Aries Rising is a gift: you have actually earned it through past effort. It symbolizes your having a "natural" chart, one in which the sign on every house cusp is "natural" or corresponding in nature to the house that it is on.  With tons of energy, you are headstrong, impulsive, quick to anger, courageous and aggressive. You can be easily bored, shortsighted and focused on immediate returns. If so, you'll need to learn to follow through and make your goals larger in scope. You are bold and argumentative, take the battle to the other fellow, and tend to act first and ask questions later. Learning tact and diplomacy would help. You are apt to be thoughtless and unconsciously self-centered, and since you come on strong, others may experience you as arrogant.

You have a great need to succeed at everything you do, and the ability to do it. You appear to be single-minded and daring: a leader. Good for mechanical work and all physical activity. This ascendant places many—if not all—of the signs on the houses they naturally rule, and denotes a natural personality that flows easily and instinctually without much forethought. This is a hard earned gift for work completed in past lives. The house your Mars is in shows experiences necessary in developing self-awareness and individual self-expression. Mars' sign and aspects indicate your ease or difficulty in doing this.

Famous people with Aries rising (or an Aries ascendant) are/were Louis Armstrong, Joan Baez, F. Lee Bailey, Theodore Bikel, Lloyd Bridges, James Coburn, Joe Cocker, Bill Cosby, Bo Derek, Isadora Duncan, Geraldine Ferraro, Errol Flynn, Samantha Fox, Billy Graham, Dick Gregory, Che Guevera, Margaux Hemingway, Lena Horne, Ron Howard, John Lennon, Heather Locklear, Gordon MacRae, Joe McCarthy, Bette Midler, Henry Miller, Vladimir Nabakov, Martina Navratilova, Stevie Nicks, Eva Peron, Valerie Perrine, Marcel Proust, Lynn Redgrave, Joan Rivers, Chris Rock, Pete Rose, Peter Serkin, David Spade, Barbara Streisand, Mike Todd, Jon Voight, Walt Whitman, Richard Widmark and Yo Yo Ma.

This Aries Rising-Aries Ascendant-Aries First House Cusp page and much of this 550-page website are excerpted from You and the Universe, a personalized fine art book on astrology, mythology and astronomy through which each recipient's complete astrological reading is woven.