Sun · Moon · Rising

The sky had a shape the moment you arrived.

Tell us when and where, and we will read you three of its lines: who you are becoming, what you need to feel safe, and how you meet the world at the door.

Find my Big Three

Sun and Moon Rising Sign Calculator

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City search by Open-Meteo using GeoNames data.

Your three signs will appear here once the sky has been read.

Field notes

Three lights, three questions.

Sun

The sign the Sun occupied on your birthday. It describes your vitality, your sense of purpose, and the qualities you grow more fully into over a lifetime. Only the date is really needed.

Moon

The Moon crosses a sign in about two and a half days. Its sign speaks to emotional instincts, comforts and private reactions — the self that shows up when you are tired or at home.

Rising

The sign climbing the eastern horizon at your exact time and place. It shifts about every two hours, colouring first impressions, style, and how you approach anything new.

The twelve signs, briefly

Each sign blends an element (its temperament) with a modality (how it moves: initiating, sustaining, or adapting).

Fire · Cardinal

Aries

Starts things before anyone else has finished thinking about them.

Earth · Fixed

Taurus

Builds slowly and keeps what it builds; pleasure as a form of wisdom.

Air · Mutable

Gemini

Curious, quick, plural. Connects ideas and people like threads.

Water · Cardinal

Cancer

Protective and attuned; makes a home wherever it is trusted.

Fire · Fixed

Leo

Generous warmth that wants to be seen and to light others up.

Earth · Mutable

Virgo

Notices what needs care and quietly makes it better.

Air · Cardinal

Libra

Seeks balance, beauty and fair exchange between people.

Water · Fixed

Scorpio

Goes deep, holds intensely, and transforms through truth.

Fire · Mutable

Sagittarius

Chases meaning over the horizon; honest to a fault.

Earth · Cardinal

Capricorn

Long view, steady climb, a dry humour about the effort.

Air · Fixed

Aquarius

Independent mind with a stubborn loyalty to the collective.

Water · Mutable

Pisces

Porous, imaginative, compassionate; dissolves edges.

How this calculator works

Everything runs inside your browser.

  1. 01

    Your local birth time is converted to Universal Time using the historical rules of your birth city’s timezone, including daylight saving.

  2. 02

    An astronomical model computes where the Sun, Moon and planets appeared along the ecliptic at that instant.

  3. 03

    Sidereal time at your coordinates gives the degree rising on the eastern horizon — your Ascendant.

  4. 04

    Each longitude is mapped onto the twelve 30° segments of the tropical zodiac, anchored to the spring equinox.

Questions

Before you ask the stars.