Cast & Chart

Rising sign

Capricorn rising

A chart describes tendencies in a symbolic tradition. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

In an older source

I have found many times Capricorn ascending, the party to have white hair, but in the seventh ever Black, I conceive the whitenesse proceeded from the nature of the Family rather then of the Sign.

William Lilly, Christian Astrology, Book I (second edition) (1659)

About this entry

Lilly 1659 had often seen white hair with this sign rising, and his note above shows him deciding that the family was the likelier cause. That is a rare moment of an astrologer ruling against his own sign. Otherwise he gives a lean, slender build with a long face and neck, and Sepharial 1920 stresses a wiry frame with some staying power.

This sign takes a little under two hours to rise near 40 degrees north, close to the average, and in Ptolemy, in Ashmand's 1822 translation, the ascending degree is already a problem of accurate timing, since he thought water clocks and sundials unreliable. Any modern birth certificate does better, though a rounded time remains a risk. Modern popular astrology gives this rising a composed and serious first impression, older than its years.

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