Warning: Really unnecessarily long post. What can I say, I've got a Mercury dominant chart. But seriously, my apologies.
Dunno if I'm a little late on this one but I really am curious to see what you think about my AC. aspects and their relation to my actual appearance/how I come off to people. I have a lot of energies surrounding my AC (especially), IC and DC.
Everything in my chart pretty much goes back to Mercury which is conj. (1 degree) my AC. in Virgo. I have my Sun (3 dgs.) conjunct an exact NN/Lilith conjunction, in 1st house and Virgo as well.
Mercury is in a T-square with Moon and Pluto, Pluto is 2 degrees away from my IC, and the moon is exact on my DC.
3rd house stuff: Chiron is conj. Venus in my 3rd (this sextiles my asc. by 1 deg.), Mars is there too (in Scorpio).
I've heard that having the ruler of your Asc. in your 1st house or on your Asc. makes you a poster child for that planet. I'd say that's entirely true for me, to say I read often as a kid is an understatement, and in school I was told I was a pretty good writer. An example: once I sent my mother a draft of an essay I was writing, she yelled at me for plagiarizing because she was convinced I actually hadn't written it.
I'm 5 foot, slim(ish) and very young-looking (surprise, surprise), long brown hair and green eyes. I can post a picture if it helps your studies. Whenever I'm nervous I tend to do things really quickly. My moon in Pisces chills me out though as well (don't worry folks, I'm not totally Virgo) but I wouldn't say that I'm a very outwardly critical person, despite what it looks like from my chart. Honestly, most all of my critical thoughts (I admit, there are a lot) I keep to myself and think about them on my own. This might have to do with Plutonian influences or the fact that almost all of my planets are in the bottom half of my chart.