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The rising is the door
Sun-sign astrology skips the hinge. Jyotish starts with lagna when the time is good.
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8 Feb 2026 · 1 min read
The Sun-sign column is a door with no house behind it. Lagna — the rising sign — is the hinge: which rashi was coming up at the eastern horizon. From there the twelve rooms unroll.
If the birth time is unknown, say so. Do not invent a rising and then argue from it. Unknown is a respectable reliability.
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