Daily Horoscope:

Quick decisions ignite your path. Frustration level: Teenager who just got grounded. This especially affects your beliefs and learning. You are feeling generous! Until you check your bank account tomorrow. This especially affects your home life. Motivation has left the building. Try caffeine. This especially affects your beliefs and learning. Lunar Influence: A crab wielding a torch softness armored with unexpected fire.A tranquil vibe lifts your soul. You are feeling generous! Until you check your bank account tomorrow. This especially affects your communication style. You are emotionally articulate today a rare and beautiful thing. Savor it. This especially affects your communication style. You are emotionally mature today. Lunar Influence: Fresh bread on a windowsill nourishment and nostalgia intertwined.A whirlwind of wit defines you. Your mind is expansive today. Big ideas! Some of them might even be good. This especially affects your daily routines. Your thinking is clear and organized. Are you feeling okay? This isn’t normal. This especially affects your daily routines. Lunar Influence: A tidepool reflecting the moon shallow waters hold infinite skies.A protective vibe steadies your course. You are feeling generous! Until you check your bank account tomorrow. This especially affects your personal expression. You are emotionally articulate today a rare and beautiful thing. Savor it. This especially affects your personal expression. You are emotionally mature today. Lunar Influence: The hollow of a seashell echoes of every love that ever mattered.A dazzling heart lifts your day. Frustration level: Teenager who just got grounded. This especially affects your creative pursuits. You are feeling generous! Until you check your bank account tomorrow. This especially affects your spiritual side. Motivation has left the building. Try caffeine. This especially affects your creative pursuits. Lunar Influence: A pearl in a lion's mane fierce pride shelters tender vulnerability.Methodical vibes fuel your spirit. Your mind is expansive today. Big ideas! Some of them might even be good. This especially affects your communication style. Your thinking is clear and organized. Are you feeling okay? This isn’t normal. This especially affects your communication style. Lunar Influence: A herb garden at dawn order and tenderness root together.Relationship energy is emphasized. Your thinking is clear and organized. Are you feeling okay? This isn’t normal. This especially affects your values and resources. Frustration level: Teenager who just got grounded. This especially affects your communication style. You are feeling generous! Until you check your bank account tomorrow. Lunar Influence: A porcelain cup of stormwater calm surface, tempest beneath.Fierce will shapes your spirit. Old emotional baggage is demanding attention. Sigh. This especially affects your beliefs and learning. Frustration level: Teenager who just got grounded. This especially affects your values and resources. You are feeling generous! Until you check your bank account tomorrow. This especially affects your beliefs and learning. Lunar Influence: Twins in the womb one laughs while the other remembers past lives.A questing heart fuels your day. You are feeling generous! Until you check your bank account tomorrow. This especially affects your inner transformation. Your mind is expansive today. Big ideas! Some of them might even be good. This especially affects your spiritual side. You are emotionally articulate today a rare and beautiful thing. Lunar Influence: A snail carrying a compass adventure calls, but home clings.A disciplined stride shapes your soul. Your thinking is clear and organized. Are you feeling okay? This isn’t normal. This especially affects your social connections. Frustration level: Teenager who just got grounded. This especially affects your spiritual side. You are feeling generous! Until you check your bank account tomorrow. Lunar Influence: A lighthouse keeper's ledger duty and longing in equal measure.A wave of change inspires your journey. Your thinking is clear and organized. Are you feeling okay? This isn’t normal. This especially affects your career ambitions. Foot, meet mouth. It is a whole thing today. This especially affects your career ambitions. Frustration level: Teenager who just got grounded. Lunar Influence: A snowglobe of the ocean contained vastness, swirling mysteries.A soft muse inspires your day. You are feeling generous! Until you check your bank account tomorrow. This especially affects your creative pursuits. Your intuition is spot on today. Maybe do not waste it on lottery numbers. This especially affects your creative pursuits. Your mind is expansive today. Lunar Influence: Two rivers merging no one remembers which was the original stream.

Aries Birthstone:

Diamond is the ultimate gemstone, having few weaknesses and many strengths. It is well known that Diamond is the hardest substance found in nature, but few people realize that Diamond is four times harder than the next hardest natural mineral, corundum (sapphire and ruby). But even as hard as it is, it is not impervious. Diamond has four directions of cleavage, meaning that if it receives a sharp blow in one of these directions it will cleave, or split. A skilled diamond setter and/or jeweler will prevent any of these directions from being in a position to be struck while mounted in a jewelry piece.

