Sign profile
Aquarius
January 20 – February 18 · Air · Fixed · ruler Uranus
Saturn ruled Aquarius in the tradition, and modern astrology gives it Uranus; it is read for friends, groups and hopes.
What's in Aquarius
Pluto and North Node (retrograde) are in Aquarius right now.
Every planet's sign todayAquarius season, to the day
Aquarius season next runs 20 January to 19 February. Those are real crossings, computed from the Swiss Ephemeris—the almanac's “January 20 – February 18” is a rounded average, and it is a day out most years.
What touches Aquarius in November 2026
Every planet movement this month that touches Aquarius, and the part of life it falls in for an Aquarius.
- tenseNew Moon in Scorpio on the 9th—tense for career and standing.square · 10th house
- tenseMercury turns forward again in Scorpio on the 14th—tense for career and standing.square · 10th house
- supportiveVenus turns forward again in Libra on the 14th—supportive for travel and study.trine · 9th house
- supportiveThe Sun moves into Sagittarius on the 22nd—supportive for friends and hopes.sextile · 11th house
- supportiveFull Moon in Gemini on the 24th—supportive for play and romance.trine · 5th house
What a sign gives our astrology engine—and what it doesn't
What the tradition gives Aquarius: Saturn as its ruler (Uranus in modern astrology), air as its element, and planets that are stronger or weaker in it. What it can’t give: your days—those depend on your whole chart.
How the rulebook reads Aquarius
Uranus rules Aquarius in modern practice, and it is one of the planets our rulebook deliberately leaves out of its dignity tables: the classical scheme gives Uranus no sign to rule, so its condition never scales a score. Saturn, Aquarius’s traditional ruler, does—a transiting Saturn moving through Aquarius is in its own sign, and our astrology engine counts that contact for more than the same aspect from a Saturn with no dignity.
In Aquarius, Saturn is in domicile; the Sun is in detriment, and no planet falls here. Those conditions are the whole of what a sign does to a transiting body in our rulebook—the same dignity table the scoring reads, which is why a transit from a planet in its own sign counts for more than the identical angle from one with nothing here.
Right now Aquarius’ ruler, Uranus, is in Gemini, retrograde—and being an outer planet it has no dignity in any sign, which is why the rulebook never scales it.
The other thing a sign gives our astrology engine is geometry. Every transit stands in a whole-sign relation to Aquarius—conjunct, sextile, square, trine or opposite—and that relation is fixed by the sign alone, so it is computable without knowing anything else about you. The dated lines above are exactly that, and exactly its limit.
Aquarius is an air sign, with Gemini and Libra. That is a fact about the sign and not about the scoring: our rulebook has no element term in it at all. The dated list above is computed for Aquarius alone, and it comes out different for Gemini and Libra—same element, different geometry.
“Aquarius, today the universe is on your side.”
Right now the sky holds what it holds—and whether any of it is “on your side” depends on your own birth chart, not on your being Aquarius. Here is what is actually in the sign, and what touches it this month.
Kalendom is the precise and honest horoscope: it reads your natal chart against the real sky and turns months like this into your exact dates.
What the chart doesn't tell you
Sun-sign astrology is the entry point—it's also the least specific bit. Two Aquarius born a few hours apart in the same city can have very different days: the rising sign changes about every two hours, and it decides which part of life each planet touches. That is where the mainstream horoscope stops and we keep going.
That's why the calculator asks for your birth time. With it, our astrology engine knows which part of your life each planet is moving through—so a Mars day means something concrete for you, not a generic Aquarius blurb.
Your sign is a starting point, not a calendar
Everything above is what the tradition says about Aquarius in general. None of it can tell you when—two people born three weeks apart are both Aquarius and share almost none of the same strong days. Timing comes from a whole chart meeting a moving sky, so here is one being scored against three real months of it.
We build your natal chart with the Swiss Ephemeris, place it in Placidus houses, then score each day by how the transiting planets aspect your chart—per life area, 0 to 100, with the exact reason. It is astronomy applied to your birth chart, not numerology.
The rulebook encodes that tradition whole—four centuries of transit doctrine, written down as rules you can read, not a model that guessed. Read the methodology.
- Swiss Ephemeris precision
- Your exact birth time and place
- Past dates free to test
Your chart and any past day are free. Unlocking the year ahead is what shows you your own dates—the ones no Aquarius page can print.
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This page describes a typical Aquarius chart—the average, not you. Your own dates will differ, sometimes by weeks. Compute your real chart to see them. Or test a past date first.