Sun in Aries

The kettle has not boiled and the argument is already over. You said exactly what you thought, slammed one cupboard, and forgot why, while the other person is still standing in the doorway, holding the grudge you dropped.

First in

You are at your best at the beginning of things: the first day of a job, the first week of a project, the first ten minutes of an emergency, when everyone else is still asking what happened and you are already on the phone. Competition wakes you up. Tell you something cannot be done and you have started before the sentence ends. You would rather be wrong quickly than right slowly, and you trust a decision more once you have acted on it.

Courage on loan

Your courage is best of all when someone else needs it. You tell the manager the schedule is unfair. You walk the nervous friend to the door of the difficult meeting. At the family dinner you say the thing everyone else was swallowing, and afterwards three people thank you quietly in the hall.

The Ram at the head of the circle

The zodiac is counted from the March equinox, the moment the Sun crosses into Aries, and the old astrologers began the year there, with the Ram at the head of the circle. The tradition gives the Sun its exaltation in this sign, its place of highest honour: light at full strength, breaking ground. Mars rules Aries and gives that light a pair of hands, which is why you learn who you are by doing.

The grey middle

The cost is the unfinished: half-built plans, a language learned as far as ordering lunch, a hobby bought in full and used twice. You feel a project go grey in your hands at the point where it stops being new. Anger comes fast and leaves fast, which is easier on you than on the people it passed through. Under all the speed sit feelings you never had time for, and they catch up with you on a quiet Sunday afternoon, when there is nothing left to start.

By Monday you have started something else, and this time you mean to finish it.