Mazal Aries — the Jewish zodiac sign of the month of Nissan

The character of the mazal Aries

Core portrait

Born in the month of the Exodus from Egypt, you carry within you the energy of beginnings: first sign of the circle, you open the road — where others hesitate, you have already taken the first step. Mars, your planet, gives you a real physical and moral courage: you can bear neither injustice nor waiting, and your frankness is total, sometimes blunt. You are a whole soul: you love at once, decide at once, get angry at once — and forgive quickly, for you do not know how to keep a grudge warm. Beneath the apparent fire there is an uprightness made of goodness: you charge first of all to protect, to free, to repair. Your challenge is never courage, it is duration: learning to finish what you have magnificently begun.

Aries rising

“The house of life”

According to an ancient teaching reported in the name of the Book of the Angel Raziel, the sign rising on the eastern horizon at the moment of birth is “the house of life” — the door through which each one meets the world. Here is what this house gives to those born under a Aries rising.

Your house of life opens onto action. Whatever your deeper mazal, you meet the world head-on: you enter, you decide, you begin — beginnings belong to you. In this house everything plays out fast: meetings happen in a glance, decisions in an instant, angers too. You entered life through the door of courage: every new stage of your existence — studies, work, cities, bonds — opened with a frank act, rarely with a slow ripening. Even the gentlest natures, in this house, learn to charge.

What others see first: What people notice first in you is the energy: someone direct, frank, in a hurry, who does not circle around things. Others gladly follow you into action; they sometimes believe you harder than you are — the door slams, but the house is good.

The Moon in Aries

The inner soul

The tradition gives the Moon a place apart: Israel counts its months by her and compares itself to her. The natal Moon describes the emotional life — here is the soul of those whose Moon was crossing this sign at their birth.

Your soul reacts in a flash: emotions arrive whole, immediate, burning — and leave just as fast. You do not know how to sulk for long: the anger bursts, then it is over, with no lingering shadow. Your heart needs action to digest what it feels — walking, doing, moving; stillness turns emotion into explosion. To be at peace you need challenges to take up, quick decisions, and close ones who do not mistake your flare-ups for malice. And your great strength is that you always set off again — no wound keeps you on the ground for long.

The month of Nissan

The spiritual path of Aries

Nissan is the month of liberation: your true spiritual question is “what must I leave behind this year?”. Speech is the faculty of your month — your study bears fruit when it passes through the mouth: reading aloud, telling, transmitting — as on the night of Passover, when the Exodus from Egypt is told. Loving-kindness (Chesed), your quality of the month, reminds you that your strength is given only in order to give.