Astrology

If the planets in your birth chart are the actors in the movie of your life, the aspects they made with one another are the script.

Casual readers who scan these soundbites through the lens of their Sun Sign may unwittingly be missing out. Because predictive astrology – a.k.a., what's going to happen to you today according to your horoscope – relies on an entirely different sign altogether: your Rising sign.

If the 1st House is your front porch and the 10th House is your LinkedIn profile, the 12th House is your basement sanctuary. It is the attic. And for some of you, it is the junk drawer where you shove the used batteries, old love letters, and ghosts you're not ready to deal with just yet.

If you look like you just woke up from a nap in a fairy ring, if strangers project fantasies onto you within five seconds of meeting, and if you have absolutely no idea what time it is, you are a quintessential Pisces Rising.

If you were born with a 401(k) and a pervasive skepticism of "fun," if your resting face naturally commands a boardroom, and if you appear to be aging in reverse, you are a quintessential Capricorn Rising.