Aries Ascendant

From Astrology In Depth

Aries Rising is a gift: you have actually earned it through past effort. It symbolizes your having a "natural" chart - one in which the sign on every house cusp is "natural", or corresponding to, the house that it's on. With tons of energy, you're headstrong, impulsive, quick to anger, courageous and aggressive. You can be easily bored, shortsighted and focused on immediate returns. If so, you'll need to learn to follow through and make your goals larger in scope. You're bold and argumentative, take the battle to the other fellow, and tend to act first and ask questions later. Learning tact and diplomacy would help. You're apt to be thoughtless and unconsciously self-centered, and since you come on strong, others may experience you as arrogant. You have a great need to succeed at everything you do, and the ability to do it. You appear to be single-minded and daring: a leader. Good for mechanical work and all physical activity. This ascendant places many (if not all) of the signs on the houses they naturally rule, and denotes a natural personality that flows easily and instinctually without much forethought. This is a hard earned gift for work completed in past lives. The house your Mars is in shows experiences necessary in developing self-awareness and individual self-expression. Mars' sign and aspects indicate your ease or difficulty in doing this.