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 to, the house that it's on.  With tons of energy, you're 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're 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're 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 are/were Louis Armstrong, Jim Backus, Joan Baez, Theodore Bikel, Joan Blondell, Lloyd Bridges Pearl Buck, James Coburn, Joe Cocker, Bill Cosby, Bo Derek, Isadora Duncan, Geraldine Ferraro, Errol Flynn, Samantha Fox, Bobcat Goldthwait, Billy Graham, Dick Gregory, Che Guevera, Margaux Hemingway, Barbara Hershey, Lena Horne, Ron Howard, Madeline Kahn, Helmut Kohl, John Lennon, Heather Locklear, Gordon MacRae, Joe McCarthy, Bette Midler, Henry Miller, Famous people with Aries rising are/were James Arness, Antonio Banderas, Clara Barton, Alexander Graham Bell, Carrol Burnett, Frank Capra, David Carradine, Johnny Cash, Deepak Chopra, George Clooney, John Coltrane, Laura Dern, Phil Donahue, Spalding Gray, Dorothy Hamill, Gil Hodges, Whitney Houston, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Bela Lugosi, Dean Martin, Zubin Mehta, Thomas Mertin, Demi Moore, Mary Tyler Moore, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vincent Price, Richard Pryor, Robert Redford, Geraldo Rivera, Ringo Starr, Gertrude Stein, Leopold Stokowski and Mike Wallace. Vladimir Nabakov, Martina Navratilova, Stevie Nicks, Eva Peron, Valerie Perrine, Marcel Proust, Joan Rivers, Chris Rock, Pete Rose, Peter Serkin, Barbara Streisand, Jon Voight, Walt Whitman and Richard Widmark.