Three Misconceptions of the Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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Hi everyone this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology and today we are going to continue our series on the misconceptions of the Zodiac by talking about three common misconceptions about the sign of Aquarius. So I hope you guys have been enjoying this series last episode, we talked about Capricorn, another Saturn ruled sign today in Aquarius. So I've got some literature ready and we're going to we're going to unpack the sign and hopefully help everybody learn a little bit more about the sign of Aquarius. Alright, so first of all, let's start off with the major misconceptions. These are the things that I hear all the time about Aquarians that don't tell the full story Aquarians all about groups often stated, oh Aquarians are all about all about people in groups. The second thing that I hear often are that Aquarians are all about humanity, or the new age or sometimes the Age of Aquarius. They're all about the future and progress, and they're humanitarians and they're interested in the new age. The other one that I hear commonly is that rebel they are Aquarians are rebellious and eccentric, so all about groups all about humanity or the New Age, they're rebellious and they're eccentric. There's others too, but these are some of the most common misconceptions that I'm used to hearing people talk about Aquarius in this particular way.

So as always, it's not that these are completely untrue. They're set over these are stereotypes that are said over and over and over again, because there is some element of truth to them, but not the whole truth. So that's what we're going to unpack today first by taking a look at the astronomy associated with the sign of Aquarius. So remember that Aquarius is the middle portion of the Zodiacal season of winter. That's a symbolic archetypal season that has to do not so much with the weather but with the quality of light relative to the northern hemisphere where astrology is the language of astrology was rooted originally. So from that standpoint, we are right on the brink of Aquarius right now. Late January, we see a shift usually on the 19th or somewhere right around there, January 19th-20th. You see the sun move into the sign of Aquarius. Now from the astronomical standpoint, let's just refresh. Here's the celestial equator. This line right here, that's a projection of the Earth's equator out into space. The green line is the ecliptic, which is the path line of the sun. And you can see the Zodiacal constellations behind it. Now, the band of Zodiac that runs from the ecliptic downward to the winter solstice, as the sun is going down from crossing this Equator, and going downward every day in the sky, its arch is getting lower in the sky toward the southern horizon. That takes place as the sun moves into Libra, which is going to happen at the time of the fall equinox, or the autumn equinox. And the sun crosses that celestial equator line and then from there all the way down to winter solstice. And then from Winter Solstice all the way back up to the celestial equator, we are on the dark half of the year, just write this out, this is the Dark Half. So then on the flip side, when the sun comes up above the horizon, the celestial equator and goes all the way up to the summer solstice, which is all the way at the top and then comes back down. That journey is from Aries all the way through Virgo, and that is the light half of the year. Light half meaning that there is more light in the 24 hour period than there is darkness. So Aquarius takes place on the dark half of the year. But then each half of the year the light and the dark half is also cut in half. I'm just kind of doing this not so Exactly. But as the for example as the sun is coming down across the autumn equinox and moving down toward the winter solstice. The sun as it moves down, down, down, down, down, all the way down to Capricorn, that half is the darkening of the dark. So it actually looks more like this, the movement of the sun all the way down to the darkest point. That's the Yin of the Yin. You could even call it the darkening of dark or the increasing of darkness. And then you get the gradual lightening of the dark as the sun rises back up toward that Equinox line toward the celestial equator. But whether you're going down toward the winter solstice or up toward the spring equinox from the winter solstice, you're still on the dark half of the year, but there's two different sides of the dark half of the year one is again, where darkness is growing from Libra to Capricorn, and then we're darkness still reigns but light is returning from Capricorn to Pisces.

