Aquarius

About Aquarius

Aquarius thinks about the group while standing slightly apart from it. That's the paradox that defines the sign. This is the humanitarian sign — interested in systems, in fairness, in what works for everyone — and yet Aquarius people often find emotional intimacy in the one-on-one sense harder than most. They're warm about humanity in the abstract and sometimes genuinely confounding to individual humans who try to get close.

Fixed air is a strange combination. Air wants to move, to connect — but fixed doesn't give easily. Aquarius can be one of the most open-minded signs and simultaneously one of the most stubborn, because they've read the data, they've thought about it, and they've arrived at a position. What looks like eccentricity is usually just independence. Aquarius genuinely doesn't care much about being unusual, which is, of course, what makes them unusual.

Origin

The Babylonian god Enki/Ea appears here too, specifically as "the great one" pouring water from an overflowing vase. Ancient Egyptians associated this region of sky with the Nile flood, overseen by the god Hapi who poured water from two jugs. Ancient Persians and Greeks both called this figure the water-bearer, and the "water" represented knowledge and life-giving substance. Uranus became associated with Aquarius only in modern astrology after the planet's discovery in 1781; before that, Saturn ruled both Aquarius and Capricorn simultaneously.

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