Rise and Shine: An Astrological Guide to How You Show Up in the World - Softcover

Renstrom, Christopher

 
9780525541103: Rise and Shine: An Astrological Guide to How You Show Up in the World
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0525541101 ISBN 13: 9780525541103
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Unlock the secrets of who you are–as written in the stars.

Astrology offers us a blueprint of our true selves, captured in the sky at the time we were born. Your rising sign is the face you show to others—not a mask, a persona, or a role that you play. Understanding your rising sign will help explain why you are sometimes misunderstood, and will help you direct the first impression you make on others in order to convey the real you.

In Rise and Shine, veteran astrologer and columnist Christopher Renstrom unpacks all 144 Rising Sign/Sun sign combinations. This illuminating and engaging guide will help you navigate every relationship in your life—with a little help from the stars.
 

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Christopher Renstrom is the author of The Cosmic Calendar and Ruling Planets, and the creator of Rulingplanets.com. He currently writes the daily horoscopes for the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate.com, along with the weekly horoscope for Astrology Hub. Renstrom also lectures on the history of astrology in America from pre-Revolution to modern times, and runs Ruling Planet workshops around the country.

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Part 1

First Impressions: Your Rising Sign

The Rising Sign is one of the most important features of your astrological chart. It ranks right up there with the Sun and the Moon. But unlike the Sun and the Moon, the Rising Sign is not a planet. It's a demarcation line. It marks the fixed point on the eastern horizon where night becomes day so that whatever zodiac sign was "rising" here at the time of your birth becomes your Rising Sign.

Your Sun Sign describes who you are. It's everything that you know about yourself to be true. Some of these characteristics you're proud of. And others? Maybe not so much. Nevertheless they're the personality traits that you identify with the most.

Your Moon Sign describes your emotional life. It's how you really feel about things deep down inside. The planet of habits, memories, and dreams, the Moon remembers you even when you've forgotten yourself. The Moon is also where you turn to when you feel unsafe.

Your Rising Sign is the face of your astrological chart. It's not a mask, a persona, or a role that you play. It's your face-and it's every bit as spontaneous, expressive, and reactive as your physical face is.

Think about your face for a moment. Your face makes you recognizable as you. No two faces are exactly alike-even with identical twins. Each person's face is so individual and distinct that facial recognition is now the standard for unlocking your smartphone and authenticating payments. But who sees your face more during the course of a day-you or other people? It's other people. Now that might be hard to believe in an era of selfies and Zoom calls, but it's still other people who meet your gaze, sheepishly avoid eye contact, or don't even look up as you walk past because they don't know you from Adam. Like your face, your Rising Sign is continually registering the faces of others and responds accordingly. It decides what to reveal and what to conceal, independently of the rest of your horoscope.

We all have a pretty good idea of what our face looks like and what we hope to convey by it, but it's others' reactions to our expressions that influence our interactions. How many times has your thoughtful frown been misinterpreted as sullen and off-putting or your smile regarded as inviting when you're actually just being polite? Your Rising Sign is on show for everyone to see and it knows it. It's the first glimpse others get of you, and that includes your voice and demeanor. Everyone wants to make a good impression but oftentimes we can be in the dark about the signals we send or the vibes we put across. All of this is bound up in the zodiac sign people meet first, and not the one you truly are.

Astrology Is a Calendar

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There are two ways of telling time-a calendar and a clock. The calendar tells you what day it is while the clock tells you the hour, and that's precisely what the Sun Sign and the Rising Sign do. The Sun Sign will always tell you the time of year that someone was born while the Rising Sign will tell you the time of day. Here's how it works.

In Astrology we work with a 360-degree circle that is divided into twelve signs just like our calendar is divided into twelve months. This circle is called a horoscope.

The Earth orbits the Sun in a counterclockwise direction. The Earth's orbit around the Sun gives us the seasons. Now in Astrology, everything is seen from the Earth's point of view so it's not the earth that orbits the Sun, but rather the Sun that orbits us. As the Sun moves through the signs in a year-the Sun is in Aries in April, Taurus in May, Gemini in June, and so on-you will see it move in the direction mapped out on the figure below. The Sun in a zodiac sign will always tell you what time of year it is.

Astrology Is Also a Clock

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As the Earth orbits the Sun, it also rotates on its axis. The Earth's rotation on its axis gives us day and night. The side that faces the Sun is day, and the side that faces away is night. The Earth rotates on its axis in the same counterclockwise direction, from west to east, yet the Earth's rotation is also what creates the illusion of the Sun moving in a clockwise direction. This is why the Sun rises in the morning on the left, moves across the sky, and then sets on the right at night. Remember that everything in Astrology is seen from the Earth's point of view and that's how the Sun looks to us in the sky during the day.

Let's say that you were born on March 23. An Astrologer would immediately know that you are an Aries because the Sun is in the astrological sign of Aries from March 20 to April 18. But let's say that you were born at seven thirty in the morning. Then the Astrologer would hazard a guess that you're probably an Aries Rising because you were born around Sunrise. That would make you an Aries/Aries Rising because the Sun in Aries is rising over the horizon line on the left. Anyone born at Sunrise has their own zodiac sign rising.

Now let's say that your birthday is March 23, but you were born at noon. You're still an Aries because it's still the same day, but the time has changed. You now are a Cancer Rising because Cancer was the zodiac sign that was rising over the horizon when you were born.

What if you're an Aries born around Sunset? Then you are an Aries with Libra Rising. This can be a challenging placement because the Sun is as far away as it can be from the Ascendant. People are more likely to register you as a Libra because that's the sign they "see" first.

And if you're an Aries born around midnight? Then you are an Aries with Capricorn Rising. As you can see, the wheel has turned full circle so that with the dawn of a new day Aries will once again be rising over the horizon along with the Sun.

Finding Your Rising Sign

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The simplest way to find your Rising Sign is to input your birthday and time into an Astrology website or app. To deepen your understanding of how it works, here's a brief explanation. There are twenty-four hours in a day and twelve signs in the zodiac. Remember how the year is divided into twelve months, with each month corresponding to a zodiac sign? Well, each sign gets two hours of the day allotted to it because 2 x 12 = 24. Think of the signs as affixed to a wheel that is slowly turning. This wheel mimics the rotation of the earth so that for two hours every day each sign will rise over the horizon before it's replaced by the following sign in zodiacal order. If you were born between six and eight in the morning, then you were born when your Sun Sign was rising. If you were born between eight and ten in the morning, then you were born when the zodiac sign that follows your Sun Sign was rising. Between ten and noon and it's the sign that's two signs after your Sun Sign that's rising, and so on.

As you can imagine, birth times have their pluses and minuses. Being born at Sunrise makes you up close and personal but doesn't really lend itself to seeing yourself objectively, whereas being born at Sunset might make you so removed that others often feel like you're never around or just don't care. The Sun high in the chart is aspirational but can also create a disconnect between how people see you and who you want to be, while the Sun at the bottom of the chart is so rooted in place that people assume you will always be there for them, which is why they stopped asking you how you're doing a long time ago.

Ideally your Rising Sign helps to accomplish the things you want in life, but in some cases your Rising Sign may work against you-especially if it isn't connected to your Sun Sign by element, mode, or Ruling Planet. This is why some people say that they identify more with their Rising Sign than they do with their Sun Sign. In that scenario, there just isn't a strong tie between them-and since the Rising Sign is always on show for the world to see, then...

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Penguin Publishing Group
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2022
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0525541101
ISBN 13 
9780525541103
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