Aries rising: ascension is achieved through courage, initiative, and believing in one's self. It will come about quickly and spontaneously and perhaps even combustively. Look to Mars in your chart for further clues.Taurus rising: ascension is achieved slowly but surely, through quietness, stillness, and being in touch with every part of your body, which is your most important possession of all. Look to Venus in your chart for further clues.
Gemini rising: ascension is achieved through meditation and breathing exercises. Key words, phrases, sounds, or thoughts can trigger the process. Look to Mercury in your chart for further clues.
Cancer rising: ascension is achieved through the stirring of one's higher emotions, feelings, or memories. Running water and enclosed areas which produce a safe, womb-like environment can trigger or awaken the process. Look to the Moon in your chart for further clues.
Leo rising: ascension is achieved through love and being able to fully express one's being. Warmth, sunlight, and central locations can be triggers or aids in the process. Look to the Sun in your chart for further clues.
Virgo rising: ascension is achieved through purity, hygiene, discipline, yoga, exercise, and service to others. A pure diet and natural environment are essential to the process. Look to Mercury in your chart for further clues.
Libra rising: ascension is achieved through establishing perfect harmony with one's self and others. Balance, moderation, beauty, and detachment will set you on course. Learn from the wind. Look to Venus in your chart for further clues.
Scorpio rising: ascension is achieved through focus and singleness of purpose. Choose the straight and narrow road: rechannel your passions, conquer your demons, and let your kundalini rise and transform you. Become an eagle instead of a scorpion. Look to Pluto in your chart for further clues.
Sagittarius rising: ascension is achieved through faith, prayer, travel, exploration, and spiritual study. Know that there are great teachers and benevolent angels ready to assist you on your path. Look to Jupiter in your chart for further clues.
Capricorn rising: ascension is achieved through control, discipine, fasting, and frugality. Time and matter and death are the final illusions which you must and will overcome. Look to Saturn in your chart for further clues.
Aquarius rising: ascension is achieved through through the realization that you are not bound by anyone or anything. Learn the truth that will set you free -that all you really need is the air that you breathe. Be different. Be youself. Look to Uranus in your chart for further clues.
Pisces rising: ascension is achieved by going with your natural flow rather than against it. Listen to your feelings rather than your intellect. Meditate, visualize, and internalize. Let the Spirit flow through you. Let go and let God. Look to Neptune in your chart for further clues.
- Got this from a friend. Ginger Robinson.
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“It’s an interesting thing. Seeing Kuan Yin relating to a flower so intently. She's not just looking at it; she's interacting with it…I’m seeing how the act of relating to a flower appears to be so simple. Yet, it takes a tremendous amount of courage to make such a “simple” act important. Now, the lotus is floating away.”