

But it especially applies to our love lives and romantic partners. This house rules over all of our closest one-on-one relationships and the commitments we make to other people - which includes our bosses, business partners, and best friends.

Just as our ascendant sign marks the cusp of our first house of self, the descendent represents the cusp of our seventh house of partnerships. That's your descendent sign - and the qualities of that zodiac sign can tell you a lot about what sorts of qualities you may be attracted to in a potential partner. If you already have a copy of your birth chart, you can look to the cusp of the seventh house and locate which zodiac sign it starts in.

Dig up your birth certificate and consult a professional astrologer to get the dish, or use an online birth chart calculator to figure it out at home. In order to find out your descendent sign, you need to know your exact birth time. Shutterstock How To Calculate Your Descendent Sign While your ascendent (aka the rising sign) represents your surface-level personality and self-image, the descendent sign in astrology is all about what you seek in relationships with others.

But the descendent sign (DC) is located on the left side of a chart, opposite to the ascendent sign (AC). The midheaven sign (often labeled MC for short) and the imum coeli sign (labeled IC for short) represent your public and private life, respectively, and they're located at the top and bottom of a chart. It's one of four important angles in every astrology chart, all of which are located on an X/Y axis (see the chart below for a visual - each point is labeled with letters on the perimeter of the zodiac wheel). Unlike your sun and moon signs, the descendent sign is represented by an angular point in the birth chart rather than an actual planet or celestial body. And while you may have the scoop on your sun, moon, and rising signs, do you know what your descendent sign means in astrology? This significant angle in your chart can shed a lot of light on your relationships - both with other people and with yourself. If you've even dipped your toe into the vast universe of astrology, then you probably know that you have a whole astrological birth chart full of zodiac signs, houses, and planets that comprise your cosmic profile.
