Planets in signs and houses
The Moon in Aries
Tropical zodiac, Western astrology
Your feelings arrive fast and show immediately. Anger flares and fades quickly; joy is plain and unhidden. You need emotional independence and a sense of actively doing something to feel secure, and you have little patience for ambiguity. Pausing for one breath before reacting helps your honesty avoid becoming words you must apologise for later, and it lets others hear the warmth behind the heat.
The Moon in a birth chart
The Moon represents your inner emotional life: what makes you feel safe, how you respond when something touches you, and the habits that comfort you. If the Sun is who you are becoming, the Moon is where you come from and what you need in order to feel at home.
Aries at a glance
- Element
- Fire
- Modality
- Cardinal
Sun in Aries sits in the very first sign of the zodiac, in cardinal fire ruled by Mars. Where other signs prepare, you begin. There is a clean, direct quality to how you meet the world: you tend to find out what you think by acting on it, and you feel most alive when something is at stake and the starting line is in sight. Your energy arrives in bright bursts, and it runs on genuine motivation rather than obligation.
Find this in your own chart
"Positions": each point with its degree, sign and house. A red R in the R column marks retrograde. The angles, including Descendant and IC, are listed too.