What is the Ascendant, Descendant, Imum Coeli, and Midheaven
First: How to calculate Midheaven and Imum Coeli Ascendant [1st House Lord] To understand the Ascendant, lets start with an example, of Sun. The Sun is at a point on the day of your birth, this is called your "sun sign". Thinking of your birthday each year, you understand that the Sun returns back to your "birth sign" each year. This is what you are celebrating, the heightened "strength of the sun" within your body. The Sun takes 12 months to go around all the signs and return back to where it is "native" for you. The sun creates your Birth Sign, and also creates your Ascendant. The Sun creates your sign based on "day" of the year. The Sun creates your Ascendant based on "hour" of the day of your birth. Every 2.5 hours, the Sun's "light" hits a different constellation...
