Libra Rising

July 19, 2021

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Even a year after moving out, I am still bringing things home from my parents’ house. On my most recent trip, I received a yellow envelope with a handwritten Sharpie note labeling it Old Stuff to Keep for the Future. How could I resist? I opened the yellow envelope yesterday, Friday a Venus ruled day, and found a film photo of my identification card at the hospital right after I was born. Since the birth certificate doesn’t include birth time, it occurred to me that this photo was the only document that had my true birth time. In spite of my mom swearing my birth time is 7:47pm, I checked anyway. The photo revealed the truth; my birth time was actually 9:33pm, changing my rising sign from Virgo to Libra.

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Most astrologers joke that the worst thing that can happen to an astrologer is finding that their birth time was wrong the whole time. For the last year I’ve been writing my own horoscope and multiple times I’ve found that everything I’ve predicted has happened a few weeks and months after my prediction. This realization about my rising makes total sense now, since Libra is right after Virgo, meaning I was writing horoscopes one house off. For example, when I thought I was a Virgo rising I anticipated Gemini season to fulfill my 10th house of career ambitions. Once Cancer season came, though, that was when many changes occurred in my professional environment. With Libra being my rising, Cancer would be my actual 10th house, making perfect sense for the events that happened during this season. At least if I ever meet a Virgo rising I’ll know them really well.

Of course part of myself is overwhelmed, pushing me to want to take a break from astrology so I can process that I’ve been reading the wrong houses and aspects. My addiction to astrology cannot handle taking a break, though, so I’ll have to keep moving forward while processing this intense change. Before I knew I was a Libra rising, I always admired these Venus-ruled people. I perceived it was one of the most beauty-focused rising signs and one of the difficulties I’ve had in accepting this truth is that I didn’t perceive myself as Venus-ruled. Thinking I had a Virgo rising made sense to me; Mercury-ruled people aren’t known for beauty but rather their thoughts. Please note that while Venus is about beauty, for me that doesn’t include conventional standards of beauty; I am focusing mostly on the way that other humans are drawn naturally to Venus-ruled humans. In retrospect, I’ve had my fair share of people approaching me to tell me that I come across as beautiful or interesting in that Venus way.

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