ariesAries, March 21 to April 20, first-born of the Zodiac is ruled by Mars, the god of war and fire. Masculine (Yang), its color is red, birthstone diamond, element Fire, and modality Cardinal. It shares traits with the Chinese Zodiac’s Dragon. For the fiery ram it’s always, “Let’s get it on!”

This sign governs the head and brain, subjecting Arians to headaches, particularly migraines, sunstroke, neuralgia, depression, indigestion, and nervous disorders. Their energy and impetuosity make them prone to accidents and physical injuries. Physically Arians are short to medium height, medium boned, with a square jawline and a tendency to put on weight.

The Zodiac’s most vital sign, the ram will always draw attention to itself when it enters a room. The first to take a risk – caution and self-control are not in its dictionary.

Enthusiastic, inspiring, and exhilarating, Aries is a force of nature like no other. Blessed with boundless energy and a bold, appealing personality, you have a zest for life that other signs can only envy. You’re intrepid, passionate and courageous — a firebrand, glowing and full of flash. Unconventional and joyously individualistic, you display a robust sense of who you are and an eagerness to follow your own intuition.

Aries is the first Sign of the Zodiac, and that’s pretty much how those born under this Sign see themselves: first. Arians are the leaders of the pack, first in line to get things going. Whether or not everything gets done is another question altogether, for Arians far prefer to initiate than to complete. Do you have a project needing a kick-start? Call an Aries, by all means. The leadership displayed by Arians is most impressive, so don’t be surprised if they can rally the troops against seemingly insurmountable odds – they have that kind of personal magnetism.

Arians don’t shy away from new ground, either. Those born under this Sign are often called the pioneers of the Zodiac, and it’s their fearless trek into the unknown which often wins the day. Arians are a bundle of energy and dynamism and the Pied Piper of their people. The dawning of a new day, and all its possibilities, is pure bliss to an Arian. It’s the Ram which symbolizes Aries, and that’s both good and bad news.

Impulsive Arians (and there are more than a few) might be tempted to ram their ideas down someone else’s throat. If things get done for the greater good, that might even be okay. It’s those times when an idea is force-fed by an Arian for no apparent reason that we wish this Sign’s symbol were a more subdued creature.

No go, since these folks are blunt and to the point. Along with those qualities comes the Arian’s sheer force of being which can accomplish a great deal. Much of this drive to the finish line has to do with the Cardinal Quality assigned to Arians. Cardinal Signs love to get things going, and Arians exemplify this better than the rest.

Our man Mars was unafraid to do battle, and much the same can be said for Arians. These folks are bold, aggressive and courageous. They can summon up the inner strength required to take on most anyone, and they’ll probably win. Arians do not lack energy or vitality, and they can stay in the game longer than most anyone else. Now that’s a winning edge.

Rams are also, for the most part, independent and well aware of their own interests in a given situation. This sometimes myopic view may not be for everyone, but it does help Arians get things going. Further, their competitive natures ensure that they will play the game with zeal and vigor.

At times, their approach may be construed as arrogant and domineering, but it takes a lot of focus to be a leader (or so an Arian would say). Sadly, the Arian won’t usually be around for the final victory (defeat? never). These folks will more than likely have bolted to the next project before the first one is done.

The Element associated with Aries is Fire. Think action, enthusiasm and a burning desire to play the game. Arians love physicality, so they won’t sit on the sidelines for long, if at all. They’ll jump into the fray full force and will contribute much in the process. Talk about eager beavers! Sure, some of their decisions may later prove to have been hasty, but you’ll never find an Arian who regretted taking a shot. Making things happen is what it’s all about to these folks.

Arians are also unafraid of stepping onto new terrain. The challenge inherent in taking on the unknown is heaven on Earth for Rams. Sure, they may appear arrogant when they take on the world, but they’ll be quick to tell you it’s the only way to go. While a common Arian refrain might well be ‘me first,’

The Ram will have the last word, so save your breath. Arians at play seem to toil as hard as they work. These folks are happiest playing a spirited game of soccer or engaging in the martial arts. In the game of love, the Ram’s ardor is unquestioned, although Arians can also be playful and romantic with their mate.

With Aries ruling the head, face and brain, those born under this Sign need to be on the lookout for headaches and are well-served to take the occasional deep breath. The Ram’s color is bright red, a sure sign of the fire that breathes within.

