Mars in Aries
In its own sign, Mars is first through any door. With Mars in Aries you start fast, fight fair and in the open, recover from a setback by lunch, and lose interest once the challenge is gone.
You don’t wait to be asked. The sign-up sheet goes round, and your name is at the top before anyone else has read what it is for.
The month that bears its name
March is named for Mars; in the oldest Roman calendar it was the first month of the year, when the fighting season opened and the fields were turned. Aries, the sign that opens the zodiac, is Mars’s own house by day; its other, Scorpio, keeps the fire hidden, and here it burns in the open. Here the planet of drive has nothing in its way. You begin things. Your best hours are the opening of anything: a new post, a run’s first mile, a problem nobody has solved.
Out in front
Your courage is physical and it is quick. You would rather jump and be wrong than stand at the edge and think, and most of the time the jump works. Competition sharpens you. Give you a rival, a deadline or a record to beat and your whole body sharpens; take them away and you drift, looking for the next thing to push against.
Your anger flares and is gone. You say it, it is over, and an hour later you have forgotten there was a fight at all. Honest people like this about you. People who brood find it baffling, because they are still hurt while you are asking what everyone wants for dinner.
The chase
You know what you want the moment you see it, and you name it and move toward it. Chasing is half the pleasure. Games, hints and long delays wear your patience thin, and anyone who makes you wait too long simply loses you to whoever didn’t.
The middle of the race
Starting is easy. The long middle stretch, where nothing new happens and the work simply has to be done, is where you struggle. You leave a trail of brilliant first chapters. You can also run straight at a problem that needed walking round, and take a knock you could have avoided.
Heat in your voice lands harder than you mean it to. You forget the sharp word by the evening, and someone else remembers it for a month.
While everyone else still wonders whether to try, you have already tried twice, failed once, and learned more than they will from a year of planning.
From a real analysis
In her chart: Mars in Aries, in the 6th house · 11°16′ Aries
“If you want it done by Friday, hand it over.” A colleague or a friend has said something like this about you, and it is fair: on an ordinary working day you clear the pile, push the stalled task forward and get restless when nothing needs doing. Your Mars, the planet of drive and fight, sits in Aries, the sign of the first step and the bold start, and it is at home there: picture a warrior in its own camp, quick and unafraid. It stands in your sixth house, the house of daily work and routines, so your courage shows up in the plain business of the job.
Were you born with Mars in Aries?
Mars comes to Aries about every two years and stays about five and a half weeks, or as long as six months when it turns retrograde there.
Mars’s every stay in Aries from 1920 to 2030, from the minute it entered to the minute it left, in Universal Time (UTC). Born on a first or last day? Then the hour and the place decide it, and your chart settles it.
1920s
| Entered | Left |
|---|---|
| February 13, 1921, 5:21 a.m. | March 25, 1921, 6:26 a.m. |
| January 21, 1923, 10:07 a.m. | March 4, 1923, 12:41 a.m. |
| December 19, 1924, 11:09 a.m. | February 5, 1925, 10:17 a.m. |
| June 15, 1926, 12:50 a.m. | August 1, 1926, 9:14 a.m. |
| May 16, 1928, 9:35 p.m. | June 26, 1928, 9:04 a.m. |
1930s
| Entered | Left |
|---|---|
| April 24, 1930, 5:27 p.m. | June 3, 1930, 3:15 a.m. |
