If rosemary is the signature oil of Aries, black pepper is the one that makes the case for why the Mars assignment system has real logic to it. There is nothing ambiguous about black pepper's energy profile, nothing that requires interpretive stretching to connect it to heat, directness, and forward motion. It is a circulatory stimulant with a sharp, penetrating profile and one of the more substantive evidence bases in contemporary aromatherapy, and it belongs on the Aries li