2022 Aries Horoscope Preview

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Aries Horoscopes, the Year 2022: Summary/preview of the year ahead.

This Aries yearly horoscope is for people born with their Sun in Aries (approximately March 21st to April 20th, depending on the year) and for those born with an Aries Ascendant. See also the full Aries Yearly Horoscope for 2022.

2022 Aries Horoscope Preview

The following is an overview horoscope for the zodiac sign of Aries for the year 2022, exploring the main themes Aries can expect during the year.

(Click on any sign above to navigate to that sign’s preview horoscope).

Areas of Expansion in 2022 for Aries: Healing, Mental Health, Privacy, Personality, Body Image, Physical Vitality

Your Aries Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand and grow through the course of the year. Note: Jupiter trends show themes of growth, development, and opportunity.

Spirituality
Privacy
Mental and emotional wellness
Energy and vitality
Projection of Personality
Self-confidence

Until May 10th, and then October 28th-December 20th, 2022, areas of life that continue to expand, grow, and reward you are your spiritual world, compassion, private life, and tolerance. These are periods for looking within and learning your inner strength. These are also times for appreciating some level of solitude.

This influence spans three date ranges, and we’re on the second and third wave this year:

from May 13-July 28, 2021,
from December 28, 2021-May 10, 2022,
and from October 28, 2022-December 20, 2022

In other words, you’re experiencing these themes in steps, the first step of which occurred last year from May to July. You begin 2022 having just begun the second step.

Matters from the past magnify in your life now. You tend to sort through the attitudes that serve you well and the behaviors that need to go so you can grow, improve, and thrive. This theme prepares you for the times when Jupiter transits your sign –when you’ll then be ready to share yourself more fully with the world (see below). Jupiter is in Aries part of this year and the next.

This is generally a warm, protective cycle, although with Jupiter in the background in your chart, there may be some sense that you are not truly living or experiencing your life to the fullest or that your joy in life is not as apparent to others. It’s a somewhat more withdrawn, reflective period of your life. You may be exploring the hidden elements of life or developing your spirituality now.

You may also be more markedly compassionate and empathetic. Events occurring now expand your inner world and your innate compassion, warmth, or inner eye.

This can be a powerful period for volunteer work or work done behind the scenes, in private, or in the helping professions.

Because this transit connects your sector of higher learning, belief systems, and adventure with your sector of solitude and endings, this can also be a time when your perspective or personal philosophy is going through changes. You might do some special studies on your own. There can be hidden or elusive elements to your communications, interests, and studies.

Potential challenges: Escapism. It can be tempting to escape your everyday responsibilities and challenges. In particular, you might try to avoid reliance on drugs, drinking, or other “glamorous” forms of escape. It’s true that you need more breaks from the usual, but it’s best to aim for healthy forms of hiatus.

Jupiter’s influence is generally considered positive, and it is, ultimately. However, it acts to magnify the area of the chart that it affects, and at times it can be uncomfortable if you are having difficulties in this area.

In your case, if you are lonely or feel helpless, and if you have trouble facing your past, then this influence can heighten these issues. Ultimately, it’s for good. Initial magnification can help you see, starting the process that leads to improvements. The cosmos asks you to surrender some of your attachments and surrender to the unknown. Releasing control is necessary.

Building your faith is the work you are doing now. While you tend to play a supportive role to others, if taken too far, you will need to draw some boundaries with your energy and time. There can be some strains on mental and physical health in spots.

There is stronger joy in being of service to others, but do be careful that you take care of yourself as well.

Connecting with people from your past can figure strongly, or you can be quite focused on past friendships. Sometimes with this influence, a previous enemy or person you didn’t like now becomes a friend.

For the most part, you are likely to feel emotionally secure and supported during this cycle. Your perceptions heighten. Your ability to make sacrifices for others increases, and you can build your confidence in yourself as you help and support others.

This influence is particularly favorable for activities taking place “behind the scenes” or otherwise privately and in the soul. It’s a cycle in which you become more compassionate, empathetic, and sensitive or get in deeper touch with these traits. You might work on ridding yourself of self-destructive tendencies, deep-seated fears, and deeply-ingrained tendencies towards guilty feelings. You are more able to get in touch with your subconscious mind, and in fact, confronting your fears can be pretty pleasurable during this period.

Charity, giving/donating anonymously, volunteering, and helping others without expectation of reward will be most fulfilling during this cycle. Helping others helps you.

Your dreaming world may be especially rich yet also lighter, helpful, and more intuitive. Meditation and retreats may benefit you now, as they regenerate and invigorate your spirit. You can find much pleasure and growth in solitude and contemplation.

More vital interest in spirituality is possible during this period. There can be surprising events and changes to your inner world. Intuition heightens. Aim to pay attention to what comes to you in the way of dreams or hunches. You may very well discover new interests and desires that help you rid yourself of outdated habits or attachments to the past that no longer serve you well. A secret might come to light for some of you that serves the same purpose.