| April 3, 1932, 7:02 a.m. | May 12, 1932, 10:53 a.m. |
| March 14, 1934, 9:09 a.m. | April 22, 1934, 3:40 p.m. |
| February 22, 1936, 4:09 a.m. | April 1, 1936, 9:30 p.m. |
| January 30, 1938, 12:44 p.m. | March 12, 1938, 7:47 a.m. |
1940s
| Entered | Left |
|---|---|
| January 4, 1940, 12:05 a.m. | February 17, 1940, 1:54 a.m. |
| July 2, 1941, 5:17 a.m. | January 11, 1942, 10:20 p.m. |
| May 27, 1943, 9:25 a.m. | July 7, 1943, 11:05 p.m. |
| May 2, 1945, 8:29 p.m. | June 11, 1945, 11:52 a.m. |
| April 11, 1947, 11:03 p.m. | May 21, 1947, 3:40 a.m. |
| March 21, 1949, 10:02 p.m. | April 30, 1949, 2:32 a.m. |
1950s
| Entered | Left |
|---|---|
| March 1, 1951, 10:03 p.m. | April 10, 1951, 9:37 a.m. |
| February 8, 1953, 1:07 a.m. | March 20, 1953, 6:54 a.m. |
| January 15, 1955, 4:33 a.m. | February 26, 1955, 10:22 a.m. |
| December 6, 1956, 11:24 a.m. | January 28, 1957, 2:19 p.m. |
| June 7, 1958, 6:21 a.m. | July 21, 1958, 7:03 a.m. |
1960s
| Entered | Left |
|---|---|
| May 11, 1960, 7:19 a.m. | June 20, 1960, 9:04 a.m. |
| April 19, 1962, 4:58 p.m. | May 28, 1962, 11:47 p.m. |
| March 29, 1964, 11:24 a.m. | May 7, 1964, 2:40 p.m. |
| March 9, 1966, 12:55 p.m. | April 17, 1966, 8:35 p.m. |
| February 17, 1968, 3:17 a.m. | March 27, 1968, 11:43 p.m. |
1970s
| Entered | Left |
|---|---|
| January 24, 1970, 9:29 p.m. | March 7, 1970, 1:28 a.m. |
| December 26, 1971, 6:04 p.m. | February 10, 1972, 2:04 p.m. |
| June 20, 1973, 8:53 p.m. | August 12, 1973, 2:56 p.m. |
| October 29, 1973, 10:56 p.m. | December 24, 1973, 8:09 a.m. |
| May 21, 1975, 8:14 a.m. | July 1, 1975, 3:53 a.m. |
| April 27, 1977, 3:46 p.m. | June 6, 1977, 2:59 a.m. |
| April 7, 1979, 1:08 a.m. | May 16, 1979, 4:25 a.m. |
1980s
| Entered | Left |
|---|---|
| March 17, 1981, 2:39 a.m. | April 25, 1981, 7:16 a.m. |
| February 25, 1983, 12:20 a.m. | April 5, 1983, 2:03 p.m. |
| February 2, 1985, 5:19 p.m. | March 15, 1985, 5:06 a.m. |
| January 8, 1987, 12:20 p.m. | February 20, 1987, 2:44 p.m. |
| July 13, 1988, 8:00 p.m. | October 23, 1988, 10:02 p.m. |
| November 1, 1988, 12:56 p.m. | January 19, 1989, 8:11 a.m. |
1990s
| Entered | Left |
|---|---|
| May 31, 1990, 7:11 a.m. | July 12, 1990, 2:44 p.m. |
| May 5, 1992, 9:36 p.m. | June 14, 1992, 3:56 p.m. |
| April 14, 1994, 6:02 p.m. | May 23, 1994, 10:37 p.m. |
| March 24, 1996, 3:12 p.m. | May 2, 1996, 6:16 p.m. |
| March 4, 1998, 4:18 p.m. | April 13, 1998, 1:05 a.m. |
2000s
| Entered | Left |
|---|---|
| February 12, 2000, 1:04 a.m. | March 23, 2000, 1:25 a.m. |
| January 18, 2002, 10:53 p.m. | March 1, 2002, 3:05 p.m. |
| December 16, 2003, 1:24 p.m. | February 3, 2004, 10:04 a.m. |
| June 12, 2005, 2:30 a.m. | July 28, 2005, 5:12 a.m. |
| May 15, 2007, 2:06 p.m. | June 24, 2007, 9:27 p.m. |
| April 22, 2009, 1:44 p.m. | May 31, 2009, 9:18 p.m. |
2010s
| Entered | Left |
|---|---|
| April 2, 2011, 4:51 a.m. | May 11, 2011, 7:03 a.m. |
| March 12, 2013, 6:26 a.m. | April 20, 2013, 11:48 a.m. |
| February 20, 2015, 12:11 a.m. | March 31, 2015, 4:26 p.m. |
| January 28, 2017, 5:39 a.m. | March 10, 2017, 12:34 a.m. |
| January 1, 2019, 2:20 a.m. | February 14, 2019, 10:51 a.m. |
2020s
| Entered | Left |
|---|---|
| June 28, 2020, 1:45 a.m. | January 6, 2021, 10:27 p.m. |
| May 24, 2022, 11:17 p.m. | July 5, 2022, 6:04 a.m. |
| April 30, 2024, 3:33 p.m. | June 9, 2024, 4:35 a.m. |
| April 9, 2026, 7:36 p.m. | May 18, 2026, 10:26 p.m. |
| March 19, 2028, 7:36 p.m. | April 27, 2028, 10:21 p.m. |
2030s
| Entered | Left |
|---|---|
| February 27, 2030, 7:07 p.m. | April 8, 2030, 5:27 a.m. |
Find your own Mars
Your chart is free and takes a moment: the wheel, your Sun, Moon and rising sign, and where Mars sits in it, to the degree.