Finance
Aries people often excel as builders or estate agents. Money in and of itself is not as important as are other things – action, adventure, sport, etc. They are motivated by the need to support and be well-thought-of by their partners. Money as a way of attaining pleasure is another important motivation. Aries function best in their own businesses or as managers of their own departments within a large business or corporation. The fewer orders they have to take from higher up, the better. They also function better out in the field rather than behind a desk.
Aries people are hard workers with a lot of endurance; they can earn large sums of money due to the strength of their sheer physical energy.
Venus is their money planet, which means that Aries need to develop more of the social graces in order to realize their full earning potential. Just getting the job done – which is what an Aries excels at – is not enough to create financial success. The co-operation of others needs to be attained. Customers, clients and co-workers need to be made to feel comfortable; many people need to be treated properly in order for success to happen. When Aries people develop these abilities – or hire someone to do this for them – their financial potential is unlimited.
Career and Public Image
One would think that a pioneering type would want to break with the social and political conventions of society. But this is not so with the Aries-born. They are pioneers within conventional limits, in the sense that they like to start their own businesses within an established industry.
Capricorn is on the 10th house (career) cusp of Aries’ solar horoscope. Saturn is the planet that rules their life’s work and professional aspirations. This tells us some interesting things about the Aries character. First off, it shows that, in order for Aries people to reach their full career potential, they need to develop some qualities that are a bit alien to their basic nature: They need to become better administrators and organizers; they need to be able to handle details better and to take a long-range view of their projects and their careers in general. No one can beat an Aries when it comes to achieving short-range objectives, but a career is long term, built over time. You cannot take a ‘quickie’ approach to it.
Some Aries people find it difficult to stick with a project until the end. Since they get bored quickly and are in constant pursuit of new adventures, they prefer to pass an old project or task on to somebody else in order to start something new. Those Aries who learn how to put off the search for something new until the old is completed will achieve great success in their careers and professional lives.
In general, Aries people like society to judge them on their own merits, on their real and actual achievements. A reputation acquired by ‘hype’ feels false to them.
Love and Relationships
In marriage and partnerships Aries like those who are more passive, gentle, tactful and diplomatic – people who have the social grace and skills they sometimes lack. Our partners always represent a hidden part of ourselves – a self that we cannot express personally.
An Aries tends to go after what he or she likes aggressively. The tendency is to jump into relationships and marriages. This is especially true if Venus is in Aries as well as the Sun. If an Aries likes you, he or she will have a hard time taking no for an answer; many attempts will be made to sweep you off your feet.
Though Aries can be exasperating in relationships – especially if they are not understood by their partners – they are never consciously or wilfully cruel or malicious. It is just that they are so independent and sure of themselves that they find it almost impossible to see somebody else’s viewpoint or position. This is why an Aries needs as a partner someone with lots of social grace.
On the plus side, an Aries is honest, someone you can lean on, someone with whom you will always know where you stand. What he or she lacks in diplomacy is made up for in integrity.
Home and Domestic Life
An Aries is of course the ruler at home – the Boss. The male will tend to delegate domestic matters to the female. The female Aries will want to rule the roost. Both tend to be handy round the house. Both like large families and both believe in the sanctity and importance of the family. An Aries is a good family person, although he or she does not especially like being at home a lot, preferring instead to be roaming about.
Considering that they are by nature so combative and wilful, Aries people can be surprisingly soft, gentle and even vulnerable with their children and partners. The sign of Cancer, ruled by the Moon, is on the cusp of their solar 4th house (home and family). When the Moon is well aspected – under favourable influences – in the birth chart an Aries will be tender towards the family and want a family life that is nurturing and supportive. Aries likes to come home after a hard day on the battlefield of life to the understanding arms of their partner and the unconditional love and support of their family. An Aries feels that there is enough ‘war’ out in the world – and he or she enjoys participating in that. But when Aries comes home, comfort and nurturing are what’s needed.
Horoscope for 2011
Major Trends
Last year was a very powerful spiritual year, Aries – perhaps one of the strongest in your life. It was a year of inner growth, a year for gaining spiritual insight and understanding. Your spiritual interests and growth will continue in the year ahead. Though Jupiter and Uranus are exiting your 12th house, Neptune is moving in (on April 4). Though Neptune will merely flirt with your 12th house in 2011, next year it will move in for good – for the next 14 years or so.
Two very important planets move into your own sign this year – highly unusual. These are Jupiter and Uranus. Uranus has not been in Aries for 85 years (approximately), and Jupiter was last in your sign 12 years ago (though it briefly flirted with your sign last year). These movements are announcing major (and happy) change. You seem ready for this now. The status quo is just not interesting any more. You want to explore your personal freedom (and you will – and for many years to come).
This need for personal freedom doesn’t bode well for a current relationship or marriage. Saturn in your 7th house of love and marriage has been testing love for the past year, and will continue to test it this year. But more important, you want to make a fresh start in your life. You want the new in everything – and that includes relationships.
Pluto has been in your 10th house of career for two-anda-half years now and will be there for the year ahead. Your career is being detoxed, purified, transformed. The object here is not punishment, only purification. When the negative concepts or ideas go, the career of your dreams will manifest.
Prosperity was good last year, but now, beginning January 22 as Jupiter enters your sign, it gets even better. Good fortune seeks you and finds you – you almost can’t avoid it. There is luck in speculations, more foreign travel, and much living of the good life. With Jupiter it doesn’t seem to matter how much cash you have in your bank or investment accounts – when a person is under Jupiter’s rays, the person lives ‘as if’ he or she were rich. And somehow the universe makes these things happen.
Students have very good fortune with colleges, universities and graduate schools. In fact, dream educational opportunities will seek you out rather than vice versa.
Your most important interests this year are the body, the image, personal pleasures; finance (after June 4); love, romance and social activities; career; spirituality.
Your paths of greatest fulfilment this year are spirituality (until January 22); the body, image and personal pleasures (from January 22 to June 4); finance (from June 4 onwards); career (until March 4); religion, philosophy, higher education and foreign travel (from March 4 onwards).
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