The great strength of the Aries-born is in their initiative, courage and determination. These folks love to get things going and are fearless along the way. Their dynamism and competitive spirit add considerably to the projects which they undertake. Balance comes by adding gentleness to independence and by tempering the Self with self-awareness. The Arian has many positive points to his character. People born under this first sign of the Zodiac are often quite strong and enthusiastic.

On the whole, they are forward-looking people who are not easily discouraged by temporary setbacks. They know what they want out of life and they go out after it. Their personalities are strong. Others are usually quite impressed by the Arien’s way of doing things. Quite often they are sources of inspiration for others traveling the same route. Aries men and women have a special zest for life that is often contagious; for others, they are often the example for how life should be lived.

The Aries person usually has a quick and active mind. He is imaginative and inventive. He enjoys keeping busy and active. He generally gets along well with all kinds of people. He is interested in mankind, as a whole. He likes to be challenged. Some would say he thrives on opposition, for it is when he is set against that he often does his best. Getting over or around obstacles is a challenge he generally enjoys. He likes to keep abreast of new things that are happening in the world.

Ariens are often fond of speed. They like things to be done quickly and this sometimes aggravates their slower colleagues and associates.
The Aries man or woman always seems to remain young. Their whole approach to life is youthful and optimistic. They never say die, no matter what the odds, They may have an occasional setback, but it is not long before they are back on their feet again.

Everybody has his less positive qualities – and Aries is no exception. Sometimes the Aries man or woman is not very tactful in communication with others; in his hurry to get things done he is apt to be a little callous or inconsiderate. Sensitive people are likely to find him somewhat sharp-tongued in some situations. Often in his eagerness to achieve his aims, he misses the mark altogether .

At times the Arien is too impulsive. He can occasionally be stubborn and refuse to listen to reason. If things do not move quickly enough to suit the Aries man or woman, he is apt to become rather nervous or irritable. The uncultivated Arien is not unfamiliar with moments of doubt and fear. He is capable of being destructive if he does not get his way. He can overcome some of his emotional problems by steadily trying to express himself as he really is, but this requires effort.

The Fire element of Aries brings assertive “I” energy. This is a flaming drive and the desire to do something! The Aries will is full of tension and passion; the “I” brings a need for independence.

Aries coincides with spring time, when seeds germinate in an outpouring of energy and growth. This sign as has an instinctive identity, early extroversion, spontaneity, and a very direct approach. “Fire” can rage out of control. Aries’ cardinal-sign assertiveness can become too willful. Then we have wild spring weather — a storming nature and a passion for power. Spontaneity can become impulsive — as only a sign ruled by energizing Mars can be!

As fire can be a fleeting thing, so can be the friendship of a Ram. If you want to call an Aries up for a night on the town, you’ll have an exciting companion for the evening — but don’t try to make plans for next week. This Sign needs variety in their friendships. If one group of people can’t keep up with their constantly changing interests, they’ll move on to new friends.

Not that they ever lack for companionship: The Ram is well liked for their edge, so making new friends is never a big problem. Friends are nice, but not exactly necessary for independent Aries, who doesn’t need a big group to have fun. When they are in one, though, their competitive nature is liable to get the better of them. Don’t try to borrow even a cup of sugar from this one.

Ruled by the First House of Self, selfishness can sometimes take the upper hand when it’s a choice between people and possessions. On the other hand, the Ram can be very warm toward their friends. As long as Aries feels that they are the number one friend in your life, you can count on having an exciting, albeit brief, whirlwind of fun. The Ram’s best friends will be Geminis and Aquarians.

Quick-witted Arians often find outlets for their unusually high energy level in sports and physical activities. Adventure seeking rams are aggressive, restless, headstrong, quick tempered, easily offended and capable of holding grudges.

Arians have a high sex drive that makes for a passionate and energetic lover (but not the most faithful). The ram’s sexuality is hot and intense, it ignites quickly and explodes in a blaze of fire and sparks.

You have a sense of purpose and a distinct personal style, and you refuse to let others define you. Often a creature of extremes, you react quickly and make instantaneous decisions. You believe in action and proudly stand up for what you know is right, even if it conflicts with commonly held notions. Neither a joiner nor a follower, you’re a natural-born leader because you have a clear, decisive mind combined with total faith in your own reactions and plans.

