Peter Damian regards the Ascendant as showing not only the physical form and early environment, but also the individual’s ‘aspirations and will’.
Fenton suggests that the characteristics of the ascendant sign are adopted to fit in with how authority figures early in life are perceived by the individual as expecting him or her to be. Sasha Fenton states that the Ascendant sign shows ‘one’s earliest experiences of life’ (which include, according to Jeanne Avery, the ‘circumstances of birth’), ‘early programming’, and ‘environmental factors’ (in contrast to genetic ones) that, as Avery notes, influence the personality and mould the survival instincts. He links it to inherited and parentally derived character traits, stating that only with maturity can the inner being represented by the Moon and Sun express itself more freely. The Ascendant describes the body and its material wants, physical appearance (both purely structural qualities of appearance, and the facial expression and outward mannerisms), constitution (health), and vital resilience.Īccording to Alan Leo it also has significant bearing upon the mind, intellect and ‘disposition’, but above all the brain as the ‘controlling centre of the body’, and the ‘expression of the Ego in the physical world’. More specific concepts of three of these angles are compiled below. While any planet in the angular houses is of increased strength, this is particularly so of one posited in the Tenth House or the First House and additionally if conjunct (as measured by degrees) the Midheaven or Ascendant such a planet will be greatly strengthened in its importance within a figure. In the judgement of the matters governed by each of these four angular houses, the angle that is on its cusp should be considered by its sign and aspects received (conjunctions being of foremost importance), together with the sign and house placement of, and aspects received by, its Lord. Similarly, the Descendant signifies affairs pertaining to the Seventh House the Midheaven or Medium Coeli corresponds to the Tenth House and the Immum Coeli or Lower Midheaven relates to the Fourth House. The Ascendant signifies affairs pertaining to the First House. – Reformatted for WordPress, June 5th, 2016Īscendant, Descendant, Midheaven, Immum Coeli – Written and compiled by Philip Graves Sep 6-11 2004
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