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Not the free spirit. The sign is fixed, which is close to the opposite, and that mismatch explains most of what gets said wrongly about it.
The basics
Aquarius is the eleventh sign of the zodiac, fixed air, symbol the Water Carrier, ruled by Uranus in modern astrology and by Saturn in the older tradition, which assigned its rulers before the outer planets were discovered. Fixed air is the combination nobody expects: positions that do not move, about subjects nobody else is on. Its opposite sign is Leo.
When the Sun is actually in Aquarius
The Sun enters Aquarius on 19 or 20 January and leaves for Pisces on 18 or 19 February. Neither date holds still. The Earth takes roughly 365 days and six hours, the calendar takes 365, and the leap year is the patch over the difference.
Computed from the same ephemeris this site uses for its birth charts, here is where it actually fell across the eleven years 2020 to 2030: the 19th in 2021, 2025 and 2029; the 20th in 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2030. In 2026 the crossing was at 20 January 01:44 UTC.
Capricorn comes before it and Pisces after. A birthday on the 19th or 20th of January, or the 18th or 19th of February, cannot be read off a table at all. It has to be worked out for your own year.
What Aquarius is actually like
Aquarius is a fixed sign, which surprises people who have read that it is the rebellious one. Fixed means your positions do not move. You are not unpredictable, you are unusually consistent about conclusions other people find strange.
The older tradition gives Aquarius to Saturn and modern astrology gives it to Uranus, and you are both: structured and contrarian, principled and difficult. The Saturn half is the one the lists never mention and it is at least as accurate.
You think in systems and populations rather than individuals, which makes you genuinely good on questions of fairness and occasionally clumsy with the person actually in front of you.
The part the lists leave out
You observe your feelings instead of having them, and you are fluent enough at describing what is happening to you that people assume you are in touch with it. Describing is a way of standing slightly outside. You have been doing it long enough that it no longer registers as distance.
The detachment is also a position you defend. Being the one who is not swept up is part of how you identify yourself, which gives you an incentive not to be swept up, and that is a poor reason for anything.
Aquarius in love
You need a friend first and you are suspicious of romance that arrives without one. The relationships that work for you tend to have started as something else and converted, and the ones that began at full volume have tended not to last.
Your risk is the explanation. You can account for a relationship accurately while not being inside it, and a partner can spend a long time being understood by you rather than being close to you. Those look similar from outside and nothing like each other from within.
Your sun sign is not your chart
If you recognised the detachment and not the eccentricity, that is the sign rather than the caricature. The Sun is one body out of ten, and it is the only one a date on its own can find.
For a sign described wrongly this often, the useful move is to find the Moon and the Rising instead. Both need the time of birth and neither can come off a list. Your Big Three works out all three, free, and the arithmetic runs on your own device.
No. It is air, despite the name and the water carrier. The figure is pouring something out rather than being made of it.
Why is Aquarius called rebellious if it is a fixed sign?
Both are true. Fixed means the positions do not move; the positions themselves are frequently unorthodox. Modern astrology gives the sign to Uranus and the older tradition to Saturn, and the combination is closer than either alone.
What are the Aquarius dates?
The Sun is in Aquarius from 19 or 20 January to 18 or 19 February. Both ends move by a day with the year, so a birthday on the 19th or the 20rd of January has to be worked out from the year and the hour rather than read off a table.
What is the opposite sign to Aquarius?
Leo. The axis runs between being one of a number and being somebody in particular, and an Aquarius Sun is often suspicious of the second while quietly wanting it.
