Aries Personality

Aries personality traits include being adventurous, passionate, loyal, enthusiastic, innocent, selfish and sometimes egotistical.

Aries, is a Cardinal Fire Sign, symbolized by the Ram and rules the first house of the zodiac. 

The Aries personality has a Cardinal Quality.

Cardinal Signs are the leaders of the zodiac.  They like to initiate projects and have quick thinking and decision making capabilities.  They are pioneering and Generally, their thinking is quick and make executive decisions easily.  Restless and active cardinal signs are ambitious and interesting in making their mark on the world.  They are creative, independent and forceful.  Each element has a cardinal sign making each cardinal sign unique.

Aries will make decisions without going over all the facts.  The Aries personality is naturally optimistic, they can often throw pie in the sky with the best of them.  But Aries do truly believe these ideas and decisions have merit.  Aries believe in miracles and they can often convince others to believe in miracles as well.  Aries are great at starting projects and getting people involved in those projects but they don’t always have great follow through.  Naturally impatient, Aries get bored quickly and often need the help of others to either stay on track with a project or hand over to those who have more consistent work ethics, like Virgos.

The first house deals with subjects of a personal inner nature and as such Aries are often interested in the following subject. 

• Self-esteem; self-realization; self-help
• Personal Development, Psychology
• Sports
• Body building; pursuit of physical perfection
• Military; strategic positions; survivalists

Aries is ruled by Mars.  Aries (Mars) was the God of war in mythology.  The Aries personality is masculine in nature, headstrong, study and not only interested in the act of war but the spirit and art of war as well.  Aries are action oriented and can be quick to anger.  But Aries anger is seldom long lived and they forgive and forget very quickly.  Mars is the god of war and Aries can like a good a fight.  They are strong individuals who value their independence.  They don’t shy away from conflict and depending on other aspect can enjoy a good debate or a good wrestling match.  But they should be careful to protect their head and face.  Aries is ruled by the head and they often will have scars and scrapes to their heads.  Headaches are common.  And it can be said that they “Think too much”. 

Aries color is Red.
The Aries personality is very passionate sexually and idealistic.  They fall in love and bed quickly and depending on other aspects can fall out of love and bed quickly, so they can be seen sometimes as fickle, flirtatious and promiscuous.  But make no mistake, Aries believes in true love.  Once Aries has found true love, they give their entire being to the relationship and will be very loyal to their mate.  Typically, good matches for Aries are the other fire signs Leo & Sagittarius and the air signs, Gemini, Libra & Aquarius as fire and fire mingle well and air, or course feeds fire.  That doesn’t mean that Aries doesn’t get along with water and earth, all the elements mingle well with each other and when speaking of compatibility you must start to delve deeper into the birth chart.  Aries are also loyal to friends and anyone with which they have a strong emotional connection to.  Aries thrive on attention.  The quickest way to make an Aries go away is to ignore them.

Aries stones are Diamond and Iron. 
Aries flower is appropriately Impatiens
To learn more about the Aries personality, I would suggest reading about the Greek God Ares, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares

Your rising sign is said to be almost as influential to your personality as your sun sign and I find this to be true.  Also, I like to think of our sun sign as our inner self and our rising sign as our mask and clothes.  Our rising sign is often what people react to most when they meet us and it is the filter through which we must channel our inner being.  Thus it’s just as important to learn about our rising sign to see how we can best communicate our inner selves to the outer world.  If you know what time you were born, it’s not too difficult to calculate your rising sign.  Below is a graph with probable rising signs for Aries sun signs.