If you’re a Cancer ascendant, for example, your tender heart and need for a cozy home aesthetic may give you away before anyone even takes a peek at your birth chart.įYI, Cancer risings tend to have heightened emotional responses to situations and have a strong intuitive side, as all water signs do, that helps guide them when making decisions. Some even say that your rising sign is the mask you wear to protect your true self (which would equate to your Sun sign in astrology). The ascendant denotes what others notice about you on a surface level, before getting to know the deeper parts of your personality, a.k.a your Sun and Moon signs as well as other aspects of your birth chart. Think of it as the wrapping paper on a gift-it’s how the world sees you when meeting you for the first time.

Your rising sign represents your outside persona or the first impression people have of you. In astrology, your rising sign, also called your ascendant, is the zodiac sign that is present in the first house, known as the House of Self.

But what about other aspects of your birth chart that also shape your personality, like your Moon sign or rising sign? Whether or not you read your horoscope every day, you’re probably familiar with your Sun sign, a.k.a the zodiac sign you were born under-based on your birth month and day-and which represents your ego.

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