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The Sabian Symbols of Aries

ARIES I: THE SPAN OF REALIZATION
ARIES 1°: A WOMAN HAS RISEN FROM THE OCEAN; A SEAL EMBRACES HER.
Potentiality of selfhood: the individual is emerging from the collective and realizes self
for the first time. Phase 1; Pentacle 1/1.
ARIES 2°: A COMEDIAN IS ENTERTAINING A GROUP OF HIS FRIENDS. Objective
understanding through extracting salient elements of being. Joy of life's discovery; or
escape through humor. Phase 2; Pentacle 1/2.
ARIES 3° A MAN'S PROFILE SUGGESTS THE OUTLINES OF HIS COUNTRY. The
individual self as an avatar of greater collective reality; as participant in the larger scheme
of society or life. Phase 3; Pentacle 1/3.
ARIES 4° TWO LOVERS ARE STROLLING THROUGH A SECLUDED PARK LANE.
Fullness of conscious participation in life without responsibility. Closing of a cycle of
activity, implying satiation. Phase 4; Pentacle 1/4.
ARIES 5° A WHITE TRIANGLE, WITH GOLDEN WINGS ON ITS UPPER SIDES.
Evolution of values in the sphere of inward self, but at a stage not yet substantiated.
Eagerness for a spiritual goal. Phase 5; Pentacle 1/5.
ARIES 6° A BLACK SQUARE; ONE OF ITS SIDES IS ILLUMINED RED. Primal effort
toward individual selfhood. First and uncontrolled interest in any given thing. Great inner
restlessness. Phase 6; Pentacle 1/6.
ARIES 7° A MAN EXPRESSES HIMSELF AT ONCE IN TWO REALMS. Conscious duality
by which man first really differentiates himself from the animals. Versatility in work.
Self-expansion. Phase 7; Pentacle 1/7.
ARIES 8° A WOMAN'S HAT, WITH STREAMERS BLOWN BY THE EAST WIND. First
real attempt at self-exteriorization and embodiment in consciousness. Individualizing
Eastern forces are suggested. Phase 8; Pentacle 1/8.
ARIES 9° A SEER GAZES WITH CONCENTRATION INTO A CRYSTAL SPHERE.
Direction from within. Taking advantage of all factors in a given situation, and knowing
when to make decisions. Assurance. Phase 9; Pentacle 1/9.
ARIES 10° A SCHOLAR CREATES NEW FORMS FOR ANCIENT SYMBOLS. Deep
understanding, beyond normal means. Abstract seership, integrating the inner and the
outer. Interpretative gift. Phase 10; Pentacle 1/10.
ARIES 11° THE RULER OF A COUNTRY IS BEING OFFICIALLY INTRODUCED. Fine
stewardship of collective racial ideals. Good and necessary, but unimaginative conformity
to standards. Idealization. Phase 11; Pentacle 1/11.
ARIES 12° A FLOCK OF WHITE GEESE FLYS OVERHEAD ACROSS CLEAR SKIES. A
soul as yet socially immature and unadjusted; not come down to full and steady concrete
expression. Self-discovery. Phase 12; Pentacle 1/12.
ARIES 13° A BOMB WHICH FAILED TO EXPLODE IS NOW SAFELY CONCEALED.
Intangible fears of nascent selfhood: the creative stirring up of a new perspective and a
new identity suddenly revealed. Phase 13; Pentacle 1/13.
ARIES 14° A SERPENT ENCIRCLES A MAN AND WOMAN IN CLOSE EMBRACE. Power
of higher wisdom manifest in the bi-polar nature. Protection by the higher genius of Self.
Fulfillment in truth. Phase 14; Pentacle 1/14.
ARIES 15° INDIAN WEAVING A BASKET IN THE GOLDEN LIGHT OF SUNSET. Full and
conscious realization of selfhood, through the memory of all the powers acquired in the
past. Retentiveness. Phase 15; Pentacle 1/15.
ARIES II: THE SPAN OF EXAMINATION
