Is your Aquarius in the Sun, Moon or Rising?

Aquarius in the Sun

An Aquarius Sun means you were born between about January 20 and February 18, and this is the sign that goes with your birthday. Our astrology places the Sun at the middle of a chart as the steady reference of a whole life, and it carries your sense of who you are, how much vital force you have and the direction you keep returning to. Each planet in the chart takes its measure from this point. Aquarius is the fixed Air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn, the planet of structure, with Uranus, the planet that changes the rules, as its modern co-ruler. With the Sun here a person's center rests in ideas, principles and the good of the group.

What Aquarius in the Sun means

Air carries thought, speech and relationship, and a fixed sign stands in the middle of a season, and so Aquarius sustains what it has taken up. Aquarius holds the depth of the northern winter, when the coming year exists only as a pattern, and its nature is to keep hold of a pattern long before anything has appeared to confirm it. This is why an Aquarius Sun lives so much by principle and looks so often toward the future and the system as a whole. The same fixity explains the best-known puzzle about Aquarius, which has a reputation for rebellion and is among the most stubborn signs of the zodiac.

The symbol of Aquarius is the Water Bearer, and many people assume from it that this is a Water sign, although Aquarius belongs to Air. Saturn gives it structure and a long memory for what was promised, and Uranus gives it the impulse to ask whether the rules are right. An Aquarius may keep very strict rules of its own while rejecting rules everyone else accepts, and both habits come from one conviction, that a rule has to be justified by reason.

Your strengths

The strength of an Aquarius Sun is independent judgment held steadily over time. This sign forms its own view from the evidence, keeps that view under social pressure and is little moved by fashion or rank. Aquarius sees how a whole system works and so it often finds the fault in an arrangement before anyone else does. An Aquarius can serve one principle, one friendship or one line of work for decades, though the sign has a name for unpredictability. Most people with this placement deal with others as equals, and they will take up the cause of people they have never met.

Your challenges

The chief difficulty here is a personal center that is hard to hold. Aquarius is the Sun's detriment, the sign opposite its home in Leo, which is a statement of cost and carries no judgment, because the full power of the Sun is present while the sign keeps pulling it toward groups and causes larger than the person. An Aquarius can find it hard to say "I want this" without justifying the want by the common good. Detachment is the second difficulty, as this sign often meets a strong emotion by explaining it, and the people closest to it can feel studied more than loved. Fixity adds rigidity, and an opinion once settled can stop answering to evidence.

Aquarius Sun in love

Love usually begins as friendship for an Aquarius Sun, and the friendship remains the basis of the relationship for as long as it lasts. This sign wants a partner with a mind and a life of their own, and it offers loyalty, honesty and a great deal of freedom in return. Warmth is where partners most often want more, since Aquarius shows love through reliable conduct and says very little of it aloud. The work here is to state your affection directly and to give one person the attention you give to your larger concerns. Your opposite sign is Leo, and Aquarius is often drawn to people who show warmth openly and are at ease being the center of someone's world.

Friends and family

Friendship is the natural ground of this sign, and astrology ties Aquarius to the eleventh house of friends, groups and shared hopes. An Aquarius Sun usually belongs to several circles or movements, and it keeps friends for decades across differences of age, class and background. Its family of birth may find it hard to place, since it often parts from the people who raised it in belief or way of life. As a parent an Aquarius gives its children the reasons for its rules and supports them in being different, and it does well to add plain affection to the reasons.

Work and money

An Aquarius Sun does best in work that serves a larger purpose or improves how something functions. Science, engineering, technology, research, public policy, social reform, education and astrology all suit this placement. This sign works well in teams of equals and badly under an authority that cannot explain itself, and it often becomes the person who designs the better system. Money matters to it mainly as independence, the freedom to act on its own judgment and to give to what it believes in, and titles move it very little.

Your Sun is one part of your chart

Two people with an Aquarius Sun can be very different, because the Sun is one body among many in a chart. Saturn comes first, since it rules the sign your Sun stands in, and its condition raises or lowers what your Sun costs. With a Leo Moon the birth fell close to a full Moon, and the pull between the group and the personal heart is felt every day. With a Taurus Moon two fixed signs square each other, and the person holds very hard to principles and comforts alike.

Casting your whole chart is free and asks for no account. It gives every planet in the Western and WaveForm readings together, so that you can test each statement against your own life.