How to Recognize Someone Born Under Aquarius
You may find their behavior strange and their clothes distinctive. Their face has fine lines and well-proportioned features; they are generally tall and not stooped, and indeed their walk closely resembles a military stride.
Their hair is either black or blond, though a large proportion of those born under this sign have black hair, even jet black, and there is mystery and depth in the Aquarian’s eyes.
As you talk with them you will discover a leaning toward change and renewal, and you will find them explaining matters and arguing them out logically as if lecturing, with a touch of pretension. Ask them: aren’t you an Aquarius?
General Traits of Aquarius
Two basic factors govern the words and deeds of the Aquarius native: curiosity and defiance. On the one hand, curiosity gives them intense interest in people, events, places and times without exception; on the other, defiance drives them to affect an air of originality and eccentricity, and at times to leave the straight path merely to prove that they are able to reject customs and traditions. Both factors are gifts of the planet Uranus, which watches over Aquarius.
The Aquarian has eyes in which the signs of a vague dream shimmer, one that is hard for others to grasp, and their constantly tilted head suggests they are busy solving some problem or finding an answer to some question.
They are charming and cling to their freedom and independence. There is not the slightest doubt about that, yet they seem at times arrogant and conceited and at other times shy and peaceable. Whatever the case, their basic aim remains friendship; they feel reassured about humanity in general, despite a thirst for solitude from time to time. But their close friends are few, because they care about the number of people they know, not their quality. If this person rebels against inherited traditions, it is because they believe the world is in urgent need of constant, radical change. It is their habit to live in the future rather than the present, running ahead of time by decades at the very least. For that reason many find them hard to understand, especially since they belong to the ranks of geniuses and madmen, and between genius and madness, as we know, there is only a thin line.
The personality of the Aquarius native is a complex mixture of coldness, practicality and restlessness. Their remarkable gift lies in their ability to calm frayed nerves, whether in children or adults. In addition, they have a luminous mind and sound intellect that prevent hasty judgments. They also regard all human beings as brothers and sisters, however much their environment and their social or material standing differ. And although they refuse solitude for long and constantly seek contact with people, they balk at being tied to fixed appointments, preferring to leave the matter to circumstances. But once they promise, they keep their word without hesitation.
The Aquarius native states their opinions without imposing them on others, certain that every person has their own circumstances and that individuality is indispensable in life. Among their chief ideals are equality, brotherhood, freedom, love, truth, experience and contemplation. Yet it is rare for them to fight for their goals. If they find themselves forced into the thick of a battle, they respond blindly and without any discrimination, or they choose to face reality as a way of ending the problem. For this reason some accuse them of cowardice, though they are not cowardly. The proof of their courage is that they hold to their opinion and do not retreat from it overnight, as others do.
This person is full of surprises, even for their friends and followers. The reason is their refusal to reveal their aims or the paths leading to them, which leads some to dislike them and blame them harshly. For their part, they give their trust to others only after long scrutiny and examination. But once they approve of someone, they give that person their full love and trust and defend them like a hero. On the other hand, their memory seems relatively weak because of their lack of attention and their unwillingness to memorize what is trivial and unnecessary. Even so, they have a refined sensitivity rarely found in those born under other signs. Indeed, a sixth sense lets them hear or see things before they happen. Despite this, they reject superstitious beliefs unless they find in them a scientific justification their mind can accept.
This person is an idealist who hates lying, deception and hypocrisy, holds to their word of honor to the point of dying for it, and also hates debts and loans of every kind, preferring deprivation or giving without return. But their idealism is of a special kind, for it leads them to abandon lost causes. Added to this, they are free in thought and body, which is why it is hard for anyone to bind or confine them, even for a short while.
By virtue of the influence of the planet Uranus, symbol of change, movement and defiance, the Aquarius native belongs to all of humanity and represents its aspirations, hopes and highest ideals.
The Aquarius Man
We may not be able to say that the Aquarius man loves all people with a sincere and abstract love, but we can affirm that he regards all people without exception as friends worthy of his interest. The proof is the word “my friend,” which comes to his tongue more than once even when talking with an opponent or an enemy. The Aquarius man’s feeling toward others is in fact a vague and complicated one, for he surrounds himself with great secrecy and at the same time regards every person or event as a mental experiment deserving his curiosity and investigation.
