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What are your Sun, Moon and rising signs?

The three placements most astrologers start with. The Sun is what you are building toward, the Moon is what you need to feel at home, and the rising sign is how you come across and the lens the rest is seen through. The Sun can usually be determined from the birth date alone, but if you were born on a day when the Sun changed signs, the birth time can decide which sign it was in. The same is usually true of the Moon, but it changes sign on nearly half of all days, and then the time decides it. The rising sign always needs the time.

In the reference library: Sun, Moon and rising: what each is, and why the rising needs an exact birth time

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