Aries
March 21 – April 19
The one who goes first.
- Element
- Fire
- Modality
- Cardinal
- Ruler
- Mars
- Dates
- March 21 – April 19
Aries personality
Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, and it behaves like it. You move before the room has finished discussing, and half the time that instinct is right. Ruled by Mars, you run on impulse and appetite: when something interests you, it has all of you, and when it stops interesting you, you are already looking at the next thing. You are refreshingly hard to intimidate. People come to you when a decision has been sitting untouched for weeks, because you will simply make it. What looks like impatience from the outside is usually just honesty about how much time something is worth.
Strengths
- Starts things other people only talk about
- Says what they mean, without a hidden layer
- Recovers from setbacks quickly
- Genuinely brave when it counts
Working on
- Finishing what you began after the excitement fades
- Letting other people arrive at their own pace
- Sitting with anger for a beat before acting on it
Aries in love
You fall fast and you show it. Aries love is warm, physical and unmistakable — there is no guessing where you stand. What you need in return is directness: hints and sulking lose you completely, while a partner who tells you the truth plainly can hold your attention for years. The long middle of a relationship, once the chase is over, is where you have to choose it on purpose.
Aries at work
You are at your best at the start of something — a launch, a rescue, a deadline nobody else wants. Routine drains you faster than pressure does. You make decisions quickly and are usually willing to be wrong in public, which makes you a good person to have in a crisis and a difficult one to put on a committee.
This is the Aries sun sign — your core self. Your moon sign (your inner world) and rising sign (how you come across) shape just as much of the picture, which is why a sun-sign description can feel only half right on its own.