a natural ability to cultivate the mind in the direction of the higher or more difficult branches of learning, such as philosophy, theology or law. You have the sense of reverence and devotion and have much natural religion whether you cultivate it or not. Jupiter is the planet ruling the sign Sagittarius.
Capricorn was rising at your birth; a sign belonging to the element earth and of the cardinal or movable quality. This gives you a quiet, steady, and persevering disposition, patient, enduring and tactful. You are at times inclined to melancholy and to too serious a frame of mind; are a little lacking in cheerfulness, hopefulness, and buoyancy; and sometimes look too much on the dark side of things. You have much practical executive ability, are a steady useful worker and will carry out faithfully any work you undertake. You have much self-control and strength of will, and can pursue your ends persistently in the face of many obstacles. You believe in justice, economy, caution and prudence, and you usually think before you act. You are ambitious of power and are capable of exercising it; are self-possessed and can order, direct and manage subordinates very efficiently, although you are apt to be more respected than loved by them. You possess reserve and restraint; you do not make friends very easily, but you are very faithful to those you possess and are a stern and rather pitiless enemy. You have a quiet persistence and steadfast determination that will enable you to do almost anything you set your mind on. Saturn is the planet ruling the sign Capricorn.
Aquarius was rising at your birth; a sign belonging to the element air and of the fixed quality. This gives you good mental and intellectual abilities, and you should possess tastes that may be cultivated for either science, literature or art. You have a strong will, strong and decided opinions, and do not change very easily. You are patient and persevering, firm and quietly determined. Your disposition is open, candid, frank and truthful; and if at times you can be very silent and self-contained you are not usually given to melancholy but are genial, cheerful, and ingenuous. You are likely to make many friends and are constant and faithful in your attachments and you will benefit a good deal through friends and acquaintances and take much pleasure in their society and companionship. You have a good memory and are capable of receiving a good education, and you have abilities capable of cultivation in a variety of directions. You have some inclination for the occult and mysterious and might easily make headway in such directions. Saturn and Uranus are the planets ruling the sign Aquarius.
Pisces was rising at your birth; a sign belonging to the element water and to the common or mutable quality. This makes you kind, sympathetic, benevolent and generous. You have a humane and charitable disposition, your feelings are easily roused, and you are disposed to help those who need your help. You are sociable and friendly and are able to make acquaintances easily and to get on with people. You have a strong imagination and a fertile fancy, are impressionable and emotional, and you would be suited for any course in life that would develop this side of your nature - the theater, singing, music, painting or imaginative literature, as you have some taste in these directions. You like to take life easily and enjoy yourself, are good-natured and easy going and like to be well-disposed to all people, and you usually are so. You have some sense of dignity and pride, and are observant of forms, ceremonies and etiquette, and are considerate of the feelings of others. You are a lover of beauty and refinement; you cannot bear ugly or inharmonious surroundings; and you have much artistic taste. You are sensitive, intuitional, and receptive. Jupiter and Neptune are the planets ruling the sign Pisces.