This man’s life is a series of sudden events, upheavals and contradictions, and yet his presence is a source of peace of mind for many, while he himself is restless in his pursuit of riddles, knotty problems and far-off goals. He is the model of the broad-minded person who persuades himself, even in love and passion, that his heart has room to love the whole world. On this note, he takes little interest in a woman who is clear as an open book, while he is strongly drawn to the woman who stirs his bewilderment with her mystery and secrecy.
This man pretends to obedience and loyalty and seems calm and docile, but his calm is closer to a mirage than to reality. So as soon as he feels that some people, his wife among them, are exploiting his good nature, he rises up forcefully and answers the exploiters with unexpected firmness. Even so, it can be said that his admiration for a woman of strong personality and firm will is beyond description. For example, he hopes his wife will not forgive his sins quickly, so that he is not disappointed in the steel of her character. This man marries at a late age because he is absorbed in friendship rather than love, and because he regards emotional upheavals and sexual relationships as a burden that does not give him complete happiness. In any case he chooses only the woman who satisfies the instinct for friendship in him, and if something she does disturbs him in the future, he leaves her without noticeable difficulty and remains her friend, no more. That is one side; on the other, his jealousy over his wife is slight and his trust in her great, until she proves the opposite. He behaves properly in her presence and absence alike, despite the many friends who keep him from her. He is honest and frank and tells the truth when asked, but he deliberately lies and fabricates if he is doubted without justification.
The Aquarius man is clean, loving cleanliness to the point of illness, and he has certain complexes, such as sensitivity toward some places, things and habits. His generosity is of a special kind: sometimes he spends lavishly, and at other times he criticizes his wife’s extravagance. Money is not one of his main aims, but life beside him is full of surprises even when his house is empty of cash. He is capable of bringing joy to his wife’s heart at any time, except on occasions such as holidays and the like, which he usually neglects because of his very weak memory.
The Aquarius man loves his children intensely, which moves him to take an interest in them, their toys, their habits and everything that concerns them, near or far. Among his merits as a father is his ability to listen to the little ones’ talk for a long time without feeling bored or fed up. He is known for clinging to his first love and returning to it, if circumstances allow, after many years. Whether this man marries his childhood friend or not, there is no doubt that the woman his heart chooses finds herself as if she were “Alice in Wonderland.”
The Aquarius Woman
The foundation of the nature of the woman born under Aquarius is contradiction, in love and in every other field. But this contradiction shows itself especially in love, where she is able to combine complete devotion, little concern and non-attachment all at once. There is nothing strange in it, since air is her element, as astronomers affirm.
The Aquarius woman is emotionally bound to everyone and therefore to no one. It is true that she is tender in love, but she seems mysterious and reserved, neither fully present with the one she loves nor fully absent from him. The most sacred things in her eyes are her freedom, her many friendships and her many projects. So if a man intends to be happy beside her, he must loosen the reins of her freedom and not grumble if it occurs to her to go back to studying, join a society, or travel to a distant place that allows her to contemplate and rest. In return, this woman has admirable qualities that a man can only admire. It is enough that money is, in her eyes, secondary compared with the other foundations of happiness, that her chief aim is to bring her husband to the highest ranks of success and social standing, and that she can adapt to all circles and classes without giving up the gentleness and intelligence that nature has granted her.
The Aquarius woman is not very passionate in love and sometimes wishes she could content herself with chaste relationships. She is also not very jealous and rejects doubting the one she loves unless she touches his betrayal with her own hand. In that case she feels deep sorrow and does not hesitate to separate from him while keeping his friendship. Divorce is easy for this woman, given her many friendships and her solitary nature, which at times lets her do without a man entirely.
