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    Calculate Your Rising Sign
    Click to calculate your Rising Sign, with our new, free instant wizard!


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    The Sign rising over the horizon at the time of your birth is the Ascendant, or Rising Sign. This changes every two hours, approximately (see note below table). Even twins born as little as five minutes apart could have different ascendants, which would make a real difference in their horoscopes and so in their personalities. The formula for calculating your rising sign by hand is complex and needs several sets of tables, so we have installed a wizard that will accurately calculate it if you know your birth time, so giving you your correct ascendant (rising sign)—as well as a rule of thumb estimator (for the technologically challenged!) at the bottom of this page.

    Hey, it's an instant Rising Sign Wizard! Excellent. It's an astrologer in a box, and is pretty accurate, though it does use the Swiss Ephemeris, so sometimes you might get a discrepancy of a few minutes in arc from our consultation charts (where we use the American Ephemeris, based on US Naval Observatory data). Now you can calculate your true rising sign on this page, with our handy new Rising Sign Wizard. To find your ascendant, or rising sign, just enter your birth date and time in the wizard, select your place of birth and click "Next". Then you will find out—with a brief rundown of what it means. Or, of course, you can still use our venerable rule of thumb estimator.

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    Free Instant Rising Sign Wizard!


    NOTE: the wizard uses a 24 hour clock. For example, 2.30 PM = 14.30. Also several towns may have the same name (some in other countries). Selecting the wrong one may alter the rising sign.

    Go ForwardClick here to visit our free on-line Birth Chart Wizard, for your full horoscope birth chart!

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    Or Estimate Your Rising Sign in the Table:
    Remember, this is a rough estimation by rule of thumb, not a sophisticated calculator!

    Can't figure out the free Rising Sign Wizard? To use this simple manual estimator, look along the row that matches your birth time until you come to the column matching your Sun Sign. The sign shown there is your Rising Sign, unless you were born in a very high latitude, or on a cusp, or at a time (say 2pm) when signs are changing. (Remember to check and allow for daylight saving, war time, or summer time when you were born).

    Click here to order your chart from this website. Don't know your Sun Sign? Click here to find out.

    Sun Sign >>> Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces
    4am-6am Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces
    2am-4am Pisces Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius
    midnight-2am Aquarius Pisces Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn
    10pm-midnight Capricorn Aquarius Pisces Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius
    8pm-10pm Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio
    6pm-8pm Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra
    4pm-6pm Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo
    2pm-4pm Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo
    noon-2pm Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer
    10am-noon Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces Aries Taurus Gemini
    8am-10am Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces Aries Taurus
    6am-8am Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces Aries

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