2021 Aries Overview Yearly Horoscope
2021 Aries Overview: Horoscope for the Year Ahead
Aries (Born March 21-April 20*) – 0 to 30 degrees Aries:
2021: Aries Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
Aries (All):
Note: This is where the summary or overview of the year ahead resides; more details are below.
The year 2021 brings a strong focus on your social life, networks, communication skills, and pet causes, dear Aries. This list includes your business goals or income for those in business for themselves. Team efforts or collaboration are in the spotlight.
Even so, you’re reorganizing and changing things up so that you can improve your friendships and connections–or your feeling of connectedness, in general. It’s about making room for connections, relationships, and projects that empower you rather than hold you back.
In a sense, you’re going through a clean-up or a period of fine-tuning in your social life so that you can live more authentically. The benefits of this reset are great, even if they’re not immediately apparent.
Your connections and networks can lead to meaningful new goals in 2021, or they can take you on a beneficial path. Friends can be of practical help to you. New long-term initiatives and exciting causes and missions are likely to emerge.
While there remains some pressure on your sector of career, reputation, accountability, and responsibility, there is far less of it in 2021. This year, you’re appreciated for how well you get along with others more than how you’re performing or what you’re accomplishing. This is a forward-moving, optimistic time, even if there will be times when you’re a little overscheduled in your social world.
It remains important to bring specialized focus to getting the career that truly suits you and for pushing your practical and professional interests forward. The good news is that you feel less restricted in these areas.
Eclipses encourage you to pay special attention to how you communicate, connect, and present your ideas. Polishing these things will go a long way towards your happiness and fulfillment. This can also be a time for boosting a relationship with a sibling, classmate, or neighbor. More involvement and improvement figure strongly.
Mars, your ruler, spent the second half of last year in your sign. Its extended stay was due to a retrograde cycle. While it may have left you feeling sluggish or hesitant, ideally, you’ve learned a lot about what makes you tick. You begin 2021 ready and willing to right your path, understand your desires, and confident about achieving your goals.
The emphasis is on more meaningful, streamlined, or business relationships in 2021. You’re taking your associations and friendships more seriously until March 2023. It’s a fabulous time, in fact, for forming a reliable connection or for quality business networking. With Saturn in supportive aspect to your sign, too, it’s a time of feeling more like you are on solid ground.
Financial ups and downs or uncertainties this year ultimately lead you to discover unique and creative ways to make and manage money.
Chiron continues its transit of your sign this year. Chiron illuminates the wounds you have accumulated over the years with regards to your self-esteem, which isn’t always comfortable. However, you get the chance to work on these issues and find ways to heal them. Openness to the process is crucial.
You’re far more serious about your ideals and causes, and you’re especially drawn to people who are like-minded–in fact, differences in values or opinions can be more glaring. You may feel that you have little time for friendships or associations that seem to distract you or that don’t feel right or productive. Connections formed this year can be quite permanent, or at least, long-standing–the “real deal!”
In many ways, 2021 is about learning to live your truth, and as you do, you feel healthier and more comfortable with yourself. Friendships benefit. You care more about who you have in your corner.
See also 2021 Aries Preview Horoscope.
Key Events in 2021 for Aries:
Outer Planet Transits:
Jupiter square Uranus and sextile Chiron in January. These aspects can produce some rebellion and a strong desire to break free from limiting circumstances. While we should watch for abrupt moves, it’s also a good time to open our minds to new methods.
For Aries, your unique outlook attracts success, positivity, and popularity. Healing yourself on multiple levels (physical, emotional, and spiritual) can figure strongly, and your new approach to connecting with others can be integral to this process.
At the same time, there can be some uncertainties with money and/or feelings of security that affect your friendships and happiness pursuits in January. It becomes much easier to sort this out as the year advances.
Jupiter trine the North Node of the Moon in February and Saturn trine North Node in April. These aspects increase our willingness to grow, learn, improve, and develop, moving past our fears. We are ready to embrace new methods and attitudes, leaving behind those no longer serving our growth. Our conscience is well-developed. We’re more inclined than usual to believe in the power of the group and of words to convey our message.
It’s a fine time for publishing, community involvement, teaching, guiding, and learning. Harmonizing through shared ideas and ideals can figure very strongly at this time.
