Of Arian Optimism,...

Next up in our skip through the zodiac is the sign Aries. These are fairly quirky rants perhaps, but very common issues we note whilst dealing with Arian clients.

Now Arians are the chief archetype of the fiery elemental group, and so we may as well be chatting about Leo and Sagittarius to some degree here too. A real inside tip that I have been eyeing for some time is regards thoughts on optimism and the apparently ‘innocent’ notion of being optimistic. Sagittarius could be the one out here as they do have that much more foresight to aid them.

Fire signs are born to be optimistic. That new shoot of spring coming into the world, it’s a fabulous sunny environment, what could possibly go wrong? Now one of the first things one has to remember is how fire signs are all about drive and energy, they have to be physically active. It’s plausibly all they know or care for. If you don’t join in, you are labeled as lazy and cast off to the side as they busy themselves throughout their day. Much like a fire really, darting about here and there consuming matter as they do so, to stop is to extinguish forever and what threat could be worse?

The one thing fire signs battle with however is planning. Like the fire that burns across the grassland, little does it realize its resources will sooner or later fizzle out. So as such, dare you mention planning or efficiency issues to the Arian! As I jest, their first retort would be, “Well, I don’t see you getting your hands dirty now do i!?” The quality that fire symbolizes for mankind is said to be that of purity. We burn things all through antiquity to purge the lower earthly qualities. So the fire sign always manages to convince everyone that their cause is gallant, noble and pure. This is core to what they themselves believe and is very probably the front-end rationale of what you would see of them approaching. When things go wrong for the fire sign, they curse the situation for they merely had pure noble intentions and are surprised when the world does not reciprocate this innocence.

What I’m getting at here is that blind optimism is exactly that, akin to stumbling around in the dark perhaps? When we mention optimism and hope, it should be that we are optimistic that our “plans” are going to work out. As regularly one decides on a project, sees all the ins and outs involved, makes preparations and watches out for those potential issues that could arise. Hence, when we have a basic plan we can then “hope” all will run smoothly, “according to plan”.

My point is that hope and optimism are concepts that follow the root act of planning. This Arian/Fire sign trait of innocent, noble ambition that the universe will reflect one’s purity is honestly just plain childish at times. If one thought Water signs were dreamers, welcome to their closest compatriots, the intuitive fire type. I get it all the time. “But my intention was pure!” So what quite frankly, get organized and hope your organization can handle the bumps that are sure to follow. Have a back-up plan, don’t just ram yourself at it again and again. 

This situation is becoming quite obvious here in the fresh-off-the-shelf South African “Rainbow Nation” where you have all these effervescent sparkly eyed folk hoping that ... ‘hoping’ that what? As most folks surely can see, the plans are already falling far short of their mark. Yet there is still this blind wanton optimism roaming folk’s hearts, possibly I’m assuming, one of the most irrational of human traits as it apparently overrides all logic. As it only brings us to the door of reality sooner or later with a resounding thud, ‘Oh my word, we have run out of resource, what now!?’ 

And as I say, the frustration you can hear in my text is that when you confront this optimistic sort, the first retort you get is, “Well I don’t see you trying very hard!” I don’t waste my energies on badly planned/managed projects, so no, I am obviously not forwarding my valuable resource at this point. Then the second retort wails in, “At least I can believe,” in what one asks further, mismanagement of valuable resources? This is very much in line with the grandiose nobility of their effort that fire signs pander in attempting to string along fellow enthused participants.

The obvious tip for any fire signs and obviously Arians then being to plan well ahead!