Aries

You said yes before the question was finished, and by the time anyone else had weighed it you were already in the water. Aries moves first: an impulse that does not wait for a plan to arrive, and is seldom sorry it went.

The sign opens at the spring equinox, the instant the Sun stands over the equator and starts north, and the northern year turns toward light. Its degrees run from 0° to 30° of the ecliptic, and the whole wheel is counted from this point. Aries is a beginning by definition.

In your chart

The Sun in Aries starts things and says what it wants. In Aries the Moon turns feeling into a reflex: you are furious or delighted within a second, and finished with it inside a minute. Aries rising walks into a room front first, and makes Mars the chart’s ruler, so where Mars stands counts for more than usual. The house with Aries on its cusp is where you jump before you look, and where you are bravest.

Themes

Aries is cardinal, so it begins, and fire, so it runs on enthusiasm rather than on plan. You find out what you think by doing something and watching what follows. Mars rules the sign, and Mars owns appetite, competition and anger: the Aries part of you wants things openly and goes to get them without embarrassment.

The second week is where it goes wrong. The first surge of energy feels like the whole task, so the project starts with total commitment and stops at eighty percent, and the person who arrives to finish it is usually someone else. Aries anger is quick and clean, and the people who love you learn that it is over before the dishes are dry.

The golden fleece

The old story gives Aries a golden-fleeced ram, sent to carry two children out of danger across the sea; its fleece was hung in a grove and became the prize of Jason’s voyage. The tradition also exalts the Sun here, at 19°, its most honoured degree: the light that opens the year is honoured simply for arriving.

Across the wheel from Aries stands Libra, and the line between them is the difference between acting alone and acting with someone. Every chart holds both ends of it somewhere.

How the analysis treats it

Each Aries placement is named to the degree and set in its house, then followed to Mars: the sign Mars is in, the house it holds, the aspects it makes. Those three say where the speed goes and whether it finds anything to push against.