Sun in Aries
What Sun in Aries means, the traditional facts behind it, and when the Sun is actually in Aries.
What Sun in Aries means
With your Sun in Aries, identity is built through initiative — you tend to move first and refine later. Aries is a fire sign, so you feel most yourself when something is underway and there is a fresh start to lean into.
A sign placement reads the same in every house system.
These interpretations are drafted with software assistance and edited by our writers. Astrology is a symbolic language, not a science — take what's useful and leave the rest.
The sign: Aries
- Element
- Fire
- Modality
- Cardinal
- Polarity
- Yang: outward, active
- Ruler
- Mars
Essential dignity
The Sun is exalted in Aries: the tradition's sign of its most elevated expression, strongest at 19° Aries.
The four major dignities, from Ptolemy's table as Lilly gives it (1647).
When the Sun is in Aries
The Sun is in Aries every year from about March 20 to April 20. The exact moments this year and next:
| Enters | Leaves |
|---|---|
| Mar 20, 2026, 14:45 | Apr 20, 2026, 01:39 |
| Mar 20, 2027, 20:24 | Apr 20, 2027, 07:17 |
Times in UTC, to the minute.
See where the Sun falls in your own birth chart
How this page is made
Sign facts and dignities follow the traditional tables; dates come from our own ephemeris engine. Exact about the astronomy, honest that astrology is a symbolic language.