Aquarius 1st decan (January 20–29): personality and meaning

From about January 20 to 29, depending on the year and time of birth, the first decan of Aquarius lives under the full rule of Uranus, the sign’s modern ruler, with Saturn as its traditional one. You’re the most Uranian Aquarius: original, independent, visionary, allergic to conventions and arbitrary hierarchies. Your mind works through sudden intuitions and unexpected connections, and you’re often right too early. You love freedom above all, yours as well as everyone else’s, and you have a deep sense of equality and brotherhood that goes beyond borders.

In love, you need air: a relationship that’s a friendship first, where each person keeps their own universe, where you choose each other freely every day. Possessiveness makes you run; intelligence and originality bind you. At work, the first decan of Aquarius excels in technology, the sciences, innovation, astrology, humanitarian work, media, careers of the future that don’t exist yet. Your relationships are wide, friendly and unconventional; you’re the one who always has a new idea, who connects people from every background and who stands up for those society leaves aside.

Your key to growth is embodiment. Uranus ruling twice over has you living in ideas and the future, and you risk neglecting the present, the body, the emotions, or breaking off abruptly what only needed an adjustment. Learn to inhabit everyday life, to feel as much as you think, to stay when a relationship or project goes through an ordinary phase. When your visionary genius takes root in reality and in loyalty, you become a true reformer, because your ideas no longer stay up in the air: they concretely change people’s lives.