ARIES 16° BRIGHTLY CLAD BROWNIES, DANCING IN WARM DYING LIGHT.
Relationship between conscious and unconscious sides of life. Invisible assistance often
entailing obligation to outer forces. Phase 16; Pentacle 1/16.
ARIES 17° TWO PRIM SPINSTERS ARE SITTING TOGETHER IN SILENCE. Poised and
dispassionate outlook, involving either great dignity and integrity of self, or inability to
live life fully. Phase 17; Pentacle 1/17.
ARIES 18° AN EMPTY HAMMOCK IS HANGING BETWEEN TWO LOVELY TREES. Rest
after some notable achievement. Capacity for consciousness after the act, for reaping
fruits of activity. Detachment. Phase 18; Pentacle 1/18.
ARIES 19° A MAGIC CARPET HOVERING OVER AN UGLY INDUSTRIAL SUBURB.
Capacity to transform everyday life by the power of creative significance; or escape in idle
fancy. Phase 19; Pentacle 1/19.
ARIES 20° A YOUNG GIRL FEEDING SWANS IN A PARK ON A WINTRY DAY.
Participation of self in a life larger than any conception of selfhood. Protection, or the
need for it. Phase 20; Pentacle 1/20.
ARIES 21° A PUGILIST, FLUSHED WITH STRENGTH, ENTERS THE RING. Complete
immolation of self in things purely physical. Intense self-assertiveness, physical and
psychological. Phase 21; Pentacle 1/21.
ARIES 22° GATEWAY OPENING TO THE GARDEN OF ALL DESIRED THINGS. Joy and
utter lack of inhibitions in objective life. Self-exaltation or bondage to the craving for
happiness. Phase 22; Pentacle 1/22.
ARIES 23° WOMAN IN SUMMER DRESS CARRIES A PRECIOUS VEILED BURDEN.
First maturity of conscious life in any phase of experience. Sense of value and delicacy —
or wastefulness. Innocence. Phase 23; Pentacle 1/23.
ARIES 24° A WINDOW CURTAIN BLOWN INWARD, SHAPED AS A CORNUCOPIA.
Good fortune attending upon the putting forth of effort. Rush of spiritual forces into the
conscious ego. Protection. Phase 24; Pentacle 1/24.
ARIES 25° A DOUBLE PROMISE REVEALS ITS INNER AND OUTER MEANINGS.
Fortuitous cooperation between inner and outer elements of being. A sense of
responsibility to self or to society. Phase 25; Pentacle 1/25.
ARIES 26° A MAN, BURSTING WITH THE WEALTH OF WHAT HE HAS TO GIVE.
Supreme endowment, and inexhaustibility of resources in all possible life realms.
Sometimes obsession by potentiality. Phase 26; Pentacle 1/26.
ARIES 27° THROUGH IMAGINATION, A LOST OPPORTUNITY IS REGAINED.
Beginning of mental maturity and slow growth of the creative faculty. Revision of
attitude. Mental house-cleaning Phase 27; Pentacle 1/27.
ARIES 28° A CROWD APPLAUDS A MAN WHO SHATTERED A DEAR ILLUSION. A new
light is shed upon cherished ideas. Fearless, constructive and public facing of the facts of
existence. Adjustment. Phase 28; Pentacle 1/28.
ARIES 29° A CELESTIAL CHOIR HAS ARISEN TO SING COSMIC HARMONIES. At-one-
ment of consciousness with cosmic powers. Harmonic understanding and faith in the
order and meaning of life. Phase 29; Pentacle 1/29.
ARIES 30° YOUNG DUCKLINGS DISPORT THEMSELVES MERRILY UPON A POND.
Essential social cooperativeness and appreciation of selfhood. Also a sense of inner
restriction. Contentedness. Phase 30; Pentacle 1/30.
The Sabian Symbols of Aries
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The Sabian Symbols of Aries

The sabian symbols of Aries

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