The ascendant is the house that sets the stage of the natal chart, it’s where the journey through the houses begin…the ascendant affects the houses overall because it’s the lenses one views the world through and how they perceive it through those lenses. sasportas describes this angle as “who we are and how we meet life” it is the persona…life is seen through the sign or planets in the ascendant and one behaves true to this vision, a person will act according to what they perceive. someone with cancer/moon in the 1st for instance, will view the world emotionally, cautiously, imaginatively, and sensitively, and thus will act emotional, cautious, imaginative and sensitive in characteristic





















