Word origin · etymology
Latin constellation and sign name.
Aquarius means water-carrier or water-bearer, naming the depicted figure.
How we know · epistemology
Zodiac convention with traditional symbolism
Aquarius occupies the eleventh equal sector and is traditionally fixed air, despite its water-bearer imagery. That classification is symbolic; it does not establish a person's originality or locate the separate and disputed boundaries of an astrological age.
Deborah Houlding: absolute zodiac longitude ↗Ptolemy: Tetrabiblos I.4–24, Robbins translation ↗Astrodienst: The four Elements and the Signs (practitioner account) ↗
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