After you've relaxed enough to perceive what's there, you'll notice the bright life force energy that holds the stalk upright, that blazes out into space through its branches, reaching, exploring, pursuing the light. Sit in presence with a simple house plant, for example. Meditate on this image and you'll discover its essence all around you. That's one of the meanings of its glyph: a single line branching into two ram horns. Where Aries appears in your chart, you have a gift for beginnings, for blazing new trails, for leaping where spirit wants to take you. It brings warmer days, renewed vitality, new growth and new optimism. Zero Aries, that point when the north-climbing Sun crosses the equator, marks the beginning of the tropical zodiac and launches spring in the Northern Hemisphere. It's the explorer heading without a map into an amazing adventure. It's the toddler exclaiming "I did it!" as a new milestone is achieved. It's the crack of the bat as an all-star hits a homerun. It's the urge to be the first, to shout "Aiyeee!" to grab a lover and wrestle in the sheets. Aries is the leap of joy, the charge up the hill, the flushed cheeks of exertion and laughter. Despite a few hot-headed Arians I've known (who were rather scary), I generally conjure sunnier pictures of this sign. Among terrified Thracians it's rumored that the mares even eat human flesh.Įxperience in archetypes tells me the horses must symbolize the raw vitality of Aries, but the dark fury of this image gives me pause. His unruly steeds tear across Thrace like earthquakes and thunder, splintering cities, devouring rivers, and razing mountains. For his Aries labor, Hercules must capture and tame four savage horses, gifts from Mars to his half-mortal son, the barbaric King Diomedes.
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