posted December 11, 2003 01:22 PM
And from a wonderful soul Daf introduced me to : Professor A.W. Seward .It is the Aquarius definition, but you can see from it how Uranus plays into the equasion and why I believe you have a close placement. Notice the reference to Jupiter you ol` insightful soul you!! AQUARIUS
(The Water Man.)
January 20 to February 19.
When the sun enters this sign it was the height of the rainy season in many ancient countries. Consequently we find the legends of Aquarius often associated with water and tempest.
Among all the ancients, that portion of the sky occupied by the Water Bearer was imagined to contain a great celestial sea.
In the Greed Myths, Aquarius was the symbol of Ganymede, a beautiful shepherd youth whom Jupiter made cupbearer of the Gods.
Early Christians used this sign as a symbol of John the Baptist.
It is a masculine sign and fortunate. The amethyst is the natal gem and the primrose the flower.
Saturn and Uranus are the ruling planets of this sign Aquarius. The influence of the former over the people of this sign is shown in the gift of caution, prudence, economics and financial ability. While the letter is responsible for their intense nervous development, making them erratic, changeable and often unreliable, yet it imparts quickness.
They are seldom of short stature, always being robust and healthy in appearance. They have a pleasing, hypnotic eye, which is most fascinating and bewitching, it being so accurate, and their judgment so keen, that it enables them to become splendid judges of human nature. The expression of the face is generally that of an inquiring one.
Birth in this sign indicates a noble and progressive nature, and a quick, receptive mind. As a rule they have an excellent memory, but can always remember a face better than a name.
They seldom assume leadership. It is only their inherent dignity (which they never forget) and excellent reasoning faculties that impel them to push their reforms and purposes in a quiet but persistent and logical manner, reaching their fellowmen, and stirring their impulses, by the pen rather than by speech.
Aquarius people are always agreeable and courteous, rarely passionate or quick-tempered, but preferring and practicing calmness and peacefulness.
They are the personification of dignity and are never found mixed up in vulgar brawls and dissensions.
They are very intuitive, unusually clear reasoners and remarkably fine judges of character, especially where matters of honor or dishonor are involved. Their minds are very active in planning for and promoting the good of all the people - the general public.
They are invariably faithful to their duties and to trust reposed in them in whatever sphere they may be called to occupy.
Being brilliant conversationalists, these people have the faculty of explaining a subject so that it is most easily comprehended by others. Their arguments, too, are most convincing and go straight to the heart of their subjects. They seem to enter into a conversation with a sympathetic understanding of the feelings and views of others, even if they differ in opinion. They impress one as having more than ordinary intelligence; can readily and tactfully adapt themselves to circumstances and emergencies, being always sure to see the amusing side of things.
Aquarius people are possessed of a strange hypnotic power, which enables them to exercise a startling and mysterious influence and control over others.
Highly developed and benevolently employed, this power may be the means of bringing peace and calmness to nervous, excitable persons when all else fails. Some of the greatest spiritual healers the world ever knew came from this sign, and, as a matter of fact, every one born thereunder is a natural healer, although very few of them are aware of it. These people have the gift of the spirit, and, should they choose to recognize and employ it they are indeed very wonderful.
The Aquarius mind is very active and inquisitive - not mischievously so, but as a means of acquiring knowledge of every sort, from every available source.
People of calm, patient, cheerful dispositions make the most helpful associates for Aquarius persons; their influence tending to relieve the nervous tension and strain which is so marked in people of this sign.
They are moody and inclined toward gloom; the turmoil of life about them breeding a melancholy fondness for the solitary places of earth. They are attracted to lonely lakes and glens, to historic ruins and places of that character.
The depth if their natures precludes much surface indication of what may be passing within them.
The people born in this sign discover in others unsuspected stores of good, which they bring to fuller realization by imparting self-confidence and ambition to accomplish better things than may have seemed possible.
Naturally they are oftentimes cruelly disappointed by those who have profited by their generosity, and who are utterly unable to appreciate true worth, nobility and unselfish greatness.
Yet these disappointments seldom provoke either bitterness or complaint from the Aquarius person. They merely retire more closely into their own consciousness and understanding, finding adequate consolation and comfort there.
When these people realize their higher nature and strive to live in the eternal, they are very honest, gentle, kindhearted, active and industrious.
