Sun Signs · 11 of 12
What is an Aquarius really like?
Aquarius, the water-bearer: one foot in the future, never quite following the crowd. The machine's library weighs Aquarius heaviest on independent, idealistic and curious. It is an air sign, and a fixed sign: you hold the line once it is drawn. The Sun is in Aquarius from January 20 or 21 to February 17, 18 or 19.
The Math
Calculated facts only, worked out the same way the machine does it.
- Sun in Aquarius: from January 20 or 21 to February 17, 18 or 19. The exact day changes with the year; the machine works it out for your birth date (calculated 1950–2030).
- Cusp days: birthdays from January 19 to 21 (the Capricorn side) and from February 17 to 20 (the Pisces side) have fallen on the cusp in some years. Without a birth time, the machine names both signs on those days.
- Element: air. Modality: fixed. Sign 11 of 12.
- Wheel geometry: same element (most compatible): Gemini and Libra. Friendly sextile (great match): Aries and Sagittarius. Opposite (the magnetic one): Leo. Square (least compatible): Taurus and Scorpio.
The Machine Says
Lines from the machine's own library, word for word.
How the machine sums up Aquarius
- Aquarius, the water-bearer: one foot in the future, never quite following the crowd.
- Aquarius: you love humanity in general and need your space from people in particular.
- Aquarius, the original: you were weird before it was cool, and you still are.
Gifts
- You built your own path because the existing ones were too crowded.
- You don't need permission, and it shows.
- You believe in a better version of things, and you work toward it.
- You still get goosebumps about how good the world could be.
- You ask the question that opens everything up.
- Everything is interesting to you, so you are never really bored.
Challenges
- Asking for help feels like losing a bet.
- You can be so self-sufficient people forget you might need them.
- Reality keeps disappointing you, and you keep forgiving it.
- You can love the idea of someone more than the person.
- You learn half of ten things before finishing one.
- Your browser history is a research expedition with no return date.