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OVERVIEW: The start of the New Year is a time for challenge and growth for Aries. Around January 2nd, you may have a few weeks where you're feeling intensely nostalgic and wistful. Once you get some intellectual distance from these emotions, you function better than ever. With a little more freedom, it's easier to understand your role. Your powers of concentration reach their peak on or around February 22nd. Instead of feeling constrained by limitations, you appreciate this streamlined way of living. Over the next month, your destination is increasingly clear.

You make a fresh start when the Sun enters your Sign. The real you emerges: ambitious, assertive and ready for anything. Most of April is ripe with opportunities for your success. The glow starts to fade during the last week -- no one can sustain such intensity forever. Around May 3rd, it's hard to be completely realistic or objective. Concede a point or two without excessive argument. The veil of distraction lifts around the 21st. Other people's ideas are more appealing and easier to adapt for your purposes. Instinct seems to govern your will after June 6th.

On June 22nd, your life as a high roller settles down. Misguided instincts lead you into an uncomfortable situation. Between July 24th and 28th things take a turn for the better, but then something changes. Expect up to two months of real or perceived difficulties, along with some strong or stressful emotions. You can handle these feelings, although toward the end of August you run out of diversions. Seek other methods of coping. Your Summer of challenges leads to new possibilities.

Late in September, you reemerge into an altered world. New couples and alliances herald the changing season. Friends are involved with different projects. You stretch your imagination and make up for lost time on October 22nd. The Sun enters Scorpio around this point. You've had your rehearsal, and now the game is for real. Admit it -- you actually enjoy displaying self-control in a demanding situation. Even so, you might be staying true to your impetuous nature again by mid-November. Events around the 23rd conspire to knock you from your high horse, but something surprising rides to your rescue. You have one more month to play before the Winter Solstice gives you an urge to hibernate