Sagittarius rising
Its own mind
Sagittarius rising gives an energetic, aspiring and benevolent mind, though one rather short on ambition.
Sagittarius
Rising
The Sagittarius ascendant
Sagittarius was coming up over the eastern horizon when you were born. The old books call it the sign of the centaur, half animal and half human, the human half bending its bow at limitless space.
Sagittarius rises today
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Sagittarius rising
at a glance
RulerJupiter
Element and modeFire, mutable
Symbolthe centaur
Opposite, on the seventh houseGemini
Time to rise each day in London
Your rising sign is the sign that was coming up on the eastern horizon at the minute and place you were born. Astrologers read it as the way you meet the world: the first impression, the manner, and in the older books the look of the body too.
With Sagittarius there, the chart starts in a mutable fire sign ruled by Jupiter. Gemini, its opposite, sits on the seventh house, the house of partners.
How Sagittarius
rising looks
After Max and Augusta Foss Heindel, The Message of the Stars, 1918
- The build
- Tall, even taller than Gemini rising, with a large, heavy frame that can bring a stoop in later years.
- The hands
- Large, like the feet, especially in men.
- The face
- Long and well formed, with a well proportioned nose.
- The eyes
- Dark and kindly.
- The hair
- Dark chestnut.
These are types, written a century ago. Planets close to the ascendant, and where Jupiter stands, change the picture, and pure types are rare.
Sagittarius rising
personality
After the Heindels, chapters V and XIX
The symbol shows two very different kinds of people born under this sign. The first, pictured by the animal body of the centaur, is frankly out for a good time: sporty, adventurous and restless, fond of games of chance and ready to stake everything on a card, a horse or a ball game.
There is no cruelty in their sport. The lesson the Heindels give this sign is to find its ideals within, by doing its best where it stands, instead of chasing them from place to place.
The second kind, the human half of the centaur, rises above the animal nature and bends the bow of aspiration at limitless space, toward the highest longing of the soul. These people keep the law and hold high morals; from them come leaders in religious and public life, known for integrity, kindness and justice.
The Sagittarius rising
mind
The Heindels read the rising sign as the shape of the mind, first by the sign itself and then by the group it belongs to.
The common signs
Its group, also called mutable
Like all the common signs on the angles, it is a versatile mind that can waver, move quickly from one thing to the next and stay on the surface.
Questions
It depends on where you were born, because signs take different lengths of time to rise. In London Sagittarius takes about 2 hours 31 minutes of every day to rise, more than the two-hour average, so it is a little more common there. In Sydney it takes about 1 hour 58 minutes, close to the two-hour average.
No. Being a Sagittarius usually means the Sun was in Sagittarius, which happens from late November to late December. Sagittarius rises every day of the year for a few hours, so a person born in any month can have it.
Jupiter. The ruler of the rising sign is called the chart ruler, and where it stands in your chart colours the whole reading.