So Aquarius comes right in the middle, right in the middle. It is the portion of the winter that is defined by the continual steady rising of the light from within the darkness. While the darkness is still more potent than light, there's more darkness than there is light. So let's say it again, Aquarius comes right in the middle of the rising of the light from within the darkness, the rising of the light from within the darkness, darkness is still more dominant than light. But every day it's steadily increasing on this from Capricorn forward. The other thing that defines Aquarius is that at this middle portion of the winter season, you have steady gain of light every single day. Now this is really important because the alternation of light and dark is basic to the way in which ancient astrologers talked about the relationship between Saturn and the sun. If you think about Saturn in the sun, you have the quintessential principles of light and darkness. You have Leo as the sign of the sun in its opposite sign Aquarius is the sign of Saturn. So a lot of what we end up saying about Aquarius has to do with the quality of light rising from within the darkness and of the relationship between the Sun and Saturn or the relationship between light and dark on an archetypal level. And so that's what we need to talk about in order to clear up some of these misconceptions. But let's start before we go there with this particular misconception about Aquarians as humanitarians, people who are interested in a new age and so on and so forth, sometimes people end up thinking that many of the characteristics of Aquarius are associated with the very new idea of the Age of Aquarius. So, that is something that we need to discuss. Alright. So, we are going to do that here.

This is a fantastic book written by the famous historian of astrology Nicholas Campion, it is called Astrology and popular religion in the modern West prophecy, cosmology and the New Age Movement. And I will tell you right now, that this book is profound, especially for people whose life has had anything to do with the new age. There are a number of passages in this text that I'm just going to read some brief snippets from, and some of this comes you know, most for a lot of people will come as a surprise.

"There are two crucial features of Aquarian Age historiography Excuse me. First, its crisis laden language, sometimes fearful, but generally hopeful, stands exactly in the lineage of astrological apocalyptic literature, which can be traced back to the ancient Near East, especially to the Old Testament. Second, all of the documentary, historical evidence indicates that the use of the shift of the constellations as a technical basis for such prophecies, appears to be a product of late 18th century atheism, filtered through theosophy and then adopted by astrologers. We are therefore clearly dealing do With a clear example of an invented tradition, but one which has deep roots in the western mentality, and then he kind of describes that Western mentality later. New Age culture is not static. It flourished in esoteric circles in the early 20th century, combined with countercultural radicalism in the 60s and 70s and became commercialised in the 80s. The label was then simultaneously rejected by many of its proponents, while many of its ideas and practices went mainstream. In the first decade of the 21st century, apocalyptic hopes of a transition to an astronomically derived new age were transferred from the age of Aquarius to the supposed end of the Mayan calendar in December of 2012. The underlying cultural pattern though continues, new ageism is a species of Millenarianism possessing all the characteristics of apocalyptic belief, including Messianism, astrology, and the expectation of an imminent historical transformation. Combining this with Gnostic notions of the inner divine it adds other features to the transformational matrix, relativity, personal development and the self ethic. The New Age movement as it exists today has an apocalyptic core and a wider cultural impact. Even though it draws widely on non western spiritualities. It also has a profoundly Christian dimension, so much so that it may be considered an integral part of a 2000 year lineage of Christian apocalyptic thought, although of a more quietus contemplative form than that flavoured by more militant forms of Christian Millenarianism. The question I shall consider is whether as so many commentators assume it provides an explanatory model for the nature and popularity of modern astrology."

