posted March 02, 2013 08:03 AM            

Now, to determine that! Where you live one the globe affects how these lengths. It must have to do with longitude and latitude. And time of the year too, as the planet isn't perfectly aligned with the Sun.

Look at it like this: there are 24 hours in a day, and twelve signs, so two hours a sign, right? Well, where you live and what time of the year it is can actually skew that. Example: On any given day, Leo may take two hours and forty minutes compared to, say, Capricorn only getting an hour and twenty. Going by that, someone with a Leo rising born on that day will be tall(er than average?) contrasting the shorter Capricorn rising.

posted March 02, 2013 07:26 PM            

I have 2nd decan Sagittarius on the Ascendant and I'm only 5'6"! Furthermore, I'm among the shorter ones on BOTH sides of the family. My sister and brother also have Sag rising and they're both 5'10".

posted March 02, 2013 07:31 PM            

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Originally posted by somethingexcellent:
^That IS very tall! How long was the AC in Pisces on the day you were born?

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posted March 02, 2013 07:44 PM            

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Originally posted by somethingexcellent:
Oh, I mean, how long did it take for the AC to exit Pisces after entering it. The idea is that if it takes a long time to get to the next sign, you'll be taller.

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It looks like it entered at 12:47 and exited at about 2:10.

posted March 02, 2013 07:47 PM            

Pisces, Aries and Gemini take only about fifty-five minutes to cross the eastern horizon (this is referred to as the length of ascension or simply as the sign's ascension)
Aquarius and Taurus have an ascension of only about seventy minutes
Cancer and Sagittarius have an ascension of around two and a half hours
Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio have ascensions of around two hours and forty-five minutes

At higher latitudes, these differences become even more marked. At the latitude of St. Petersburg, Russia:
Pisces and Aries ascend in only thirty minutes
Aquarius and Taurus ascend in only forty-five minutes
Capricorn and Gemini ascend in an hour and a half
actually individual degrees near Sagittarius or Cancer ascend twice as slowly as those near Aquarius or Taurus
Sagittarius and Cancer ascend in two hours and forty minutes
Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio take as much as three hours and fifteen minutes to ascend
Astrologers consider the differences between the rate at which the signs ascend to be of importance. In many house systems, houses can become very large when they cover Aquarius, Pisces, Aries and Taurus because these signs are seen to be much smaller from the perspective of a northern hemisphere observer.
Some astrologers, such as Richard Nolle, consider the preponderance of Ascendants in signs from Cancer through Sagittarius (known as the western signs) to be symbolic of the highly relationship-oriented character inherent in a complex or civilized society as found today in the northern hemisphere but never developed in equatorial or south temperate latitudes where eastern (Capricorn through Gemini), individual-oriented Ascendants are equally or more common.[5]
In the southern hemisphere, long and short ascension are reversed. For instance, at the latitude of Concepción, Chile:
Pisces and Aries ascend in two hours twenty minutes
Aquarius and Taurus ascend in two and a half hours (see note about ascension in low latitudes above)
Capricorn and Gemini ascend in two hours twenty minutes
Sagittarius and Cancer ascend in almost exactly two hours
Scorpio and Leo ascend in about ninety minutes
Libra and Virgo ascend in about seventy-five minutes"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascendant#Long_and_short_ascension

So basically, you're saying that people whose Ascendant signs have a longer ascension will be taller than average?

Hmm, interesting...

I'm a Sag rising and I'm 5 foot 10, and the Ascendant was definitely in Sag for a long time the day I was born. I'm in the Northern Hemisphere.

Alan Leo wrote that having Uranus conjunct the Ascendant in certain signs (I think Sag, Aqua, and something else) indicates an unusually tall height, so I always just left it at that.

posted March 02, 2013 07:49 PM            

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starfairy: So basically, you're saying that people whose Ascendant signs have a longer ascension will be taller than average?

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posted March 02, 2013 10:03 PM            

I agree with Uranus conjunct in certain signs to being extra tall. Didn't Abraham Lincoln have that? hmm

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posted March 02, 2013 10:57 PM            

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Alan Leo wrote that having Uranus conjunct the Ascendant in certain signs (I think Sag, Aqua, and something else) indicates an unusually tall height, so I always just left it at that.

Interesting theory.[/B]

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The Lord has gypped me! I'm Uranus conj. Asc in Sag--I should have been taller. Funny thing is that the doctors told my parents I'd be at least 5'8", but I stopped two inches shorter. AND I've got big hands/feet.

posted March 02, 2013 11:39 PM            

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Originally posted by starfairy:
Hmm, I just checked the chart of my cousin, the shortest person I know. She's the shortest person in my extended family. She's a shade under five feet. SHe's a Scorp ascendant, born in the Northern Hemisphere. I checked, and the Ascendant stayed in Scorp for over 2 hours (one of the longest), much longer than Aqua, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, and Gemini (just over an hour to 90 minutes). So the theory does not hold up in this case.

She also has Mars and Saturn on her Ascendant.

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