For Aries, the world is challenge, change, movement and action. Their impulse is to say and to do, so they tend to give little time to formalities and diplomacy. “Call a spade a spade” sums up their preference for calling things by their name, even though their frankness is not always comfortable for whoever is listening.
Unfamiliar settings and new situations awaken their interest. Repetition and routine, on the other hand, can dampen their enthusiasm. They are stimulated by starting projects, opening paths and putting themselves to the test. Sustaining a task that has lost its novelty usually costs them more than beginning one.
Impatience and boredom show in their gestures. If something displeases them, they tend to say so on the spot and may consider the matter closed soon after.
They also tend to face conflicts head-on and want to settle them as quickly as they arose. Their partner may need more time to process what happened, even when Aries already feels it is all over.
Their idea of territory is broad: the whole world can become their place. They do not need to confine themselves to a single space to feel at home.
How to win their heart
Speak to them directly and get to the heart of the matter. Keep in mind their taste for adventure, movement and freedom of expression. A relationship limited to repeating the same plan over and over, such as staying home in front of the television, may feel unstimulating to them.
Rigid protocols tend to make them uncomfortable. Keeping a secret may require them to hold back the spontaneity with which they say what they think. If you confide something private to them, make it clear that you need discretion.
What pleases them
- Competing and finding in a challenge a motivation to act.
- Expressing their desires, impulses and feelings spontaneously.
- Leading an active life.
- Doing activities outside the home.
What they dislike
- Feeling obliged to dress formally or to follow formalities they do not understand.
- Kindness they perceive as empty diplomacy or social hypocrisy.
- Taking orders.
- Staying too long on a routine task.
- Waiting when they want to get going.
Strengths
- A willingness to take on challenges, and even to create them when none are around. That same search for novelty can lead them to abandon challenges that drag on too long.
- A capacity for action and an energy that seems to stay alert even while resting.
- Self-confidence.
- The boldness to face risk without lingering too long in doubt or fear.
- A taste for activity and physical training, which give an outlet to their need for movement.
- Initiative and a capacity for leadership.
Weaknesses
- Difficulty staying with a single activity. Stillness can feel like confinement.
- A tendency to act on impulse, without preparing a strategy.
- Frankness that can turn into recklessness when they do not consider the situation or the consequences of their words.