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Knowing the ascendant in astrology is not enough
Your horoscope's rising sign is not enough to describe your whole life's experience, what more just your sun sign. To get a more complete picture, you need to take a few steps back and appreciate the whole horoscope as a beautiful painting that must be appreciated in its totality.
The characteristics of the rising sign may certainly be found in the subject, but so would the characteristics of the remaining eleven signs of the horoscope. It is possible that the characteristics of an unoccupied rising sign may not be as pronounced in the subject's make-up as compared to another single sign occupied by several planets.
For instance, a subject may be a rising Capricorn with no planets occupying. But Pisces is filled with four planets, even with its own Jupiter occupying, accentuating an even stronger Pisces 'expression'. Evidence indicates that describing the subject's life more from the vantage point of a Pisces produces more precise results. He will just have more Pisces in his make-up, life events, and responses. And Capricorn? It's there, but Pisces is more imposing in his life events and responses.
An easy way to prove the effectiveness of this is when one studies the house significance other than sign characteristics for character analysis. In the example above, for the subject to have a 3rd house stellium describes that house as being very 'significant' in his life events. That would mean the subject will be intimate with younger siblings, becomes adept in communications, will undertake many short travels (probably even a vocation involving such), will be a document person, very engaged in negotiations, and will probably make many promises to many people. A large part of his life experiences will simply revolve around 3rd house area events, whereas, the typical characteristic of a Capricorn is not very '3rd house'. He would not be typically chatty, and would otherwise be morose and brooding, rather than engage in playful banter or light communications. But in this case, he would be chatty, engaging, and will love communicating, more so than the typical unoccupied Capricorn ascendant personality.
On the other hand, when a rising sign is supported by an occupying stellium of planets, or if it coincides with the new moon or full moon, or particularly the nodal axis, then that rising sign is accentuated for greater expression. But it still does not describe the complete subject. The complete picture of his probable experiences can only be seen from the horoscope as a whole, and not exclusively from its parts.
Overplaying the characteristics of the birth sign alone to describe a person is a mistake in astrology that gives astrology debunkers a field day disproving it.
Good astrologers ought to take it upon themselves to educate others on what is effective or not in astrology before a greater derision of astrological truth occurs.
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