Aquarius (zodiac sign)
The zodiac sign Aquarius ( Greek Ὑδροχόος Hydrochóos "water pourer "; Latin Aquārius ) corresponds to the eleventh section of the zodiac from 300 ° to 330 ° ecliptical longitude from the spring equinox .
The sun is located in this sign on average between January 21 and February 18 . Due to the migration of the spring equinox , the zodiac sign Aquarius no longer corresponds to the constellation Aquarius . In the constellation Aquarius, the sun is roughly between February 16 and March 12.
After the Tetrabiblos by Claudius Ptolemy
- Aquarius is male (I.12) and
- Historically, Saturn is , according to current opinion, Uranus is the ruler of the sign (I.17).
As a Melothesian equivalent, the lower legs were assigned to Aquarius in ancient Iatroastrology . The assigned deity was Juno .
Aquarius forms the trine of the element air with Gemini and Libra , and with Taurus , Leo and Scorpio the square of the four fixed signs.
The sign was already part of the Babylonian zodiac. It appears on the MUL.APIN boards as "Fischmensch" (GU.LA).
The symbol has been depicted since ancient times as a man who pours water from a jug that he often carries on his shoulder. Aquarius is only shown as a merman in more modern depictions . The astrological symbol simply shows two wavy lines.
The Unicode character for the symbol is U + 2652 (♒).
literature
- Wolfgang Huebner: Zodiac. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01470-3 , Sp. 553-563.
