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- Mars seeks resolution. through aries, it says: collide with reality.
- Aries is blind will, the principle that says to understand reality you must collide with it, just as you would if blindfolded in a room. Aries masters the map of reality, not through explanation, but through encounter.
- We arrive in a pre-arranged world where family, society, and experience hand us a map of what can be done, what cannot, what is realistic, and what is impossible.
- Aries rejects convention and chooses to test the inherited map against reality itself. It symbolizes unconditioned initiative. It moves before certainty arrives.
- Aries, as an archetypal expression, is often at odds with convention for this reason. It doesn’t mind making a mess.
- Aries is often mistaken for ego because it is associated with warfare, competition, and the desire to win. Yet the actualized form of aries is remarkably humble. Those who bump up against reality are willing to be proven wrong.
- The ego wants to preserve the map. Aries is willing to look foolish in search of truth.
- There is safety in following the map, because when we fail within convention, responsibility can be shared. But venture beyond the map and fail, and the burden becomes personal.
- The ordinary person makes the will a servant of the ego. Instead of using their will to discover reality, they use it to protect what has already been socially validated.
- But aries restores the will by reversing this relationship. The humble person is willing to look foolish while the egotistical person cannot afford to.
- Aries’ will is rooted deeply in its libido, and thus motivated by genuine desire. When genuine desire takes hold, the mind can suddenly become remarkably resourceful.
- Obstacles that seemed insurmountable become problems to solve. This is because the libido seeks resolution. It does not endlessly calculate whether movement is reasonable. It just goes for it.
- This is the great arian lesson: pursue what genuinely arouses you. Lack of motivation can be an absence of genuine desire. Aries desires deeply and unapologetically.
- Aries reveals something uncomfortable about the nature of reality: reality often rewards the very behavior consensus discourages. Not because consensus is malicious, but because consensus can only describe what has already happened.
- But destiny concerns itself with what has not come to pass, but could. Aries understands that once reality bends in your favor, the masses will view your boldness as inevitability.
- Arian symbols include: horned animals, horned deities and humans, blindfolded man, blind man, battering ram, match being struck, hammer striking an object, charioteer, pioneer, door or doorway to the unknown, a hand with a finger pointed up to symbolize the number one or the first, black robe as sign of initiation, broken objects, erection.