So, this is a fantastic book, and Campion says many super relevant things about New Age, spirituality and astrology and the rebirth of astrology in the modern era. And not all of it is is bad or critical at all. But a few things, one, many of the associations with Aquarius, as being all about groups, or as being interested in humanitarian things, or progressive New Age kinds of things come from this rather recent invented tradition that purports that we're on the cusp of the Age of Aquarius that we were in the Age of Pisces, and so on, and so forth. The simple point is that while it is not new for astrologers to be thinking about ages, ancient astrologers had a very different way of thinking about ages than we do today. For example, there was a cycling of different ages that many early philosophers and mystics shared in both the east and the west, although they were sometimes given different names or ordered differently. But there were dark ages and light ages that rotated circular in a circular way. Also, the Christian tradition of several 1000 years, believing that we are in a destructive phase and that there's a rebirth is needed or is imminent, that there is the need for a major leap, a paradigm change a leap in consciousness, and that this is happening in a make or break moment in history. That's actually as Campion points out throughout his entire book that's actually a recurring historical, cultural, sociological religious phenomenon for 1000s of years. And every, you know, every new moment in history tends to have a certain portion of religious and spiritual believers who think that they are living in the end times are that an imminent leap in consciousness is about to happen. It's not to say that I personally, it's not for me, it's not to say that we don't see a some kind of collective, you know, evolution and that the outer planets, for example, can't depict some of the ways in which you know, archetypal seasons of life are unfolding in the collective. But it is to say that it's a very particular niche way of thinking about things to assume that we're on the brink of a major level up and consciousness tends to look at history in a very linear way. Ancient astrologers tend to look at it in a very circular way, that light and dark ages progress and regress historically, culturally, societally happen and in some cases have been happening eternally. Whereas you know, the the often the view that ends up having the most dominant voice about the qualities of Aquarius comes from a lot of very particular ideas about history and progress and the linear nature of time. And apocalypse and big leaps in consciousness that will take us forward and you know, none of which are necessarily new and none of which are have ever really been a, you know, dominant way of thinking about ages or the sign of Aquarius throughout the 1000s of years of astrological history. So it's just important to note that because the, you know, as it turns out, the Age of Aquarius is something that, you know, is maybe 150 years old, you know, so it's, it's not, again, not to deflate you know, purposely try to deflate people who believe in the Age of Aquarius, it's just important to understand what's historically, that's cast a particular shadow over the way that we interpret the sign of Aquarius, which didn't necessarily traditionally have to do with people the conflation with the Age of Aquarius, and what we think about Aquarius as a sign in astrology.

So that's the first thing is that there's nothing historically there's nothing particularly humanitarian, New Age, millenarian. There's nothing about the being on the brink of the next big leap in human consciousness that's inherently has anything to do with the sign of Aquarius. Similarly, we get another conflation, which is that Aquarians are all about groups. And this unfortunately comes from another way of thinking about the zodiac. That's also mostly incorrect. So let me just show you a picture of the zodiac sign. So in ancient astrology, the 11th house, right here was called The Joy of Jupiter and the house of good spirit. In modern astrology, one of the ways that astrologers lacking in a sufficient knowledge of ancient source texts, because they were not yet available as translations into the English language. Not until rather recently have they been, in fact, astrologers, understandably trying to figure out the rationale behind the topics of the 12 houses, said, well, it must be that Aries has something to do with the first house. And it must be that Taurus has something to do with the second in Gemini with the third and so on. And so sometimes what we call this as the 12 Letter alphabet, which means that we have in modern astrology are often taught that the topics of the first house have something to do with the first sign. Aries and Mars and the first house all have something in common. And of course, we get a lot of people will, for example, if you ask people about the sixth house, they'll often say something about Virgo. If you ask them about the ninth house, they'll tell you something about saj, or the eighth house, they'll tell you something about Scorpio ask about the 12th house, they will certainly say something about Neptune in Pisces, right. But the idea is that that's not actually how the rationale of the houses were, was established.

So because the 11th house is sometimes associated with groups of people. While off the 11th sign Aquarius gets associated with groups of people. But let me just show you what the 11th house will tell you a little bit about the 11th house what it meant and why it meant what it meant and why it doesn't really have anything to do with Aquarius. So the 11th House again was called The Joy of Jupiter and the house of good spirit. Good spirit, good diamond. So the thing that's happening in the 11th house is planets are in the process by means of the primary motion of the sky.

Okay, so here is Saturn in the 11th house. Now one of the reasons that this was called the house the joy of Jupiter and the house of good spirit is because this house was thought of as a place that was in the process of climbing up to this to this house of manifestation, empowerment and success in the 10th. So watch what happens if I advance the primary motion of the sky. So if I'm just turning this way Just like it will turn in the course of a 24 hour day, Saturn and Aquarius in the 11th become the 10th. So the 11th in time, grows in power grows in strength gathers resources and becomes the 10th. And so one of the primary meanings of the 11th the reason it's called the House of good spirit and the joy of Jupiter, is that this is a place of gaining and gathering resources and opportunities, people, allies, benefactors, and in time, the things in this house are promised to rise up and become powerful. So the 11th house was associated with allies and friends, or benefactors insofar as in the progression of most of our careers, or on the journey toward the realisation of our ambitions, we typically need the help or resources, the aid and support of other people. Or we need the literal resources and money of powerful people, in which case, the 11th house was understood as the resources of powerful people because it was also the second house from the 10th. So from a derived Howe standpoint, the 10th becomes the first and the 11th. The second, which means that if the 10th is something like the government and the 11th, would be the government's money, the 10th is the king than the 11th is the Kings money. So the 11th also has the connotation of being the court or counsel, or people that serve on say, committee for the ruler. If you're a company, then this might be your, you know, your board or something like that. But it has to do with the resources or assets of powerful people, which could be, for example, a court of advisors for a king, but also for us individually, the 11th house is also seen as a place where we encounter the like mindedness of other people who share similar pursuits, goals, or ambitions.

