Positions
Sun in Aries
Modern
Your sense of self runs on initiative. You feel most like yourself when you are starting something, pushing forward, or backing yourself when no one else will. The growth is patience and follow-through, since the spark comes easy but the long middle does not. At your best you give other people permission to be brave.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
Aries is the Sun's place of The sign where a planet is honored and shows its best, most elevated qualities, even though it does not rule there. The Sun is exalted in Aries, for example., where the older authors say the light is honored and given strength beyond its own house. The Sun here works through Mars-ruled cardinal fire: initiating, hot, quick to act. Ptolemy ties the exaltation to the lengthening days after the spring equinox. The gift is leadership and nerve; the working cost is impatience with anything slow.
Lean in — Start the thing you keep circling. Your fuel is forward motion.
Watch for — Confuse starting with finishing.
- courage
- self-starter
- identity
Sources
- Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, I.19Places the Sun's exaltation in Aries, tied to the strengthening light after the spring equinox.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Aries Sun as identity organized around courage and initiation.