For you, Aries, there can be wonderful opportunities to make valuable, meaningful, and useful connections. Improving your communications and approachability is part of this–getting on top of your quickness to respond to others and willingness to reach out can be especially important. You could lose this magic too easily as the year advances, and it’s best to watch for this tendency to close yourself off.
Improving your home life can lead to a new relationship with your belongings or money.
Saturn square Uranus from February to December. Our needs for freedom and spontaneity seem to clash with a need for structure and stability. Rules and limitations are hard to tolerate, but without some lines drawn, life feels too chaotic. Attempts to assert our individuality, freedom, and originality tend to undermine our feeling of groundedness and security. Yet, we are not satisfied when we conform. There may be sudden and unexpected twists that force us to do something different or free ourselves from old habits.
For Aries, some tensions are likely related to shifting money sources or a changing attitude toward personal possessions. There can be conflicts with friends about basic values, and it’s a possibility that you leave some connections behind. However, friendships that survive are mature and worthy.
At times during this period, you can be anxious to expand and grow, but worries about resources or funding can undermine you. You might wrestle with wanting to take risks but fearing change.
You may need to watch for borrowing from your future–drawing upon savings meant for other goals, for example–for the time being, which can cause some stress in 2021 as Uranus in your money sector goes to battle with Jupiter and Saturn in your social sector.
Fortunately, we have the following influence helping to soften some of the rough edges:
Saturn sextile Chiron from February to November. This transit helps us feel competent, effective, and secure. We have a strong sense of both tradition and innovation. We are also better able to express our unique qualities or go our own way, without stirring up controversy if we act in a professional, respectful manner. There’s no need for show-boating with this aspect. With humility and realism, the chances of success increase.
For Aries, you benefit during this period from a boost to your health and wellness. You’re likely to derive satisfaction from doing your share, which leads to a greater feeling of wholeness and fulfillment. This is a time when you invest in yourself and in the people around you that you respect.
Other influences and minor transits:
Sun conjunct Jupiter in Aquarius on the day of a Full Moon in Leo. This influence is in effect from January 26-28. It’s an opportunity period for your social life, connections, happiness goals, friendships, or business income. Your feelings for someone, your children, or a creative goal could prompt you to want to make improvements.
In the first two-and-a-half weeks of February, the sign of Aquarius is in powerful emphasis. A high number of points occupy the sign of Aquarius at this time, including the Moon on the 10-12. The New Moon on February 11th pulls all of this together. This brings an unusual amount of cosmic activity to your friendship sector. Activities, significant events, and opportunities can emerge through friends or group associations.
With so many influences in the sign of Aquarius, you have more power to direct your social life, as well as more hope in your ability to invent, connect, or pursue your dreams and wishes.
Venus is retrograde from December 19th. Venus is retrograde in the sign of Capricorn from December 19th, 2021, to January 29, 2022.
For all, love, finance, and pleasure matters are not straightforward during this period–it’s a time to review our attitudes, feelings, and satisfaction levels rather than forge ahead boldly into new love relationships or financial projects. It may be best to avoid any major decisions about love (and finances) during this cycle. Venus is your partnership ruler, so that this period can affect your relationships more than most.
Still, this cycle occurs in your sector of career and reputation, and you could be reviewing the pleasure factor or your satisfaction levels with your long-term goals, life path, status, or career. There can be some backing up and changes of heart at this time.
New and Full Moons/Eclipses:
Aries-specific interpretations of these lunations for later dates will follow:
New Moon in Capricorn on January 13th
This New Moon aligns closely with Pluto. It occurs at the time of a Uranus station, just before it turns direct. Otherwise, all major planets are direct. We’re in good shape for a determined focus on Capricorn-ruled areas of our charts/lives.
For Aries, this New Moon is about committing to career and life path or direction goals. The determination to improve things is with you, even if energies are stop-and-go.
Full Moon in Leo on January 28th
The Sun is between Jupiter and Saturn and quite tightly aligned with Jupiter at the time of this Full Moon. This lunation forms a challenging square with Mars and Uranus. (Saturn is applying to a square to Uranus, while both Jupiter and Mars are separating from their conjunctions). All major bodies are direct (temporarily)!
This lunation brings love, creativity, fun, entertainment, and self-expression into focus for you, Aries. You might have an epiphany that leads you to the conclusion that you should enjoy yourself more fully. It’s a time for embracing your feelings and letting them guide you! This Full Moon can bring buried or unacknowledged emotions to the surface, and it feels great to release them. New information or a burst of emotion can prompt a turning point.
