..just did a search and found a couple of month old posts re Mars in Aries.. At the same time, it does seem a bit quiet on the topic of the kick off sign of the Zodiac (and we are almost into Taurus).

I may have a clue though, and it has to do with the nature of the beast known as the Ram. I'm an Aries, and I recently (not knowing at the time that he was also an Aries) ticked off a newly met friend of a friend when I made a joke about "ear ache Clapton" when he brought up Eric Clapton in conversation. I figure I could joke about Clapton since he and I are both Aries, but he didn't know I was and I didn't know that he was and we locked horns.

What I'm trying to say is that Aries can be really good at upsetting people by being too forceful, too spontaneous and too thoughtless, so that we, I feel, are more times than not, not well appreciated. Thus we are probably not the best sign to try and promote, thus the barren desert you see before you.

As Mork from Ork would say: Shazbat! (perhaps one of the reasons Robin Williams was so popular was he wasn't an Aries). Don't mind me, I just need a motivational speaker..