To love and to be loved is an experience for which every soul longs and often prays. To be forced to learn the real meaning of loving is a very hard lesson. This is What these Aries people often have to learn in the great school of human experience. Surely the inner meaning of real loving is in seeking harmonious unity with others. It appears that the elements continually drive people towards this end, though often they are unaware of the force that motivates them.
People seek for balance with people of other elements in a similar way to earth needing to combine with water and air and warmth in order to produce a luxuriance of life: similarly, the people of each sign combine with others in the great circle of human interblending and earthly experience. In the ordinary relationships of everyday life, it is noticeable that people born under the influence of earth (service) will combine happily with those governed by a similar influence, or by water, air or fire, and so they get a reputation for being 'easy to get on with', whereas people governed by the influence of fire may be known as 'touchy and difficult'.
Fire, as an element, does not blend easily with others. It can be extinguished by earth, quenched by water, and air can transform it into a raging fury; yet, without the warmth of fire, each of these natural forces become sterile and unproductive. In a similar way, people governed by the influence of fire can be adversely affected by people showing in themselves the force of the other elements.
Souls taking their first incarnation through the degree of fire are liable to experience great difficulty in establishing the balanced relationships necessary to successful and happy living, though such relationships are as essential to them as is fuel to a fire. When they know that they partake of the nature of fire, they can begin to see a logical reason for controlling and transmuting their passions and directing them into channels that are constructive. The wish 'to have and hold' has to be changed into the real tenderness of loving, which is to give and to love for the sake of loving, not just because the loved one adds fuel to the fire of personal enjoyment.
A lesson such, as this is not easy, and Aries people often pass through great agonies as they succumb to the jealousies born of possessiveness. Sometimes those they love forsake them. Occasionally their dearest ones are taken by the changing circumstances of life. Often they choose partners who combine inharmoniously with them, by drowning their enthusiasms or stirring their temper into rage or by extinguishing in them every spark of initiative and ambition. The best partners for these people are those governed by the first, second or third degree of fire. They can also combine well with people governed by the air signs, especially if they are showing the positive aspects of their understanding of the need for unity.
When showing the best side of their nature, the Aries people make excellent companions.
They warm, stimulate and purify everyone and everything with their geniality and friendliness. Because their love relationships are of consuming importance to them, it is inevitable that many of these people exhaust their nervous energy and destroy themselves in frenzies of jealousy and worry when their affairs do not go as smoothly as they would expect or because they cannot possess the person on whom they set their heart. Sleeplessness, headaches and exhaustion reveal the manner in which their nervous system exhausts the tissue salt essential for health and harmony. These people ought to nourish their bodies on foods rich in easily assimilated nourishment such as that contained in goats' milk and other dairy products.
They should use such valuable products as barley, honey, and seeds such as sunflower, pumpkin and sesame. Kali Phosphoricum tissue salt ought to be taken plentifully, during every one of their emotional crises in order to rebuild and strengthen the nervous system and guard it against the development of the weaknesses which can lead to paralytic conditions of the nerves and muscles, or mental states such as agoraphobia and other extreme forms of fear.
