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Real astronomy and dated history, with sources. Documented traditions and folklore. Modern lunar astrology · symbolic, not predictive.

Signs · Beginner

Aries

Also called Aries sign

The first sign, beginning at the March equinox; astrologers associate it with initiative and directness.

Aries opens the zodiac at 0° of tropical longitude. Astrologers associate it with starting things, courage, impatience and the urge to act first. In the tropical zodiac the Sun is in Aries from about 21 March to 19 April, the exact moment varying by a day from year to year.

How it is worked out
Tropical longitude 0° to 30°; element fire, modality cardinal, polarity yang; traditional ruler Mars.
  • Kind: Tradition, Interpretation
  • Tradition: Shared across Western traditions
  • In this site’s birth chart: used

Related: Fire signs, Cardinal signs, Polarity, Zodiac sign, Mars, Equinox

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