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Aquarius is an Air Sign (along with Libra and Gemini). It is also one of the four Fixed signs. Its polar opposite is Leo. It is the domicile of Saturn. Since its discovery Uranus has been considered Aquarius' ruling or co-ruling planet by many modern astrologers. Each astrological sign is assigned a part of the body, viewed as the seat of its power. Aquarius rules the circulatory system as well as the ankles. The symbol for Aquarius is the water bearer. The constellation is found in a region often called the Sea due to its profusion of watery constellations such as Cetus, Pisces, Eridanus, etc. Sometimes, the river Eridanus is depicted spilling from Aquarius' watering pot.

Mythology

Aquarius has been variously identified through the ages. The best-known myth identifies Aquarius with Ganymede, a beautiful youth with whom Zeus fell in love, and whom he carried off to Olympus to be cupbearer to the gods.

Aquarius generally resembles the figure of a man, and when considering fainter humanly visible stars, it takes on the image of a man with a bucket from which is pouring a stream. Aquarius was also identified as the pourer of the waters which flooded the earth in the Great Flood, in the ancient Greek version of the myth. As such, the constellation Eridanus was sometimes identified as being a river poured out by Aquarius.

It may also, together with the constellation Pegasus, be part of the origin of the myth of the Mares of Diomedes, which forms one of The Twelve Labours of Herakles. Its association with pouring out rivers, and the nearby constellation of Capricornus, may be the source of the myth of the Augean stable, which forms another of the labours.

Interpretation

Following is a brief overview of the meaning of Aquarius in the birthchart. Please see Signs and Interpretations for more details.

Aquarian qualities include an ability to see the big picture, a casual friendly nature, mental acuity (even brilliance), unconventionality, aloofness, and inventiveness.

Rulerships

Mineral salt: Natrum Muriaticum

Famous Aquarians

Some famous Aquarians: Andy Taylor, Louis XV, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Franz Schubert, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Jules Verne, Edgar Allen Poe, Édouard Manet, Thomas Alva Edison, August Strindberg, Ghostface, Anton Chekhov, Alfred North Whitehead, David Lynch, Alexandro Jodorowsky, Federico Fellini, William Burroughs, Rasputin, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sybil, James Joyce, George Jean Nathan, Antonio Gramsci, Charles Lindbergh, Yoko Ono, Fritjof Capra, Bob Marley, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Geena Davis, Stendhal, John Belushi, Angela Davis, Wayne Gretzky, Margaux Hemingway, Lewis Carroll, Susan Sontag, Eva Braun, Rosa Parks, Jim Jarmusch, Darren Aronofsky, Mia Farrow, Christina Ricci, Stockard Channing, Henry Rollins, Exene Cervenka, Nick Mason, Justin Timberlake, Buzz Aldrin, Alfred Worden, Placido Domingo, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jackie Robinson, Norman Mailer, James Joyce, Babe Ruth, Charles Dickens, Boris Yeltsin, Francois Rabelais, Paris Hilton, James Hoffa, Helen Gurley Brown, Sarah Jane Moore, Germaine Greer, Jennifer Aniston, Sharon Tate, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.