Aries
Mar 21 – Apr 19
Acts first, and is usually already three steps in before anyone agrees.
- Element
- fire
- Modality
- cardinal
- Polarity
- yang · active
- Ruler
- mars
Aries is the first sign, and it behaves like it. There is no deliberation phase — there is the idea, and then there is Aries already doing it. This looks like courage from the outside and often feels like impatience from the inside. Aries would rather be wrong at speed than right eventually.
In love, Aries pursues. Directly, obviously, without much interest in being coy about it. The attention is genuine and it is fast, and the thing to understand is that the intensity of the chase is not a promise about the intensity of the fifth year. Aries has to be given something to keep winning, or it will go find something else to win.
Strengths
- Decisive
- Physically brave
- Says the thing
- Starts what others discuss
Friction
- Impatient
- Competitive about nothing
- Bores easily
- Hears advice as a challenge
At their best
The person who moves while everyone else is still forming a committee.
The shadow
Mistakes momentum for direction, and treats other people's caution as an insult.
Aries pairs best with
The hardest is Capricorn, at 21 — which is not a bad relationship. It is a demanding one.