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Aries – the First Sign

The Sign of New Beginnings

21 March – 19 April



POSITIVE FEATURES
Adventurous, brave, dynamic, energetic, enthusiastic, pioneering,
self-confident, witty

NEGATIVE FEATURES
Fool-hardy, hot-tempered, impatient, impulsive, selfish

LIKES
Action, challenges, leadership, spontaneity

DISLIKES
Advices, confessing mistakes, not being contradicted, tyranny,
waiting

PERSONALITY
Aries is adventurous, ambitious, active, dynamic, impulsive, enthusiastic and full of energy. You are also extrovert, sociable and self-confident. As the brave pioneer of the Zodiac, you are not afraid of challenges. However, you are a bit impatient if you do not see quick results. You love freedom, and you are never afraid of new ideas.
You are a natural leader, and you like to get things started. You need to be in the lead to feel good. You are sincerely concerned about those who you are in charge of. Very seldom, you use you leading abilities for personal gain. You need the lead makes you a bad subordinate. You are unwilling to obey or accept instructions that you do not see any reason for, or which you disagree on. Much is circulating around yourself, in positive as well as negative meaning. You have a strong self-confidence, but you are also self-centred. You are very concerned about your personal advancement and physical satisfaction. Your enormous energy makes you aggressive, restless, and sometimes quarrelsome. You are stubborn, you have a hot temper, and you are easily offended. You easily hold grudge against persons that you feel offended by.
You are intellectual and objective, but you may in rare cases get drawn towards religious and political extremism. You are witty, but also fool-hardy, and you have a tendency to fight an issue even after it has been acted out. Sometimes you throw yourself into things without reflecting on possible consequences. To employ your positive sides to the fullest, you need to develop a strong self control, but without suppressing your powerful nature.

PROFESSIONS
You may be a skilful athlete, climber or discoverer. You may also
work as a doctor, seaman, pilot or soldier, or as a leader in
industry or politics.

RELATIONSHIPS
You are outspoken, direct and honest, and an enthusiastic and
generous friend. You have a strong sex drive and you are a passionate but fastidious lover. You are unarranged and you have a need to conquer. You are easily irritated by slowness and cautiousness, and you easily hurt people around you without knowing it by yourself.
But you are the most thoughtful and loving parent in the entire Zodiac, and you always but your children first.
You are most compatible to
Leo – Your two very expressive personalities most often fit very well together, and you are housing great admiration towards each other. Both of you want to be in the centre of attention. This is a very physical and fiery relationship.
Libra – This has good opportunity of being a warm and love-filled relationship. You complete each other in an excellent way. You house great appreciation towards the passionate and emotional Libra, and you may answer this emotionality in a way which Libra likes.
Sagittarius – Your two impulsive and freedom-loving personalities are excellent together.
You are not as compatible to
Aries – Your two personalities have easy understanding towards each other. However, Aries wants to decide, and this is not a quiet and peaceful relationship. If yet perhaps exciting and tempting.
Taurus – At the first sight, this might look like a wonderful combination. The affectionate personality of Taurus is exactly what you seek. Taurus likes your outgoing personality, and you appreciate the down-to-earth Taurus. However, you are all too different for this to work in long terms.  
Gemini – You are all too physical and hot-headed for the intellectual
Gemini.
Cancer – This is most often a difficult combination. Cancer is all too moody and sentimental for your taste, and does easily make you loose your temper. Cancer has got a hard time standing your open and direct manners.
Virgo – Quiet and cautious Virgo does not fit well with your hot tempered personality. Virgo does not like your way of bossing about.
Scorpio – You are both all too hot tempered to get along. Both of you want to get your will through, and both of you refuse to give in. Physically, this relationship might however be tempting.
Capricorn – The patient and meditative Capricorn is just not your type.
Aquarius – You are easily irritated by the unpredictable manners of Aquarius, and the always benevolent Aquarius might get irritated by your hot temper.
Pisces – Sensitive Pisces do not find much comfort with your aggressive nature. Dreamy and romantic Pisces is depending on a tactfulness which you lack.
Your opposite
Libra

DISEASES
Acne, burning injuries, burnout, fainting, head injuries,
inflammations, sunstroke, swollenness

RULING PLANET
Mars

RULING DEITY
Mars (Ares) – the God of War

ENGLISH COMMON NAME
The Ram

KEYWORD
Action

PERSONAL KEYWORD
I am

DUALITY
Yang (masculine, bright, hard, active)

TRIPLICITY
Fire

QUALITY
Cardinal

COLOUR
Red

STAR STONE
Diamond

METAL
Iron

FLOWER
Violet (sweet pea, crane’s-bill)

TREE
All trees with thorn

ANIMAL
Sheep

LUCKY NUMBERS
1 and 9

LUCKY DAY
Tuesday

COUNTRIES
Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, Iceland, Poland

CITIES
Florence, Marseilles, Naples, Verona

THE MYTH BEHIND THE SIGN
Phrixus and Helle were son and daughter of King Athamas of Boethia and his wife Nephele. As Nephele died, Athamas married Ino, daughter of King Cadmus of Thebes. Ino detested the two children.
In an attempt to get rid of them, she poisoned the ground to destroy the harvest. To find a solution to the harvest crisis, the king sent a messenger to the oracle of Delphi. Ino bribed the messenger, so that he was to tell the king that the harvest was to be saves if the children were sacrificed.
Athamas brought the children with him to the top of mountain to make the sacrifice. But from above, the late Nephele saw what was about to happen, and asked the gods to intervene. And so, the gods sent a ram with golden skin to bring the children into safety. At the very moment that the children were to be killed, they jumped up onto the back of the ram, and rode towards Asia. However, as the ram jumped across the strait between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, Helle lost her grip and fell off and drowned. Phrixus did though manage to hold on, and eventually he arrived in the land of Colhis (the present day country of Georgia). Here, Phrixis out of gratitude sacrifices the ram to Jupiter, and gave the skin to King Aeetes of Colchis, whose daughter he then married. The king hung the skin on the branch of an oak tree, where it was forever to be guarded by a dragon. Later, though, the skin was to be stolen by the adventurer Jason…

SOME FAMOUS ARIES
Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Elton John, H.C. Andersen, Alec Guinness, Marlon Brando, Doris Day, Harry Houdini, Omar Sharif, David Letterman, Charlie Chaplin.