Positions
Descendant in Aries
Modern
With Aries on your Descendant you are drawn to partners who are direct, energetic, and unafraid to lead. Often the courage you keep quiet in yourself is the very thing you look for in a mate, the one who acts while you weigh, so the relationship becomes the place you meet your own initiative. The shadow is choosing partners who fight or dominate, or attracting open conflict, until you learn to own your own assertiveness instead of handing it across the room.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
With Aries on the seventh cusp, the place of marriage and open enemies, the partner is shown by Mars and tends to come as a bold, hot, and forthright figure who acts before parley. The native is drawn to a mate of nerve and initiative, often the one who pursues, and is well served when Mars is dignified and ill served when it is afflicted, for then the bond turns to strife and the open foe grows quarrelsome. Read the lord of the seventh by sign, house, and aspect to weigh the union and the adversary alike.
- aries
- descendant
- assertive partner
Sources
- Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), p. 300Reads the seventh house and its lord for marriage and for open enemies, taking the sign on the cusp as the partner's nature.
- Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, IV.5Treats marriage from the relevant angle and its ruler; a Mars-signified bond runs to vigor, contention, and quick attachment.
- Greene, Relating (1977)Reads the Descendant as the disowned self met in the partner; here the projected quality is assertion and raw drive.