ascendant
Climbing toward power
Ascendant describes something rising or gaining power and influence: an ascendant political movement, her career was in the ascendant.
In astrology, the ascendant is the zodiac sign rising on the eastern horizon at the moment of birth, believed to shape personality.
Someone in the ascendant holds a position of dominance or superiority over others.
Celestial belt of signs
- horoscopeZodiac-based fortune telling
- natalRelating to delivery
- housesBuildings for living
- transitsActs of passing through
aspects · conjunction · trine · sextile · square · opposition · retrograde · progressions
Descent from progenitors
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- ancestryFamily line of descent
forebears · progenitors · dynasty · pedigree · clan · patriarch · matriarch · forefathers
Having superior influence
- supremacyHighest rank or power
- hegemonyDominant group's control
- authorityPower to enforce obedience
- preeminentSuperior to all others
sovereign · predominant · superior · control · command · master · overlord · powerful
Toward a higher position
- climbingAscending by physical effort
- emergingComing into view
- surgingRising with sudden force
- growingIncreasing or enlarging
advancing · progressing · flourishing · thriving · blooming · soaring · gaining · increasing
zodiac
Celestial belt of signs
transits · aspects · conjunction · trine · sextile · square · opposition · retrograde · progressions · ecliptic
lineage
Descent from progenitors
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- genealogyStudy of family descent
ancestry · forebears · progenitors · dynasty · pedigree · clan · patriarch · matriarch · forefathers · predecessors
dominant
Having superior influence
preeminent · sovereign · predominant · superior · control · command · master · overlord · powerful · prevailing
upward
Toward a higher position
growing · advancing · progressing · flourishing · thriving · blooming · soaring · gaining · increasing · elevating
- astrologyastrology, zodiac, horoscope, horoscopes, birth chart
- ancestorsancestor, ancestors, forebears, forebear, forbear
- zodiacAries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo
- celestial geometrycelestial equator, celestial sphere, ecliptic, zenith, nadir
- horary astrologyquerent, question, houses, aspects, planets
- Vedic astrologyhoroscopes, houses, birth chart, horoscope, aspects
ascendantsubordinate
One lower in rank
subservient · submissive · dominated · subjugated · inferior
ascendantdescendant
Person from earlier generations
descendent · offspring · progeny · heir · scion