Planetary Transit
The Sun moves through Aries roughly from March 20 to April 19 every year. It's the astrological new year — the moment the solar cycle restarts. About 30 days, one sign, one theme: beginning. Not planning a beginning. Starting one.
The definitive shift is impatience with everything that isn't alive. Projects you tolerated in February suddenly feel unbearable. Conversations you kept postponing demand an answer. Aries is ruled by Mars , and when the Sun sits there, identity reorganizes around action — what you DO, not what you think. People who ignore this transit end the month frustrated for no clear reason. People who use it start something real.
This transit hits hardest when it touches your progressed chart's most active house. If your progressed Sun is in Taurus in the 9th house IX right now, the Aries transit lights up the house before it — usually where unfinished identity work lives. The pressure isn't external. It's your own chart asking: what are you still pretending to want?
Pick one thing. Start it this week. Not research it, not plan it — do the first visible action. Aries rewards speed over precision. Send the message. Post the thing. Quit the role that's been dead for months. If you wait for the Sun to enter Taurus to feel 'ready,' you'll spend another year building nothing.
Common misread: people think Sun in Aries means confidence. It doesn't. It means raw will — which often shows up as anger, restlessness, or picking fights with the wrong people. The fire is real. Where you point it is the whole question.
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