Planetary Influences：Ruling planets:Uranus and Neptune;Third decan:Personal planet is Venus;Second cusp:Aquarius with Piscean tendencies. Virtues：Sensitive, trusting, determined. Vices：Susceptible, emotional, inflexible. Careers：Motivational speaker, IT specialist, human-rights activist. Skills & Aptitudes：Empathy for the downtrodden, instinctual responses, crusading energy. Compatible with：March 12–13, October 13–20
Empathic activist
Your Aquarius birthday shows you to be strong-willed and determined, a practical individualist with an active mind. Ambitious and persistent, you have a strong presence and good organizational skills that point to a desire for continual improvement, both materially and socially. Active and productive, you enjoy power, so you may need to continually challenge yourself. Although you possess a natural ability to take the lead, you may benefit from developing your patience in order to avoid being too domineering. Fortunately, you possess the capacity to overcome obstacles and perform outstanding achievements.
With the added influence of your Sun in the decanate of Libra, you can be sociable and amusing, with a sense of artistic or creative appreciation. You are particularly likely to gain from female acquaintances and have a warm circle of friends. With the ability to be charming in your dealings with others when necessary, you can mix business with pleasure.
With your inventive or analytical mind, you can often create original or financially lucrative concepts. A setback to your possible achievements, however, may be an obstinate or rebellious attitude. If left unchecked, this may cause self-destructive behavior.
Up to the age of thirty-two, when your progressed Sun moves through Pisces, you develop a stronger inner life and your emotional sensitivity becomes enhanced. This can be reflected in your visions, dreams, and ideals as well as in your social life. At the age of thirty-three, there is a turning point as your progressed Sun enters Aries, emphasizing a need to actively take the initiative, pioneer ideas, or be brave and direct in your relationships with others. Another change of emphasis occurs at age sixty-three, when your progressed Sun enters Taurus, highlighting a greater need for stability and a practical approach to life.
Sun: Aquarius
Decanate: Libra/venus
Degree: 27°-28°30’ Aquarius
Mode: Fixed
Element: Air
Although your Sun’s degree is not linked to a fixed star some of your other planets’ degrees certainly will be. By having an astrological chart calculated, you can find the exact position of the planets on your date of birth. This will tell you which of the fixed stars listed in this book are relevant to you.
Hardworking, you have endurance, stamina, and courage. Being proud and dramatic, you may have to refrain from occasionally being patronizing or, if tense, becoming irjitable. Through developing self-mastery, you gain a deep sense of satisfaction and are able to help others with your direct, down-to-earth common sense and through lessons learned from personal experience.
Enjoying mental competition, you can be as quick as lightning with your comments. When you establish your inner faith, you can be daring enough to be spontaneous and follow your spirit. This can help you overcome a tendency to be skeptical or doubting. When your love of knowledge and quick insight are combined with your natural business acumen, you have the power to achieve remarkable results in life.
Hardworking, creative, and independent, you have unique talents and executive skills. Possessing good reasoning powers, you like to investigate issues and get to the bottom of things. You can be drawn to a career as a detective or work as a lawyer. Practical, you may use your organizational ability to administer large businesses. Alternatively, with your talent for putting your thoughts on paper and your imaginative mind, you can turn to writing and education or training people in technical skills. Since you value your independence, and do not like to take orders, you usually prefer to be in positions of authority; you can be an excellent manager or supervisor.
Famous people who share your birthday include basketball player Michael Jordan, black rights activist Huey Newton, authors Ruth Rendell and Isabelle Eberhardt, female impersonator Barry Humphries, and actor Alan Bates.
Sees the big picture and aims for it, linked to abundance and material wealth, and uses financial success to give back to others. With a number 17 birthday, you are shrewd, with a reserved nature, good analytical abilities, and writing skills. Inquisitive and original, you are an independent thinker who benefits from being well educated or skillful. Usually you utilize your knowledge in a specific way in order to develop your expertise and can achieve material success or a prominent position as a specialist or researcher. Private, introspective, and detached, with a strong interest in facts and figures, you frequently present a serious and thoughtful demeanor and like to take your time. By developing your communication skills, you can discover much about yourself from others. The subinfluence of the number 2 month indicates that you are receptive and intuitive. Although you can be friendly and sociable, your independent nature suggests that you have original thoughts and a unique perspective. If you lack faith or insight into your higher self, you may feel doubtful or indecisive. As a humanitarian, you are universal and progressive, willing to work for social reforms and just causes.
• Positive: thoughtful, specialist, good planner, good business sense, attracts money, individual thinker, painstaking, accurate, skilled researcher, scientific
• Negative: detached, stubborn, carelessness, moody, narrow-minded, critical, worry, suspicion
Sociable and bright, you enjoy the company of interesting or unusual people and can easily mix with different groups of people. At times, however, you can be indecisive or uncertain about your love and long-term commitments. Often attracted to powerful yet creative individuals, your need for love, intimacy, and understanding is contrary to your strong and self-assured image. When in love, you may need to avoid martyring yourself or being temperamental. You like to have your own way, but you can be loyal and caring.
You might find a partner who will understand your sensitivity and need for love among those born on the following dates.
Love & friendship:Jan. 7, 17, 20, 21, Feb. 5, 15, 18, Mar. 3, 13, 16, 29, 31, Apr. 1, 11, 14, 15, 27, 29, May 9, 12, 25, 27, June 7, 10, 11, 23, 25, July 5, 8, 21, 23, Aug. 3, 6, 19, 21, Sept. 1, 4, 17, 19, Oct. 2, 3, 15, 17, Nov. 13, 15, 30, Dec. 11, 13, 28
Beneficial:Jan. 15, 17, 24, 28, Feb. 13, 15, 22, 26, Mar. 11, 13, 24, Apr. 9, 11, 22, May 7, 9, 20, June 5, 7, 14, 18, July 3, 5, 16, Aug. 1, 3, 14, Sept. 1, 12, Oct. 6, 10, 29, Nov. 8, 27, Dec. 6, 25
Fatal attractions:Jan. 5, Feb. 3, Mar. 1, Aug. 21, 22, 23
Challenging:Jan. 4, 5, 14, Feb. 2, 3, 12, Mar. 1, 10, Apr. 8, 30, May 6, 28, June 4, 26, July 2, 24, Aug. 22, Sept. 20, Oct. 18, Nov. 16, Dec. 14
Soul mates:Jan. 2, Mar. 29, Apr. 27, May 25, June 23, July 21, Aug. 19, Sept. 17, Oct. 15, Nov. 13, Dec. 11
These people are often extraordinarily sensitive individuals, who never miss a detail, nuance or undertone of a situation. Their inherent powers of perception, combined with their soft hearts and their profoundly empathetic identification with the weak and defenseless, are rare qualities, but may often cause emotional complications for February 17 people. Indeed, as children they will often be deeply hurt by the careless words or actions of others, and their parents should recognize this propensity and support them with consistently kind and considerate behavior and reinforcement. As they mature, they will be forced to develop self-protective strategies and will mask their vulnerability with a veneer of toughness, but although they may often thus present a hardened image, their sensitivity will always remain an integral part of their natures.
Building a better world is of vital importance to those born on this day, and this desire to effect improvement may take a variety of forms, depending on the particular talents of the individual. Although they are not especially organized types, they will typ- ically devote their passions toward implementing national, social, physical or technical ideals in a charac- teristically determined manner. Because they are such firm believers in individual freedom, and, being free spirits, chafe at being subjected to the unimaginative regimes of others’ making, they will be unhappy (and possibly insecure) unless they are allowed to operate either independently or within an unstructured and enlightened framework.