At your audacious best, you’re untiring, ardent, and thoroughly original. You’re an activist on your own behalf, and you have initiative. A risk-taker with a pioneering spirit, you have a deep need to prove yourself. So when a fresh idea or a groundbreaking mission captures your imagination, you rush in. Later on, if your interest falters or your hopes don’t pan out, you move on, undaunted. Life is too short to waste on anything that fails to please you.

Like a child, you can be self-centered, inconsiderate, and intent on doing things your way. Your determination is often unbreakable. When you really want something, you can be combative, brash, and even ruthless in your efforts to get it. You’re willing to take risks and you do a lot of rule breaking, a trait that doesn’t always work to your benefit. Rather than bending to someone else’s requirements, you prefer to simply obey your instincts.

At times you exhibit a woeful lack of foresight, and you often lack diligence. Although your enthusiasms are many, you easily become restless and your initial interest soon fizzles. Your impatience is legendary. For that reason, you find greater satisfaction with short-term ventures than with lengthy ones.

This sign is the head of the fiery triplicity, and belongs to the cardinal signs. We find persons born under the rule of this sign always looking forward, they are leaders in ideals and pioneers of advanced thought. They have great mental energy but are inclined to be very headstrong and impulsive. They are always prophetic, and love to predict things that will happen. They can look ahead into the future and foresee things with remarkable clearness of vision.

When freed from other influences and not slaves to their personality, they become truly clairvoyant, and are remarkably gifted in this direction. This sign gives extreme ideality, and those born under it are more ideal than practical. They are always full of new schemes and plans, ever exploring and originating. They are fond of constant change, loving novelty, romance and speculation and nearly always live in a world of theory. They are very highly strung, sometimes hyper-sensitive and are remarkable for their perception. They seem to live more in the perceptive region of their brain than the reflective, and they are rarely deceived where perception is concerned.

They are extremely sensitive persons, with all the senses fully alive, except one. With them the consciousness being more readily expressed in the head, they have keen sight, sense, taste and hearing, but from the fact of their being more alive in the head they do not “feel”, and are therefore less sensitive to touch in other parts of the body. They are very self-willed and often self-opinionated, and it is exceedingly difficult to restrain them, as they are always inclined to act upon impulse without waiting to mature their plans. They are frank and outspoken by choice, but often combative and assertive. They are generous from impulse, and are fond of reason and argument. They can be both sceptical and credulous, but the former mood often sways them.

They are decidedly lacking in caution, being far too venturesome and often running to great extremes, at times even lacking in discretion, but never in zeal and enthusiasm.They are ambitious persons, who love to engage in great enterprises. With them the intellect is the main feature, but they always find it difficult to understand their own emotions and feelings. They are too often inclined to fly off at tangents and will rush into danger somewhat recklessly. When not living up to the highest strength of their character, they have a tendency to jealousy.

They expect loyalty from others and may be somewhat exacting in this respect. When their mind is made up they seek to overcome all opposition, more by their dominant will and masterful spirit than by simple perseverance. They are interested in all matters that are occult and metaphysical, and love to live in a world of theory. Always intellectual, they make splendid companions, being affable, genial and witty. They are never at a loss for a word, and make excellent conversationalists. As a host or hostess they are full of little plans for making those around them happy, and they can always be relied upon to provide plenty of entertainment.

It is not easy to deceive those born during the period of this signs influences, and were they to cultivate their clairvoyant talent they would be remarkable for their powers of psychometry, or what is generally termed intuition. They sense others in a remarkable way, going straight to the core with those in whom they are interested. Their mental sympathies are always quick to respond to the least good which they may find in others.

They are sometimes too hopeful with regard to their enterprises, and generally over-estimate. They are good at all work that does not require sustained effort, and where things are required quickly and promptly, they are the people who can do them best. But, their mission in life is to inspire and lead, as they are directors and promoters, designers, prophets and teachers. The head being the most sensitive part this will be the first to give out, as it were. Therefore, when the health fails in the Aries person, severe headaches result. As Aries governs the face also, the eyes suffer when the system is depleted, and they are liable to suffer from neuralgia.

This being the head of the cardinal signs, the stomach and kidneys suffer by reflex action. It is essential for the physical well-being of the Aries character that they have plenty of fresh air, and daily exercise. The best cure for all their physical ailments is peace, quiet, and rest. Amidst harmonious surroundings they can recuperate and recover that which to them is essential balance.

The Aries types would marry well with those born in Sagittarius, provided the planetary indications on the joint horoscopes were harmonious, but the Aries person would benefit most by union with those born in Leo, as the opportunity would then be offered of joining head with heart. The Leos being more practical than the Aries, a better blend would be obtained from this union.

