2018 Aries Horoscope Preview

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Aries Horoscopes, Year 2018: Summary/preview of the year ahead for the zodiac sign Aries.

2018 Aries Horoscope Overview

The following is an overview horoscope for the zodiac sign of Aries for the year 2018. Full detailed Yearly Horoscope to come.

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Aries in 2018

Areas of Expansion in 2018 for Aries: Intimacy, Self-Knowledge, Finances, Education, Beliefs, Publishing

Your Aries 2018 Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand and grow.

Until November 8, 2018, there is a wonderful, refreshing new focus on your private world or intimate life – a possible deepening of a relationship, or an increased understanding of your inner workings. Your intimate life enlarges and expands, bringing you more joy and new discoveries. During this cycle, you learn to embrace inner change in order to feel more empowered. There may be more opportunities to find support, financial and/or emotional, although you should be wary of living on credit and borrowing too heavily from the future. Jupiter rewards optimism but doesn’t encourage foolhardiness.

This influence has been with you since October 2017. It’s time to grab opportunities that help you feel empowered and on top of your life. Conversations are deep and lead to fruitful discoveries. Sexuality is richer. There can be benefits and support coming your way through or from others, whether it’s about receiving significant refunds, an easier time getting loans or mortgages, a partner’s income increases, or you inherit something valuable. Combining your resources, talents, and/or money with those of a partner can improve your financial outlook. You might also benefit from managing others’ resources and talents without teaming up.

These matters can be related to travel, belief systems, publishing, education, or promotion since Jupiter rules these things in your solar chart. You might find that you’re doing more research in order to advance your personal interests or drawing upon others’ talents or resources with a view to working towards an important goal related to publishing, teaching, and sharing. For some, this can be a time of evolving and transforming beliefs, opinions, and ideologies. There may be a metamorphosis of sorts related to expanding your interests and reach. This can be a time of financial expansion as well — making money through teaching, blogging, and promoting, for example.

Potential negatives: Taking on too much debt or relying too heavily on others for support. You would be wise to avoid excesses that can negatively impact your personal income and watch for the accumulation of shared debt. It will be imperative to use caution when it comes to lending and borrowing. For some, this can be a time when you need to tone down business expenses and spending as tempting as it may be to throw more money into it.

Otherwise, it’s a strong period for opening yourself up to others and for feeling more confident about your emotional depths. This is a period when you can quite successfully purge yourself of some of your inner demons, guilt, and buried psychological problems. While there can be some reality checks at times, from until August/September is an exceptionally strong period for intimacy and psychological growth. Imaginative activities or behind the scenes efforts can be rewarding, either (or both) spiritually and materially. Generosity and compassion increase and your faith receive a boost. You more easily make personal sacrifices for what you believe to be the better good. This is also a powerful time for putting more resources (cautiously) into your work, career path, or life path goals, and perhaps receiving some solid support for doing so.

From November 8th onward, your belief systems, learning experiences, and hunger for adventure grow and expand at a rapid pace. You are feeling more courageous and spirited as you sense that there is more “out there” for you to learn and take in. This transit is a happy one, although it can seem subtle since it runs so smoothly!

This is a time in your life when you don’t sweat the small stuff as much as you normally do. You see the broader perspective on life, and you generally feel supported, so that smaller inconveniences don’t stress you out quite as easily. Your positive outlook is notable during this cycle. Learn as much as you can now, in preparation for the next cycle beginning in December 2019 that puts your career on center stage. You’ll want to be prepared!

Your views on life in a broad sense are changing, growing, and maturing. Connections with faraway cultures, people, or a broader knowledge base can open up opportunities to grow personally. Teaching and sharing knowledge can be in strong focus. It’s a good time for publishing, writing, and media.

You might consider fine-tuning your talents and skills with higher education or experience during this thirteen-month cycle.

New learning experiences as well as “life” experiences (travel, adventures, contacts with others of a vastly different culture than yours, and so forth) are likely to emerge. Over the course of the coming year, you might have the opportunity to reach a broader audience. You might choose to learn a new language or take on other interesting studies.

This can be a time when you make friends in faraway places or who have vastly different backgrounds or perspectives than you and who enrich your life during this empowering cycle. You’re likely to enjoy opportunities to expand your experiences and to impress others.

Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity: Career, Reputation, Status, Responsibilities

Your Aries 2018 Horoscope points to areas of contraction, restriction, and necessary “slimming down” in order to test for stable foundations. There are always areas of life that require more simplicity. Tests may be part of the picture as you learn that life with only growth and expansion can run away with itself.

Until 2020, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach are associated with the sector of your solar chart that rules career, profession, reputation, and public life. There may be tests of sorts in these areas of life as if the universe is checking that the foundations are strong. Things built on weak foundations may very well crack under the pressure of these tests. Those that are strong will endure and strengthen.

This influence will be with you until 2020. It can be felt most strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Aries. This year, those most directly affected by this transit are those born in the first eleven days of the sign of Aries and those with an Ascendant of 1 to 11 degrees Aries.

During this cycle, your career requires critical decisions and choices. Major projects may come to fruition, and this can be a time for reaping their rewards, but there can be some disappointment now as well if you haven’t achieved what you wanted to accomplish. You are certainly more accountable for what you have and haven’t done.

Projects that you have been working on behind the scenes or that you’ve left unfinished might come to fruition, or you could be using them to further your career. Your career might involve more altruistic goals or helping others could figure strongly. You may need to employ some caution with regards to elements from your past, as these might come before the public eye in some way during this cycle.

You may acquire a higher position now, and you are likely to feel the weight of increased responsibilities that come with it. There can be issues to handle with a parent or parent figure, or a boss/authority figure in your life.