Particularly beneficial periods during this theme are February and April, when handling money matters or personal belongings boosts your spirits and optimism all around. In April and May, a spirit of altruism and generosity often prevails. You can be widening your mind through unusual or different experiences, expanded faith, and a feeling that anything is possible if you set your sights high enough. Your intuition, compassion, or work you did in the past can benefit your current career or reputation.

Your dreaming world is active in 2022. Spiritual teachers may come into your life. A feeling of spiritual protection is with you, and your faith in the “unseen” continues to grow.

From May 10-October 28, and then from December 20th onward, Jupiter is in your sign! This transit lasts many months and comes only every twelve years, serving to bring you out of your shell. You’re ready to take on the world!

This influence spans two date ranges, with the first wave happening in full this year, and the second one starting near the end of 2022:

from May 10-October 28, 2022,
and from December 20, 2022-May 16, 2023.

You’re experiencing these themes in steps, starting this year from May to October.

This is a time for exploring your needs and pursuing your dreams. Your personality, image, body image, and self-confidence expand to new levels with Jupiter in your sign. You are seeing whole new possibilities, and your vision of life is panoramic.

If you’ve done your inner “work” well while Jupiter was transiting your solar twelfth house (see the dates above), this can be an especially rewarding period. Your confidence in yourself and faith in the world are growing exponentially. Freedom is what you seek, and it’s a wonderful quest as long as you keep in mind the costs of freedom when it’s pursued without the necessary attention to responsibilities.

You are more willing to enjoy new experiences and rid yourself of those things that have held you back from truly living and owning your life.

There can be new projects you begin now that have long-term potential. You may not yet know where you’re heading with them, but you’re undoubtedly enthusiastic about starting anew. You experience a powerful initiative at this time in your life!

Expanding your horizons through higher learning might also figure strongly. It’s a time for aligning your behavior with what you believe is right. You are taking more “me” time, which is, in fact, long overdue.

Because Jupiter is the natural ruler of your solar ninth house, your new beginnings can very much tie in with a matter related to publishing, beliefs, the law, sharing your ideas, learning new things, your worldview, sense of adventure, your spirit/ outlook, education, or travel.

You could do more learning in a self-directed manner. You may have more freedom to explore and discover. A long-standing problem or belief can end, freeing you on a mental plane. Your publishing or educational success relates to expressing your personality or independence, the confidence in your ingenuity, or your body, appearance, or image. This influence often favors teaching, publishing, or advantages in court or school. Completing or returning to higher learning can figure strongly for some.

You seek a new beginning – a fresh start, of sorts – and your desire to do right is powerful. Work or projects you have been working on in private or behind the scenes may now begin to pay off. There is less focus on serving and helping others, perhaps because this is no longer as necessary. For example, a child can go off to college, or it’s even possible that it’s the end of a relationship or major project that took up a lot of your energy and resources, from which you are now enjoying some level of freedom. Now you can put some of your interests on the front burner.

You won’t feel like sitting around during this period of your life! You are hungry for new experiences. Everyday stresses that may have frustrated you in the past now seem almost inconsequential–your vision lifts above the mundane. As such, your ability to manage stress and pressure increases.

You are more tolerant in your attitude towards others, and you’re considerably more confident about expressing the playful, creative, and fun side of your personality.

It can be a time of increased personal meaning and purpose. Personal initiative is strong. The motivation arrives to work on healing any problems with presenting yourself confidently or self-image issues.

Potential problems: Restlessness, over-confidence, wastefulness, weight gain, pompous behavior, and excesses, in general, are potential pitfalls when the energies of Jupiter go too far. See to it that these things don’t mar an otherwise excellent period. As well, in your desire to start over, watch that you don’t blind yourself to certain essentials and responsibilities.

There might also be times when others can feel threatened by your newfound displays of freedom and independence, when your personal desires are greater than your means, or when you have troubles with self-discipline, budgets, and limits.

Otherwise, this can be a time of opportunity. There can be a strong sense of release and freedom from previously limiting, rigid, or stifling conditions.

A positive attitude will bring positive circumstances into your life if you remain realistic. Try not to take unnecessary risks or gambles. Your heart is very open this year. Protect it with realistic expectations, and you’ll have a special time!

Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity: Social Life, Wishes/Dreams

All year, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach are associated with the sector of your solar chart that rules your social life, friendships, networking, happiness pursuits, innovative ideas, and hopes or dreams. 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.

Areas you need to simplify and structure:

Friendship
Social Life
Group/Community connections
Happiness Goals
Dreams and Causes

Your Aries Horoscope for the year 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.

This influence wove in and out of influence in 2020, and then was solidly in place in 2021. In 2022, it’s strong and ongoing, and it will continue until March 2023.

This transit is felt more strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Aries. In 2021, those most directly affected by this transit are those born from approximately April 1-14 and those with an Ascendant of 12 to 25 degrees Aries.

