Aries Season Reflection
using astrology as a tool of reflection, in lieu of a tool of prediction
This space was created over a year ago now, yet has laid dormant. I could blame my procrastination habit or erratic schedule but really there is no reason behind why. I know I didn’t launch it prematurely (though that is an idea I’ve contemplated a little too much). From a psycho-spiritual perspective, I see it simply as needing time to gestate.
Now, about 17 months later, I feel it’s time to deliver, for it to grow into itself.
I wouldn’t say Aries season necessarily reflected this to me but it did spark something! Aries teaches us that the first step doesn’t need to be something we overthink and dwell on, it just needs to be an ignition into something solid (aka Aries is the start and after that comes Taurus, the something solid).
I intend this space to be is a mix of theories, interpretations, and opinions all based around my foundation and relationship with evolutionary astrology. It is a language I share to bring about new ideas and perspectives within our lives. So here is where my theories of reflection finally begin. A post Aries season reflection…
Starting with the facts: Aries season begun on Friday March 20th 2026 at 7:47 am pst. Aries season ended on Sunday April 19th 2026 at 6:39 pm pst.
This wasn’t just a very solar Aries season but one that involved a collection of different energies from a multitude of planets. As the sun moved into Aries it was met along side Neptune, Saturn, Venus, the Moon and Chiron. As the sun transitioned out of Aries, it ended its run with Chiron, Mars, Saturn, Mercury, and Neptune.
This Aries season had a tumultuous quality to it. That Mars energy was strong! Life felt charged and chaotic even if it wasn’t manifesting that way in the physical sense, it was still emotionally stimulating. Not much gestation was happening that’s for sure! From my personal experience, this season became one of challenge with little to no preparation. There was no more room in what could be contained. In both loud and subtle ways, time acted out. It moved as if there was no duration, no pauses between action and impulse.
I know for many, life felt like a series of harsh hits making it extremely demanding to keep up. Demanding on our physical bodies, emotional bodies, spiritual bodies, etc.
For fun let’s pause for second and peak into how we can interpret each of the planets that were in Aries alongside the sun this season. I find it so helpful to use astrology in this way to breakdown and reflect on what parts of us (collectively) were really affected by this energy.
The impact this season had on our…
Sun: identities and ego.
Moon: the shifts within our emotional bodies and our needs.
Mars: reactions, assertion, and our instinctual bodies.
Mercury: intellectual and mental bodies.
Saturn: our time and the structure of our physical bodies.
Neptune: creative and spiritual bodies.
Chiron: wounded bodies.
Venus: values and relational bodies.
I do want to note that if you’re reading this and do not resonate with what I’m saying, that is totally valid! We all experience these energies differently. I see it as what was reflected in the collective atmosphere and not something every single person felt on a deeply personal level. It’s like the weather and the four earthly seasons we go through. I believe there’s also twelve energetic seasons we feel and experience. These are the cyclical archetypes of the astrological zodiac. They all bleed into each other, balancing out the energy all around us, just as spring, summer, fall, and winter balance out the earth.
So, Aries season was quite simply the demand that we act first and find the meaning of those acts only once we’ve had time to settle.
I personally find it difficult to see the full picture of something when I’m in it. When we’re living through a season it’s harder to understand the energy we’re actually in and confronted by. When a season moves from one to the next, that’s when reflection can happen. More can start to be observed and absorbed from our experience.
We are now in Taurus season. Many of the Aries energies have moved on, and I’m curious what it left us with. I want to theorize on it’s lessons and gifts. Asking, what was it’s evolutionary intention this time around?
Aries season was a season where I personally noticed that I’ve been neglecting two very important parts within my self and my life. Action and authenticity… and where these two things within myself meet. So I took away the lesson in assessing how I’m using/neglecting my energy.
Aries is a fire sign, yes, but it isn’t the fire so to speak. It’s a spark, an ignition. Aries is cardinal and what that means is it initiates. I think this particular Aries season came in and was the start of a new initiation process for many of us. And starting something new always takes courage and work. It can be hard, painful, and scary. A total confrontation, that is what this season triggered, and that confrontation is the gift.
From the perspective of pattern, a season like this arrives to strip away the pretence of control. If you know a little about astrology already this is part of the square aspect between Aries and Capricorn. It teaches through exhaustion and friction rather than discipline and construction. When the gestation phase is skipped, we are forced to see our own raw impulses without the softening filter of intention. We see what we do when we are exhausted and pushed to our limits, and have no time to check in with ourselves. It reveals the engine of the self when it is running on pure, unadulterated heat.
In my own life, what took over my bodies this Aries season was a commercial shoot where everything just felt overwhelming; too much, too fast, too soon. The function of Aries energy is not to ask for permission, it is to erupt. Things were chaotic, rushed, amateur, and a total battle. It was like being pushed up against a comfort zone without choice or any real realization how I ended up there in the first place. This had an affect on my physical body and my emotional body the most, but definitely bled into my ego, how I react and assert myself, as well as took up a lot of my mental space.
This situation demonstrated that when the environment is saturated with this specific Mars-heavy heat, the most basic tasks lose their simplicity and become a labor of expulsion. A high pressure, involuntary transit that forces you out of an old comfort and into a raw, unshielded reality.
So why this energy? To bypass the ego’s consent? Sometimes we experience Aries energy as an expulsion only when we are resisting the internal demand to finally initiate. Usually, we prepare ourselves to be challenged, but challenges can’t always be prepared. Aries used chaos as the mechanism to break old habits of safety. Now as we can reflect on this season, we have time to choose how we want to rebuild and move forward. We were pushed to our edges to push toward actionable growth. This is what I understand the evolutionary intention to be.
Aries acts as our first cry out of the womb. It is the ignition of a wildfire that clears the way for new growth. My wildfire was understanding that my weaknesses lie within the realm of assertion, boundary, and action. I was jolted out of paralysation and forced to see where I’m not honouring my yes’s or no’s.
So with all that being said…Along with finding your own understandings of what this season taught you, provoked in you, and gifted to you, I want to end with a question for your own reflections. Did this Aries season change your relationship to yourself in any way? To your bodies? I’m curious how we start to see our own vitality when the chaos of the world tries to pull us down into it, because our vitality is sacred and is what guides Aries energy to a version of it’s expansion.