It is positive, fiery, Rajasic, barren and sign of Short Ascension. By the Principle of Correspondence, Mars rules over it and Sun gets its exaltation. It is detriment to Venus and Saturn gets debilitation. It rules East direction.

General Significations: Aries is full of vitality; its pioneering and independent in its thinking and comes up with new ideas. There is a burning desire to dominate. Aries is self-opinionated, dark and go-ahead nature. There is ambition, assertion, audacity, impulse. Aries chief faults are over-eagerness, self-will, egoism, a hasty temper, and lack of discretion.

Physical Characteristics: Long neck, bony or angular face, middle stature, lean and muscular body. Complexion ruddy, crisp and wiry hair, broad temples, narrow chin, prodding teeth and round eyes.

Profession : Defense personnels, surgeons, butchers, chemists, hair dressers, watch makers, dealer in sports goods, mechanics, wrestlers, body builders, boxers, smiths, tailors, cooks, carpenters, metallurgists, real estate dealers.

Diseases : Head injuries, Neuralgia, inflammatory diseases, pains, Brain and cerebral hemorrhage, small-pox.

Education: Agriculture, Electronic, civil and Mechanical engg, Zoology, Botany, Petro-chemical engg, Home science, Industrial organization, Printing technology, Dental Surgery.

Places: Hilly ground, Stables for small cattle, lands recently ploughed, hide-outs of thieves. Commodities : Cotton, Barley, Wheat, Woolen, Beans, Leather.

Countries : England, Germany, Peru, Syria.

It is feminine, Earthy and fixed sign. By the principle of correspondence Venus is said to rule this Sign; Moon gets its exaltation and Mars gets its detriment. It rules over South direction. It rules over neck and throat.

General Characteristics: It is passive, comfort-loving, content, looks to the past, accepts things as they are. Taurus produces tremendous sexuality, materiality and love for the enjoyment of pleasures of life. It is sensuous, amorous, passionate, obstinate, proud, determined. It is stubbornly self-willed, unyielding. The mind tends to be shallow and stupid.

Physical Characteristics : Full forehead, full lips and nostrils, dark eyes, body plumpy, solidly built and stocky, broad shoulders, heavy thighs.

Profession : Musicians, Film producers, Tax collectors, Personnels in Agriculture and Revenue Department, painter, decorators, taxi drivers, dealers of flowers, glasses, mica, plastic, rubber, sugar, dress makers.

Diseases : Goiter, Diphtheria, Disease of cervical vertebrate, Fistula, piles, venereal diseases, irregular menses.

Education : Cost Auditing, Music, Chemical engg, ENT, Veterinary, sociology, psychology, plastics, designing, interior decoration, hotel management, petro-chemical engg, nursing, skin, dentist, Auto-mobile engg, Cinematography, film making, sculpture.

Places : Cow- houses, cattle sheds, furniture marts, low rooms and sellers.

Commodities : Flowers, Barley, wheat, clothes, mineral products.

Countries : Ireland, Persia, Poland, Cypress, Asia-Minor, Russia.