As a gemstone, Diamond's single flaw (perfect cleavage) is far outdistanced by the sum of its positive qualities. It has a broad color range, high refraction, high dispersion or fire, very low reactivity to chemicals, rarity, and of course, extreme hardness and durability.

Diamond is the ultimate gemstone in several ways:

• Hardness: Diamond is a perfect "10", simply the hardest substance known by a wide margin. Nothing can scratch a diamond other than another diamond. And a diamond can scratch anything, even a sapphire.
• Clarity: Pure diamond is completely colorless and transparent over a larger range of wavelengths (from the ultraviolet into the far infrared) than is any other solid or liquid substance - nothing else even comes close.
• Thermal Conductivity: Diamond conducts heat better than anything - five times better than the second best element, Silver! This characteristic is the basis for "diamond tests", as it is simple and cannot be faked.
• Refraction: Diamond has a relatively high index of refraction (ability to bend light), which gives it the high luster called adamantine.
• Dispersion: Diamond has a relatively high optical dispersion which gives diamond the "fire" that makes it so desirable.

Diamonds may be nearly any color in the rainbow plus browns, grays, and white. Shades of yellow are most common, followed by colorless. Blue, black, reddish, and greenish are more valuable (some extremely so).

Diamonds are found in a type of rock called "Kimberlite", which comprises the core of certain volcanoes over especially thick portions of the earth's crust. This hard stone is mined and then crushed between giant steel rollers. The kimberlite is reduced to fine gravel, yet the extremely hard diamonds come out unharmed! Water is added and a grease covered roller sorts the diamonds from the gravel, as the diamonds stick to the grease. Typically, a single carat of diamond is recovered from a ton of rich ore.

Diamonds are found in many areas including South Africa, Russia, and even in Arkansas in the USA. In all cases, the diamonds formed deep within the earth's mantle, and were brought to the surface in volcanic eruptions. In many cases, the diamonds weathered out of the kimberlite by natural processes, and were transported downstream by water. Many diamonds are mined in the resulting alluvial deposits in areas such as along the coast of South Africa.

Element: Fire
Ruling Planet: Mars
Life Pursuit: The thrill of the moment
Vibration: Enthusiastic
Secret Desire: To lead the way for others.

Description:

Aries are fire signs and those born under this element are regarded in astrology as adventurous, active and outgoing. It won't matter where you go or how remote or unusual it is - from the Outback to the Antarctic - you can be sure that an Aries has been there before you (or at the very least you will meet one along the way!) Aries is a uniquely naive sign. Although they are independent, outgoing and assertive they are also surprisingly trusting, often innocently walking into the lion's den at times. No matter what upheaval, challenge or triumph they confront - an Aries has a wonderful ability to bounce back. Their faith in life and the future remains untouched by hardship. Their gift is that they are always children at heart and the world is always a magical place for them. Many famous sports people are born under this sign. Aries is regarded as the most physical sign and because of its Mar's rulership; it is also one of the most highly charged masculine energy signs in astrology. No wonder women born under Aries are forceful, dynamic and aggressive, and as a result these Aries women frequently find themselves with dilemmas surrounding their romantic relationships. For them, a man has to be a 'real man' to deal with an Aries woman, otherwise she intimidates him. And conversely for the Aries male, a woman has to be a real woman to deal with him, because he is looking for many balancing component traits (his true feminine side) in his partner. She has to run the gamut in his support system, from the Aries man's best friend, true companion, through to his muse, and yet she must never ever answer him back!

Therefore Aries can be a confusing sign because there is a complex combination of very strong masculine and feminine expressions all combined together. Because of the male energy surrounding it, when a woman is born under Aries, it creates some of the most interesting women in the world, women who are adventurous, independent and have competitive natures. It also tends to make them very forthright.

But whether male or female, Aries people are 'doers' rather than 'talkers'. They are the impulsive, act first, ask questions or have doubts later, sign of the zodiac. That's why their lives are often filled with many dramas and sometimes even accidents! Their ability to live life close to the edge provides them with a wealth of 'real experience' to call upon. When an Aries person talks about something or somewhere they've usually done it or been there, rather than simply read about it in a book. Being active people Aries can't adapt to any kind of restriction, particularly possessive relationships. They often travel to escape any feelings of being stuck or possessed. Aries people love challenges. In fact, if everything is running smoothly, they are quite capable of going out and doing something (sometimes quite foolish) to rock the boat. Aries love to race in where angels fear to tread.