Why the Rising Sign Matters More Than the Sun Sign

Your sun sign says which sign the Sun was in on the day you were born. The Sun spends about a month in each sign, so everyone born in that month shares it. Writing one reading for millions of people is writing for one person in twelve.

What is the rising sign?

The rising sign is the sign coming up over the eastern horizon at the moment you were born. The Earth turns once in roughly 24 hours, so the rising sign changes about every two hours. Two babies born two hours apart share a sun sign but not a rising sign.

Why it is the skeleton

The rising sign fixes the first house of the chart. The houses are laid out from there, and which planet falls in which house follows from it. So:

• Change the rising sign and the whole house system shifts
• The same planet lands in a completely different area of life
• The reading is different from the ground up

That is why Spatyom bases its readings on the rising sign rather than the sun sign.

When the birth time is unknown

The rising sign depends on the birth time to the minute. Without a time it is not calculated and never invented; the reading falls back to the sun sign and says so plainly. Quietly serving another sign's reading would mean presenting a wrong chart as a right one.

If you find your birth time later, add it in your profile — the chart is recalculated on the server.