The Aquarius woman is a very beautiful female; indeed, after the woman born under Libra, she is the most beautiful of all the signs’ women. But her beauty is of a special kind, subject to change and variation. She mixes up clothes and social occasions, and does not hesitate to appear at one time in the latest fashion and hairstyle and at another in an old outfit from her grandmother’s time. Her conduct is generally marked by shyness and good manners, and her conversation shows intelligence and tact, but her small flaw is her constant moving from one subject to another without warning.
In this woman’s eyes, motherhood is a delicate stage that demands adaptation and sacrifice from her, she who is used to dividing her attention among all people and events. There is no doubt that she loves her children and looks after them, but she always seems little attached to them. This does not prevent her from being a virtuous educator who instills in them the spirit of brotherhood and sacrifice, and at the same time listens to their problems with an open mind and open heart, without smothering them with excessive affection and attention. As for marriage, this woman seems hesitant and perplexed, trying to combine love and friendship, and she chooses her life partner only after long scrutiny and examination. Among the things she hates in a man are jealousy, possessiveness, and extravagance based on borrowing, mortgaging or the like.
Finally, this woman has a sixth sense that gives her an extraordinary ability, which often seems like magic.
The Aquarius Child
The Aquarius child is sensitive, stubborn and independent, with whims that seem to their family and those around them much like electrical waves or atomic radiation. But this phenomenon is no longer surprising once we know that the planet Uranus influences this child and gives them the eccentricity for which they are known.
The Aquarius child has a complex brain, a blend of realistic thinking, sound logic and refined sensitivity, which gives their personality a passive stamp that makes them refuse to obey orders unless they are first convinced of them, and gives them a temperament full of contradictions. In truth they try to seem different from other children, and so do not hesitate to take on the air of wise old men or eccentric people. For example, they long to go out in the rain, or stay shut up in their room in lovely clear weather.
This child may succeed brilliantly at school, led there by sound logic, or fail miserably because of lack of attention and inability to concentrate. Among their main problems at this early stage of life are a weak memory and scattered thoughts; if these are not treated in good time, the problem worsens over the years and they later become a half-lost person. They should in fact be encouraged to play sports and to step out of the narrow circle of their home, so that they do not remain a prisoner of their slow body and their quick, wide-awake daydreams.
The Aquarius child dislikes birds, trees, beaches, forests and all the other things children usually love, and prefers to them their own more complex discoveries; they also dislike responsibility and duty and prefer to them simpler, easier ways of living. For this reason it becomes the duty of their family to cultivate in them this spirit that they lack, if they want the child to play a constructive and positive role in society in the future.
Despite their eccentricity, this child succeeds in attracting the largest number of friends of different ages and classes. Even so, they stay away from the emotional experiences other children go through, especially in adolescence. The truth is that the Aquarius child prefers love of all humanity to love of a single individual.
The child is also deeply affected by their family’s problems, an effect they try to hide by every means. Everything they see and hear in childhood remains engraved in their memory until the last breath of their life. Not only that, they can read other people’s thoughts and predict their actions before they happen, and for this very reason their family must provide them a home atmosphere ruled by calm, understanding and harmony, in which this strange nature of theirs is respected.
It is said that this child is born mature in every sense of the word. From the start they set themselves goals unknown to ordinary children. And although they do not know in which direction they are heading, they keep going until they reach their desired end.
The Aquarius Manager
It is rare to find those born under Aquarius at the head of companies and institutions, for a good reason: they prefer idleness to committing themselves to fixed jobs, hours and places. By nature they hate giving orders, making decisions and chairing formal meetings of every kind. Even so, once they have been at the head of the work for a while, others feel that they are an integral part of it, impossible to do without.
Despite the negative traits the Aquarius man has, such as shyness, forgetfulness, negligence and fickleness, he is adorned with great positive qualities, among them a sharp mind, sound logic, great intuition and clarity of vision, which enable him to know the future and survey the broad lines of public issues while others get lost in the details and margins of affairs. Even so, he often falls victim to his weak memory, forgetting, for example, the name of his personal secretary who has been with him for years. But forgetfulness does not stop him from being curious, inquiring into his employees’ private lives for no reason other than to study human nature. In these exploratory attempts he judges no one, nor directs or despises anyone. He also refuses to be provoked or shocked by anything, however dreadful. Moreover, he refuses to single one person out from another, and refuses to pass judgment in advance, regarding all people as friends worthy of his affection and respect.
