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Aquarius (Kumbha) rashi
Aquarius is read as the sign of the group and of the unconventional.
- Sanskrit
- Kumbha (कुंभ)
- Symbol
- the Water-bearer
- Element
- Air
- Mode
- Fixed
- Ruler
- Saturn
- Sidereal span
- 300° to 330° of the zodiac
- Stars inside
- Dhanishta, Shatabhisha, Purva Bhadrapada
- Position in the order
- Sign 11 of 12
It is associated with ideals, friendships, science and independence of mind, and with a certain detachment from personal feeling.
Aquarius is ruled by Saturn. In a birth chart, the sign tells you where a planet sits, and the lord of the sign shows where that planet's influence travels. See the page on the lagna for how a sign becomes a house.
Air and fixed
Air signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) are read as mental and social. They are the signs of ideas, exchange and relationships, and the texts link them with fairness and quick thinking, and with a tendency to stay in the head.
Fixed signs (sthira) hold things steady. They fall in the middle of each season and are read as persistent, loyal and slow to change.
Saturn also rules Capricorn, so the two signs share a lord in a chart. Saturn is exalted in Libra (20°) and debilitated in Aries (20°).
See it in your own chart
The terms on this page appear in every birth chart report, explained for your own planets and dates.