New Moon in Aquarius on February 11th
At the time of this wonderful New Moon, the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn are all in the sign of Aquarius!
Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter are conjunct around the time of this New Moon, also in Aquarius but only very widely conjunct the New Moon. This New Moon is square Mars. The major planets are on one side of the chart within two planets forming a trine (a wedge pattern), suggesting a great concentration of focus. It can be difficult to see the other side of the coin, but it’s a good time to put effort into something special. It’s time to investigate and explore new ideas, trends, and technologies.
This is a powerful time for focusing on a special project. We should watch for pushing something too hard, however. Consider that Mercury is retrograde at this time.
For Aries, all the action is happening in your social sector. It’s a powerful time for new beginnings related to friendships, networks, happiness goals, hopes, and dreams. Love, excitement, and creativity are themes, and you’re likely to make a fresh start now. For best results, start slow. The focus can be on the past, but you’re also looking ahead to a better future along these lines.
Full Moon in Virgo on February 27th
This lunation harmonizes with Uranus. All major bodies are direct!
New Moon in Pisces on March 13th
This New Moon aligns with Venus and Neptune and harmonizes with Pluto. A dreamy, supportive New Moon with all major bodies direct.
This lunation presents a strong time for putting negative elements of your life behind you. A long-standing problem may very well clear up. It’s a good time to pay special attention to your need for rest, relaxation, and repose.
Full Moon in Libra on March 28th
The Sun aligns with Venus, and this lunation harmonizes with Saturn. The Full Moon in Libra awakens us to our feelings, particularly about relationships and social exchanges. While it’s an emotional time and the focus is on our affections, we recognize the practical side of getting along or find practical ways to improve our relationships. All major bodies are direct.
This lunation is very relationship-oriented and focused on balancing your plans with others’ agendas. It’s a practical time to improve a key partnership. The need for others is strong, and as you recognize this, you’re ready to make things work.
New Moon in Aries on April 11th
This New Moon in Aries is a fresh time of new beginnings and initiative. All major planets are direct! This lunation is aligned with Venus but square Pluto. Our personal plans and ambitions can feel at odds, causing some tension, but also a strong desire to start fresh.
This is your New Moon, and a chance to start fresh on personal, physical, and image-related levels. It’s a powerful time for pushing forward with whatever you were releasing in the last week of March related to relationships. Your initiative and independence are in the spotlight now.
Full Moon in Scorpio on April 26th
This Full Moon occurs with the Sun is aligning with Uranus, but both the Sun and Moon are square Saturn. We can feel a strong need to change, but we feel blocked.
This is an eyes-wide-open time regarding an intimate, financial, ownership, or dependency matter for you, Aries. A sense that you have to work through obstacles or work hard to achieve your goals is possible now.
New Moon in Taurus on May 11th
Harmonizes with Neptune and Pluto.
For Aries, this New Moon is strong for intuition, particularly regarding your finances, income, personal resources, valuables, and self-worth. Matters of comfort, security, usefulness, respect, and stability are subject to new beginnings. It’s about feeling encouraged, inspired, and determined to make positive changes, and bringing these attitudes into the world and to your fresh starts.
Full Moon Eclipse in Sagittarius on May 26th
A Honey Moon umbral lunar eclipse. This eclipse is square Jupiter. This Lunar Eclipse can have a way of bringing dysfunctional areas of our life to our attention! Plans blossom. We should watch for exaggeration, but it’s important to note the emotions that emerge now.
For Aries, this eclipse is powerful for gaining perspective on a matter related to communications, connections, travel, sense of adventure, and your urge to truly live and experience things rather than go through the motions. Your worldview is changing, and this affects your choices, decisions, and path forward. Tension is likely, but it’s motivating. Certainly, with the current ongoing eclipse season, something is stirring in you on political or worldview levels.
New Moon Solar Eclipse in Gemini on June 10th
New Moon/Solar Eclipse in Gemini: June 10, 2021
This annular Solar Eclipse aligns with retrograde Mercury AND squares Neptune, suggesting some wrestling with perceptions and expectations. It’s hard to see our path, but our discomfort with the past can be very real now, motivating new beginnings.
For Aries, these relate to learning, commuting, sharing, and communicating. New means of communication or transportation can figure strongly for you.
