Aries

Portrait of the sign

Dear Aries friends, the ancient poet paints you as the ram with the rich fleece: shorn, it grows back; stripped bare, it starts hoping again. That is your truest trait. You cannot stand still in front of a closed door: you push it, and if it does not open you look for another one. You are a starter, the one who lights the fuse and then runs ahead, and that is exactly why people around you follow gladly, even when they have not quite understood where you are all going. The flip side is impatience: things done in a rush sometimes cost you dearly, and you swing from plenty to shipwreck as fast as you launched yourself. In love you are direct, generous, a little demanding; at work you shine when there is a road to open, less so when it needs maintaining. But the poet does not stop there: from the fleece of the Ram he brings forth a thousand trades, carding the raw wool, unwinding it again, spinning it fine, weaving, buying and selling garments of every kind, things without which no people could hold together, nor luxury either; a work so great that Pallas claimed it for herself and glories in her triumph over Arachne. That is your talent for turning one impulse into a hundred different activities, and offering them to everyone. And he adds a trait you may not like to hear: a doubting heart inside a trembling breast, always wanting to sell itself by its own praise. In plain words: you need to be seen, and when you are not, you praise yourself, a little too loudly. It is not vanity, it is fear of not counting, and those who love you know it. One piece of advice for a lifetime: before you set off, count to three. It will not put out your fire, it will protect it.

The Moon in Aries

The Moon is passing through Aries: the air turns impatient, everyone wants to act right now and go their own way, with the odd flash of temper. A good day for starting something, less good for negotiating. Watch the words that fly out unfiltered.

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