Aries Heralds New Beginnings
April 20, 2009 Uncategorized No CommentsAries energy arrives March 21-April 20 each year. Spring is here, at least in the Northern Hemisphere, an occasion for New Beginnings. It is a time when your mind becomes infused with one idea after another of new things you want to start. It also could be old idea, one you did not carry through with; now back demanding attention. This sounds exciting, and it is if you are ready. Pioneers, leaders, adventurers thrive on this energy.
What happens though if you are in a toxic relationship or a boring job that deadens your creativity? Once these same vocations and relationships could have been good for you, but you outgrew them. You are starting to contract, no longer expanding.
If indeed you are stuck in a comfort zone, this desire for the new could rage inside of you, much like a volcano demanding to be released. Furthermore, the energy is quite strong, dynamic, and cannot be ignored. Know if you try to suppress Aries energy, it has a way of coming out like the lava flowing out of the volcano.
You blurt out words that you wish we could take back, but alas you cannot. The energy pouring through your veins demands change, often destroying anything that is in its way. Why? Because year after year, Aries calls on you to become your own leader, to listen to your counsel, and to originate your own ideas.
Courage
What do you need to become your own leader, be a pioneer, an adventurer? The first quality is courage. You don’t just start off by being courageous, it has a progression. Fear is the beginning of courage which progresses to being a daredevil which looks fearless but is not. Finally by going back and forth many times between fear and daredevil like a pendulum, you do arrive at true courage.
Not only physical courage, but the courage to speak up with the important people in your life. And the courage to express the ideas that come to your mind that say change.
The first person you need to demonstrate your courage and leadership is to yourself.
That means directing physical body, your emotions and your mind to work as a team. Otherwise, your new ideas will not take hold. The mind is the architect making plans of how to implement the new. It is the emotions that supply the passion for the plans if accepted. Or rejects the plans, sending the mind back to the drawing board to come up with plans the emotions can indeed accept. Then the physical body is the implementer, the one who goes into action.
The goal of Aries is for you to develop into being a leader not only of yourself, but of others that need guidance. Yet Aries says leadership becomes at home, within yourself first. Only then can you be congruent with what you say and what you do, and only then can people truly trust you to lead them. Otherwise, it’s much like the parent that says, “do what I say, not what I do.”
While Aries is activating the adventurer, the pioneer and the leader within you, it is doing this with each inhabitant on this planet. For those that have become leaders already, Aries energy invokes them to look carefully at their actions and align themselves with their own ideals. And again that often takes great courage.
Whatever time you spend developing courage is well worth it, as courage is the foundation of all other qualities.
Inspiration
Now let’s look at the next virtue that is most important to develop during Aries.
It’s the virtue that you need to introduce your ideas of change, whether in your personal life, or at large. It’s inspiration. And again you don’t start off by being inspirational, it has its own evolution. At the beginning stage you may talk of doom and gloom, as if a dark cloud was raining on your head. Then you progress to being over inspirational, with no substance just hype. But right in the center is true inspiration, and it’s worth your time in developing this virtue. You might even need to take inspirational writing courses or taking speaking classes like Toastmasters.
Ideas are not enough, expressing these ideas in a way that uplift people to want change is the key. Inspiring yourself is vital, as without inspiration, you and others can fall into depression ever so easily. Inspiration says whatever we are not happy with today, we can improve. The future is ours, our dreams can be made a reality.
Acceptance
And last but not lease is the virtue of acceptance. Ideas that come to you during Aries or revisit you during Aries are not like a hot flame that quickly dies out. They will take a full lunar year to accomplish. And any big idea has a learning curve to it, you crawl, fall down a lot before you really learn how to stand up and walk, much less run. Most people including you often reject something that is not tangible, something that you cannot see, touch, or makes or saves money. And there could be some steps, some details before indeed you can make a living from the new, yet from the very beginning keep the survival factor in mind.
That’s why Courage is the first virtue to develop, but it takes acceptance of self the whole year to bring this about. And acceptance starts out as rejection, but as you learn to debate rejection, you advance to the next level. Now you could be so over accepting of self that you do not even see your flaws or the details that need to be put in place.
© copyright Grady Loy
Grady Loy has been a practicing astropsychologist for over thirty years and has written thirteen books on the subject.
