Sun, moon and rising. Almost everyone knows their own by now, which is a nice upgrade on knowing only the sun sign. What most people cannot say is what the difference between the three actually is.

This page is a seed. The full write-up is coming; for now it exists so the links that point here resolve, and so the shape of the codex is visible while it grows.

what belongs here

  • the one-line version of each: sun is what you are becoming, moon is what you need, rising is how you meet the world
  • why these three and not, say, mercury or venus
  • what each one is NOT: the common mix-ups
  • why the rising sign needs an accurate birth time and the other two mostly do not
  • where to go next for each: the sun page, the moon page, the rising page