Constellation Aquarius, the Water Bearer, is an ecliptic constellation between Capricornus and Pisces. It is one of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy in the 2nd century and remains one of the 88 modern constellations. Aquarius Constellation spans 40 degrees of the zodiac in the Signs Aquarius and Pisces.

Aquarius Constellation Stars

2000	2050	Star	Name	Sp. Class	Mag.	Orb
11♒43	12♒26	ε Aqr	Albali	A1	3.78	1°30′
13♒03	13♒45	μ Aqr	Albulaan I	A3	4.73	1°00′
16♒24	17♒06	ν Aqr	Albulaan II	G8	4.50	1°10′
23♒23	24♒06	β Aqr	Sadalsuud	G0	2.90	1°50′
24♒07	24♒49	ξ Aqr	Bunda	A7	4.68	1°00′
28♒43	29♒25	ι Aqr		B8	4.29	1°20′
02♓06	02♓48	ο Aqr	Sadalmulk	B7	4.74	1°00′
03♓16	03♓57	θ Aqr	Ancha	G8	4.17	1°20′
03♓21	04♓03	α Aqr	Sadalmelik	G2	2.95	1°50′
05♓23	06♓05	σ Aqr	Takako-boshi	A0	4.82	1°00′
06♓43	07♓24	γ Aqr	Sadachbia	A0	3.86	1°30′
08♓36	09♓18	τ2 Aqr		K5	4.05	1°20′
08♓36	09♓18	π Aqr	Seat	B1	4.80	1°00′
08♓52	09♓34	δ Aqr	Skat	A3	3.27	1°50′
08♓55	09♓37	ζ Aqr	Sadaltager	F3	3.65	1°40′
09♓25	10♓07	κ Aqr	Situla	K2	5.04	1°00′
10♓01	10♓43	c2 Aqr		K1	3.68	1°40′
10♓24	11♓06	η Aqr	Hydria	B9	4.04	1°20′
11♓34	12♓17	λ Aqr	Hydor	M2	3.73	1°30′
13♓27	14♓09	b1 Aqr		K0	3.96	1°30′
16♓19	17♓01	ψ1 Aqr		K0	4.24	1°20′
17♓08	17♓50	φ Aqr		M2	4.22	1°20′
19♓40	20♓22	ω1 Aqr		A7	4.97	1°00′
20♓12	20♓54	ω2 Aqr		B9	4.49	1°10′

Ascendant in Constellation Aquarius

AQUARIUS indicates reliability, ease of making friends, generally an understanding of human nature, a well-developed social life, and a public life appeal. Financially, affairs may be chaotic, somewhat careless. The environment will have a great effect on the life of an Aquarian, who requires harmony. Domestic life in general is not a problem. Aquarians are enterprising. An unsettled state of mind is not advantageous to an Aquarian. They require ambitions partners. Sometimes Aquarians require a certain amount of solitude. Because of their sense of sociability, they can become an enigma to some partners.

NEGATIVELY: Aquarians tend to be destructive, stirring up conditions, being erratic and unreliable, tending to be very nosy, interfering when they should not. They can be touchy and argumentive. They also tend to be overly prideful and very vain, sensitive about personal remarks, taking offense at the smallest details. They tend to lack common sense and waste time in abstract ideas.

Positive Keywords: Altruistic; intuitive, psychic, modest, affectionate, clever, original, innovative, discreet, reliable, ambitions, tactful, stable, visionary, prideful, imaginative.

Negative Keywords: Extremism, careless, overly sensitive, touchy, restless, impatient, demonstrative, reckless, thoughtless.

Sun in Constellation Aquarius

Positive: Endows its natives with humane ideas, one who is dignified and independent. One who has a companionable nature. One who seldom bears malice, has unique or inventive ability, a charitable and discriminating nature. One who is thoughtful and practical, easily influenced by kindness, has devotion to duty. One who is open-minded, tolerant.

Negative: The native is too imaginative, impractical, lacks constructive ideas. Of an unpredictable nature, tendency to be rebellious, aloof. Tends to be ‘touchy’ and argumentive. May become contentious. A contrary person. One who is fixed in their opinions. One who is proud and too sensitive, one who develops unconventional ideas, has a friendly disposition, develops their own type of philosophy. Subject to impractical idealism. An eccentric person. One who is too easily influenced, subject to being thoughtless. Personal freedom of utmost importance.

