Cast & Chart

Rising sign

Gemini rising

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

In an older source

This is the alertness and the activity pronounced both in the eyes and in the movements of the whole body.

Evangeline Adams, Astrology: Your Place in the Sun (1928)

About this entry

Length is the recurring detail: Lilly 1659 notes long arms, Raphael's Guide 1877 a tall straight body with long arms and hands, and Adams 1928 long arms and fingers. Adams adds that a very slight planetary influence can change almost everything else she says about the type. Without a reliable clock time from the birth record, nobody can say whether this sign was on the horizon at all.

On temperament the older sources are generous for once, and Raphael's Guide speaks of reading and sound judgment. Alan Leo, writing before 1917, groups mutable signs rising with versatility and restlessness, and he says the rising sign has more to do with surroundings than inner character. Modern popular astrology casts this rising as quick talk and a curious face.

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