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What is the Descendant?

The degree of the zodiac setting in the west at the moment you were born, exactly opposite the Ascendant and the cusp of the 7th house. Because it is fixed by the horizon it needs a birth time, and it moves about a degree every four minutes. It is read as partnership: the qualities you meet in other people, and what you are drawn towards in a close one-to-one relationship.

Where you see this in OrbHeaven

Your own chart is calculated from your birth details, and this definition is written out again there with your numbers in it rather than in the abstract. The chart, the glossary and thirty days of dated timeline are free, and nothing here is charged per question.

About a minute. Birth time optional, and no account until after you have seen it.

The points

The four angles and the nodes: places in the sky rather than bodies in it.

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