Aquarius symbolizes the quest and dispensing of knowledge through independence of mind, novelty and originality. Aquarius belongs to the air element, which indicates its function with information. Aquarius ruling planet is Uranus which symbolizes freedom, rebellion against the status quo, unconventionality, distance with the mainstream. Aquarius astrology glyph represents squigglies, which point to its lightning fast, unpredictable, virtual, wave-like nature (like the fundamental stuff that makes the Universe, according to modern Physics: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, Plank's and Bohr's Quantum Theories and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle). Aquarius has an affinity with the 11th astrological House (involvement in the community, peer circle, social conscience, politics) indicating communication and function within a social network. Aquarius is also a fixed sign which all together points to dogmatism, set ideas, activism and revolutionary discourse.

Aquarius has to be different at all cost. It zigs when others zag. It likes progress, invention, innovation, reform, originality, uniqueness, provocative ideas, the fringe. Aquarius lives in the future. Aquarians usually have a social conscience and are more concerned with the good of the majority than with the whining of timorous and subjective individuals. They are detached and independent, cool and free, cosmopolitan and citizens of the world. They don't usually care much for mainstream or conventional ideas. They like to shock and are provocative if one isn't too stuck to listen. But they too can be rigid and dogmatic. They are often involved in all kinds of politics, crusades, activism. If they're so individualistic that they'll only do their own thing, they become rebels, fanatics, eccentrics and their behavior can be rather erratic and unpredictable. They are so nervous about being tagged, labeled, categorized or taken for granted, and forsaking their beloved freedom, that they may resist any pull toward attachment, closeness and intimacy. They'll play cool and detached, buddy-buddy or hard-to-get and they may vehemently claim to be "above all that gooey emotional stuff."

Everything modern has an appeal to Aquarians: computers, electronics, aviation, aerospace, information exchange, etc. You'll find a lot of them on the Net: nerds, wizards and geniuses. Aquarians have an uncanny ability to link things that seem unrelated to most other people. But they can be so jittery than their techno-babble leaves everyone miles behind. Nervous exhaustion lurks on their electrified path.

This is only a brief description of the character traits symbolized by Aquarius. You may have recognized some familiar descriptions. Even if it is not the case, some of these characteristics are present in your personality as idiosyncrasies since the Sun sign is a fairly emphatic statement in a chart, although it can be downplayed by other influences affecting the Moon (symbolizing your instinctive/reactive personality) and the Ascendant or Rising Sign (symbolizing your identity, the way you come across). Nevetheless, these Aquarian characteristics will more or less play a role in your relationships, compatibility with others and your destiny.