Sagittarius Rising
Your Rising sign, also called the Ascendant, is the sign that was coming up over the eastern horizon at the moment you were born. It takes a birth time to find, because the Rising changes about every two hours, and two people born on the same day can have different ones. In our astrology it is the face of the ochema, in plain words the face of your whole self where that self meets the world, and it is as real as your Sun. The Rising also sets the twelve houses of the chart, and the planet that rules it is the ruler of the whole chart. With Sagittarius Rising that planet is Jupiter, and the sign is mutable Fire, so this face is warm and quick to change direction.
What Sagittarius Rising means
A Sagittarius Rising places warmth, movement and openness at the point where you meet everything else. This Rising approaches life as a field to explore, and it enters each new situation expecting that something will come of it and that something can be learned. Traditional astrology reads the body and temperament from this point, and for Sagittarius it describes an upright, long-limbed build, an open face and an easy, direct manner.
The ruler of the chart decides where all of this goes. Because Jupiter rules a Sagittarius Rising, the sign and house of Jupiter describe where the presence of this person is mainly put to work. Jupiter in the tenth house gives a presence that is public and tied to a vocation, Jupiter in the fourth roots it in home and family, and Jupiter in the seventh brings it out through partnership.
Your strengths
A Sagittarius Rising puts people at ease, and this is its chief strength. Warmth, humor and frankness make strangers comfortable, and others often offer it chances because it looks confident and glad to be there. This Rising enters an unfamiliar country, job or group with little fear, and it adapts quickly once it is there. Its first response to a problem is to look for the larger view, and this calms the people around it.
Your challenges
This Rising promises with its manner, and that is its main difficulty. Its confidence suggests more certainty, experience and commitment than may be there, and others take its enthusiasm for a firm yes and feel let down when nothing follows. Because the face is so warm and open, people may assume that all is well, and real sadness or strain can go unseen and unsupported. Tact is the second difficulty, as this Rising speaks before it has read the situation and may give offense it never intended. It also overestimates its time and its strength, says yes to too much and treats small obligations carelessly.
Sagittarius Rising in love
The Descendant, the point opposite the Rising, shows what you seek in others, and for Sagittarius Rising it falls in Gemini. This placement is drawn to quick, curious, talkative people who bring the details, the names and the news that its own wide view passes over. Mercury rules the Gemini Descendant, so the condition of Mercury in your chart describes how partnership goes. The Descendant also marks qualities a person does not identify with and meets in others instead, and so a Sagittarius Rising may complain of a partner's changeability or fuss over small matters without seeing that function as its own. This Rising has to learn the attention to small daily exchanges that Gemini represents and to treat it as part of love.
How others meet you
Others meet a Sagittarius Rising as friendly, frank and ready for something. The first impression is of a person who has been places or intends to go, and who expects things to go well, and people respond to that expectation by relaxing. Because this Rising sounds sure, it is often asked for opinions and advice, and others may treat it as a guide before it has agreed to be one. People who know only this face may be surprised later by a reserved Sun or a private Moon, and the face remains true in that case, since it is one real part of the person showing first.
Work and money
Work comes to a Sagittarius Rising largely through presence and reputation. It does well wherever confidence and a good first impression count, as in sales, public speaking, recruiting, broadcasting, tourism, foreign trade and teaching adults. Because the Rising sets the houses, this placement usually has Capricorn on the second house, the house of earnings, and Virgo or Libra at the Midheaven, the point of public work. Capricorn on the second gives this open manner a more careful relation to money than its face suggests, as income grows through slow building under Saturn. Virgo at the Midheaven asks for a precision in public work that the casual manner may not promise.
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Your Sagittarius Rising in WaveForm astrology
Western astrology reads your Rising as described above, and the WaveForm reading of it is one you will find only with us. In WaveForm the Rising is the face of the ochema, the point where your whole self, with every planet in it, comes into the body and into the world.
Each planet in WaveForm has a job, and the job of Jupiter, the ruler of your chart, is to widen what you can hold. Cheap in our reading means little deliberate effort and expensive means repeated effort, and the state of the chart ruler sets this price for your whole way of appearing. Jupiter in Sagittarius, Pisces or Cancer makes your presence cheap to steady, and Jupiter in Gemini, Virgo or Capricorn makes it expensive, though the function stays fully available. A Sagittarius Rising makes openness, vision and large scale cheap, and it charges you for exact detail and for weight. In this placement the sign's named failure, premature enlargement, which means growing wider than your substance can fill, appears as the face going ahead of the person, as others are shown a size that has not yet been built. When this Rising is steady what you show and what you have made match each other. When it slips you present a larger self and the strain arrives later. The work is to let the face offer only what Saturn has already made solid, and your own chart shows where Jupiter and Saturn stand toward each other.
Your Rising is one part of your chart
The Rising shows where the self meets the world, and the rest of the chart shows what is meeting it. A Sagittarius Rising with a Capricorn Sun looks easygoing and works with a seriousness that people discover only later. With a Cancer Moon the same open manner goes with a private sensitivity that is easily hurt and seldom shown. Jupiter in Gemini scatters this presence across too many directions, because the ruler of the chart is in detriment there, and it then costs more to keep the presence on one aim.
Finding all of this is free and takes no account. The Quick Chart needs your birth date, place and birth time, and it gives you your Rising, your houses and your chart ruler with both readings together.
Membership
Why join AwakenedSky
A Sagittarius Rising makes connections easily and loses track of them just as easily, and membership gives those connections somewhere to stay. Your profile and chat keep the people you meet within reach, and local groups, meetups and Astrology Socials put this sociable face to use, with lessons from the School to test its opinions. Because your Descendant is in Gemini, reading any two people as a pair is especially useful, since you can see how each partner meets that Gemini point in your chart. Saved charts with notes let you follow your chart ruler through the years, and transit updates by email and in your account report when Jupiter and Saturn touch it. Talks on Zoom by teachers of the School, with recordings, give depth to a Rising that picks up subjects quickly, and the question engine finds good days for what you want to begin, which suits a person who starts readily.
What you pay as a member supports the teachers and keeps the chart free for anyone to cast.