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AriesMesha
0° – 30° sidereal
Mesha, the ram. Movable, fiery, ruled by Mars. The zodiac's starting impulse — direct, quick to begin, and less interested in how a thing finishes.
Attributes
- Ruling planet
- Mars
- Element
- Fire
- Modality
- Movable
- Gender
- MaleClassical polarity
Nakshatras in this sign
Each sign spans two and a quarter lunar mansions
Sidereal, not tropical
This is the sidereal Aries — measured against the fixed stars, the way Vedic astrology has always measured it. Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, anchored to the spring equinox, and the two have drifted about 24° apart since they last coincided. That is why your Vedic sign is usually the one before your Western one, and why the date the Sun enters sidereal Aries is mid-April rather than 21 March.