While this period can be a tad difficult at times, particularly when Saturn forms a square to your Sun or Ascendant, there are some dazzling spots, making it a rewarding period overall, particularly if you focus more on long-term benefits and less on short-term frustrations. Saturn is in a sign that it rules, Capricorn, during this period, and performs very well here as a result. The last time Saturn moved through Capricorn was from 1988-1990. Many of you will enjoy a career peak of sorts — this is a time of achievement, accomplishment, harvest, recognition, and the taking on of new responsibilities. If you’ve cut corners, however, this can be a time of dealing with those consequences and making things right.

Areas of Excitement, Innovation, Independence, and Speed: Personality, Personal Image, Finances, Self-Worth, Personal Possessions

Your 2018 Aries Horoscope points to areas of your life that seem to speed up so that you can take some risks, innovate, and revolutionize.

In March 2011, you entered a lengthy cycle in which the image you present to the world and your personality are changing quite rapidly. This influence continues officially until March 2019 but moves ahead from May 15th to November 6th in 2018 (see below) before returning to complete the transit. So, until May 15th and then from November 6th forward, you continue to embrace change, push yourself beyond your normal limits, express your independent streak, and take a few personal risks.

Potential negatives: While personal changes are necessary and perhaps inevitable, foolish risk-taking and pointless rebellion are not! You don’t need to throw away everything from your past or totally clean your slate in order to express your independence. Tame your urges to rebel just for the sake of it, particularly in November and December, when you can be pushing yourself way too hard or rebelling, sometimes at the expense of a relationship or finances. As well, avoid making changes just for the sake of making changes. In an attempt to release yourself from the past, quick or bold moves may be necessary.

This influence can be a very liberating one. Some level of detachment allows you to make progress in areas in which you previously held yourself back through fear, excessive emotionality, or lack of confidence.

From May 15th to November 6th, 2018, Uranus transits your resources sector. Uranus will retrograde and return to your personality sector on November 6th but will move into your resources sector more permanently in March 2019. This can be a bit confusing, but you can think of it as a period of back and forth and of transition from one transit to the next.

During this period, your attitude towards personal finances, as well as your value system, changes rapidly. There is a need to be free from certain attachments during this long-term cycle. Financial ups and downs are possible, especially in June, when some of you could be cleaning up a problem from the past that affects your current financial status. The sooner you adjust to the idea of living with some uncertainty in this area, the better.

When it comes to income, you are challenged to think outside the box to come up with viable plans to improve your finances. You may be seeking out alternative sources of income now. This can be a time of freelance work or various sources of income. This can be a time when friends or networking impact your income or when a major source of income comes from internet businesses and what happens online can have a major impact on your financial status. There may be sudden changes in your financial status or sources of income during this long-term cycle or a change of attitude towards the accumulation of possessions and/or property.

Areas of Change, Purging, & Transformation: Career, Reputation, Romance, Creativity, Friendships, Home

Your 2018 Aries Horoscope reveals areas of life in which change and transformation take place. It’s a time for “out with the old, in with the new.”

Career, professional matters, and public life continue to transform this year, requiring deep and lasting fundamental changes. This is a very long-term influence that is once again active all year. There can be tests to your level of expertise, and possibly even exposure of your areas of weakness. Treat these as challenges to improve. Changes may seem more challenging in November when you can be distracted and possibly overwhelmed by your attention to studies, projects, and personal interests.

However, you have excellent support for these changes in 2018, especially from January until September, when you pour a strategic amount of extra resources (money, support, or energy) into your career and advance your goals in rewarding ways. Belief in yourself is paramount now and, fortunately, comes naturally at this time.

Eclipses this year continue to challenge you to express yourself more creatively and openly. Friendships, group associations, creativity, and romantic involvements are evolving in important ways. New group associations may be made, friendships can expand, and you are challenged to find a balance between your romantic life and your connections with friends, particularly around the eclipses in January/February and July/August.

In mid-July, the first in an eclipse set occurs in your home and family sector. This points to the beginnings of big changes related to your home life and living arrangements as well as career matters. This theme will play out more fully in 2019.

With the North Node moving through your amusement/creativity and romance sector until November 6th, you can benefit greatly from expressing yourself more playfully and uniquely. Don’t be afraid to stand out from the crowd now. From November 6th forward, it would behoove you to pay more attention to home and family life — this is where you find your greatest joy and challenge. There is a real need to get your domestic life into order, as this can bring fantastic benefits and much joy to your life. Many Aries and Aries rising people will be moving or preparing to move in 2019-2020.

Your Planetary Ruler in 2018: Mars is your planetary ruler. Mars retrogrades in 2018 from June 26th to August 27th in your sectors of career, reputation, friends, happiness goals, and community. This is a time for reassessing your goals, relationships, and relationship with yourself. During this cycle, you are not as much your “normal” self, at least from the outside looking in. You don’t assert yourself or state what it is that you want as directly as you normally do, and you could be withdrawn and introspective, pulling back from life a little as you figure out what it is that you truly want from it. It’s a good time to assess what it is that you have been doing on “autopilot”, how you’ve been asserting your needs and desires, and how you’ve been dealing with anger – all of this so that you can make improvements. Keep in mind that while this cycle officially begins on June 26th and officially ends on August 27th, there is always a bit of a preamble and hangover for retrograde cycles (May 12 to October 8th).

Think of this period as one of making essential edits and adjustments to your life. Certainly, career and life direction are big matters for you in 2018 and beyond. In fact, it’s not until the very last day of the year that Mars enters your sign. Mars entering Aries at the start of 2019 is symbolic, further reinforcing this year as an important period for building your resources and regaining your energy.

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