Everything Aries

(March 21–April 19)

Your Element — Fire

Fire signs are called the initiators of the zodiac because you don't allow the grass to grow under your feet. If a job needs to be done, there is nobody who can do it more quickly and efficiently than you, but if the job is a long-winded one that requires persistence, you may have to find someone else to come in and finish it for you. You grasp opportunities when they are offered and you don't understand those who don't have the courage and initiative to do the same themselves. Your intelligence and courage are to be admired but you can become arrogant and overbearing to those who you consider less able than you are. You can be a spendthrift, but you are as likely to spend money on others as on yourself.

Your Quality — Cardinal

There is a kind of self-centeredness about all cardinal sign people, which means that it is hard to push you into doing things that you don't wish to do. You can come up with some great ideas but you may not always be able to carry them through to their logical conclusion. You take responsibility easily and you can care for those who are weaker than yourself, but if others try to hold you back, you will resist.

Your Ruling Planet — Mars

Mars was once the Roman god of War and naturally this planet has always been seen as aggressive and dynamic. The ancient Greek version is Ares (or Aries), so this planet and its sign really do fit well together. The actual planet that you can see in the sky has a slightly reddish color and it was probably the association between the color red and its association with action and activity that suggested the connection between the planet and the warlike god.

Your Symbol — the Ram

The Ram first appeared in ancient Egypt representing the first of the gods, Ammon. This is very apt for the first sign of the zodiac. In ancient times, the sign of Aries was also symbolized by the goose, although the origins of that connection have been lost over the centuries.

Your Appearance

There are two kinds of typical Aries look. One is tall with well-defined eyebrows — the look of the ram. The other type is small to medium in height and inclined to run to fat with chubby cheeks; you can look more like a sheep than a ram as you get older. Many of you have a reddish tinge to your hair, rather flat cheekbones and a small neat nose. Both types have a fairly wide face with a good deal of space between the ends of the eyes and brows and the side of the hairline. Many of you have a mole, scar, or some other mark on your face.

Your Part of the Body

Aries rules the head, eyes, skull, and upper jaw.

Your Potential Health Problems

The eyes: including conjunctivitis and squints. The head: including the upper jaw. You can suffer from headaches, sudden infections, accidents and burns, also reproductive or urinary problems. This sign also rules acts of violence.

Your Strengths and Weaknesses

Your Good Bits

Your best qualities are energy and initiative, a capacity for hard work and a love of life.

Your Bad Bits

Your worst qualities are selfishness, impatience, aggression and a dislike of thoroughness.

Your Weaknesses

You love fast vehicles and lots of partners. You can be a sucker for fast food, alcohol, creamy dishes.

Your Favorable Locales

Cities

Birmingham (UK), Boston (USA), Calgary, Denver, Florence, Minneapolis, Naples (Italy), Sydney (Australia).

Countries

England, Germany, Indonesia, Japan.

Vacations

Anywhere lively where you can sit outside and see the world go by and also spend plenty of time shopping for interesting clothes and things for your home. Some Arians are sun lovers but others find the heat uncomfortable, especially those of you who have a fair or reddish complexion.

Landscapes

You like cities but also country areas that can offer plenty of variety.

Your Foods

You are not a particularly fussy eater but you prefer traditional cooking or spicy or tasty food for a change. You must ensure that you don't eat too much junk food or quick food though, because it will affect your health.

Your Style

You love anything that is new. Your taste may be plain or flam-boyant but you love new things. You may need to choose designs that disguise a prominent behind.

Your Careers

You like to work in a large organization, preferably as some kind of team leader. You are attracted to teaching, sports, medicine, and engineering. You are happy to work in a social or lifesaving organization such as the police, the armed forces and the paramilitary or as a paramedic. Once you have retired, you may take up voluntary work; this is because you like to help others and you can't sit about doing nothing. Oddly enough, many Arians are quite psychic and there are many Arian mediums and clairvoyants.

Your Friends and Foes

• You like honest, energetic, intelligent and generous people.

• You dislike devious or indecisive types or penny-pinching nitpickers.

Love and Sex

You prefer to be in a settled relationship, but despite this, many of you do spend some years living alone, usually after a divorce. Eventually, you find someone new and hopefully take a more balanced, less selfish view about partnerships. It is hard for any Arian to do without sex, so whether in a settled relationship or whether you are still looking around, you find ways of experiencing passion and of experimenting with your partner of the moment. Your greatest and deepest love may be for one of your children (rarely for all of them) or possibly for a pet or some other animal.

Success in Love and Compatibility

Aries with Aries

You are both highly sexed, but you both like to take the lead and also lose your temper if things don't go your way, so a sense of humor will be needed.

Aries with Taurus

Apart from certain exceptional cases, you are too different for real long-term happiness; however, a short-lived relationship might be fun.

Aries with Gemini

This is often a successful combination unless you are selfish and the Gemini is a worrier or a grouch.

Aries with Cancer

You are both interested in family life but you may both want to make the major decisions, so arguments are likely. Cancer likes to save money, so this could be a source of friction.

Aries with Leo

You both like to call the shots and you both like to be the boss, so while the sexual high jinks could make this a very exciting affair, the...