Different Rising Signs

I was curious to know if anyone can answer why when I have plugged my birth data into several free natal chart services, I get two different rising signs. I have entered an exact time of birth. Several sites say my rising is Capricorn, but a couple say that it is Aquarius.

I feel like Capricorn is a more accurate description of me. What are your thoughts?

It is a technical issue with calculating when the sun will cross the horizon for a given hour, and that is earlier or later depending on daylight savings time (because we can't always say that being born at 6am means the sun is up yet).

So all the online calculators have to do math according to where exactly you were born and factor in if your state uses daylight savings time, if the month you were born was in daylight savings time. I guess blame the programmers and websites for not saying why rising sign depends on these things.

Knowing your exact birth time and place matters, I think I have had most success with the likes of calculators on these sites:

http://www.0800-horoscope.com/birthchart.php

http://www.chaosastrology.net/freeastrologyreports.cfm

Yeah, thats happened to me. Go to astro, I find it to be the most accurate.

Okay, so I had not been to http://www.astro.com/. It says my ascendant is Capricorn. In fact, most of the sites DO say that it is Capricorn. I SO do not identify with an Aqua ascendant. Now, if I could just get a good interpretation of my chart.

How do you all feel about the free natal charts vs. paying to have one done?

I found this pretty interesting,I'm still working on have to properly decipher my birth chart.
Sex M
Dallas, TX 48 United States 08/28/1979 04:30 - Julian day 2444113.69
Adjust 0.00 ST 20.26 Lat 32.47 Long 96.48 The world of human relationship means everything to you, and the feelings of others are primary on the scale of your values. Yet you are often caught in a conflict between your need for warmth and closeness with others, and your need for privacy, space and the freedom to pursue your own interests - which often involve abstract concepts quite divorced from human reality. You have great compassion for the problems of others, and may often find yourself playing the role of the good mother or father

The interplay between the conscious and unconscious sides of you is a constantly shifting dance, changing at different stages of your life and altering according to the pressures and challenges which you encounter. The tension between the primary characters in your inner drama is the source of energy which provides your life with movement, purpose, conflict and growth.

astro.com psychological horoscope---> When Plato wrote that 95% of the cosmos was under the governorship of Reason, and an annoying and recalcitrant 5% under the dominance of Chaos, he expressed a vision which is very close to your heart; for some of your most fulfilling moments come when you are able to see.

You can be easily repelled by slovenliness, dirt or disregard for simple hygiene. Your natural fastidiousness may sometimes make you difficult to live with, for you cling to your own well-tried habits, and have a strong need for solitude. This is not because you dislike.

It is very difficult to combine such qualities with your extremely stylized and cerebral approach to life, for you abhor anything crude and ugly. Yet no one, including you, can ever be perfect, and what you sometimes call ugly and unworthy may in fact contain qualities.

You must do something about your beliefs, for action and work are your best method of expressing love and devotion - whether it is for a person or for your definition of God. Good deeds, for you, are the true test of inner worth; and you are quite determined to be what.

Although you are an individual, you have emerged from a family background. Thus you contain certain inner patterns, myths and attitudes toward life which you have acquired from the psychological soil of this background.

astro.com psychological horoscope---> Your intellectual and aesthetic gifts form one of the most interesting and attractive dimensions of your personality. They also tend to make you a little precious, because you want your world to be perfect and orderly and beautiful; and the result of this is that you are inevitably attracted to a more primitive type of partner, perhaps less articulate and not so well educated, but nevertheless warmer, more uninhibited, more honest, and more direct. Such a relationship can work very well for you. *feel asleep*

Posted by BelovedAssata
Look at your chart...it'll make sense to you..I have put my data into different calcs, and I get a different rising too..some say I'm a sag (which I feel describes me better) and others say I'm a capricorn rising(which I didn't understand, until I looked at my chart wheel..it showed I was a 3rd decan sag rising..and you can look at the degrees to prove it..since each sign has 30 degrees and my sag risng was at 28...i'm basically on the cusp of capricorn..

So in short you're probably a bit of both.

Thanks BA. Here is my ascendant Ascendant Capricorn 28??52'49. If you what you say about yours is true, it looks like you may be right about mine as well. Looks like I am on the cusp of Aquarius.