Identifying Sun Signs-7
Identifying Sun Signs-7
cautious deliberation would keep the | doctor away. Not that he'll take such advice.
He keeps I the doctor away for years at a time anyhow, until he | either drops in
exhaustion or reaches an age when he gets | more sensible. There's not much danger
of an Aries be-| coming addicted to drugs. Normally, the ram won't even take a
sleeping pill. He'd much rather stay wide awake. (He's afraid he might miss
something.)
Because of his forceful optimism, Aries (along with the other fire signs, Leo and
Sagittarius) seldom falls victim to the chronic, lingering diseases-which astrology
has always taught and medical science now realizes are triggered or intensified by
melancholy and pessimism. The fire signs are more susceptible to raging fevers,
fulminating infections, strokes, high blood pressure and violently acute illness. Say
what you will about his impulsiveness, the ram is seldom guilty of gloom. The seeds
of depression, even if planted, will die a quick death in Arien soil. But that precious
idea Aries holds, that no one else can do anything as efficiently as he can, may run
away with him and ' lead to a thousand disasters. He'll carry through his schemes
with dash and confidence, seldom realizing that he's overreaching himself and
headed for ulcers or a nervous breakdown. No one ever accuses him of laziness.
Because of their guileless nature, subtle tricks of strategy are impossible for these
people. One Aries I know well, with his fiery, contagious enthusiasm, got a
financial angel to back one of his original ideas. Just as the deal was about to be
closed, and this ram was about to realize his fondest dreams, the angel logically
suggested that a well-known expert oversee the operation. The Aries was positive
that no one could run it as well as himself, and he was fearful of getting involved
with someone from whom he might have to take orders, so he responded quickly,
with the usual Aries humility. He waved his cigar in the air in a superior gesture,
and asked bluntly, "How do you want your no, fast or slow?" The financial angel
just as quickly withdrew his backing, and the poor Aries promoter soon developed a
severe case of business leprosy. For many frustrating months, those who had
formerly been behind him one hundred percent were mysteriously out to lunch or in
Europe every time he called.
A little tactful diplomacy could have kept his dream from exploding, but it takes the
average ram many years to reach the diplomacy of an Arien like Dean Rusk. People
who have arrived at the top through hard and patient work justifiably resent an
aggressive Aries, who thinks he knows far more with far less experience. He learns
modesty and humility only after many dismal failures. But once he's learned, he can
make a project pay off like a gusher, adding stacks of creative ideas, and intuitively
making the right moves. He reaches leadership only by first respecting those above
him in credit and stature, yet success, when it comes, is normally gigantic and
impressive. Strangely, most Aries people often create wealth for others rather than
for themselves. Lots of rams pay rent most of their lives, and seldom own their own
home. It doesn't seem to break the Mars spirit that cash doesn't always cling to him,
perhaps because what he seeks is not necessarily in the bank.