Aries in the Sun
If your birthday falls between about March 21 and April 19 your Sun is in Aries, and that makes Aries your star sign in the everyday sense of the word. In our astrology the Sun holds the center of a chart, the steady reference that all the other planets answer to, and it stands for your identity, your energy for living and the aim your life is built around. Aries is the cardinal Fire sign and the first of the twelve, and its ruler is Mars, the planet of action, courage and desire. A person with the Sun in Aries is therefore centered in the act of beginning.
What Aries in the Sun means
Fire is the element of excitation, warmth and direct expression, and the cardinal signs stand at the four turning points of the year, which is why they are the signs that start things. Aries begins at the March equinox, when the Sun crosses the celestial equator and the solar year opens, and in the northern hemisphere daylight then begins to outweigh the dark. The Sun in this sign carries the quality of that first push, and so the person with an Aries Sun finds out what is truly wanted by starting on it. This is why long planning and discussion can feel unreal to Aries until a first step has been taken.
The Sun is exalted in Aries, which makes this sign, along with Leo, one of the two places where the Sun works at its lowest cost. Exaltation means that a sign lifts a planet toward its best expression, and for the Sun that expression is a center which feels self-originating. The symbol of the sign is the Ram, an animal that goes forward head first, and this describes the placement well. An Aries Sun meets a difficulty directly, says what it wants and prefers an open contest to a quiet maneuver.
Your strengths
Courage is the strength people notice first in an Aries Sun, above all the courage to go first. This placement acts early, and it takes on risks, new ground and unpopular positions because hesitation costs it more than failure does. Aries is honest in a plain way, so people know where they stand with it, and it recovers from a setback quickly because its attention has already moved to the next step. Its confidence at the start of a project gives others the confidence to join it.
Your challenges
Impatience is the main difficulty of an Aries Sun, and it comes from the same source as the courage. Starting costs this sign very little and continuing costs it a good deal, so a project can be dropped as soon as its first excitement fades, and the native can end up with many beginnings and few finished works. Anger rises fast here and passes fast, and the people on the receiving end often stay hurt long after the Aries has moved on. A person this focused on what comes next can also miss what others need and treat an ordinary disagreement as a contest.
Aries Sun in love
Aries pursues what it wants in love openly and without much delay, and it enjoys a partner who has opinions and can hold their own in an argument. The risk comes after the chase, because a love that has been won offers less to strive for, and the Aries can mistake the calmer stage of a relationship for the end of its interest. The opposite sign is Libra, and the people who attract an Aries usually have what it lacks, tact, balance and a feeling for the other side. The work in love is to keep choosing the same partner after the excitement of the start has settled.
Friends and family
An Aries is a loyal friend and a very active one, and its friendships are usually built on doing things together. This sign will come to the defense of a friend at once and speak bluntly to the friend's face, and people who value honesty keep it close for years. As a parent an Aries teaches children to try things for themselves and to stand up for what they think. The care needed here is with a child who moves at a slower pace, since this parent's impatience can land harder than it was meant to.
Work and money
The work that suits an Aries Sun has independence, clear goals and a real challenge. Starting businesses, sales, athletics, the armed forces, firefighting, emergency medicine and the leading of new projects all suit this placement, and so does any role where someone has to decide quickly and carry the risk. Close supervision and routine upkeep suit it badly. Money comes through initiative and goes out on impulse, and because savings and long commitments ask for waiting, an Aries keeps money best with a fixed rule or a slower partner.
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Your Aries Sun in WaveForm astrology
The reading so far comes from Western astrology, and your chart on AwakenedSky also receives a WaveForm reading, which can only be had with us. WaveForm astrology treats each planet as a job performed inside you, and for every job it shows the cost in your own chart and the way to restore that job when it fails.
The job of your Sun is to keep a steady center, which we call quiet knowing, and Aries gives that job an inner certainty of direction. Every sign has things it makes cheap, which come easily, and things it makes expensive, which take deliberate work. Aries makes beginning and self-direction cheap, and the price it sets is on continuing. Because the Sun is exalted here the center itself is cheap to reach, and a low cost at the center of a chart helps the whole chart, since every other planet depends on it. WaveForm has a name for the way this placement fails, excitement in place of knowing, which means an aim kept alive by repeated bursts of enthusiasm that dies when the enthusiasm does. A steady Aries Sun knows its direction quietly and stays with a thing after it has stopped being exciting, while a slipping one goes looking for the next start. The work of an Aries Sun is to keep a center that came cheaply and to stay with one aim once the first excitement has gone. The sign and house of Mars and the rest of your chart show what this costs you in particular.
Your Sun is one part of your chart
The Sun shows the center, and the other placements show what that center has to work with. Your Moon shows how the drive of Aries is felt in your body and habits, your Rising shows how it reaches other people, and Mars, the ruler of Aries, shows by sign and house where the fire goes. An Aries Sun with a Capricorn Moon feels responsible for what it starts and finishes more of it than other Aries do. An Aries Sun with a Libra Moon was born near a Full Moon and lives with a steady pull between what it wants and what the other person needs.
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An Aries Sun will start without anyone's help, and what it gains from membership is the means to keep going. Saved charts hold your notes on what you began, when you began it and how it went, which gives a sign always facing the next step a record of its own patterns. Horary questions go to the question engine, which also names good days to begin, and transit updates by email and in your account show when the sky raises or lowers the cost of holding your aim. Going first has its place here too, because any member can host a local group or an Astrology Social with lessons from the School. Teachers of the School also give Zoom talks with recordings.
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