To accomplish anything, they must first be convinced that the course they have embarked upon is the right one, and once they have persuaded themselves that such is the case, no adverse reasoning or arguments can alter their views or plans. When their energy and ambition are thoroughly aroused, they display astonishing strength of purpose. They usually throw themselves deeply into whatever claims their attention, however, temporarily.
With many there is a tendency to suppress their imaginative power and disregard their intuition. Conventionality means very little to these people, who are often very radical in their opinions and ideas, caring little or nothing for precedent or custom. Because a thing has never been done, or has always been done a certain way, is, to Aquarius people, no reason that it should not be done, or dine in a different way. No matter what channel their minds may run: are, religion, politics, sports or science, they are liable to be fanatical and radical.
Aquarius people will do well to employ their minds in metaphysical research, and in the study of the occult sciences.
Knowledge not alone of their strength, but also of their weaknesses is of vital importance.
The most prominent faults and weaknesses of this sign are indolence, proclivity to disregard promises, vacillation, caprice, uncertainty, lack of hope, procrastination.
All these things are evidences that the person is permitting the evil tendencies of the Aquarian nature to dominate and many of the faults enumerated are but different manifestations of the same tendency.
Unawakened people of this sign are continually seeking advice on all sorts of subjects, but never accepting or acting upon it, however good.
They ask questions with apparent desire for enlightenment, but straightway forget the answers.
These people should lose not a moment in beginning to develop their rare gifts and natural powers. The first step must be to overcome and destroy every tendency toward indolence and procrastination, - to the self-reliant and independent in the true sense. Lacking self-confidence and initiative, they are apt to get into a rut unless they associate with, and are influenced by the people of more adventurous disposition.
Many wonderful possibilities are Nature’s gifts to all Aquarius people, but it often requires a strong incentive to induce them to grasp their advantages and opportunities. They dream of magnificent achievements, but find the dreaming much easier than the accomplishment. Their minds paint many a picture that their hands do not transfer to canvas, or plan many a castle that may never reach completion.
Most of all, they need to strengthen their characters by the cultivation or firmness and constancy in all matters. They must learn to believe in themselves, and in their indisputable powers of achievement.
While exceedingly loyal to their friends, yet there is a tendency for them to be careless in keeping their appointments, in short, they are somewhat of a promise-breaker.
They must be optimistic, and seek for the good that is in all things, turning away from the darker side of life. They should not concern themselves about the frailties and faults of others, nor permit themselves to become unkind critics.
Punctuality and promptness, also, must be learned and practiced unremittingly.
Good counsel is lost upon them if its acceptance requires any effort on their own part, and these weaknesses, all of which disappear before a determined will to succeed, often terminate in disaster.
Another defect, easily remedied, is that the Aquarius people frequently indulge too freely in conservation about their own affairs. Their love of seeming to be of great consequence in the world leads to this fault, as well as to others.
People of this sign who have not disciplined their lower natures as to secure the domination of the higher, who are existing on the lower planes of life, are usually boastful braggarts, loud and careless of speech, swaggering in demeanor, and a source of disgust to every one of any refinement.
Popularity is very pleasing to the people of this sign. They like to be in the public eye, to mingle with the throng, to be known as the friends and acquaintances of prominent personages. Sometimes this tendency leads them to exaggerate their own importance and to boast of their distinguished friends or connections. If they cannot shine by their own light, they are willing to shine by reflected light.
When the higher nature is awakened in the Aquarius born, and they are aroused to work for righteousness, improvement is rapid, and the encouragement that enters their soul carries them on to blessedness undreamed of before.
Many of the world’s most eminent and useful people have been born under this sign, and to them it is given to make their lives a blessing to themselves and to their fellow-beings, or to permit them to be miserable failures, falling far short of their wondrous possibilities for true greatness.
juniperb 
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If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot
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posted December 09, 2003 05:40 PM
posted December 09, 2003 05:55 PM
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posted December 09, 2003 08:41 PM
(Especially since I have yet to feel insulted by anything that anyone has said to me here..and trust me, I know from insults...just ask phebe 
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Daf, I`ve been married to a Cancer for nine years mys-elf..... All that emotion still has me baffled 
posted December 10, 2003 06:10 PM
posted December 11, 2003 12:54 PM
later.