Full Moon in Capricorn on June 24th
The Buck Moon. This one is a little scattered, but it harmonizes with Jupiter and feels good.
For Aries, there can be epiphanies related to your career, goals, aspirations, or reputation. You may be called to action now, or to get to a better balance between your recently very strong attention to your personal life and your attention to your responsibilities, career, long-term goals, or the outside world!
New Moon in Cancer on July 9th
Widely opposite Pluto and harmonizing with Neptune. Venus is applying to a conjunction with Mars in Leo. We’re feeling confident and ready to create.
For Aries, matters of comfort, nurture, and safety are in focus. You’re starting fresh with a long-term project or a new approach to family and home life.
Full Moon in Aquarius on July 23rd
The Sturgeon Moon. The Moon can feel a little stuck as it’s between Pluto and Saturn. Otherwise, it’s a period of discovering our need for others or for more community involvement.
Realizations happening now are about a social, networking, business income, or happiness matter. While your feelings are real, you may not know what to do with them just yet. Next month’s second Full Moon in Aquarius (on August 22nd) can help clear the path to a fresh start along these lines, bringing an issue to full bloom.
New Moon in Leo on August 8th
This New Moon is square Uranus. We may need to watch for rebellious, abrupt moves.
There can be a new beginning regarding romance, love, creativity, hobbies, entertainment, leisure, children, or fertility. Do watch for rebellious reactions.
Full Moon in Aquarius on August 22nd
The Blue Moon. It’s the second Full Moon in Aquarius this year, and it occurs in the last degree of the sign, pointing to a turning point.
This is the second (!) Full Moon in your social sector this year, Aries. It brings further social excitement along with strong realizations about love and friendship, bringing a matter to full bloom. Watch for impatience.
New Moon in Virgo on September 6th
Widely opposite Neptune, but closely (partile) trine Uranus. Mars is trine Pluto.
For Aries, this is a time of increased work, chores, and attention to your daily affairs and mundane tasks. It’s not the most glamorous time of the year! However, it can be a great period for special attention to getting things right, fixing errors, and sorting things out.
Full Moon in Pisces on September 20th
This Harvest Moon harmonizes with Pluto. The Moon is widely conjunct to Neptune, and the Sun is applying to a conjunction to Mars.
You’ve been attuned to flaws in the areas of work and health, and now you recognize the importance of taking time to yourself to recoup, balancing attention to your physical health with care of your emotional health, as well as balancing your attention to work and procedure with the need for rest and room to get in touch with your intuition on matters. It can also be a time of intense awareness of situations that are no longer working for you and that need to change going forward.
New Moon in Libra on October 6th
This New Moon is tightly (partile) conjunct Mars and quincunx Uranus.
You can have a new mission, Aries, related to companionship, relationship needs, and goals.
Full Moon in Aries on October 20th
The Hunter’s Moon. The Sun aligns with Aries’ ruler, Mars, and forms a square to Pluto. Tense! The lunation harmonizes with Jupiter.
Your Full Moon this year is a tense one. Feelings are overflowing, but where to channel them or how to temper them can be the question. Watch for being driven by fear or paranoia. Listen to your feelings, but wait for a bigger picture.
New Moon in Scorpio on November 4th
This lunation tightly opposes (partile) Uranus and more loosely squares Saturn. Intimate relationships need a new approach, and we can see this more clearly now, but our interactions are on the volatile side.
For Aries, this New Moon occurs in your intimacy sector, and it’s useful for developing a relationship or project further. Instead, this can be about money owed. Challenges or obstacles can prompt a new direction, approach, or beginning.
Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse in Taurus on November 19th
This umbral Lunar Eclipse, the Frost Moon, harmonizes with Pluto and squares Jupiter. It’s the first in a set of eclipses that occur along the Taurus-Scorpio axis (the last will happen in October 2023).
For Aries, this is the first eclipse in a set that affects your money and sharing axis until October 2023. Unrest or discontent stirred now can get the ball rolling for making important changes with how you make, spend, and share your money and talents or other resources. In the coming two years, your attitude towards money, personal things, valuables, and income are transforming.
New Moon/Solar Eclipse (Total) in Sagittarius on December 4, 2021
New Moon/Total Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius on December 4th
This total Solar Eclipse is conjunct Mercury and sextile Saturn.
