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Two curves rising from a single vertical stem and turning outward at the top, like a pair of horns, the zodiac sign for births between 21 March to 19 April.
Also known as: Aries, Aries zodiac sign, Aries star sign
Aries is the zodiac sign traditionally assigned to births between 21 March to 19 April. Astrology classes it as a fire sign of cardinal quality ruled by Mars, and reads the glyph as the horns of a ram. The sign no longer lines up with the constellation it is named after.
The astrological sign Aries, which tradition assigns to births between 21 March to 19 April. The dates shift by a day either way from year to year, because they track the Sun's position rather than the calendar.
Encoded at U+2648 in the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block, alongside the other eleven signs.
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Classified in astrological tradition as a fire sign of cardinal quality, ruled by Mars.
A classification within astrology, recorded here as what the tradition holds. Symbolwise makes no claim that it describes or predicts anything about a person.
The glyph is conventionally read as the horns of a ram.
The sign and the constellation of the same name no longer coincide. Precession of the equinoxes has shifted them roughly one sign apart since the scheme was fixed around two thousand years ago, and the Sun's actual path crosses a thirteenth constellation, Ophiuchus, that the twelve-sign zodiac does not use.
Two curves rising from a single vertical stem and turning outward at the top, like a pair of horns.
Astrological tradition assigns Mars as this sign's ruling planet.
Both belong to the twelve signs of the tropical zodiac.