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Aquarius personality, love and compatibility The sign that thinks ahead.

Aquarius is the eleventh sign of the zodiac, a fixed air sign ruled by Saturn and, in modern astrology, Uranus. It usually runs from 20 January to 18 February. By the zodiac's geometry, its easiest matches are Gemini and Libra, and its hardest are Taurus and Scorpio.

Aquarius people are independent, original and loyal to their ideals, and they care about the group as much as the person. They are the zodiac's inventors and its friendliest loners.

Dates
20 January to 18 February
Element
Air
Mode
Fixed
Ruler
Saturn and Uranus
Symbol
The Water-bearer
Opposite
Leo
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Aquarius on the zodiac wheelAquarius sits at the top of the wheel. Trines, the easiest angle, run to Gemini and Libra; sextiles to Aries and Sagittarius; squares, the friction, to Taurus and Scorpio; and the opposite sign is Leo.ARITAUGEMCANLEOVIRLIBSCOSAGCAPAQUPIS
Aquarius and the other eleven signs. TrineSextileSquareOpposite

Compatibility

How Aquarius gets on with each of the twelve signs

Aquarius's easiest matches are Gemini and Libra, the other two air signs, which sit in trine. Aries and Sagittarius, a sextile away, come next. Leo, directly opposite, is the classic pull of opposites. The hardest angles are the squares to Taurus and Scorpio.

  1. GeminiTrine, 120°Easy flow

    Gemini's curiosity and Aquarius' originality make a lively, open-minded couple that rarely gets bored.

  2. LibraTrine, 120°Easy flow

    One of the best matches Aquarius has. Libra's fairness and Aquarius' ideals meet easily, and both enjoy company and conversation.

  3. AriesSextile, 60°Open door

    Aries brings action to Aquarius' ideas. Both are independent and honest, and they give each other the space to stay that way.

  4. SagittariusSextile, 60°Open door

    Both love freedom, ideas and the future. A friendship-first match that stays adventurous and light.

  5. LeoOpposition, 180°Opposites attract

    Leo is personal and warm, Aquarius collective and cool. The pull is strong, and so are two fixed wills.

  6. AquariusSame sign, 0°Mirror

    Two Aquarians give each other total freedom and endless ideas. Someone has to remember to be affectionate.

  7. CapricornSemi-sextile, 30°Neighbours

    Saturn is linked to both. Capricorn builds the structure Aquarius wants to improve, and the result is respectful and a little formal.

  8. PiscesSemi-sextile, 30°Neighbours

    Pisces brings compassion and Aquarius brings vision, and both care about the wider world. Pisces may want more closeness than Aquarius offers.

  9. CancerQuincunx, 150°Adjustment

    Cancer needs closeness and reassurance, Aquarius needs space. Caring intentions, and very different ways of showing them.

  10. VirgoQuincunx, 150°Adjustment

    Both value intelligence and usefulness. Virgo thinks about details and Aquarius about systems, and they make a good team once warmth is added.

  11. TaurusSquare, 90°Friction

    Opposite instincts in two fixed signs. Taurus keeps what works and Aquarius changes it: respect is possible, agreement is rare.

  12. ScorpioSquare, 90°Friction

    Scorpio wants intimacy and control, Aquarius wants freedom and detachment. Magnetic, and one of the zodiac's harder puzzles.

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Personality

Aquarius belongs to the group and keeps its own mind

Aquarius is a fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern astrology by Uranus. The symbol is the water-bearer pouring out something for everyone, and Aquarians tend to care about causes, communities and the future. They are friendly with everyone, curious about how things could work better, and happy to disagree with the room.

Their independence is not up for discussion. Aquarians need space, and closeness can feel like pressure if it arrives too fast. They hold their views firmly and can seem detached when they are simply thinking. The Aquarians who thrive find people who give them room, and a cause that deserves their stubbornness.

The twelve signs by element and mode
CardinalFixedMutable
FireAriesLeoSagittarius
EarthCapricornTaurusVirgo
AirLibraAquariusGemini
WaterCancerScorpioPisces
Aquarius sits where air meets fixed. It shares its element with Gemini and Libra and its mode with Taurus, Leo and Scorpio.

At their best

Original, humane, loyal to friends, open-minded, inventive, and able to see where things are heading before most people do.

Under pressure

Detached, contrary, stubborn in their opinions and hard to reach emotionally. A stressed Aquarius withdraws into their head.

What they need

Freedom, friendship, ideas worth caring about, and relationships that leave room to breathe.

From the book

What the reading says when Aquarius turns up in a chart

Chapter 2Sun in Aquarius

You stand slightly outside every group you belong to, and you like the view.

