Aries rising

Adams 1928 is making a point of arithmetic. At mid northern latitudes Aries crosses the eastern horizon quickly, often in little more than an hour, so a clock error of a quarter hour can change the rising degree noticeably. A rising sign is only as good as the birth time that produced it, and in the southern hemisphere the fast and slow signs swap places.

Raphael's Guide 1877 gives a person of middle height, long in the face and neck, quick and determined and also quarrelsome. Adams says the pure type is rare, and Sepharial 1920 says planets near the horizon overprint it, which leaves the old descriptions as outlines at best.

Modern popular astrology uses the rising sign for first impressions, and here that means someone who seems to arrive already moving. That habit is recent, and the older books spoke chiefly of the body.