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Which in my case happens a lot, because my ascendant is Gemini.— planet.journals.ie
He saw himself as ascendant, and was almost giddy with the possibilities.— Blog of the Moderate Left
You look at the chart and see the Sun in Pisces but the Moon, Mars and Jupiter and ascendant are all in Aries you have your explanation right there.— ElsaElsa.com
The pro-choice lobby was definitely in the ascendant, and, according to a Gallup poll published just seven months before Roe, 64 percent of Americans believed that abortion was a matter to be decided entirely by a woman and her physician.— The Continuum
"Fortitude in Distress" is the motto and lords of the ascendant is their practice.— Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom

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