Comparison: Zodiac Sign Aries
My birthday is April 16th, which makes my zodiac sign Aries, The Ram. Aries is the first out of all twelve zodiac constellations and it ranges from March 21 to April 20. Aries is a fire sign that is affiliated with Mars and people born in this time slot are known to be adventurous, confident, enthusiastic, impatient, and impulsive.
The constellation Aries is meant to honor the Greek myth of the ram the produced the golden fleece which is commonly known for being sought after by Jason and the Argonauts. The ram was initially brought into Greek mythology when King Athamus of Boeotia took a second wife, Ino, who was jealous of his existing children with his former wife Nephele. Ino devised a plan to cause the crops to fail. King Athamas’s people then turned to an oracle for advice to stop the famine. Ino then bribed the oracle to say that they would need to sacrifice King Athamus’s former children, Helle and Phrixus, to the Gods. King Athamas reluctantly agreed with the oracle to save his …show more content…
I enjoy looking at my horoscope just at much as the next person to try to see how my day or month will go, but the vagueness and randomness of this type of astrology leaves me skeptical. The descriptions of people and how they match up to their sign don’t always seem to hold value behind it (our in class experience for example) because everyone can be adventurous at times, or stubborn when they need to be. I believe that I do correlate with some traits of an Aries, because I do tend to be quite impatient and energetic, but I can’t say that I am much of a daredevil or very adventurous at all. Saying that depending on where planets were when you were born determines your personality seems to be a little bit of hocus pocus to me, but I must agree that looking up your horoscope for the day or trying to see if your matches up their sign is an engaging process that intrigues
The constellation Aries is meant to honor the Greek myth of the ram the produced the golden fleece which is commonly known for being sought after by Jason and the Argonauts. The ram was initially brought into Greek mythology when King Athamus of Boeotia took a second wife, Ino, who was jealous of his existing children with his former wife Nephele. Ino devised a plan to cause the crops to fail. King Athamas’s people then turned to an oracle for advice to stop the famine. Ino then bribed the oracle to say that they would need to sacrifice King Athamus’s former children, Helle and Phrixus, to the Gods. King Athamas reluctantly agreed with the oracle to save his …show more content…
I enjoy looking at my horoscope just at much as the next person to try to see how my day or month will go, but the vagueness and randomness of this type of astrology leaves me skeptical. The descriptions of people and how they match up to their sign don’t always seem to hold value behind it (our in class experience for example) because everyone can be adventurous at times, or stubborn when they need to be. I believe that I do correlate with some traits of an Aries, because I do tend to be quite impatient and energetic, but I can’t say that I am much of a daredevil or very adventurous at all. Saying that depending on where planets were when you were born determines your personality seems to be a little bit of hocus pocus to me, but I must agree that looking up your horoscope for the day or trying to see if your matches up their sign is an engaging process that intrigues