Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, the sign that symbolizes new beginnings. It connotes quick changes and sudden forks in the road. With your Sun Sign in Aries, your life is marked by arriving at a certain place and then being turned in a new direction. Certainly, one can say your life is adventurous!
As an individual with your Sun in Aries, you gravitate toward the center of action. You are audacious and intent on getting your own way. Since your nature is to express power, you treat opposition as an annoyance to be brushed out of the way. You are a natural leader with your Sun in Aries, who exudes self-confidence. From an early age you feel you are headed for success. Happily, you are also generous about helping others in a crisis. You are an openhearted friend who shares ideas and advice, and likes to pick up the check. You have a quality of assistance. You are not interested in the small or petty. “Go for the best” is your motto. There is nothing faint or half-hearted about a Sun in Aries individual.
Whereas others may be more cautious, having your Sun in Aries, you actually enjoy living on the edge. A touch of recklessness makes you feel alive. The chase is always more thrilling than getting the goal. (As one Aries recently remarked rather insightfully, “Wanting is always better than getting.”) You are willing to take a gamble, follow a dream, set your mind on a goal, and pursue it with irresistible enthusiasm. Your supreme quality of optimism attracts others. Underneath there may lurk insecurity, but no one will ever know about it.
This is not to say you don’t get depressed or moody. But the winter of despair doesn’t last a week with a Sun in Aries. You have an unbreakable optimism. It is true, however, that individual with their Sun in Aries are notorious for taking offense at fancied slights and injuries. Hot tempers and childish tantrums abound, and your threshold of boredom is extremely low. If success is not immediate, you tend to lose interest and go in search of other excitement. As a result, patient, plodding types often get to the head of the class before you do.
Individuals with their Sun in Aries have a well-deserved reputation for not finishing what they have begun. You are very short of patience, and your lack of stick-to-itiveness is your weak spot. Also, you spend your energy in too many different ways. Independence is a keyword. You want to run the whole show. If you can’t, you pull up stakes and look for a situation in which you can show off your style and brilliance. Should you come up against a superior force, you will bend but never break. Your aggressive and combative spirit cannot be broken by anyone—except yourself. One of the pitfalls of having your Sun in Aries is that you’re essentially self-involved. Unless you make an effort to look outward at others and their feelings, you can easily become a spoiled brat.
Having your Sun in Aries, though generally sincere and honest, you will tell a white lie if it seems advantageous. You are not a very adept liar, however; others see right through you. Sometimes you lack tact and diplomacy, but no malice is intended. Sagittarians also lack this quality of tact because they don’t know how to be oblique or roundabout. With you, tactlessness is an impulsive act—a careless expression of your innate force. Too often you speak without thinking and say whatever pops into your mouth, and usually regret your impulsiveness later.
The Inner You with your Sun in Aries
With your Sun in Aries you like to be in charge - you want to control your own projects and plans and not be under anyone else’s thumb. You have an intense drive to succeed and put a lot of pressure on yourself. Inside, you’re filled with nervous energy and worry about how you’re going to handle everything.
The sign position of the Sun indicates how we seek to express ourselves, develop ourselves, fulfill ourselves, and assert our will and power to shape our environment. The house position indicates the area of life in which we choose to focus the energy of our Sun sign and fulfill the purpose which it represents.
Sun in the 2nd House
The Sun in the 2nd House generally is a dependent position for the Sun. This is because you will tend to derive your identity from what you possess, from your resources and from what you value. Most people have been conditioned tovalue certain things and, if this is true for you, then your identity will be conditioned. With the Sun in the 2nd House, the degree to which your identity is dependent on the possessions youhave is related to the degree to which you hold materialistic values. If you valuethings, your identity will be determined by the things you possess. If you value certain characteristics and qualities, your identity will be determined by those characteristics you cultivate. If, on the other hand, you value virtue or spirituality, thenyou will identify yourself as a person concerned with these things.
Having your Sun in the 2nd House, an issue that you are likely to face, particularly early in life, is determiningwhat it is that you value. If you never address this issue, then the super-ego andsocietal conditioning are likely to make this determination for you. This will mostlikely result in you placing high worth on material acquisitions, because that is what society conditions us to value. The more you determine your own values, autonomously, the less conditioned your identity will be.
Another concern suggested by having the Sun in the 2nd House iswhat resources are available to you. You may feel dependent on having resourcesat your disposal. Your access to resources, or lack thereof, is likely to affect yoursense of security. Feeling secure, particularly from a physical and material stand-point, is fundamental to you feeling good about yourself. Often, this sense of security is necessary for you to be able to turn your attention to anything else. Onceestablished, however, this material security and knowing that you possess sufficient resources generally allows you to develop a strong self-identity and a greatdeal of self-confidence.
Insecurities
With your Sun in the 2nd House, when you define your worth by what you have, you never have enough and,therefore, you never feel adequate or worthy. Inwardly, you know that all your possessions and resources are liable to be lost, leaving you without support and without self-definition. Thus, you can never be secure within yourself. This inner insecurity drives you relentlessly to acquire more and more possessions in your attempt to feel self-worth. Even if you ostensibly feel proud of your possessions andresources, your hunger for more belies your inner insecurity and fear that you may lose all.
As an individual with the Sun in the 2nd House, you are likely to identify with what you have. This is usually material, but itmay be nonmaterial also. For instance, if you identify with your value system, youfeel that you are what you value. Most people with Sun in the 2nd House, however, will take their identity from what and how much they possess. If you possessmuch, you are likely to hold yourself in high esteem. If you possess little, you maysuffer from lack of self-esteem. One defense against low self-esteem is to valuewhat you have, whether it is great or little, because the more you consider that yourpossessions are valuable, the more self-worth you experience. If you suffer a loss of your possessions, it is likely to be a particularly hardblow because this loss strikes at your very identity and self-worth. When you measure yourself by how much you have lost or gained, then the Sun in the 2nd Houseplacement is a particularly weak and dependent astrological position. However, when you have defined your own values and risen above society’smaterialistic conditioning, a 2nd House Sun can indicate a strong identitygrounded in a sure conviction of what is valuable in life.
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Article referenced from:
Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook - Volume 2: Planets in Signs
Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook - Volume 3: Planets in Houses
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