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Rising Planet: Any planet that is near the Ascendant in the natal horoscope. Rising planets will have a significant influence on the personality.

Rising Front: Camera movement enabling the front lens panel to be raised or lowered from its central position on most view cameras.

Rising Metre: iambs and anapests, i.e., one or two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one.

Rising Bottoms: Chart pattern showing an increasing trend in the daily low prices of a security or commodity.

Planets: As used in Astrology, this refers to the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Earth is excluded, as it is our point of reference. In general, it is a . . . View Full Definition

Planetary Node: The point at which a planet's path intersects the ecliptic; declination, 0°. The term is usually reserved for nodes other than the Moon's Nodes.

Planetary Patterns: Used interchangeably with shaping. Sometimes equated with aspect patterns. See also shaping, Bowl, Bucket, Bundle, Locomotive, See-Saw, Splash, Splay.

Rising Action: The action in a play before the climax in Freytag's pyramid.

Rising Rate: A suspension system that becomes harder to compress the further it is compressed. This is usually achieved by a mechanical lineage with variable leverage ratio.

Superior Planets: Planets whose orbits are larger than Earth's. The term is sometimes restricted to the three outermost planets: Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.