The Sun in Aquarius...
The Sun in astrology symbolizes the core essence of who you are -- your individuality and sense of self. It describes what is likely to motivate you, and why. The Sun Sign describes the prime focal point within the personality structure, and is of major importance. Understanding and developing these aspects of the self will help you to develop and expand your sense of being the authentic self you truly wish to be. Understanding the house in which your Sun is found will give even greater detail.
Aquarius: Fixed Air Ruler: Saturn and Uranus Keywords: Humanity Idealism Collective Development Liberty Brotherhood Equality Science Positive: Socially aware, humanitarian, egalitarian, refined, civilized, impartial, outgoing, commitment to an ideal, group or cause, brilliance, unconventional, intuitive knowledge, universality, service to society. Negative: Cold, critical, didactic, scattered, unemotional, unconnected, aloof, disdainful, overly rational, superior, erratic, impractical, dedicated to scientific/rational model at the expense of all else
With the Sun in the future-oriented sign of Aquarius, you are likely to be motivated by the need to achieve a logical and objective stance that seeks to illuminate ways in which change can occur for the benefit of all. As an Air sign, Aquarius is concerned with the exchange of information and ideas. You are likely to have excellent networking abilities and are highly refined. But as the sign which rules the vanguard of change, Aquarians are typically concerned with those ideas that will contribute on humanitarian and scientific levels to the community at large.
Aquarius rules the collective and in many ways, Aquarians tend to more comfortable with the impersonal, objective and detached than with the up-close and personal. This is perhaps the least emotional sign of the Zodiac, and although many of you are of course, highly emotive, you are likely to prefer to deal with things in a calm, rational and logical manner most of the time. Those of you with little such emotional “interference” can be highly cerebral, and perhaps tend to avoid close intimate contact with others. You may be motivated by ideas that have a far-reaching, political or scientific motivation rather than dwelling on the cherished memories of yesterday. Often Aquarians prefer to align themselves with groups, rather than consolidating close one-on-one contacts. You may find yourself mixing across a broad range of people, keeping ideas and concepts at the forefront, and the emotional details somewhere else - “over there”. Aquarians have a way of making things that affect the group or the collective more important than matters that are purely personal. This allows for you to take a detached perspective on life’s experiences, and be ever ready to respond to the innovative and the new.
This is a sign that is also called Fixed, meaning that there can be a tendency to become very fixed within the realm of ideas. Although your intentions may be impersonal, once you have decided on something- be it a protocol or political stance- you can be extremely rigid in maintaining that position, and unwilling to change. A resistance to change and the input of others robs you of one of your greatest assets, which is to be at the forefront of the new. Your sign is gifted with the ability to read the zeitgeist, and make a lightning fast assessment of current conditions based upon the prevailing circumstances or available data. At this level, your intuition is a powerful tool to see which next step is the most logical one to take. Allowing yourself to be flexible, whilst trusting your electric-like insight, helps you stay one step ahead of the game, and ready to adapt to the future as it unfolds within the now.
Aquarius also rules all aspects of science and technology, so that there can often be an easy application of individual talents in any related fields. Broadcast technologies and telecommunications come under the umbrella of this sign, as do politics and humanitarian concerns. Many alternative therapies, metaphysical ideas and occult philosophies that have a scientific as well as intuitive bent are ruled by Aquarius. Often, Aquarians will be found working in such fields, for your willingness to go it alone, and bring into manifestation the new and untested makes you ideally suited to such professions. At this level, you are playing a specific part, for as we know, Aquarius is the sign of the “New Age”.
Even when such lofty pursuits are not the main game, Aquarians have a way of finding themselves on the outside, at times being the rebel or the rule breaker within their family or friendship groups. In many ways, Aquarians tend to be the ones who do not fit, or who challenge the status quo so that nothing goes unquestioned for too long. In this way, you tend to find that no matter what you do you cant help being controversial to some degree, pushing buttons or asking awkward questions that expose unexamined presumptions for what they are. Your preference is for fairness, justice and equality at every level, and you question anything or anyone that seems set against allowing that to happen.
When you are born with the Sun in Aquarius, you are gifted with the ability to bring clear-sighted logic to almost any situation, and see the outcome that will improve things for all concerned. For this reason, Aquarians are often extremely well suited to group or collective endeavours, where your natural networking talents and all round sense of good manners and civility help you to circulate with ease. Although emotion may not be your forte, you are nonetheless gifted with intuition, clarity and intelligence born of pure logic. You can see the future and the benefits it will bring, and so, can be instrumental in making it happen.