The fiery and airy triplicities being in sympathy, it is out of these the best unions will arise. The Aries person would find those born of earth or water too practical or too emotional to suit his idealistic tendencies. The Aries person really requires to unite with those who can draw out his conjugality, which is more latent in this sign than any of the others.

We may sum up this sign of the zodiac as belonging to the intellectual trinity. Their aim in life always appears to be to live in the mind and intellect. This makes of them very independent characters with clear and decided ideas, with a spirit that is dauntless, fearless and aspiring. Their greatest fault when perverting their gifts is deception, and they are often clever enough to deceive successfully. But when strongly individualised, their independence enables them to rise above mean and petty action, and their pathway is always on the road to clear thought, which finally leads to the perfected intuition.

Emotionally, you find it difficult to imagine how other people feel. You can strike people as insensitive, egocentric, and self-absorbed. And there’s no avoiding the fact that you have a white-hot temper. It comes and goes in a flash, but when it appears, you’re terrifying. You hold strong opinions, and you’re not afraid to express them, no matter how impolitic (or impolite) they may be. You figure it this way – If expressing your views causes others discomfort, let them nurse their fragile sensibilities on their own. You have too much to do to sit around obsessing over hurt feelings, criticism, or the sorrows and injustices of the past.

Anyone who knows you from friends and family to the most casual of acquaintances knows where you stand. Outspoken and direct, you don’t hesitate to express yourself, and you have little patience for those who can’t take the heat. Besides, you enjoy your own company entirely too much to tolerate anyone who requires coddling. Self-sufficient and independent you prefer your friends to be as on-the-move as you are, and you can’t bear whining.

As for love, you’re an exciting person to be around, overflowing with enthusiasm and joie de vivre. Although you suffer from jealousy and can be competitive, you enjoy the chase, if it doesn’t drag on for too long. You’re not a game player. You know what you like, and when you find it, you go for it. And did I mention that you’re sexually ravenous?

At the same time, you’re an idealist who’s fully prepared to hold out for the real thing. You demand equality, and if you don’t get it, you make your displeasure clear. With Mars, the warrior planet, as your ruler, you seldom shy away from confrontation. And even though you don’t mean to be contentious, at times you can’t help yourself.

You’re not one to suppress your feelings or to spend endless hours delving into the intricacies of your own, or anyone else’s, psyche. You’d rather face the issues head on. Your combustible, intimidating exterior may mask feelings of inferiority, but most people won’t realize that. All they know is that you’re a force to be reckoned with.

With your executive decision-making ability and general verve, you’re a self starter and an effective leader who likes to initiate change. Ambitious and competitive, you rise to a challenge. But you’re a sprinter, not a long-distance runner. You love the unmistakable thrill that comes at the beginning of an undertaking, when creative momentum is high and the possibilities are wide open.

You’re delighted to experiment and innovate. But once things have settled into a routine and the endeavor becomes weighted down with procedures, precedents, and supervisors, your excitement wanes. You find it irritating and dispiriting to spend time focusing on details and loose ends or doing standard maintenance tasks. Not surprisingly, quitting too soon is one of your worst, and most frequent, mistakes.

You’re happiest working on your own or being the boss, preferably in an enterprise that allows you to be in charge of your own schedule. Physical activity is a definite plus, as is the opportunity to participate in a variety of tasks. You’re easily bored, and your need to express yourself is stronger than your need for security.

Surgery is said to be an Aries profession, as is anything that involves fire (including cooking) and anything with a high risk quotient. Whatever your true vocation, it’s not something you choose for money or prestige. Instead, you’re drawn to it because it offers you a way to make an impact on the world — and at the same time to express your incomparable, amazing self.

Some famous Aries include Alec Baldwin, Thomas Jefferson, Marlon Brando, Heath Ledger, Jayne Mansfield, Jackie Chan, Marcel Marceau, Charlie Chaplin, Ewan McGregor, Russell Crowe, Steve McQueen, Francis Ford Coppola, Daffy Duck, Gloria Steinem, Bette Davis, Quentin Tarantino, Jane Goodall, Vincent Van Gogh, Al Gore, Reese Witherspoon, and Harry Houdini.

The Ram is compatible with its own sign, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius and Aquarius. Explore Aries’ Love Match Astrology.

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