Descendant

The Descendant is the western horizon point at the moment of your birth — directly opposite the Ascendant and forming the cusp of the 7th house. Where the Ascendant represents how you arrive, the Descendant represents what you meet: the qualities you seek in close partnerships, what you project onto others before owning, and the kind of other that completes or challenges your 1st-house identity. The sign on the Descendant describes the texture of your relational longings. Aries Rising/Libra Descendant brings independence and seeks partners who provide balance and grace; Cancer Rising/Capricorn Descendant brings emotional sensitivity and tends to draw partners with structural authority. Like the Ascendant, the Descendant requires a known birth time to compute.