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The chart ruler

The planet that rules your rising sign — classically: Mars for Aries or Scorpio rising, Venus for Taurus or Libra… Its position in the chart says HOW you drive the front the rising sign describes. Often the first thing an astrologer looks at.

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♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ASC ☉︎☽︎☿︎♀︎♂︎♃︎♄︎☉︎Sun☽︎Moon☿︎Mercury♀︎Venus♂︎Mars♃︎Jupiter♄︎Saturn
Paris time:
Diagram calculated for Paris, over today: the rising sign goes round the zodiac, and the chart ruler changes with it. The ruler is the planet that rules the rising sign, by the classical rulerships: it lights up in the centre and at its place in the sky. The planets are at their noon positions.

See also

The rising signThe dignities

Your Sun sign is only the start.

Your Moon, your rising sign, your planets: AstroXP calculates your full chart to the minute of your birth, and every morning the real sky on that chart.

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