The Aquarius man looks for honesty and integrity in those who work with him, but he cares little about their ideas and beliefs outside the scope of work. He is a man of right and justice, who honors whoever deserves honor and punishes whoever deserves punishment without giving up his courtesy and gentleness. He also believes in the value of joint work, and so leaves to others the right to take the initiative in forming opinions and bearing responsibility.
There is undeniable charm in this person. He is always ready to make changes, whether to the work system, to appointments, or even to the arrangement of the office, without the knowledge of the employees working with him. In return, he does not try to interfere in their affairs, habits or outward appearance, and for this reason he finds himself surrounded by a group with clashing tastes in food, drink, habits, dress and so on.
This person is capable of talking, listening and mixing with people just as he is capable of silence, contemplation and solitude for a considerable time. But whatever his state of mind, he regards everyone who works with him, even his rivals, as his friends and loved ones. On the other hand, he always tries to separate his work from his family, so months and years pass without a relative visiting his office or an employee ever laying eyes on his wife or children. Among the things he stubbornly refuses are extravagance, handing out bonuses without justification, and lending employees part of their salary outside payment times.
In short, he is an eccentric, error-prone person of little competence compared with employers of the other signs. Even so, he succeeds in winning a high standing and great esteem, and it is not unlikely that one day he will be chosen unanimously as the best employer in the circles that know him.
The Aquarius Employee
Recognizing the Aquarius man in a work setting is an easy matter that needs only keen observation. If we could, for example, watch a group of employees and found that one of them seemed to have a weak memory and scattered thoughts, took little interest in his female colleagues, and was surrounded by dozens of friends, we could be sure he was born under Aquarius. If we asked the others’ opinion of him, they would say that working with him is exciting because he is the only one among them who runs ahead of time and soars in the skies of the future, coming back to the present from time to time with astonishing ideas in his bag.
This employee’s effect on his female colleagues is very strong, even if unintended. The indifference that the planet Uranus bequeathed him is an open challenge to a woman’s femininity, so she is driven to enter an emotional battle with him that restores her stolen dignity. He, for his part, may live side by side with her for weeks and months without seeming to notice she exists, then suddenly tell her of his admiration in a singular way that leaves her half stunned. That is one side; on the other, it would be good if the employer listened to this employee’s ideas despite their fanciful and far-fetched character, for they may one day prove useful to him.
There is no doubt that this employee is calm and composed, and yet he refuses to be tied to a single job, and it is not unlikely that he will combine his main position with other varied pursuits such as dancing, composing, singing, photography, writing, sports, even geology, all in order to discover himself, as he says. Once he has done so, he is content with the one thing that suits him and keeps at it for the rest of his life.
This man cannot be said to be emotional by nature. He takes a purely scientific stance toward life and people. And if some emotion does escape him, the cause is undoubtedly a sudden psychological state he has never known before. Even so, his life can never be without friends. But he changes quickly, failing to stay with one friend for long and failing to focus on a single friend, which is why it is said that he gives far more friendship and affection than he receives.
There are two models of the Aquarius man in the workplace. The first is calm and composed, looking like a philosopher or a teacher, often smoking a pipe, living in a luxurious house and surrounding himself with strange curios he has gathered from around the world. The second is an eccentric scientist-inventor who lives in a humble dwelling ruled by disorder with dust spread through its corners, surrounding himself with wondrous tools and devices of his own making. Both models are kind, intelligent, weak of memory and sensitive, brimming with knowledge, surrounded by dozens of friends of different ages and levels, fleeing from marriage and practicing some charming habits.
Whichever group the employee belongs to, he is worthy of his superiors’ trust and his colleagues’ affection. He protects the interests and secrets of the company where he works without seeking material gain, which in his eyes is a wholly secondary matter, just like a wife. And although he has little ambition, he has the soundest mind compared with employees of the other signs, and for this reason deserves to become one day his employer’s partner or at least his deputy.