Aries

Aries: Key To Happiness

Pure Reason: our ultimate goal.

Pure Reason, is the mind purified of all personal motive. Yet, for an Aries, it is a difficult task, because the energy ruling the head, the power to watch and correct how the head and eyes see the world, is felt by the ego as purely personal. That identification blocks our ability to reason correctly, distorting appearances, forgetting our visioning abilities to Reason spiritually. It stops us from seeing spirit looking out at us, from the eyes of others.

Mars: our Ruling Planet

Mars has an exciting, dual quality. The first quality creates the sense of separateness, causing all our actions to be “sinful” or personally motivated. The sensation is in our subconscious nature causing conflict and destruction. Although, true creation is destruction, in that something must change for creation to occur, at an unconscious level reason is blocked, and we are not yet master of our circumstance.

The second exciting quality comes from the hope that the sense of isolation and separateness resulting from the contracting sensations of self-love and selfishness, will cause a turning inward, used for personal transformation. This results in uniting the exciting sensation into the mind, and pure Reason guides all our actions by a higher purpose.

The Sun: our Motivation

The Sun, as the next fire sign after Aries, also has a dual quality that influences our ultimate outcome as a human. Its first quality is sterile, burning up any potential of humanity ever becoming spiritually aware. The second quality is fertile, influencing us “to be” someone, to express our talents, and developing our ego by sharing love.

Jupiter: our Good Fortune

Jupiter, the ruler of the following fire sign Sagittarius, magnifies all of our propensities. Its dual influence causes expansion both physically and spiritually. Its influence expended merely physically can reward us by leading to excesses of all kinds — riches, gluttony, and obesity — even poverty, because it stems from holding a ‘devil may care’ attitude, like ‘easy come easy go.’

Spiritually, its beneficial influence in the body starts by winding up the power as an intention, to experience it unwind, imbuing us with a sense of gratitude for both our joys and sorrows. The whirling sensation as an intention, is setting a goal in the body that manifests as a result of this beneficial perspective, attracts wealth. The whirling motion is the rewarding feeling of beneficence that allows us to share what we have with others. Strangely, it makes all of our self-serving actions, blessed.

Exalted Planets:

The Sun is exalted in Aries: The Sun energy of Leo, is first sterile, and expressed by what we want ‘to be.’ When it becomes humanized, or fertile, the affectionate energy of our heart (Leo) is raised to the head (Aries), and we begin to see with the eyes of God.

When the Aries sense of separate identity, by the use of its ruler Mars (drive, sexual energy), motivated by the Jupiter energy (beneficence and compassion) there results the birth of a new awareness. It is the ‘I am’ — a ‘thinking’ from the heart — a life dedicated to letting the Higher Self shine through. This is Pure Reason, ‘being You’!