Your ideas are ten years early. You see the system where others see the situation, and you are more loyal to a principle than to any person who happens to be applying it. You are friendly with everyone and intimate with few. People find you fascinating, then find you a little cold, then find out you were the one who showed up when it counted.

What you need is one person who does not need you to explain yourself. The Aquarius loneliness is real: you are built to belong to humanity and to feel slightly foreign in every kitchen. The cure is not to become warmer on demand. It is to let one or two people all the way in, and to notice that being understood is a different thing from being agreed with.

Chapter 3Moon in Aquarius

You need distance to feel close.

Too much emotional demand makes you step back, and people mistake it for cold. It is not. It is the way your care works: as ideas, as fixes, as presence at odd hours, as a text at three in the morning that says exactly the right thing. You love from a slight altitude, and from there you see people more clearly than they see themselves.

The work is to come down sometimes. Not for long, and not on demand, but to let the people who need warmth in the ordinary form have it from you, in the moment, without an explanation. You will not lose your altitude. You will find out it was never the thing keeping you safe.

Chapter 6Venus in Aquarius

You fall for people who are unlike everyone else in the room.

Safety bores you; conversation lights you up. You want a partner who is also a friend and an equal, and you give a lot of freedom because you need a lot. You love with your mind and your loyalty rather than with clinging, and you can be devoted for decades to someone you rarely tell.

The gap is warmth in the ordinary form. Venus in Aquarius can be so fair and so free that the partner feels loved in principle and lonely in practice. Say the tender thing.

Hold the hand. You will not lose your freedom, and you will keep the person.

Printed word for word from the Skyprint reading. A chart with the Sun in Aquarius gets the first page. The Moon and Venus pages appear only when those planets were in Aquarius too, and your own chart decides which of the twelve versions you read.

Aquarius dates

Born on 19, 20 or 21 January? The year decides

Horoscopes round the dates. We measured the moment the Sun entered Aquarius in every year from 1940 to 2030 with Astronomy Engine, the engine behind every Skyprint reading.

The Sun entered Aquarius on

  • 19 January7 of 91 years
  • 20 January77 of 91 years
  • 21 January7 of 91 years

It moved on into Pisces on

  • 18 February38 of 91 years
  • 19 February53 of 91 years
Dates are in UTC, so your local calendar date can differ by one. If your birthday is one of these days, your birth time and place settle it: check your exact Sun sign, free.

Love

An Aquarius in love starts as a friend

Aquarius usually falls in love through friendship and conversation. They are drawn to unusual, independent people with minds of their own, and they court through shared interests, long talks and a lot of honesty. Conventional romance can make them awkward, and an interesting idea makes them light up.

They need a partner who does not cling. Given freedom, an Aquarius is loyal, accepting and steady, and will defend your right to be exactly who you are. What they have to learn is to show feeling when it matters, even when it feels uncomfortable.

Your whole sky

Nobody is only an Aquarius

The Sun sign comes from your birth date alone. The Moon changes sign every two to three days and the rising sign roughly every two hours, so two people born under Aquarius a week apart can read very differently. Your birth date, time and place draw the whole sky, computed to the arcminute.

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Questions

Aquarius questions, answered

When are the Aquarius dates?

Aquarius usually runs from 20 January to 18 February. The start moves by a day: between 1940 and 2030 the Sun entered Aquarius on 19 January in 7 years, 20 January in 77 years and 21 January in 7 years, in UTC. If you were born on one of those days, your birth time and place decide your sign.

Who is Aquarius most compatible with?

By the geometry of the zodiac, Aquarius's easiest matches are Gemini and Libra, the other air signs, followed by Aries and Sagittarius. Leo, the opposite sign, brings the strongest pull and the most work, and the squares to Taurus and Scorpio are the hardest angles. A real match also depends on the Moon, Venus, Mars and rising sign in both charts.

Why do Aquarians seem detached?

Aquarius is an air sign and processes feeling through thought first. Aquarians often need time and distance before they can say what they feel, and they dislike emotional pressure. The detachment is usually a pause, and it passes with trust.

What is an Aquarius like as a friend?

Loyal, honest and unconventional. Many Aquarians keep friendships for decades and are at their best as friends. They will back your strangest idea and tell you the truth about it.

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All signs and the compatibility chart. How this page was made: Skyprint is built and edited by Khalil Yazouri. The text was drafted with AI assistance. The sign dates were measured with Astronomy Engine for every year from 1940 to 2030, the compatibility follows the angles between the signs, and the sample pages are printed word for word from the reading's own library.