Aquarius

tags: air, aquarius, fixed, saturn, uranus

Aquarius strengths and weaknesses:

Aquarius is the fixed air sign. Fixed signs are the most persistent and unchanging. Air signs are the most mental and social.

The modern ruler of Aquarius is Uranus, planet of eccentricity, rebellion, and change. The traditional ruler (and modern co-ruler) of Aquarius is Saturn, planet of responsibility, conformity, and tradition. Aquarians are special in that they have a little of both. And each Aquarian is defined by how they satisfy both the need to be different and the need to be traditional in some way.

If you have planets in Aquarius, they indicate where you have a visionary gift. The greatest strength of Aquarius is the ability to step outside of the “drama” of a situation and see things objectively. Aquarians tend to be good at science, or anything involving waves of energy— radio, TV, electricity, computers, Reiki, acupuncture, Feng Shui. Aquarius is also the sign that rules astrology.

Groups, and especially humanitarian causes, are also good for Aquarians to become involved in. Aquarians innately understand that when everyone in the community benefits, I benefit too.

Aquarius is the sign of friendship, and for the most part, Aquarians are easy to get along with. They are good listeners, but do not readily volunteer information about themselves. They have opinions, but probably won’t tell you what they are unless you ask them.

The trap for Aquarius is to think there is only one way of doing things, or one way of looking at the world. They can also get stuck in the air sign trap of trying to view everything in life through logic and reason. This works well only to an extent. When emotions get involved (which have their own logic apart from any “reasoning” of the mind) the gut level reaction from most Aquarians is to detach and retreat. (Planets in water signs, or a strong Moon may mitigate this tendency.)

The best strategy is to accept feelings as hard facts rather than personal decisions, and deal with them on that level. Emotional people will flip out if you tell them they “shouldn’t feel” a certain way. How many times have you been successful in deciding how to feel?

Comments:

1. This is so incredibly accurate that I had to pass this site on to friends and family so that they could concur with my opinion on it. They did and found that their signs were also dead on.
   
   — Joanne LaRocque    15 May 2005    #
2. Wow, when I read this it explained me to a tee. Helps me understand why I think and why I do what I do.
   
   — Jo Anne Woolsey    16 June 2005    #
3. Thank you so much! I now know why I do what I do... and.. being in the field of science, it especially helps me know how to deal with my colleagues.
   
   — Sam    11 August 2005    #

4. Aloha! This is awesome! I now understand why my fiance can't understand me sometimes. Hopefully I can catch myself the next time. Mahalo

   
   
   — keola    6 January 2006    #

5. Uhm... this was so me...and now I understand why and how I do things and things that I am going to do!.....Thank you tons.......

   
   
   — Kimberly    16 January 2006    #

6. This is one of the better astrology sites I have visited. The link to Astro.com I found very helpful as well. Many other sites don't seem to be consistant or accurate. Good work.

   
   
   — daniel    29 January 2006    #

7. Thank you for the great insight and advice! =)

   
   
   — Steven James Barr    27 February 2006    #

8. AQUARIANS UNITE!!!

   
   
   — Ricky of Miami    19 March 2006    #

9. well this is me but I never want to loose control surrendering to my emotions is a sign of weakness and no matter how hard I try I always block my emotions

   
   
   — sheylah    18 April 2006    #

10. and that would explain my dad-my mom is a leo sign and they ended up getting divorced, i kept telling them it was b/c she was a leo and he was an aquarius – that they didn’t understand each other, she would be like why doesn’t dad do this…she wanted compliments ALL the time-very insecure…i bet they would still be married if they would’ve read this article , darn !!!!

    
    
    — kristyn    18 September 2006    #

11. Yeah this is what Aquarians are all about. However I have a problem with my husbands lack of emotions and inability to express them. He never tells me he loves me and for me an aquarian I need to hear it. It seems to me I must be more of the emotional kind of aquarian. I was just near death and I never heard him say he loves me. Go figure.

    
    
    — Pooh    11 November 2006    #

12. kristyns comment just FREAKED me out! my boyfriend is an aquarius and im a leo. things have been going really well but at times we dont understand eachother. some other sites have said since aquarius and leo are opposities it could work. We both love eachother a great deal and not just in a physical way, in many ways. but now that ive read your comment im not so sure. can anyone shed some light here?

    
    
    — Alanah - LEO FEMALE    18 December 2006    #

13. For goodness sake, Alanah, do you really think that astrology is that black and white? Because Kristyn’s parents got divorced, and they had the same sun signs, that your relationship won’t work? Do you really think astrology is that simple?

    I saw you commented on my Sun signs article where I tried to explain why you can’t predict whether a relationship will work or not based only on the Sun sign. Did it not answer your question?

    
    
    — Molly    18 December 2006    #

14. Hey Alanah don’t worry about your relationship too much. You can always balance the good and the bad. If your relationship has full of good then its ok. If not then its not ok…

    I knew an aquarius girl who went out with a couple of leo’s before which didn’t work out in the end. Now she’s happily married to a gemini man.

    This does not mean it will happen to you. Just take it as it goes.

    Take it easy Molly.

    peace.

    al (sag)

    
    
    — al    26 January 2007    #

15. “to accept feelings as hard facts rather than personal decisions” ....that’s damn hard, but I’m gonna try!

    Nice website Ms. Molly!

    
    
    — aki    19 February 2007    #

16. Couldn’t be anymore more true!

    Haha, WE ARE THE RULERS OF ASTROLOGY!

    Hell yeah, Aquarians are simply THE BEST

    
    
    — Andy    11 December 2007    #

17. OMG Ms. Molly the part were you say that Aquarius are good listeners explains why all my friend come to me when they need to take to some one…lol……

    Okay I have a questions I’m going out with a Capricorn and for some weird reason I get really moody at times is that just me pms’ing or does it have to do with our sings?..

    
    
    — horchata    30 December 2007    #

18. I am an aquarian I can honestly say that this is accurate for us. I was reading about my sign on another site(I think cafeastrology.com or something) and its similar to this one. I also found that we can be very willful and dominate(although we have a creative and sly of doing it, which most people wouldn’t be able to consciencally know that we are doing it go figure) and the desire for personal space and freedom is very strong no matter the age. I contest to this because my will to be free and have my own space is very strong and makes me very independent. We have powerful defense mechanisms and some of us(I know that I am) can be natural born leaders. And that expressing emotions inability is very accurate I find hard to do that when it comes to relationships. But if all people of any zodiac read up on themslves frequently you’d lear more about yourself. Strangele enough Aquarians can be good in Acting out drama(go figure huh)

    Famous Aquarians- Bill Maher Oprah Winfery Alicia Keys Justin Timberlake

    
    
    — M    27 January 2008    #