♈ Aries

cardinal fire · Sun in Aries: March 20 – April 20, 2026 (computed from the ephemeris)

Aries opens the zodiac at the spring equinox, and everything the tradition says about it follows from that placement: it is the year's ignition, the moment light overtakes dark. Cardinal fire ruled by Mars reads as initiative in its purest form — the impulse that starts things without waiting for permission or precedent. The Sun is exalted here: identity burns clearest at the moment of setting out.

The gift is courage that doesn't consult a committee; the cost is a short attention span for anything already started. Classical writers gave Aries the head, and the sign's characteristic failures are headfirst ones — haste, bluntness, the first word that should have been the second thought.

In the tradition

Every fact above is read from the same dignity tables the chart engine uses — the reference cannot drift from the math.

The three decans

Two systems, honestly both: the Chaldean faces walk the seven classical planets in slowest-to-fastest order continuously through all 36 decans; the triplicity decans hand each third to the ruler of the next sign of the same element.

The axis, and the sign's kin

Aries faces Libra across the wheel; the axis is about self and other: the courage to start alone against the art of weighing someone else in.

Same element (fire triad): Leo · Sagittarius. Same modality (cardinal cross): Cancer · Libra · Capricorn.

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