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Aries
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First to move, and the moving is usually the point. What the lists call courage is mostly an inability to wait.
The basics
Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, cardinal fire, symbol the Ram, ruled by Mars. Cardinal fire opens the year: the sign that starts the zodiac and starts most other things. Its opposite sign is Libra.
When the Sun is actually in Aries
The Sun enters Aries on 20 March and leaves for Taurus on 19 or 20 April. Those are not fixed dates. The calendar runs on whole days and the orbit does not, so the crossing drifts later and the leap year hauls it back.
Computed from the same ephemeris this site uses for its birth charts, across the eleven years 2020 to 2030, the Sun crossed into Aries on the 20th every single time. Aries is the only sign in the zodiac whose entry does not move across that stretch. The other end of the range does move, so a birthday near 19 or 20 April is still worth checking.
Pisces comes before it and Taurus after. If your birthday is the 19th or 20th of April you are on the Taurus boundary, and which side you fall is decided by your year and your hour rather than by a table.
What Aries is actually like
Aries is the first sign and almost everything about it follows from going first. You start before you are ready, because ready is a feeling you do not get, and waiting for it has cost you more than starting badly ever has.
You are direct in a way people find either restful or alarming, with very little in between. You say the thing, you say it early, and you are genuinely puzzled by the alternative. That is the Mars habit: the planet associated with doing rather than considering, which produces someone who would rather be wrong at speed than right eventually.
Cardinal fire means you are good at the beginning of things and uninterested in the middle. You have started more than you have finished and you know it. The signs that finish are not braver than you, they are just not bored yet.
The part the lists leave out
The temper is the part people warn about and it is not actually the problem. Your anger arrives fast, says what it came to say and leaves, and you are usually over it before the other person has caught up. What costs you is that they are not over it, and you read the lingering as a grudge rather than as the ordinary speed at which people recover from being shouted at.
The second cost is quieter. Because you start things alone you have learned not to ask, and not asking has turned into a point of pride rather than a practical choice. There is a difference between independence and refusing to be helped, and from the inside they feel identical.
Aries in love
You pursue. You are usually the one who says it first, you have been burned doing that and you have done it again, because the alternative is waiting. That makes you a straightforward person to be in love with and an exhausting one to be uncertain with.
Your pattern is intensity at the start and restlessness around the point where it stops being new. That is not a flaw in you, it is the cardinal problem: nothing in your makeup rewards maintenance. The ones that last are the ones where something keeps actually happening, not the ones where you talked yourself into being calm.
Your sun sign is not your chart
If about half of this landed and the other half did not, that is the normal result and it is not vagueness. The Sun is one body out of ten, and it is the only one a date on its own can find.
An Aries Sun with a Cancer Moon spends a good deal of its life apologising for the first half, and no list organised by date would ever have told you that. Your Big Three works out all three, free, and the arithmetic runs on your own device.
Directness reads as aggression when it arrives faster than people expect. The tradition associates Aries with Mars and with doing rather than deliberating, which produces someone who says the thing early rather than someone who wants a fight.
What are Aries worst at?
The middle of things. Cardinal signs begin and fixed signs continue, and Aries is the first cardinal sign. Finishing is a learned skill here rather than a natural one.
What are the Aries dates?
The Sun entered Aries on the 20th of March in every year from 2020 to 2030, which no other sign manages. It leaves for Taurus on 19 or 20 April, and that end does move.
What is the opposite sign to Aries?
Libra. The axis runs between doing what you want and working out what is fair to somebody else, and an Aries Sun tends to have met it as a complaint about selfishness at least once.
