I was born a virgo, however I'm so far from being a virgo it's ridiculous. I checked out my moon sign (Aquarius) which describes me marginally better, but I jsut don't understand why I am the way I am when i shouldn't be. It's been really getting to me recently that I can't get an accurate reading of any kind. Is it possible i was born at the wrong time?
I actually answered a similar question last week about this, but in traditional astrology and some well-done modern astrology, there is a bigger emphasis on your rising sign. Your Sun sign is very vague since it covers roughly a month's worth of births. Rising signs shift roughly every two hours, so it's more individual. The rising sign represents the sign that was on the eastern horizon when you were born. Symbologically the east represents birth. The easiest way to find your rising sign is to go to something like Astro.com and pull up your chart. Your rising sign will be on the center left - also called the 1st house.
can you have two rising signs? like cusp sun signs? also, Im a scorp rising but vedic I am a libra....which one would be more accurate?
Both are accurate. The difference between Vedic and Western systems is where you start. In the real world, since the earth moves in space, the signs have appeared to shift. The Vedic system is also called sidereal. They calculated a point a couple of thousand years ago where the Sun actually hit 0 degrees Aries on the spring equinox. Since the signs are actually shifting, this makes all the signs a little different. Western astrology resets the signs every spring equinox, so the signs haven't shifted. People argue that sidereal is more accurate and it really isn't. The truth is that neither systems acurately show what is really in the sky. Western astrology has always been "sign" based as opposed to constellation based. People confuse the two. In the end it all comes down to where you want 0 to start. If you are doing Vedic, you have to use sidereal since they are set up that way. Western can use either.
Because the rising sign is the sign on the eastern horizon when you were born. The eastern horizon is where all signs and planets rise, so symbologically that is the sign of generation. Also, at least in traditional astrology, since all signs have a ruling planet, you are really looking at where that ruling planet is placed and whether it is strong or weak. That gives you an idea of the state of the person. Plus rising signs change roughly every two hours, so it's more defined than a Sun sign. A Sun sign speaks for ALL people born within a date range, and rising sign speaks more for you. Even two people born a minute apart will have different charts. A big difference between modern and traditional astrology is that in modern, the Sun sign speaks for you and rising sign speaks for how others see you. In traditional, they don't pay attention to Sun signs at all. The rising sign represents you - period.