But the point is that this house was more associated with the planet Jupiter than it ever was any particular sign. And that's because in general, in ancient astrology, the meanings of the houses have to do with the astronomy of where planets are moving through the sky in the 24 hour period, and also certain planets that were thought to be correlated with those areas of the sky. The other way of thinking about this is that the planet by its secondary motion is moving away from the very place that it is being drawn toward by primary motion. So directly, Saturn is moving toward Pisces in this direction. But by the primary motion of the sky in the 24 hour day, it's being brought in the other motion, in the other direction toward the top of the sky toward the 10th house. So ancient astrologers also seem to have envisioned a kind of circular dynamic around succeeding houses in general, which means that a planet is going out from and returning to the angle in a kind of symbolic fashion. So anything or any one, socially, any kind of resource that would represents something that is necessary for the addition, or the building of one's ambitions, one's career, in a kind of circular fashion, I go and speak to my advisors, I go and speak to people who helped me and having spoken to them, I come back and do my work. There's this kind of reciprocal circular dynamic is there in the second, eighth and fifth houses as well. So really, it's something I unpack at length in my courses. But anyway, all of this is just to say that very little about the 11th House has to do a with groups and be with Aquarius. So, you know, the 11th House does have something to do with allies and friends, insofar as we're talking about people or friends or allies that add something to or directly benefit.

Our our ambitions for example, Jupiter recently ingresses into my 11th house, you know, Pisces is my 11th house, jupiter engrossed into my 11th house, and I was invited to be a regular guest on a radio show. Unfortunately, I don't have the time for it. But that's a great example of Jupiter coming into the 11th house where, yeah, there might be some kind of advantageous group or company or people or resource networking potential that can add to the growth of a business or your ambitions or something like that. And it's it's not completely untrue that the 11th house doesn't have anything to do with groups, but usually it has the connotation of being groups of like minded people who have similar goals. Are ambitions and, and act as some kind of resource. And that's the joopa terian nature of the house. Jupiter was the planet associated with the trines. And the trigonal figures in the birth chart, which were related in turn to triplicity rulerships typicity triplicity ruler ships like Jupiter have to do with communities of people at the very most to end up being supportive of our, you know, ambitions or our hopes and wishes. So, but it's not like the house of groups has more to do with the things that add to and support our goals. And most of many of them are going to be professional in nature.

Okay, so we've understood right off the bat that a lot of what we end up saying about Aquarians being about groups comes from a an sort of unfortunate misconception that the 11th House has something to do with Aquarius, and also that Aquarians are all about humanity in the New Age, which in some ways is an unfortunate association with the recently made up Age of Aquarius. So that's a recent tradition astrologically at any rate, now as to the idea that their Aquarians are rebellious or eccentric by nature that one I can actually get down with. And let's go back to the essay that I wrote on the mystical history of Saturn, which is appearing by there some people were asking this is appearing in an NCGR publication, I think this spring, and yeah, I'll have the information on it shortly. But anyway, at any rate. Well, here we go. Let's begin by exploring one of the most frequently used words associated with Saturn in ancient astrology melancholy. In fact, one of the most famous books ever written on the topic of melancholy is titled Saturn and melancholy. But when most people hear the word melancholy they only think of depression or sadness, as it turns out, melancholy Saturn's affliction. affliction was an incredibly diverse phenomenon is common in the lives of creative geniuses, artists, mystics and great thinkers and contemplatives, as it was a common malady treated by the earliest doctors. Melancholy may involve depression, but it is also commonly associated with a kind of wistful longing for things beyond this world. And we talked about this with Capricorn. Now with Aquarius, the the I'm just kind of refreshing everybody on this, the kind of Saturn nine associations with melancholy are not so much about the wistful longing for the transcendental the mystical and the contrast between the kind of gritty, edgy dark side of life and the longing for something beyond kind of the the dark romance of Capricorn. This is a little bit different. Melancholy is also associated with artists, genius scientists and great minds. This is because Saturn was not merely the planet of order, structure and limitation, but also the planet of horizons and thresholds as the dumbest and most distant planet sitting on the edge of the sphere of the planets and the numinous beyond. Saturn represented the yearning of the human imagination for more than the mundane as well as the feeling of being cursed, limited, held back or depressed by that which is earthly mortal and confining.

