The ram of the golden fleece
Aries is a ram with a golden fleece. In the Greek myth, the siblings Phrixus and Helle were about to be sacrificed on their stepmother's orders, and the gods sent a ram that carried them off through the air. Helle fell into the sea on the way, in the strait now called the Dardanelles. Phrixus reached Colchis, sacrificed the ram and hung its golden hide in a grove, where a dragon guarded it until Jason and the Argonauts came to take it. The ram ended up among the stars.
Aries was the first sign because the Sun entered it at the spring equinox, when the astrological year begins. Tradition links it with initiative and frankness: the ram that opens the way and also the one that charges.
Myths come in several versions. This is one of the most widespread.
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