Moon in Constellation Aquarius

Positive: Endows its natives with an instictive feeling for humanistic qualities, social awareness. The native may develop altruistic tendencies, be of a companionable nature, is intuitive and of universal appeal. One who is gracious, open-minded, has empathy for the ‘underdog’.

Negative: Native is subject to erratic behavior, is somewhat aloof, can be very stubborn, seeks personal freedom at all costs regardless of consequences, has fear of personal involvement. Unpredictable nature. Subject to nervous tension. May develop a suspicious attitude, a desire to get revenge.

Mercury in Constellation Aquarius

Positive: Endows its natives with a brilliant, independent, somewhat Scientific and inquiring mentality. One who is discriminative, capable of thorough analysis. May advocate social reform ahead of times, has high ideals and aspirations, is kindly and sociable with a keen insight into human nature. One who is loyal and understanding, tolerant, hopeful and confident. One who is original and inventive, an excellent judge of human nature. One who has a clever perspective for humanities  needs. Generally, unemotional but friendly and kind.

Negative: The native may develop a streak of disloyality, ready to take undue advantage of friends, associates. One who may be overly critical, one who creates their own problems. An eccentric person, mentally erratic. One who is too ready with criticism and slander. One who has a keen imagination or intuition. “An enemy seeking its prey”.

Venus in Constellation Aquarius

Positive: Endows its natives with a fondness for social activities and pleasure. Native is open-hearted, kind and frank, capable of a detached form of love relating to beauty rather than passion. Native is diplomatic, friendly, gentle, a magnetic companion and with an artistic nature. Native attracts friends of a humanitarian nature. Native has an understanding and amicable nature.

Negative: Native is subject to secret alliances, affairs and unexpected events. Tendency towards an unconventional relationship. Tends to be too social and not very discriminative. There may be a personal detachment that would repel.

Mars in Constellation Aquarius

Positive: Endows its natives with an enthusiastic personality, a ready debater, generally very convincing. One who is aggressive and enterprising, optimistic and hopeful, ingenious and capable of quickly grasping and executing ideas and plans. One with fixed ideas, but not totally stubborn. One who is intellectual, quick-witted, sometimes rash but very determined. Native has a penetrating mentality and a power of concentration that moves and gives them a powerful influence. Native may be romantic but not a ‘gushing’ type person.

Negative: Native is unpredictable, appears to be bombastic; too independent, generally develops a bluntness in speech and mannerisms. Native becomes resentful over imagined insults or insinuations. Native is difficult to get along with, becomes contentious, is of a quarreling nature. Encounters losses through unwise speculations. Too inquisitive into affairs that are none of their business. Subject to emotional discord. One who deliberatly creates opposition and loses friends. ^[1]

Manilius

“The youthful Waterman, who from upturned pot pours forth his stream, likewise bestows skills which have affinity with himself: how to divine springs under the ground and conduct them above, to transform the flow of water so as to spray the very stars, to mock the sea with man-made shores at the bidding of luxury, to construct different types of artificial lakes and rivers,” and to support aloft for domestic use streams that come from afar. Beneath this sign there dwell a thousand crafts regulated by water. Why, water will even set in motion the face of heaven and the starry habitations, and will cause the skies to move in a novel rotation. Never will the sons of Aquarius grow tired of the works which come in the wake of water and follow springs. They who issue from this sign are a gentle sort and a lovable breed, and no meanness of heart is theirs: they are prone to suffer losses: and of riches they have neither need nor surfeit. Even thus doth the urn’s stream flow” ^[2]

Robson

Legend. Aquarius is said to represent Ganymedes, son of Callirhoe, the most beautiful of mortals, who was carried to heaven by an eagle to act as cupbearer to Jupiter. According to other accounts, however, it is Deucalion, son of Prometheus, who was translated to heaven in memory of the mighty deluge from which only he and Pyrrha were saved.

