"Born Under a Rising Sign"
The Astrology of the Ascendant and the 144 Combinations of Sun and Rising Sign
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The book BORN UNDER A RISING SIGN is available in print and digital editions. To integrate your Ascendant is to be born again. Not in body, but in awareness.
Meet yourself again with Born Under a Rising Sign.
About the book
Step into 144 Sun–Rising combinations. Journey into the misunderstood Ascendant with fresh insights, timeless archetypes, and the interpretive lens of Born Under Saturn.
This book offers a complete exploration of the Ascendant — its nature, function, and its relationship to the Sun and Moon. It unveils why the rising sign is not a mask, but the first act of being, the gesture with which consciousness enters the world. To discover our Ascendant is to understand the subtle link between how we are and how we feel: the bridge between our internal landscape and the life we manifest.
Through poetic prose and rigorous research, this work restores astrology to its original dignity: not superstition, but a symbolic language through which we can perceive meaning, rhythm, and connection. It is both a study of the sky and an inner map of becoming.
There is everything about the Ascendant in this book — from symbolic foundations to practical applications, from myth to modern psychology. Each page helps you see how the Ascendant shapes perception, relationships, creativity, and destiny itself.
PUBLICATION DATE
1.12.2025
LANGUAGE
ENGLISH
PAGES
564
PRINT EDITION
AVAILABLE
EBOOK
AVAILABLE
WHERE
WORLDWIDE
TOPICS
Astrology - History of Astrology - Sun, Moon and Ascendant - Birth Chart Reading - Self-Awareness
Inside the pages
The Ascendant
The first act of becoming, the moment the soul meets the world.
The Zodiac Circle
A detailed tour of the zodiacal wheel: twelve signs, four elements, three modalities. How the sequence unfolds, what each sector contributes, and how the whole circle becomes a language.
The 12 Ascendants
An essential guide to every Ascendant: core profile, native resources, and the specific traits that function as thresholds for growth.
144 Sun–Rising Combinations
A comprehensive matrix of dynamics: gifts in plain sight, paradoxes that sharpen character, and practical orientations for channeling energy well. Every pairing includes a distilled takeaway to keep close.
The Sun, the Moon and the Ascendant
The Sun names core will, the Moon sets the inner climate, the Ascendant scripts the entrance. This section maps their dialogue, where they align, where they diverge, and how a coherent style emerges.
The Ascendant as A Threshold
The Ascendant functions as a rite of passage, how things start, how presence enters. Learn to work with its timing and stance to support growth, individuation, and clear openings.
FAQs
When will the book be available? And where?
The book will be released on December 1, 2025 and can be purchased here or directly on Amazon. It will be available in English only at launch, with additional languages and platforms to follow.
Is this book suitable for beginners?
Suitable for beginners and advanced readers. Covers the basics clearly and adds deeper insights, with step-by-step sections that support beginners in study.
What makes this book unique?
It contains a full exploration of all 144 Sun–Rising combinations, offering unparalleled insight into the dynamic between your solar essence and your rising expression — a perspective rarely covered in depth anywhere else.
Who it’s for
Readers drawn to astrology as a mirror of consciousness, not fate.
Students and practitioners who want historical depth with psychological insight.
Thinkers and dreamers who seek beauty in structure, and structure in beauty.
Anyone ready to understand their Rising Sign as the most essential key to self-awareness.
The Author
Born in Venice in 1989, under an Aries Sun and Libra Ascendant, Deborah Rossetto weaves together art and astrology in a dialogue between the visible and the invisible. As the founder of Born Under Saturn, she explores the symbolic language of the stars through the lens of art and human experience.
Format: Paperback · eBook (PDF/ePub)
Publication date: 12.1.2025
Language: English
Pages: 500
Origins
BORN UNDER A RISING SIGN traces the story of astrology from its Mesopotamian origins to its modern psychological revival, revealing how the Ascendant became the first breath of consciousness — the lens through which each of us encounters the world.
“Astrology doesn’t need to prove its truth through the metrics of modern science in order to fulfil its function: offering a symbolic language through which we can understand, connect with, and question the deeper meaning of our experience.”
Why it matters
This is not a book of prediction, but a philosophy of orientation. BORN UNDER A RISING STAR invites you to rediscover astrology as an art of perception — a way of reading life through the subtle correspondences between sky and psyche.
It brings clarity to the often-misunderstood role of the Ascendant, revealing how it acts as the key to self-perception and embodied consciousness. To know your rising sign is to know how you begin — how your being enters experience, emotion, and creation.
For the curious, the seeker, and the scholar alike, it opens a dialogue between rational knowledge and symbolic imagination, between what is above and what lives within.