Libra Ascendant
The Libra Ascendant is the rising sign that describes your appearance, your manner and the first impression you make. Element: air; modality: cardinal; chart ruler: Venus.
Appearance and manner
A Libra Ascendant gives a harmonious, attractive appearance: balanced proportions, a pleasant smile, dimples and good taste in clothes. These people are often beautiful in a soft, approachable way and know how to make themselves liked.
You approach anything new through people: who to do it with, how it will look, who will be pleased. Agreement and beauty matter to you. Decisions are hard — you see that each side has a point.
How others see you
People see you as a diplomat: polite, charming and fair. You are easy to be around; you know how to smooth over rough edges and find words that hurt no one. Sometimes you are seen as indecisive or insincere — because you avoid open conflict.
Strengths and traps
Your strength is tact, taste and a sense of fairness. You make an excellent partner, mediator, lawyer, designer or negotiator. The trap is adapting to others until you lose yourself, and putting off choices so as not to offend anyone.
Chart ruler
The ruler of the Ascendant is Venus. Its sign and house show what you find beautiful and valuable, and through which relationships you come into your own. Venus in Libra or Taurus enhances your charm; Venus in Virgo or Scorpio makes it more demanding and complex.
The house where the ruler sits is the area of life through which the Ascendant expresses itself: in the 2nd house it is money, in the 7th partnership, in the 10th career. The Ascendant calculator will show where yours is.
Descendant in Aries
Descendant in Aries: you are drawn to direct, decisive, bold people — those who act while you are still weighing things up. Relationships teach you to stand up for yourself.
How to make the most of your Ascendant
Making the most of a Libra Ascendant means surrounding yourself with beauty and partnership, while learning to say "no" and to make choices in good time. A useful trick is to decide small questions within a minute and save long deliberation for what really matters.
The Ascendant is not the whole person. It blends with your Sun sign and your Moon sign: a Libra Ascendant with the Sun in a water sign, for example, will be softer, and with the Sun in a fire sign, brighter. The description above is the base on which the other planets are layered.
Find your Ascendant
The Ascendant depends on your exact time and place of birth: on average it changes sign every two hours. You can check whether yours really is in Libra with the Ascendant calculator.