Aquarians in the wild………..
Aquarians, being fixed air, have strong opinions. They don’t change their minds easily and expect everyone to agree with them, except the stupid who cannot follow their arguments. They live in the future and sense trends and movements before they become mainstream. Aquarians can be provocative and certainly dogmatic. They have their vision which they state clearly enough for even laggards to understand, but they lack patience for subtleties and nuances. Visionaries they may be, but it is their way or the highway. For this reason they may become isolated and bitter as the world just cannot keep up with their ideas or rejects and ridicules them.
Aquarius is ruled by both Saturn and Uranus and so the sign has both the killjoy grim reaper and the wild revolutionary rattling like bees in their bonnets. They like the power and control of Saturn and resist boundaries and restrictions irritably like Uranus. I always visualise them as those people you see at parties dressed all in black, probably wearing sunglasses, watching the muggles at play with a sardonic expression on their faces .
But they have a vulnerability, as all signs do. They seek connection as all air signs must, and wish desperately that their ideas are valued and respected. They are hurt when they are laughed at and dismissed but can hide their pain under a sneering angry demeanor. That being said, like all air signs they are great optimists and enthusiasts. Their ideas are often way before their time and aimed at improving conditions for all people. In other words, they love humanity, but they are not that sure about people.
If the water signs unravel at the cruel word through a haze of escapist props like drugs, alcohol, religion or food, the air signs are talking where people don’t listen, shouting into to an empty room, muttering to themselves as recluses or keyboard warriors.
But they are beacons of light in a world filled with the smoke and mirrors of control or what I call the patriarchy. Take Germaine Greer, known as being at the forefront of feminism in the 1970s, her theories outlined in her book, The Female Eunuch and subsequent titles.
Germaine is a double Aquarius, Sun rising on the Ascendant, so what you see is what you get, brilliant, uncompromising, radical and definitely a member of the awkward squad. She argued that women were forced to assume submissive roles in society to fulfill male fantasies of what a woman was. Her goal is not equality with men, which she sees as assimilation and ‘agreeing to live the lives of un-free men’. “Women’s liberation”, she wrote in The Whole Woman (1999), ‘did not see the female’s potential in terms of the male’s actual.’ She argues instead that liberation is about asserting difference and ‘insisting on it as a condition of self-definition and self-determination’. A more Aquarian statement could not be imagined.
They are one-offs, mavericks and geniuses. Greer was called, ‘the contrarian queen’ (Yvonne Roberts Guardian 9.9.2018). Her views on men, trans women, feminists, and female sexuality have offended many, many people, her razor-sharp mind cuts all opposition down to size. Her comments on rape are prescient; she argued women should ‘out’ their rapists rather than take a chance with a legal system that does not work for them (Guardian 20.3.1995). A truism however much we wish it were not so. This reminds me of Gisele Pelicot, who said ‘the shame should change sides’ in the case against over fifty men who raped her. Greer’s Mars in Scorpio ruling her MC shows the woman warrior, widely sextile her forensic Mercury in Capricorn, she is a formidable opponent. Her Taurus Moon conjunct Uranus also explains her fury (Uranus) and her defence of women (Moon) but also her work in later life on the conservation of nature (Taurus).
Malorie Blackman is the archetypal Aquarian, a black British writer, she refused to be categorized as a ‘Black’ writer, and her most famous series of books for young adults, the Black and White series turn racism on its head. In the books the blacks are the upper classes, the whites the lower class. They are brilliant. A totally Aquarian take on the stupidity of racial prejudice. We don’t have her birth time, but in any case she has a stellium in Aquarius; Saturn, Mars, Mercury, South Nodes, with a really close conjunction of Sun, Jupiter, showing success in her field, and finally Mercury. Her Moon in Aries gives her the courage to hold out for her own truth, and both Aries and Aquarius are future orientated. She did it her way, on her terms, uncompromisingly and brilliantly. More info in the book:
As we perhaps are moving into the age of Aquarius, with Pluto remaining in the sign for around 23 years. Getting to know Aquarius, for all their brilliance and flaws will be both a welcome break from the heavy Capricorn slog of the past twenty years and a dive into their wacky, future orientated world, with all the positives and negatives that might entail. Social media is a good metaphor for Aquarian energy. The technology itself is neutral. People use it for ill, to manipulate and lie, and good, to educate and connect.
What the final outcome of this dive into Aquarius will be remains to be seen. But I suspect it will be a wild ride that upends all the old Capricorn certainties and makes a new, fairer world. But then I am an Aries optimist…
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Elisabeth Brooke 