Aries, The Ram
Aries represents the ram with the golden fleece, a present from Mercury, upon which Phrixus and his sister Helle escaped via the air from their step-mother Ino. On arriving in Colchis, Phrixus sacrificed the ram to Jupiter and its fleece was hung in the Grove of Mars, whence it was subsequently carried away by Jason . According to one more account, it was the ram that guided Bacchus to a spring of water in the Libyan desert. The inspiration for…