Rising sign calculator
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Enter the date, time and place you were born. We work out the exact moment of your birth in your birthplace's time zone, including the daylight saving rules in force that year, then find the sign rising on the eastern horizon and where the Sun and Moon were.
Your Sun, Moon and rising signs appear at the top of your result, with your full birth chart underneath. It is free and needs no sign-up.
Your rising sign, also called the Ascendant, is the zodiac sign that was coming up over the eastern horizon at the moment you were born. It marks the start of your chart's first house, so it sets where every other house falls.
It is usually read as your first approach: how you enter new situations, and how people read you before they know you well. Read more about what a rising sign means.
The Sun stays in a sign for about a month and the Moon for about two and a half days. The rising sign passes through all twelve signs every day, a new one roughly every two hours on average, faster for some signs and slower for others depending on how far from the equator you were born.
If you were born close to a change, a time that is out by fifteen minutes can give a different rising sign. A birth certificate or hospital record is the best source. What to do if you do not know your birth time.
Your Sun sign describes your core sense of self and what you are building toward. Your Moon sign describes what you need to feel settled. Your rising sign describes the way you meet the world. Read together, they say more than any one of them alone. How to read your big three together.
Yes. Rising sign and Ascendant are two names for the same point: the zodiac sign coming up over the eastern horizon at the moment you were born.
Not reliably. The rising sign changes every couple of hours, so a birth date alone usually fits two or more rising signs. Check a birth certificate or hospital record, or ask a parent, before you rely on one.
Usually because of a different birth time, a different birthplace, or a time zone handled differently, especially for births during a daylight saving change. Vedic sites also use a sidereal zodiac, which places most points about 24° earlier and can change the sign. The rising sign here uses the tropical zodiac of Western astrology.
Yes. Your Sun, Moon and rising signs, the full birth chart and a short reading are free, with no sign-up.