An Aries 11th house would give you direct friendships, forged in action rather than in the living room.
Your friends are teammates: you bond by doing something together, quickly and with frankness.
Setting a group in motion and standing up for a friend without hesitation when they need it.
Wanting to lead every shared project and losing interest as soon as the group slows down.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
A relay race organized for a nonprofit, a climbing club, a team put together in three days for a competition: that is where, the manuals say, this 11th house would find your friends.
Aries does not like lukewarm ties. You prefer comrades who speak plainly, with whom you can argue in the evening and set off again the next day. You would often be the first to propose an idea to the group and get it moving, even if it means leaving it to others to make it last. Your hopes would take the form of concrete challenges rather than distant dreams.
Mars, ruler of Aries, holds the reins of this sector. Depending on the house it occupies, friendly energy is spent elsewhere: Mars in the 10th house, friends would become career allies; in the 3rd, accomplices from the neighborhood or from among siblings; in the 7th, the associate or partner would first be a comrade. Exalted in Capricorn, it would give very organized collective projects; in Cancer, its sign of fall, more emotional and touchy friendships. If Jupiter is in this house, it is in its joy there and would soften the Martian drive.
The downside would lie in impatience. A project bogged down in meetings, a friend slow to answer, a collective that votes instead of acting: all of this would quickly irritate you. Opposite, the 5th house in Libra is a reminder that pleasure matters too, the beauty of a shared moment with no goal. Learning to let others speak before charging ahead would make the group sturdier.
Feelings would readily grow out of comradeship: a climbing partner, a meeting at a tournament, someone who shares the same activist cause.
You like your loved one to have backbone and friends of their own. You may, however, experience life as a couple as a shared project to steer, at the risk of rushing things. With the 5th house in Libra, courtship would gain by taking its time, a carefully planned dinner rather than a race.
The team matters more than the title.
The roles of project captain, event coordinator, co-founder of a business, or network organizer would suit this configuration. You motivate by example and dare to ask well-placed contacts for support. You tolerate working groups that go in circles badly: setting a clear deadline at the first meeting would spare you a lot of frustration.
A Tuesday jog with two friends, a foosball tournament, a volunteer work Saturday: social life happens through movement.
Messages are short, plans are quickly set. You revive a dormant group by proposing an outing within the hour. You would do well to keep a little room for slower friends, the ones who prefer a quiet coffee to a physical activity.
With a sign ruled by Mars on the cusp of the Good Spirit, the ancients would have described valiant friends, sometimes quarrelsome, and hopes pursued ardently but without patience.
Lilly would see in such a ruler support coming from men of action, soldiers or workers in fire, and favors obtained through courage rather than diplomacy. Since Aries is a cardinal sign, hopes would arise suddenly and demand an immediate response, at the risk of collapsing just as fast.
In André Barbault and his successors, one would rather read a pioneering sociability: the need to open a collective path, to rally others to a new cause. The Aries–Libra axis would set initiative taken within the group against a taste for harmony in personal pleasures; maturity would consist in leading without crushing, and in knowing how to follow when someone else has the better idea.
The sign on the cusp of the 11th house depends on the time and place of birth; its ruler becomes the ruler of the house, and where it sits in the chart extends the house.
succedent house: friendships, collective projects, hopes.
The 11th houseA fire sign, cardinal.
The Aries signMars rules Aries: its place in the chart extends the 11th house.
Mars in the 11th houseIt would describe a social life turned toward action: direct comrades, projects set up quickly, a person who readily takes the lead of the group. Hopes are phrased as challenges. The weak point would be impatience with collective slowness; the 5th house in Libra invites you to enjoy shared moments without a goal too.
Rulership goes to Mars, at home in Aries as in Scorpio. Its place in the chart shows where friendships and shared projects find their ground: work, studies, life as a couple. Mars’s sign nuances the style, more methodical in Capricorn, more sensitive in Cancer. Jupiter, if present in this house, would be in its traditional joy there.
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