Influence. Ptolemy makes the following observations: “The stars in the shoulders of Aquarius operate like Saturn and Mercury; those in the left hand and in the face do the same: those in the thighs have an influence more consonant with that of Mercury, and in a less degree with that of Saturn: those in the stream of water have power similar to that of Saturn, and moderately to that of Jupiter.” By the Kabalists Aquarius is associated with the Hebrew letter Nun and the 14th Tarot Trump “Temperance,” over which virtue the constellation appears to have some rule. The beauty of Ganymedes and his flight through the air also link it to the ideas of personal charm and aviation with which it is certainly connected. ^[3]

Allen

Aquarius, The Waterman…has universally borne this or kindred titles; Ideler assigning as a reason the fact that the sun passed through it during the rainy season. In connection with this the proximity of other analogous stellar forms is worthy of note: Capricornus, Cetus, Delphinus, Eridanus, Hydra, Pisces, and Piscis Australis, all the watery shapes in the early heavens, with Argo and Crater, are in this neighborhood; some of whose stars Aratos said “are called the Water”; indeed in Euphratean astronomy this region of the sky was ‘the Sea’, and thought to be under the control of Aquarius.

The constellation immemorially has been represented, even on very early Babylonian stones, as a man, or boy, pouring water from a bucket or urn, with an appropriate towel in the left hand, the human figure sometimes being omitted; while the Arabians, who knew of the latter but did not dare to show it, depicted a mule carrying two water-barrels; and again simply a water-bucket…On a Roman zodiac it was a Peacock, the symbol of Juno, the Greek Hera.

With the Magi and Druids it represented the whole science of astronomy. In astrology, there was no disputing that its stars possessed influence, virtue, and efficacy, whereby they altered the air and seasons “in a wonderful, strange, and secret manner”; and an illuminated manuscript almanac of 1386, perhaps the earliest in our language that has been printed, says of the sign: “It is gode to byg castellis, and to wed, and lat blode.”

With Capricornus it was the House of Saturn, governing the legs and ankles; and when on the horizon with the sun the weather was always rainy. When Saturn was here, he had man completely in his clutches — caput et collum; while Jupiter, when here, had humeros, pectus et pedes. As Junonis astrum it was a diurnal sign, Juno and Jove being its guardians, and bore rule over Cilicia and Tyre; later, over Arabia, Tatary, Denmark, Russia, Lower Sweden, Westphalia, Bremen, and Hamburg.

Proctor’s Myths and Marvels of Astronomy has a list of the astrological colors of the zodiac signs attributing to Aquarius an aqueous blue; while Lucius Ampelius, of our 2d century, assigning in his Liber Memorialis the care of the various winds to the various signs, entrusts to this the guardianship of Eurus and Notus, which blew from the east, or southeast, and from the south.

The astronomers’ symbol for the sign, ♒ showing undulating lines of waves, is said to have been the hieroglyph for Water, the title of Aquarius in the Nile country, where a measuring-rod may have been associated with it; indeed Burritt drew such in the hand of the figure as Norma Nilotica, a suggestion of the ancient Nilometer. ^[4]

Bullinger

The Atonement being made, the blessings have been procured, and now they can be bestowed and poured forth upon the Redeemed. This is the truth, whether we think of Abel’s lamb, of patriarchal sacrifices, the offerings under the Law, or of that great Sacrifice of which they all testified. They all with one voice tell us that atonement made is the only foundation of blessing.

This was pictured and foreshown in the heavens from the beginning, by a man pouring forth water from an urn which seems to have an inexhaustible supply, and which flows forth downwards into the mouth of a fish, which receives it and drinks it all up.

In the ancient Zodiac of Denderah it is the same idea, though the man holds two urns, and the fish below seems to have come out of the urn. The man is called Hupei Tirion, which means the place of him coming down or poured forth. In some eastern Zodiacs the urn alone appears.

This agrees with its other names–Hebrew, Deli, the water-urn, or bucket (as in Numbers 24:7); the Arabic Delu is the same…Aquarius is the modern Latin name by which the sign is known. It has the same meaning, the pourer forth of water. ^[5]

References

1. The Power of the Fixed Stars, Joseph E. Rigor, 1979. p. 194, 319-320, 324, 329, 333-334, 338-339.
2. Astronomica, Manilius, 1st century AD, book 4, p.243.
3. Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, Vivian E. Robson, 1923, p.28-29.
4. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, Richard H. Allen, 1889, p.45-49.
5. The Witness of the Stars, E. W. Bullinger, 1893, Aquarius (the Water Bearer).