Aries Horoscope for September 2016

This month is a thoughtful one for you, Aries, a quieter time of reflection and self-study, with implications for the major relationships of your life. Partners become increasingly important for you as the month unfolds; in their own right, and as significant aids to your self-development. You are more aware than ever of the importance of your inner world, and of the transformational cycles that drive you. In navigating career priorities, there has been a years-long push to see to it that your own point of view finds its fullest expression. More recently, it might well be said that only the path with heart is truly appealing. Whatever you do in the world must come completely from your inner guidelines, at the deepest layers of your psyche, or at the very least be understood as support for that which you desire in this truly profound way to accomplish.

As the month begins, you are energized by the potent New Moon and Solar Eclipse in your sector of service to others, and feeling into new appreciation as well for the impact on your life of significant partners. There is a way that you have always been more interested in going it alone, as befits the pioneering nature of your sign, and this has become even more true lately, with the astrological emphasis on revolutionary Uranus in your identity sector. These recent days, you are nothing if not your own person, with your own rather unique personality. The idea of allowing another individual, or individuals, to become any form of full partner for your developmental journey seems a bit odd, or, at the very least, difficult to accept. Yet, still, that possibility lingers, and this month gets a great forward impulse from the presence of two important factors: Venus, archetype of relationship, appearing for the first time in many months in your seventh or partnership sector, together with expansive Jupiter coming into this same sector, after the first week of September.

With Mercury retrograding through your service sector, and with transformational Pluto emphasized in your career sector this month as well, you are entering into yet another phase in your important process of deep self-reflection together with major changes in your outlook on outer-world activity.

This month also continues the summer's double emphasis for you of inner and outer concerns. You are drawn to one over the other, either way, but this is only temporary. You are soon pulled into an almost uncontrollable urge for the other side of the coin. You must deal with career achievements and obligations; and yet there is something that poignantly calls you to meditative interior regions that are even more intimately your own. Then again, dwelling too deeply inside yourself must soon yield to making things happen in the more obvious surface world of events and responsibilities. This push-pull can drive you a little crazy until you recognize that there is something important about these twin impulses that makes strategic sense, because each of these totally antithetical points of view is valuable in its own distinct way. You win when you can learn to accept the paradoxical idea of living in both of these worlds simultaneously.