Vettius Valens - Anthology - Book 1 - Chapter 2

2. ON THE NATURE OF THE TWELVE SIGNS

Aries is the house of Mars, a masculine sign, a tropical sign, terrestrial (earth), leadership, fiery, freedom, ascending, half-voiced, good, moveable (cardinal), commanding, public, political, unfruitful (barren), a servant, the world’s Midheaven and responsible for glory, of two colours because the Sun and the Moon create lepers. It is also disconnected and ecliptic (or relating to eclipses). Those born under this house rulership are brilliant, officials, commanders, fair, detesting of wickedness, those who are free, leaders, forthright, arrogant, magnanimous, inconstant, irregular, proud, those wavering in mind, threatening, rapidly changing and well off. If the ruler of falls in a good place and is under the influence of a benefic, the natives become royals, powerful rulers, having outspokenness with life and death.

The nature of Aries is watery, thundering (loud), hail-like, by placements its first parts until the equinoctical place (or vernal point according to Robert Schmidt, who points out that 0˚ Aries was not the vernal point in Valens’ astrology) are rainy, hail like, windy, damaging. The middle parts up until the 15th degree are temperate (and very fertile, or abounding in grain, the rest of the degrees are scorching and pestilential) for four footed beasts.

This zodiac sign has bright stars 19. Within the belt it has 13 bright stars, and 24 are also bright, and 27 are shady, and 28 of little light and there are 48 which are dim.

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