Time to let loose for one single second
do something crazy with an aries today
Mars slides into Pisces: In addition to the beginning of Aries season (see below) we have Mars moving into Pisces on Saturday. Here are a few off the cuff ideas of how you might respond:
Don’t get in a crying fight unless you really mean it, then do whatever feels right.
Imagine the God of your oppressive childhood church. Say something awful to Him.
Make a zine with some cutting social commentary. Mail it to whoever hurt you.
Take a bath along with whatever your preferred vice is. Be responsible etc. Shrooms could be a fun choice.
Finger paint or play with clay or make a vision board (but don’t do it about your career do it for like your crush or something), whatever creative thing would make your little childhood self feel powerful.
An exalted Sun and the start of the astrological year.
Happy new year! The Sun moved into Aries today. This is the start of the astrological year. It also hovers around the Persian New Year. I hope you have had a happy Nowruz 🎉
As a treat, I’ve created an unhinged blog for you for the first day of Aries season! Happy Aries season to all of your Aries placements that have just been empowered to be more chaotic and less considerate.
I am an Aries rising. Discovering this was the main motivation for my mad dash deep into the world of astrology. Before I looked closely enough at my birth certificate to find my birth time, I’d used my mom’s hazy memory (fair, she was undergoing a significant surgery that day) of my birth to calculate my chart. Based on that time, I was an Aquarius rising. I always found it interesting and generally affirming and definitely flattering (my Sun after all is in Aquarius and we might call the Sun’s sign and placement a shorthand for your ego).
When I discovered that I was an Aries rising, ruled by Mars in Leo, I felt kind of roasted. The stereotypes of Aries don’t feel comfortable to me, they didn’t sit easily, and I got defensive. (Defensiveness is almost always a sign you’re onto something with regard to soul-stuff).
All this led me to buy a book which led me to listen to hours of a podcast which led me to take hours of courses which led me to join in hours of study groups which have led me here, to this unhinged blog in your inbox. This behavior is a laughably pointed case study of an Aries Rising, Sun in Aquarius, with the Moon in Gemini. If one of you out there shares any of these, I would love to compare notes.
Aries as a cardinal fire sign embodies leadership but not probably the kind of leadership that we admire in polite society. Aries is the leader who is leading because that’s the definition of being in front of everyone else. Aries isn’t concerned all that much about if anyone is following, or why they’re following, or who is following, or who is getting left behind. There are other parts of the chart that are designed to take care of that (Libra, all the way across the way, Cancer and Capricorn, to the right and left). Aries just goes on ahead.
Aries is the place that the Sun is exalted. Again, the Sun can be seen to represent something like the ego. The Sun is the king of the sky, the loudest and brightest star, the center of the universe. If Leo is where the Sun feels at home and rules, Aries is where the Sun lets loose and gets a little weird.
Days are getting longer, cuffing season situationships are parting ways for new adventures, and people are walking around town with nowhere in particular to go. There are more cold days to come (unless you live in Texas) but we’ve all had a taste of what’s coming and there’s no undoing the first rumblings of the season. Let the ram reign.
Short newsletter today because I’m fitting this in between meetings (if you think I plan these, you are wrong—Aries rising, Aquarius Sun, Gemini Moon). I hope you all get some sunlight this week and hug someone you love. Eclipse season is once again upon us. We’re in for the big one 🤪
Always a lot of credit goes to the people who have been my teachers, both directly and through their freely shared knowledge, and so many books.
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