Cast & Chart

Rising sign

Leo rising

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

In an older source

quick in anger, but soon over

Raphael, The Guide to Astrology (1877)

About this entry

Raphael 1828 marks this as a sign of long ascension, so it stays on the horizon for a long stretch of the day. Raphael's Guide 1877 pairs a large, broad-shouldered frame with a bold and generous temper that flares and passes. Adams 1928 adds a square face and a look she calls leonine.

The old descriptions come with a condition. Raphael's Guide says they apply only when no planets are in or near the Ascendant, and finding that out takes a birth time accurate to a few minutes. Modern popular astrology turns this rising into presence, the person a room notices first, and that gloss goes beyond what these writers said.

Where this text comes from

Statements credited to an older writer follow the scanned text named here. The modern readings are labeled as modern and come from none of these works.

Our own plain wording. Quoted lines keep the spelling of the scanned source.