Aries Moon sign
An Aries Moon sign means the Moon was in Aries when you were born. It crosses the sign in about two and a half days, roughly once a month. This page says what the tradition makes of it, how it mixes with each Sun sign, and when the next six crossings are.
- Ruled by Mars
- No dignity for the Moon here
- About two and a half days a month
The Moon in Aries
Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899. Public domain, and the full text is readable online.
Aries Moon personality
An enthusiast, and impatient with anyone who asks them to wait.
- GiftsIndependentSelf-reliant, enthusiastic and quick to strike out on its own path. Leo expected it to end up at the head of something, with authority over others.
- StrugglesHeadstrongImpulsive, sometimes irritable and liable to fits of anger, and set on having its own way. It dislikes discipline and often acts against the advice of friends.
Alan Leo, writing in 1899, gives this Moon an impulsive and militant manner, sometimes irritable and liable to fits of anger. It insists on having its own way, is disobedient to superiors, independent and self reliant, and dislikes convention and discipline of any kind.
He adds that it goes more by intellect than by intuition, that it is changeable and dependent on impulse, and that it often ends up at the head of something, exercising authority over a number of people. He also notes that the mother plays a large part in the life, and often not an easy one.
The Moon is one placement among many. See your whole birth chart, free, on Natal Chart Maker.
Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899, the chapter on the Sun and Moon combined
An Aries Moon with each Sun sign
Alan Leo read the Moon together with the Sun. Find your Sun sign below.
Aries Sun, Aries Moon
Sun and Moon together in Aries: great mental activity, quick perception and a strong wish to lead and pioneer. Leo warns that too much independence and rash action bring changes and troubles, and that overwork wears on the health.
Taurus Sun, Aries Moon
A very strong personality, impulsive and rather dogmatic, but persistent and exact, with plenty in reserve. It expects a lot from others. Once its mind is made up it nearly always succeeds, and prospers through perseverance.
Gemini Sun, Aries Moon
Very intellectual, studious and fond of expressing its thoughts, with strong ambition. Leo warns it can be too independent and changeable, short on sympathy, and inclined to live too much in the head.
Cancer Sun, Aries Moon
Active and persistent, with a love of fame and a wish to lead. The parents may shape the life a great deal. Much impulse, which Leo says brings sorrows, and success through public life.
Leo Sun, Aries Moon
A harmonious fire pair, with a love of philosophy and religious thought. Persistent, enthusiastic and industrious, and less combative than Aries alone. Feeling needs restraint, and success in life is promised.
Virgo Sun, Aries Moon
Keen-minded and fit to lead in business: witty, active, sharp and quick to see ahead. It can live too much in the head, and when its will is crossed the selfishness comes out as sarcasm.
Libra Sun, Aries Moon
Reason and perception well blended, with real mental refinement and influence over others. Leo thought marriage could be inharmonious, since few match its ideals. Good for athletics, with a supple body.
Scorpio Sun, Aries Moon
Strong, self-assertive and dogmatic, with very keen likes and dislikes. Leo warns of stubbornness, jealousy and extremes of anger, and of becoming too forceful with others.
Sagittarius Sun, Aries Moon
A fire pair that intensifies the activity and keeps the mind rushing out. A great desire to excel, sometimes overreaching. Leo says much restraint is needed, or it turns excitable and discontented.
Capricorn Sun, Aries Moon
Ambitious, determined and independent, with a wish to be at the head of everything and some egotism. It gives a strong love of music, and prominence in government or posts of great responsibility.
Aquarius Sun, Aries Moon
A very firm character, quiet and not very expressive, but perceptive and a good judge of people. Persevering, though at times it goes to extremes.
Pisces Sun, Aries Moon
Gives the Pisces nature more force, energy and self-reliance. It also brings wilfulness, and a nature easier to lead than to drive.
Alan Leo wrote this in 1899, and a whole chart says far more than two placements. See your Sun and Moon together, free.
The doctrine of dignities, standard in Western astrology since the Hellenistic period
Where the tradition places it
The tradition gives the Moon no special strength or weakness here.
There are only four signs where the Moon has a formal dignity. It rules Cancer, is exalted in Taurus, is in detriment in Capricorn and is in fall in Scorpio. In the other eight, including this one, the tradition treats it as a guest that takes the colour of the house it is standing in.
So the reading of these days comes from the sign itself rather than from the Moon's standing in it, which is what the section below sets out.
The doctrine of the elements and the modes, and habit built on top of it
What these days are used for
Starting, and saying the thing out loud.
- FireOutwardFire moves outward. The tradition gives these days to starting things, to saying them out loud, and to spending energy rather than saving it.
- CardinalOpeningA cardinal sign opens a season, so the two and a half days are read as an opening: the impulse is to begin.
The tradition treats these as the days to open a subject rather than to close one, and warns that a quarrel begun now is begun in earnest.
This is tradition and habit, not a measured effect. It is here because it is what the sources say, and each part carries the name of the source it came from.
The next six Aries Moons
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Questions people ask
What does an Aries Moon sign mean?
That the Moon was in Aries at the moment you were born. In astrology the Moon stands for feelings and instinct, so an Aries Moon is read as an impulsive, independent and enthusiastic emotional nature.
How long is the Moon in Aries?
About two and a half days each month. The exact length changes a little because the Moon's speed changes, and the table above gives the real figure for each crossing.
Is an Aries Moon the same as being an Aries?
No. An Aries Sun means the Sun was in Aries at your birth, which is late March to late April. An Aries Moon can happen in any month of the year.
Does the Moon sign depend on where I was born?
The sign itself is the same everywhere at the same moment, because it is measured from the centre of the Earth. What changes with your place is the local clock time it starts and ends, which is exactly what decides your sign if you were born near a crossing.
Positions and times are calculated in your browser with an open astronomy library and match published ephemerides to the minute. The birth chart reading is written from Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899, which is in the public domain. The dignities and the doctrine of the elements are standard traditional astrology. Tradition is labelled as tradition throughout, and the sources page sets out what is calculated and what is not.