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Aries personality, love and compatibility The sign that goes first.

Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, a cardinal fire sign ruled by Mars. It usually runs from 20 March to 19 April. By the zodiac's geometry, its easiest matches are Leo and Sagittarius, and its hardest are Cancer and Capricorn.

Aries people act before the plan is finished and apologise later, if at all. They bring courage to every room and lose interest the moment a thing stops being a contest.

Dates
20 March to 19 April
Element
Fire
Mode
Cardinal
Ruler
Mars
Symbol
The Ram
Opposite
Libra
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Aries on the zodiac wheelAries sits at the top of the wheel. Trines, the easiest angle, run to Leo and Sagittarius; sextiles to Gemini and Aquarius; squares, the friction, to Cancer and Capricorn; and the opposite sign is Libra.ARITAUGEMCANLEOVIRLIBSCOSAGCAPAQUPIS
Aries and the other eleven signs. TrineSextileSquareOpposite

Personality

Aries goes first, and pays for it in the middle

Aries opens the zodiac, and the people born under it behave like openers. They volunteer for the task nobody wants to begin, say the awkward thing in the meeting, and take the first step onto an empty dance floor. Speed is their native language: a decision that takes other signs a week takes an Aries an afternoon, and most of the time the afternoon was enough.

The same speed makes the middle of anything hard for them. Projects stall around the point where the novelty wears off, and by then an Aries is often three new starts ahead. The Aries people who do well in life pick a single hill and stay on it after it stopped being exciting. Their temper is quick and short: a flare, a door, and ten minutes later they have forgotten it, which is not always true of the person they flared at.

CardinalFixedMutable
FireAriesLeoSagittarius
EarthCapricornTaurusVirgo
AirLibraAquariusGemini
WaterCancerScorpioPisces
Aries sits where fire meets cardinal. It shares its element with Leo and Sagittarius and its mode with Cancer, Libra and Capricorn.

At their best

Brave in a crisis, honest to the point of bluntness, generous with energy, and the first to defend someone who is being treated unfairly.

Under pressure

Impatient, combative, and prone to quitting when a thing turns slow. Under stress an Aries turns every obstacle into an opponent, including people who were trying to help.

What they need

A target, a deadline, and people who push back. An Aries without a challenge gets restless; an Aries with one is hard to stop.

Compatibility

How Aries gets on with each of the twelve signs

Aries's easiest matches are Leo and Sagittarius, the other two fire signs, which sit in trine. Gemini and Aquarius, a sextile away, come next. Libra, directly opposite, is the classic pull of opposites. The hardest angles are the squares to Cancer and Capricorn.

  1. LeoTrine, 120°Easy flow

    Leo gives Aries an audience and Aries gives Leo a challenge. Both are proud, so the fights are loud, and the warmth comes back quickly.

  2. SagittariusTrine, 120°Easy flow

    The easiest match Aries has. Sagittarius shares the appetite for adventure and holds no grudges, so the arguments blow over and the plans keep coming.

  3. GeminiSextile, 60°Open door

    Gemini keeps up. Quick talk, quick plans and a shared allergy to boredom make this one of Aries' most fun pairings, as long as someone remembers to finish things.

  4. AquariusSextile, 60°Open door

    Aquarius gives Aries room and fresh ideas. Both value independence, which suits an Aries who hates being managed.

  5. LibraOpposition, 180°Opposites attract

    The diplomat facing the warrior. Each has what the other lacks, which is why the pull is so strong: Aries learns tact, and Libra learns to say what it wants.

  6. AriesSame sign, 0°Mirror

    Two Aries make a fast, loud, honest match with a lot of laughter and a lot of slammed doors. It works when they aim the competitiveness at a shared goal instead of at each other.

  7. TaurusSemi-sextile, 30°Neighbours

    Taurus moves at a quarter of Aries' speed and will not be hurried. Aries brings the spark, Taurus the staying power, and every argument is really about pace.

  8. PiscesSemi-sextile, 30°Neighbours

    Pisces softens Aries and Aries protects Pisces. The risk is that Aries runs over feelings Pisces never said out loud.

  9. VirgoQuincunx, 150°Adjustment

    Virgo sees the ten details Aries skipped and says so. Useful at work, tiring at home, unless Aries learns to hear it as care.

  10. ScorpioQuincunx, 150°Adjustment

    Traditional astrology gives both signs to Mars, and they fight in opposite ways: Aries in the open, Scorpio underground. Intense, magnetic, and hard to keep steady.

  11. CancerSquare, 90°Friction

    Cancer takes to heart what Aries says in passing. Aries finds Cancer's moods hard to read and Cancer finds Aries careless, so it takes deliberate gentleness from Aries to work.

  12. CapricornSquare, 90°Friction

    Capricorn plans in years, Aries in minutes. They respect each other's drive and clash over who sets the pace and who is in charge.

