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In ancient astrology the rising sign (Ascendant) is the chart’s foundation. It is the “hour-marker” that sets the whole sky in motion. Classical authors even used “horoscope” as a synonym for Ascendant, not “Sun sign.” The 1st house that begins at the Ascendant is called the house of life and was treated as the most powerful place in the chart. It…[Read more]

In traditional astrology the Moon and Sun are co-equal luminaries, “king and queen”, rather than a Sun-only focus. Ancient astrologers gave the Moon as much interpretive weight as the Sun and taught that which one leads depends on whether you were born by day or by night (the doctrine of sect). In day charts the Sun is the “sect light”; in night c…[Read more]