The Book of Aries

Everything about Aries, in one book: the complete 2026 edition.

The Book of Aries is a full reference to the first sign of the zodiac, written for the curious beginner and the experienced astrologer alike. Whatever your question about Aries (astrological, mythological or historical), the answer is here, explained clearly and traced back to its source.

THE SIGN IN THE SKY AND IN MYTH
Find the Ram among the stars, and follow its story through Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Persia, India, the Arabic world and China. Learn where the Golden Fleece, the "head of the year" and the spring equinox come from, and why the constellation and the sign no longer line up.

TWENTY-FIVE CENTURIES OF ASTROLOGY
Follow Aries from the first Babylonian horoscopes to the modern newspaper column. Ptolemy, Manilius, Hyginus, Ovid, Chaucer, Agrippa and William Lilly are quoted in their own words, with new translations from the Latin, so you read what the tradition actually said rather than hearsay.

EVERY PLANET IN ARIES
Read the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Chiron and the Lunar Nodes in Aries, each with its classical dignity and its modern meaning.

THE DEEPER DOCTRINE
The three decans, the Egyptian bounds, the faces, the triplicity rulers, Aries Rising and the Midheaven, Aries through all twelve houses, and Aries beside every other sign. These are the details most books leave out.

UPDATED TABLES FOR 2026 AND BEYOND
Computed for this edition with the Swiss Ephemeris:
- When each planet was, and will be, in Aries
- Every eclipse in Aries from 1900 to 2100
- The great conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn in Aries
- The fixed stars of Aries, with their current positions
- Famous people born with planets in Aries

BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED
Al-Ṣūfī's fifteenth-century constellation figures, the zodiac of Dendera, the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, NASA imagery and new star charts and diagrams drawn for this book. A glossary, a full list of sources and an "Aries at a Glance" table make it easy to find any fact in seconds.

Whether you are an Aries, love one, or study the stars, this is the one book on the sign you'll keep coming back to.

Book One of The Celestial Codex, a twelve-volume series that gives each sign of the zodiac its own complete reference. Begin with Aries, where the zodiac itself begins.