This is really interesting to me, because in Indian astrology Saturn is associated with outcasts and in ancient Greek, the word Melis at the root of melancholy. Remember, Saturn's affliction also met dark black or a person of dark or black disposition. As the gatekeeper between worlds Saturn was also associated with both those people or ideas contained within the walls of the city, or the establishment or status quo, as well as those people or ideas cast outside the city walls. And for this reason, Saturn was associated with heretics and malcontents. But it is important to note that Saturn signifies the black sheep the outcast, heretic, or rebellious reformer, as much as Saturn signifies the establishment or the tradition. Saturn was a remarkably dual citizen of the planetary Pantheon in this regard, not surprisingly, opposition's were said to be of the nature of Saturn, whose signs Capricorn and aquarius stand in opposition to those of the sun and the moon in the classical thema Mundi chart of the world. And just like an opposition includes two realities simultaneously with the potential for polarisation or union and don't forget Saturn is exalted in the sign of Libra, the scales. So did Saturn in its very nature contain fundamentalists and heretics contemplatives, and depression black sheep's and the establishment limitation and the mystical yearning of those creative souls cursed by Saturn. So think again about Saturn's placed in Aquarius, rising steadily, the light rising steadily from within the darkness. You could think in this case of the light in the dark as something like the, the opposites contained in the passage I just read between, say, the establishment and something new, the past versus the future. For example, in the sign of Aquarius, darkness could very well be understood as the status quo, or the present or past, out of which the light is emerging. So the light is emerging out of the darkness. And in this way, the darkness can be metaphorically understood as the past the past is the darkness from which the sun is now emerging. And so the dichotomy between the past and the future is huge. But don't think for a second that that dichotomy is as simple as, you know, progressive, liberal, open minded politics versus, you know, say conservative or traditional, or more conservative voices. For example, let's just be real about this. You know, Ronald Reagan, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh all you know, more conservative voices in American history of American politics. All have Aquarian sons, Aquarius, sun and Jupiter in Aquarius for Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh Aquarius rising with Venus and Mars in the ascendant in Aquarius. So don't think for a second that don't think for a second that you can simply pin down one description that because what we're saying generally is that in this world, it's relative, what one thinks of as the darkness of the past, you know, for example, in American politics, all Republicans think, you know, not all Republicans, I just say like, there's a common conception that we need to make America great again, that's been a slogan in Republican politics in recent years. And that that slogan is through and through, you could say Aquarian. Why? Because it comes from the idea that we, the time the past and the future, are in this sharp dichotomy with one another. Remember that Saturn was the ruler of the Golden Age and was usurped by Zeus, Jupiter. And so the history of Saturn being associated with like, really sharp divisions in terms of how history is being perceived, how progress is being perceived, how regression, as opposed to progress as being received is sort of fundamental to Saturn itself, and more specifically, to this airy sign of Aquarius, where you see the light emerging from the darkness. And there's always this, where have we been versus where are we going?

