I don’t know where to ask this kind of question so I am asking it here.

[MeganJoZodiac]

So I was wondering if you can tell someone’s rising sign based off of photos of them or not. I’ve seen that some astrologers say you can but others say you can’t. So which is the truth: can you or can you not tell someone’s rising sign based off of photos of them? I wonder because I am Gemini rising but I am not slim while my Libra rising sister is slim. I do also have Jupiter square sun which can result in overindulgence from what I’ve read? What do you think?

 

[conspiracy theorist]

There was a project many years ago on the internet, where pictures of the face of individuals would be posted on a website alongside the corresponding sun/moon/asc combination. Cursory google search comes up with nothing in the first couple pages (google sucks now). Your mileage may vary on your analysis if you were to get a look at those pictures. I didn't see any common similarities with the people posted and my "big 3".

 

[waybread]

I don't think there is any objective truth about this.

For one thing the early delineations were primarily based on people with Caucasian/European ancestry. These wouldn't match up so well with Africans or East Asians.

Planets in the first house, or planets aspecting the ascendant can modify the basic look of a rising sign. For example, I have Virgo rising, but with disruptive Uranus square my ascendant, there's no way I can pull of the neat and tidy classic Virgo rising appearance.

Photos would be even trickier. Many photos are posed, or staged. (How often are we told to smile for the camera?) Spontaneous photos can miss a lot, as well.

Once in a while I do see photos of people that look exactly like a given sign's description: the brooding, intense Scorpio, the goat-like Capricorn. But without an accurate birth time, there usually is no way to verify them.

Basically your ascendant and first house show how you come across to other people. This has a lot to do with one's genetics, personality, and mannerisms. These won't all show up as a particular rising sign in a photograph.