Tests can come to your friendships during this long-term cycle. You may be more discriminating when it comes to making new friends, or circumstances are such that you spend less energy on networking and involvement in your community or in teams and groups.

Existing friendships may experience some tests or trials during this cycle, and one or possibly more friendships may end. Those that are true, however, will strengthen. In fact, this can be a wonderful period for forming or strengthening a lasting alliance with a person, group, or cause.

Keeping friendships strong and healthy requires effort. Friends or group affiliations may seem more demanding of your time and energy now, or you might feel stress about how much of yourself you put into your social obligations.

There can be some strain on a friendship due to an increased focus on other areas of life for some of you. Friendships or causes can drain you at times if you are giving too much while ignoring your own needs.

There can be stress from both personal and social camps as each area of life demands much of you (or you want more from these things!).

Alternatively, you might decide to contribute to your community in significant, tangible, and practical ways during this transit. There can be nice opportunities to make long-lasting connections. You can have more influence in a group, possibly naturally taking the lead. It’s a time for making solid plans for your future.

This is a rewarding period overall, particularly if you focus more on long-term benefits and less on short-term frustrations. Saturn is rather comfortable in the sign of Aquarius as it is now, and performs rather well in the sign.

You might form valuable, long-term associations as you reach out, learn, and share your knowledge, particularly in February-April. You are respected in your group or circle.

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

Your 2022 Aries Horoscope points to areas of your life that seem to speed up so that you can take some risks, innovate, and revolutionize.

All year, Uranus transits your resources sector throughout the year 2022 and for several years ahead. During this period, your attitude towards personal finances, as well as your value system, change rapidly. There is a need to be free from certain attachments during this long-term cycle.

Financial ups and downs are possible, but you’re learning to live with some unpredictability. The sooner you adjust to the idea of living with some uncertainty in these areas of life, the better. It’s a great time to think ahead and consider whether you’ve become too attached to certain methods, things, and ways of life that are no longer serving you good purpose.

When it comes to income, circumstances challenge you to think outside the box to come up with viable plans to improve your finances. For example, you may be seeking alternative sources of income now. This can be a time of freelance work or various sources of income. Friends or networking might impact your income. Or, 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. Opportunities are especially likely in 2022 in February and July, when being open to different ways to manage your money, things, valuables, or attitude toward the past and attachments can improve your life in significant ways.

Improving your home life can lead to a new relationship with your “stuff” or your money.

Areas of Change, Purging, & Transformation: Career, Reputation, Money, Resources, Talents

Your 2022 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 (it began in 2008 and lasts until 2024).

There can be tests to your level of expertise, and possibly even the exposure of weak areas. For best results, treat these as challenges to improve. February is particularly strong for boosting income or improving your reputation and general value. May brings another boost–it’s a time when you want to bring a project or pursuit to a new level. Working on longer-term problems or putting a long-standing issue behind you can be integral to your success. Things you did in the past can help you in the present, bringing rewards.

Eclipses this year challenge you to develop and balance your resources. Throughout 2022, there is a real need to manage your income, valuables, and talents, and there are great benefits for doing so.

The North Node transits your solar second house from January 18th forward, and you’re learning to ask for what you deserve. This influence challenges you to take charge of your earnings. Building a solid income or boosting your resources is both a challenge and a hugely rewarding experience.

In 2022, there’s a shift of attention from the world of mentality to material possessions and spiritual or emotional sharing. You are called upon to strike a balance between your own needs for security and comfort and the same needs of other people, such as those of a significant other.

Your Planetary Ruler in 2022: Mars is your planetary ruler, and it does turn retrograde this year, affecting almost a third of the year either directly or indirectly.

This year, Mars retrogrades in the sign of Gemini from October 30th, 2022, to January 12th, 2023. It’s important that, during this period, you get the rest you need and that you avoid pushing yourself or your personal plans and ventures ahead. Observe, reflect, and be as patient as you can.

Note, too, that there is always a hangover period after a retrograde cycle in which we reorient ourselves, and that lasts from January 12th to March 15th, 2023. There is also a pre-retrograde shadow period in which it’s best not to push your affairs forward, and this shadow phase occurs this year from September 23rd forward. Ideally, you’ll handle your bigger initiatives outside of these periods, but if you must go ahead with something, it’s better handled in the post-retrograde shadow than it is initiated in the pre-retro shadow.

In a general sense, this means forward movement and a natural pace for you in 2022 until September, after which reorientation and the building up of resources and energy is vital.

Mars gets extra support on May 22-23, May 28-29, August 1-2, October 17-18, and December 19th.

2022 Yearly Overview Horoscopes:

See also 2025 Summary Horoscopes for neat summaries of the year ahead for each sign, 2024 Yearly Horoscopes for detailed forecasts for each sign, 2025 Yearly Love Horoscopes for love guides to the year, and 2025 Preview Horoscopes for a preview of the year ahead.