The first decan of Aquarius

What the first decan of Aquarius is like

Uranus governs this first stretch as it governs the whole sign, and Saturn, the old ruler, still keeps a hand on the keys. Inventive, principled and independent, you move to your own rhythm.

Uranus rules both Aquarius and this decan.

The Aquarius underneath

Aquarius season arrives in the depth of winter, when the light is growing back but spring is still only a rumour. You belong a little to the future. You have never been good at thinking what you were told to think, and your heart is big enough for strangers on the other side of the world. People are drawn to you most when you stop trying to fit in.

Birthdays in the first decan of Aquarius

These birthdays fall in the first decan in most years. On the days at either end, the year and your birth time can move you into the decan next door.

• January 20
• January 21
• January 22
• January 23
• January 24
• January 25
• January 26
• January 27
• January 28
• January 29
• January 30

The other decans of Aquarius

• The second decan of AquariusRuled by Mercury
• The third decan of AquariusRuled by Venus

How decans work

Each sign is thirty degrees of the zodiac, split into three decans of ten degrees, so the Sun spends about ten days in each. Hali uses the modern decan rulers, where each decan borrows the ruler of a sign of the same element. The older Chaldean system of Hellenistic astrology hands the decans to the seven classical planets in a fixed order instead, so some books name a different ruler.

Questions about the first decan of Aquarius