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Love

An Aries in love chases first and asks questions later

Aries falls fast and says so. There is very little hinting: if an Aries likes you, you will know by the second meeting, usually because they told you. They want a partner with opinions and some resistance, someone who argues back and sometimes wins. Politeness bores them faster than conflict does.

The risk is the plateau. When the chase ends, an Aries can mistake calm for the end of the feeling. The relationships that last are the ones where the partner keeps some independence and the couple keeps finding new things to start together: a trip, a project, a sport, a move.

From the book

What the reading says when Aries turns up in a chart

Chapter 2Sun in Aries

You start things, and you start them before you are ready.

Your instinct is to move first and think while moving. In rooms where everyone else is waiting to see who goes, you have already gone. That makes you brave, and it makes you useful in every situation that needs a beginning: a new job, a difficult conversation, a project nobody else will touch. People borrow your courage more often than they admit.

The cost is finishing. The middle of anything bores you, and you are tempted to abandon the thing you started for the next thing that needs starting. Your best years are the ones where you pick one fight and stay in it past the point where it stopped being exciting.

Aries at forty who has learned patience is unstoppable. Aries at forty who has not is still starting.

Chapter 3Moon in Aries

You need speed in feeling.

When something hurts, you want it named now, not processed for a week. Anger passes through you fast and leaves no rust; ten minutes after the argument you are ready for lunch, and you are baffled that the other person is still upset. You need action when you are upset: a walk, a task, a decision. Sitting with a feeling is your idea of torture.

The people close to you need to know that your heat is not the same as your judgement. Say it: I flare and then I am fine. And learn to notice the slower people, who take days to feel what you felt in a minute. Waiting for them is the most loving thing an Aries Moon can do, and the hardest.

Chapter 6Venus in Aries

You fall fast, pursue openly, and lose interest in anything that does not push back.

Attraction in you is immediate and physical. You like the chase, you like being chased, and you have no patience for the slow dance of hints. You are generous, direct and a little competitive in love, and you are most alive at the beginning of things. Partners find you exciting and occasionally exhausting.

The work is the middle. Venus in Aries can mistake the end of the chase for the end of the feeling, and walk away from something good because it stopped being a fight. Learn to find the spark in the ordinary Tuesday. The partner who can keep surprising you at year five is the one to keep.

Printed word for word from the Skyprint reading. A chart with the Sun in Aries gets the first page. The Moon and Venus pages appear only when those planets were in Aries too, and your own chart decides which of the twelve versions you read.
What else is in the reading

Aries dates

Born on 20 or 21 March? The year decides

Horoscopes round the dates. We measured the moment the Sun entered Aries in every year from 1940 to 2030 with Astronomy Engine, the engine behind every Skyprint reading.

The Sun entered Aries on

  • 20 March64 of 91 years
  • 21 March27 of 91 years

It moved on into Taurus on

  • 19 April22 of 91 years
  • 20 April69 of 91 years
Dates are in UTC, so your local calendar date can differ by one. If your birthday is one of these days, your birth time and place settle it: check your exact Sun sign, free.

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An Aries Sun is where the reading starts

The Sun sign comes from your birth date alone. The Moon changes sign every two to three days and the rising sign roughly every two hours, so two people born under Aries a week apart can read very differently. Your birth date, time and place draw the whole sky, computed to the arcminute.

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Questions

Aries questions, answered

When are the Aries dates?

Aries usually runs from 20 March to 19 April. The start moves by a day: between 1940 and 2030 the Sun entered Aries on 20 March in 64 years and 21 March in 27 years, in UTC. If you were born on one of those days, your birth time and place decide your sign.

Who is Aries most compatible with?

By the geometry of the zodiac, Aries's easiest matches are Leo and Sagittarius, the other fire signs, followed by Gemini and Aquarius. Libra, the opposite sign, brings the strongest pull and the most work, and the squares to Cancer and Capricorn are the hardest angles. A real match also depends on the Moon, Venus, Mars and rising sign in both charts.

Why are Aries so impatient?

Speed is how the sign works. Aries is the cardinal fire sign that begins the zodiac's year at the March equinox, and to an Aries, waiting feels like wasting the part of the day that matters. The Aries people who make it work use deadlines and physical outlets to spend that energy on purpose.

How do you know an Aries likes you?

They tell you, or they act on it before telling you. An interested Aries makes plans, teases, competes with you and keeps showing up. Slow hints are rare with this sign; if the signals are mixed, the Aries is probably still deciding.

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All signs and the compatibility chart. How this page was made: Skyprint is built and edited by Khalil Yazouri. The text was drafted with AI assistance. The sign dates were measured with Astronomy Engine for every year from 1940 to 2030, the compatibility follows the angles between the signs, and the sample pages are printed word for word from the reading's own library.