Aries Zodiac Sign: Characteristic Personality Trait Profile

A Reading by Richard Hills - Astrologer

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Aries Zodiac Sign - Basics:

Element: Fire, Quality: Cardinal, Ruler: Mars.

Characteristic Traits

Aries gets things started and then pursues them with gusto (but maybe not much practical common sense). Life is like a battle to be entered into and won. Your will must prevail. All is possible. If impossible it just takes a little longer (or so you believe).

Pitfalls

If not the team leader Aries will battle with whoever is. Acts first, thinks afterwards when it may be too late. Reckless and short-sighted.

A word of advice

When you get bored with a project, hand it over to someone else skilled in the practical application of your inspired idea, not forgetting (this is the difficult bit) to mention all those vital details without which the project will fail. Then you are free to start something else.

Compatibility

As an Aries your ideal mate is someone who lets you win a hard-fought battle, or who is content when you do (at which time you may have to pick a fight over something else). In practice, someone more down to earth might help sustain the relationship provided, of course, that you can get away with the idea that you're in charge. See Aries Man or Aries Woman for hints about your Aries partner.

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Aries Star Sign - a Deeper Look

Fundamentally, Aries' function is to be the initiator, the one who gets things started. In the northern hemisphere (where the myths surrounding astrology arose), the Sun enters Aries at the Spring equinox. Nature is coming to life after its winter slumbers, and manifests great energy as new growth pushes up out of the earth.

So Aries' function in life is to get things moving. The contributions all the other signs have to offer depend on someone providing the initial impulse. Aries is a fire sign, and fire has to do with inspiration and imagination. Your aim is to bring these qualities into life and act on them.

Now this may raise issues of compatibility with people whose horoscopes have different emphases. You may meet opposition from people (maybe with an earth sign like Taurus or Virgo emphasised in their birth charts) who are frustrated, telling you that it is all very well to be fired with imagination and act on new ideas, but what counts is whether anything lasting results. Well, yes, they may have a point. Perhaps you get some project off the ground, lots of people become dependent on the continuation of that project, but then it collapses as it is not being sustained. Here is a challenge to you to be true to yourself. If you get bored easily with a project once it has been started, maybe you need to make sure there are others around who are good at sustaining and managing the practical necessities of your idea. Then anyone dependent on it will not be let down. If you have no inclination to work with practical details, then maybe you could accept that as a personal quality you don't have and leave it to others, while you act on your next inspired idea! However, although you have an Aries emphasis, there may have been a lot of planets in earth signs (maybe Mercury in Taurus for instance) when you were born, and this would indicate some more practical inclinations you may want to pursue.

Consider the sign immediately opposite, Libra. Represented by a pair of scales, Libra is concerned with balance, harmony, co-operation. These are qualities you may need to learn in order to be effective, but not at the expense of your overall aims in life. You have, underlying everything, a strong personal will to move in life and fulfil your aims. Co-operation may be needed, but never allow others to sit on you or hold you down, otherwise you will be frustrated and unable to make the contribution to life you were born to make. This could be difficult if the Moon was in Libra when you were born, because this would indicate that your instinctive desire is to live in perfect peace and harmony with others - if you are at loggerheads with someone, then you feel insecure. This is a side of your nature which needs to be honoured, and it may take a lot of negotiation, especially with one you love with whom compatibility is so strongly desired, to have the peaceful co-existence you need at the same time as pursuing your own interests.

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