I remember, I thought it was really interesting. I'm the kind of person you know, this natural Jupiter and Saturn and Libra in my chart where I'm, I will I will see, I will watch both news channels, if I ever do watch, because I like hearing what different people are saying about the exact same types of things. I always find it really fascinating, even though I you know, I have my have my own preferred channel or whatever. Well, you know, one of the things that I thought was really interesting about President, former President Trump's inaugural address is that if you watched more liberal news outlets, they were saying it was the darkest speech, Presidential Inaugural speech in US history. And he talked about the idea that we're moving toward this sort of brave new future where we're going to restore greatness, because it's been lost. There's the Aquarian Saturn nine motif where, you know, the Golden Age has been lost. We've been in darkness now we're emerging and the light is returning. It's the same exact kind of thinking that can get cast over Aquarius in broad terms. When we think about his association with Millenarianism. There's a reason that Aquarius comes to be the sign associated with the new age. It's not a total fluke. And that is because, look, it's the same thing. We're lying in the wake of some kind of darkness historically, and we're on the brink of, you know, making the human consciousness great again, right? It's the same kind of message that you see all over the place, and the same intercourse if you turned if I turned over To say Fox News or a conservative news outlet, you would hear commentators saying it was the most hopeful speech they'd ever heard. You know what I mean. And I'm not here to debate politics, I'm here to talk about archetypes. And with Aquarius, in particular, it just depends on what you think of as regression versus progress, what you think of the past, versus what you think of the future, there's a million different personality types, who will think the future is only brighter, but their future is going to look very different compared to somebody else's. And what they think of the darkness of the past that we're emerging from is going to look very different from someone else's.

For example, I have a lot of different people that follow me, you know, and so social media, if I follow some people in return, I end up seeing a lot of crazy shit. No offence, I love all you guys. But I see a lot of crazy stuff out there. And one of the things that I see over and over again, is oh, let's say for example, on the abortion issue, we have taken a big step backward, I will see posted all over. And then I will also see people saying, Thank God, you know, abortion is not being allowed, we're taking a big step forward from a dark past, when the opposite can be true to someone will say, we're taking a big step backward into a dark past, when we should have been continuing toward a bright future. These kinds of dichotomies are inherent in Saturn, and especially the Air sign of Aquarius, because air naturally deals in ideas, thoughts, people, and human relationships. So insofar as Saturn gets involved with very hard dichotomies about what constitutes progress versus regress the past versus the future, especially in the realm of ideas, politics, thought, there's also a reason why we you know, for example, here's a very Aquarian conversation, right? You've got some people saying, you know, the future lies in travel to the stars and travel to other planets, and then you and that's the future. It's all about invention and technology and progress in that way. And other people that will say, look, the worst thing that's ever happened to us is, you know, the Industrial Revolution and the sort of the Age of Enlightenment and scientific progress, because it's devastated the Earth. We're dependent on all these fuel sources that are terrible. And we think that that's progress. We should go back, you know, it's like we should go back to our primordial roots, they archaic revival, right.

So again, I'm not here to tell you which one is right. How do I know I don't. So all I can tell you is that these are very quintessentially Aquarian conversations insofar as Saturn is the ruler of Aquarius. And this place where lights emerging from darkness gives us the feeling it's not yet there. So it's conceptual. The feeling of what is progress, you know, it's like debates about what is progress, it's near, it's on, we're on the brink of it. Well, this is archetypal, literally for 1000s of years, there's a book another book that can't be on wrote called The Great Year. And it talks about the way in which astrology has been paired throughout 1000s of years of history, with people thinking about what constitutes the next great new thing, you know. And, and, of course, every era has their moment where they think that they're on the brink of the next new thing. And that's always drawn up in contrast to some kind of, quote unquote, primitive past. Okay, well, there's been a lot of damage in the world that's been done not to say that there isn't such a thing as progress, or that we shouldn't be concerned about the future or overcoming ignorance or darkness in the past. People again, people are gonna have different ideas about what that means. But it also means that there's something there's a hubris, there's a potential for pride and alienation of ourselves from each other. And from the current moment, if we don't stop to recognise what's good about where we are. This is why sometimes we'll see these also the potential for the theme of dissociation, a simultaneous hatred toward humanity, while lauding its potential. And this these are this you hear the great joke about Aquarius Aquarians love humanity but hate people. And part of that is because you can't think of a bright future without in some ways condemning what is and what has been. Sometimes in the march of progress, the beauty of where we've been what we've already learned, is lost. This is something that you know, you have Lots of interesting people of really diverse backgrounds with strong Aquarian placements. Oprah James Dean the weekend Bob Marley, Abraham Lincoln, but also you know, Alex Jones and Jeffrey Epstein and people. Ramakrishna Krishna have a famous sort of revolutionary Indian St. Louis Carol Allison Wonderland. So, um Oh, that is just to say that don't don't don't pigeonhole Aquarians the tension of Saturn especially when it comes to the heretic, the black sheep, the outsider, the outcast is definitely there. And so eccentric individuality and so forth. But so too, is the establishment and the sense of needing to preserve the establishment against potentially corrosive or corruptive, corrosive forces or people or movements in history protected don't let the the darkness overcome this good thing.

