Aries Dog

You carry more contradictions than most people born under Aries. The biggest one is the tension between your youthful, impulsive, daring side and your cautious, diplomatic, old-soul side. You tend to act spontaneously and then pull back. The result is a stop-and-start rhythm -- taking two steps forward, then one step back.

Thoughtful and perceptive, you're also ambitious and persistent. Aided by frequent strokes of luck, you can achieve extraordinary success in your chosen field, especially in politics, business, or research.

You don't have the most flexible or easygoing personality. You care deeply about principles -- at least your own -- and you refuse to compromise on them. You judge yourself and others with equal strictness, and people find it hard to truly know you because you don't easily let them in.

You need a warm, harmonious family life to feel truly content. Without that emotional foundation, you feel completely out of your element.

Love is a welcome part of your life rather than an all-consuming need, and you're sensibly wary of losing yourself to overwhelming passion. Still, when you do care, your feelings are sincere, deep, and lasting. If anything, you'd likely choose a relationship built on compatibility and shared values over one driven purely by fiery emotion.