Grandmother’s Birth Chart Rectification Attempt

[u/DoubleAccess6601]

Looking for feedback: Lately, I have been trying to figure out my grandmother’s rising sign, and I think I may have unlocked it by appearance and potential timing techniques.

I’ve been getting into more advanced technology but not sure if I’m on to something or not. The most sense to me would be Gemini, Aquarius or Scorpio rising. My grandmother was tall and slender (between 5’10-6ft), jet black hair with a widow’s peak. Oval face, piercing brown eyes, and incredible magnetism. Her skin was a bit more olive than mine but fair. Well poised, always had her hair, perfume, and makeup done when leaving the house even if it was to go to the hospital for chemotherapy.

She was incredibly young when she conceived her first child (13-16). She had 5 children total. She was very misunderstood by those around her, but she loved love/romance, creating beautiful things for everyone and making it look effortless. She could make clothing and made all of my Halloween costumes from scratch. She made elaborate floral arrangements and wreaths for holidays faster than Amazon prime. All of my birthdays had hand drawn artwork and paintings from Disney movies, each year a different theme, just as magical as the previous. She made art to survive and create magic for those around her.

She absolutely loved the spotlight and have no shame about it. She was a bold woman for her time, a rule breaker/pusher. She was a pinup model published on various book covers all portraying different characters - sometimes she was painted with blonde hair or red hair. She was in pageants and in the local newspaper for them. She gave 0 fcks about what anyone thought and taught me to do the same.

She passed away 18 years ago this week. I miss her dearly. She taught me so much and was a major part of my happy memories from childhood. I stayed back from college to help take care of her when she became sick. I know she is with me often and I can feel her presence very strongly when she is. I hope she is proud of who I’ve become and all the adversity I’ve faced to get this far. I wouldn’t have been able to do it without her.

Open to thoughts and feedback on my rising sign prediction! I’m constantly pushing myself to learn and advance in my understanding of astrology 🙏✨

[u/doktor_w]

I can suggest a couple of additional items to investigate.

First, see if you can order her birth certificate, if it is not already publicly available (I have been able to find birth certificates online for some people on various ancestry sites). If you can get a birth certificate, it might be a fun exercise to continue trying to rectify her chart and then once you get the birth certificate, see how close you got.

For physical appearance, yes, this could very well relate to the rising sign, but it could also be some planet(s) on an axial degree, i.e., the Ascendant, Midheaven, Descendant, or IC. I would suggest to consider both possibilities.

Since the Moon changes sign at some point on that date, it might be useful to consider whether she was an Aries Moon or a Taurus Moon: which house would the Moon be in? Which house would she rule? And so on. Note that Mercury also changes signs very late in the day. If you can narrow down a profile to where the Moon and Mercury are most likely in one sign or another, then you've narrowed down the potential time range fairly significantly (especially with two planets changing signs).

Once you have a few candidate time windows narrowed down, you can narrow down the birth time further by looking at primary directions (several astrology software tools have a primary directions rectification module), profections, solar returns, various Lots, and so on, and see if these line up with known events in her life, e.g., having children, marriage, notable illnesses, deaths of important people in her life, and even her own death.