You see the same kind of thing when it comes to the history of the dark side of his history of science and religion. Right where sometimes the church are killing the scientists for discovering new things and it'll preserve God's sovereignty don't let the scientists tell us that the sun is at the centre of the solar system or something like that. But then you also have the opposite that can be true. For example, nowadays you have scientists potentially telling you know people that divination or communication with God or spirits through something like astrology is complete hokum, you know, and that we should preserve the dignity of the rational establishments of of life. Well, how much in you know Saturn's been in Aquarius recently? And how many conversations have there been about science and virology and you know, immunity and what constitutes progress socially with regard to scientific knowledge and, you know, so and then or something holistic, a different way of knowing a different way of being healthy, non traditional, non allopathic forms of medicine, these are going at each other right now in the background of the in may be in the foreground of the port. pandemic, right.

So those kinds of tensions, yes, they are a part of what you'll find common to the Aquarian spirit. And I think one of the most underrated amazing things about Aquarians and I have a whole family with Aquarians sisters Aquarius, dads Aquarius moms Aquarius, Moon grandmas Aquarius, two grandparents were Aquarians. So a lot of Aquarius energy in my life growing up. And I think one of the most fantastic things about Aquarians is the interest in what constitutes a brighter future. The interest in what constitutes progress. That's definitely there, as well as the the mark of being different. I remember when I was a kid growing up that it was very controversial still, at that time, unfortunately, for gay people to be openly gay as members of Christian churches in some cases. You know, my father, the Aquarian made a point of openly acknowledging and celebrating the sexual orientation of our of the parishioners in our church and having them over to dinner at our house, and things like that. And I remember my dad saying things like the church needs to move forward, you know, so, you do have that like willingness to be an outsider. But just don't forget that Aquarius is also that outsider means different things at different times to different people. And that the, the Saturn energy can be as much about preserving a status quo or establishment against what are seen as rebellious forces, as it can be about the rebellious force itself. That is the dichotomy of Saturn that most people get wrong about Aquarius, which is why you will see that kind of but often what's interesting is that the same spirit, the same avant garde, defiant, Maverick renegade spirit will be present in people across the board, no matter whether they're defending something they consider to be worthy of defending against some kind of outside force, or if they're trying to upend tradition or move something forward into an area of newness, the same kind of eccentric, rebellious, defiant energy is often there. And that was all traditionally associated specifically with Saturn and the relationship between heresy and establishment as well as you know, the black sheep or the outcast versus the establishment it's was all Saturn nine most other thing that most people think about Aquarius is that these qualities come from Uranus, and they don't they Saturn had Uranus does not have the market cornered on these things well before Uranus was around Saturn was associated with the dichotomies between things like tradition and progress and so forth. So at any rate, that is what I have for you guys today.

Some thoughts about the sign of Aquarius. I hope that you found this interesting and please leave your comments in the comment section below especially if you are an Aquarius, you have Aquarius energy add to our understanding, enlighten us and tell us a little bit more about what we don't know. And hopefully, today you guys found this useful and informative. So our last sign of the series coming up Pisces I look forward to that one and we will see you guys again soon. Take it easy, everyone. Bye.