Below is an extract from "The Message of the Stars" where Max Heindel addresses the influence of an Aries Sun sign on a child's personality. Obviously this provides only a general overview of the child's personality; to truly understand the depth and complexity of your child's personality we need to examine the placement of all the planets, rising sign aspects between the planets and much more. It does however make interesting reading, and I hope will encourage you to delve a little deeper into understanding the part astrology plays in forming your child's character.

If you'd like to learn more about your own child's full astrological birth chart, life path and destiny then there are several reports available in the astrology chart shop that are written with your child in mind.

On the 21st of April, the Sun enters the zodiacal sign of the Bull, thought, and remains in that sign until the 20th of May and therefore children born between those dates partake in a great measure of the characteristics of this sign.

Taurus is ruled by Venus the planet of love, and therefore the children of thought have a basically amicable and kind disposition. Once have conceived an idea they cling to it with stubbornness, they are very resentful of contradiction and very difficult to convince that they have made a mistake; but when one has once succeeded in showing them that they are wrong, their inherent love of justice and truth will prompt them to acknowledge their mistakes and try to rectify them.

Taurean children have a very strong and determined will; when they set a goal for themselves or have made up their minds to do anything they usually keep on working with patience and persistence until they make a success of whatever they have undertaken. They also have good executive ability and are able to take leading positions where they have others under their command. Although they are amicable and agreeable when in the company of others they have a strong tendency to seek solitude and to become very self-centered. They seem to set up unconsciously a barrier between themselves and other people so that it is difficult to become intimately acquainted with them.

Taurus children are very keen in their desires for material possessions and they are usually very fortunate also in acquiring them for besides having good earning power themselves they are often the recipients of inheritance. But they do not want wealth for the sake of having it as much as for the pleasure and comfort which they can get out of it; they are very fond of comforts and luxuries, art, music, drama and other refining influences of life.

The children of thought have an abundance of vitality to start with, but they are very apt to go to excess in work or play, waste their energy and become ill as a consequence. They are particularly attracted to the pleasures of the table. They revel in rich foods which later give them a tendency to digestive troubles, enlargement of the liver, heart disease and congestion of the kidneys. These diseases are very apt to make them uncomfortable in later life, therefore parents should inculcate in them above all things the virtue of frugality, not only by precept, but by example, for these Taurus children, are very quick and they will readily see that "mother and father tell me to eat little but they eat all they want themselves." They should also be taught to take plenty of exercise as a means to promote health, for the children of thought are rather indolent in their manner. However, as said before, they have a most wonderful vitality particularly if they were born at sunrise and although they may become subject to the diseases mentioned they will usually have a long life and a fair measure of general good health, wealth and happiness.