♒ Aquarius

Independent, inventive, idealistic and community-minded.

Approximate dates: Jan 20 – Feb 18 (the Sun's entry shifts by a day or two each year)
Element: Air: Thought and communication, valuing people and ideas.
Mode: Fixed: persistent and steady, holding on and going deep.
Ruler: Uranus (traditional: Saturn)
Opposite sign: Leo: the other end of the same axis; the two often learn from each other.

"I am a Aquarius" usually refers to the Sun sign. But the Moon, Mercury, Venus and the other planets each sit in a sign too, and your Ascendant may be Aquarius, so you can have plenty of Aquarius traits even if your Sun is elsewhere. Here is how each planet behaves in Aquarius.

The planets in Aquarius

☉ The Sun in Aquarius

You need to keep your own version of things. Independent thinking, little regard for convention, a natural interest in groups and the future. When principle leads, though, the actual person in front of you can get overlooked.

☽ The Moon in Aquarius

You understand rather than feel. When emotion rises you analyse first, and a little distance is what makes you safe. It makes you steady in a crisis, though a partner may find you hard to reach.

☿ Mercury in Aquarius

Your ideas run ahead of the room, with a natural feel for systems, trends and collective questions. You're usually the one offering the angle nobody had. When principle leads, the specific person present can get missed.

♀ Venus in Aquarius

You need your own space inside a relationship and don't follow the traditional script. Friendship is often the starting point. But keeping a comfortable distance makes going deeper something you hesitate over.

♂ Mars in Aquarius

You act your own way rather than the standard way, and you're most effective fighting for an idea or a group. Being given orders provokes resistance you have to manage.

♃ Jupiter in Aquarius

Opportunity arrives through groups, ideas and unconventional routes. You see further than most. When the idealism outruns the conditions, though, it detaches from what's possible.

♄ Saturn in Aquarius

You're careful in groups — few friends, but lasting ones. You tend to carry responsibility in a community rather than enjoy belonging to it, and the sense of being at the edge is what to work with.

♅ Uranus in Aquarius

Uranus in its own sign. Community, networks and collective ideals are this generation's home ground, and the fusion of technology with human connection peaks here.

♆ Neptune in Aquarius

For the Aquarius generation, technology and collective ideals attract almost religious expectation, and the line between virtual and real begins to blur.

♇ Pluto in Aquarius

For the Aquarius generation, the collective, technology and the definition of the human are all challenged at depth — a remaking currently under way.

These readings describe tendencies based on general astrological convention, not predictions; a natal chart is read by putting planets, signs, houses and aspects together.

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This is fixed text compiled from general convention, not a reading of any individual and not a prediction. For important decisions, please consult qualified professionals.