We seek to embrace new experiences or adventures. This eclipse is the final one in the Gemini-Sagittarius eclipse set that began mid-2020, and big decisions or major new beginnings can ensue.
For Aries, this eclipse encourages your spirit to grow, explore, and expand beyond your usual experiences. Events occurring in the weeks following can serve to push you out of your routine and your comfort zone. You can experience more passion about an idea, ideal, or course of study, and you can feel compelled to share your thoughts. It’s a final push to take charge of your personal interests.
Full Moon in Gemini on December 18th
This Cold Moon harmonizes closely with Jupiter. It’s a good time to see progress or a turning point on recent new beginnings.
For you, Aries, this Full Moon feels lucky, and it’s about sorting out your daily affairs, studies, and mental outlook or personal interests and projects. There can be a release or culmination of a matter along these lines. You’re attempting to balance your need to attend to your daily affairs with your need to feed your spirit, and it’s a great time to achieve your goals in these areas.
Please note that these key dates are synopses — quick summaries of astro events — that are covered more in-depth throughout the year in the monthly horoscopes and daily horoscopes.
Yearly Horoscope: 2021 Predictions for Aries
If you know your Ascendant, read forecasts for both your Sun sign and your Ascendant sign. If you know your birth time, but don’t know your Ascendant, be sure to use the Cafe Astrology Ascendant Calculator. For those of you who are unsure of your Sun sign because it’s close to the neighboring sign, see What’s My Sun Sign?
The horoscope on this page, Aries Yearly, shows the trends and predictions for the year in detail. Because outer planet transits are lengthy, there are variations in the timing of outer planet transits for each of the three decans of Aries, and these are shown below the main, general forecast.
There are some pleasant developments for you this year, dear Aries. Every year, we see challenges and opportunities in different areas. It’s my hope that by understanding these areas of potential disruption and ease, you can make the most of these trends by seeking and pursuing the opportunities and managing the challenges.
The following chart shows the outer planets and other points in relation to your sign, revealing whether they are harmonizing with or challenging Aries:
Aries 2021
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Legend:
Grey is neutral (no direct relationship, but can be picky, nagging at times),
Pink is challenging (the planet is in direct, challenging relationship to your sign),
and Green is easy and supportive (the planet or point is in a direct, harmonious relationship with your sign).
Jupiter=Luck, Confidence,
Expansion, Growth, Hope, Improvement, Spirit
Saturn=Restriction, Structure, Simplicity, Realism
Uranus=Innovation, Excitement, Unrest, Rebellion, Change
Neptune=Inspiration, Spirit, Confusion, Dissolution, Enlightenment
Pluto=Upheaval, Transformation, Rebirth, Unearthing, Excavation, Power
Chiron=Vulnerability, Wisdom, Healing, Wholeness, Non-conformity
North Node=Life Lesson, Growth, Improvement, Challenge
As is evident in the above chart, there are far more harmonious and neutral influences for Aries in 2021, suggesting a period of fewer changes and disruptions than there were in recent years. Support and harmony or status quo areas are in stronger focus. While Pluto continues to challenge you, you’re finding good outlets for expressing and enjoying yourself.
On this Page:
On this page, the year’s larger themes are explored. For month to month overviews, see Aries Monthly Horoscopes, and for daily influences, see Aries Daily Horoscopes. Please note that my dailies are astrological, not daily inspirational texts, so you’ll find interpretations for such things as planetary aspects and planet/point ingresses in Daily Horoscopes.
Overview: Harmony and Challenge of Outer Planets:
There is a stronger focus on the sign of Aquarius in the year’s astrology, and the signs that play well with Aquarius in a general sense tend to look better in the chart above. Your sign, Aries, is harmonious to Aquarius, and this means you can find more support and less resistance in a general sense in 2021.
Saturn has moved out of disharmony with your sign this year, dear Aries, and it’s a well-earned release from pressure.
While Chiron in your sign is certainly easier than it clashing with Aries, it remains a strong influence and can, at times, bring its own brand of pressure. However, it’s an influence that encourages healing, growing, improving, learning, and humbling yourself to the whole process. You’re learning to take much better care of yourself on all levels–body, mind, and spirit.
Saturn’s presence in Aquarius is a particularly welcome stabilizing influence for you, Aries! It’s also suggestive of a stronger support system.
Move forward to the Yearly Horoscopes for Aries by Decans (page 2)…
