Actually does rising sign matters?
generally if a person is like his sun sign describes (about 80%) then there's no need to look further, cuz the more complicated it is, the less useful it becomes.
to really understand a person's sun sign, just understand its element and its quality:
Elements:
Air - thinking type
Water - feeling type
Fire - action type
Earth - grounded type
Qualities:
Cardinal - determining
Fixed - fixed
Mutable - changeable, flexible
so 4 elements x 3 qualities give you the 12 signs. some combinations are conflicting, some are complementing, and some are doubling of the same. eg:
Taurus - Earth x Fixed - double affliction of immovable. that's why very stubborn.
Aquarius - Air x Fixed - conflicting affliction. air needs to move, conflicts with fixed quality. so Aquarius may seem very fixed on something, but can change totally out of the blue. that's why weird to others.
understand the elements and how they combine with their qualities and you will understand why each person is the way he is.
