Aquarius as a friend

Aquarians are really far better at friendship than anything else, if you discount disruption! If they are very clever, they will make their friend their lover too.

Aquarius is a Fixed sign so, like Taureans, Leos and Scorpios, Water Carriers are endowed with more than average amounts of faithfulness and loyalty and will stand by you through thick and thin.

They enjoy their friends and can use their incredible intuition to check out a chum’s character. They are great levellers, so can be a princess with a plumber for a pal, and neither of them will notice any social differences at all.

Like their fellow Air signs, Gemini and Libra, Aquarians like their friends to be intellectual and intelligent, and they want them to enjoy doing the things they do. However, they don’t like their chums to be too clever and compete with them, because they want to be in the driving seat in their relationships, telling their friends what to do. They can be a bit bossy, which is a trait you can trace from their polarity with Leo.

Be careful with your Aquarian acquaintances. Uranus, with its desire for disruption and revolution, can make its Aquarian subject suddenly sever a seventeen-year social solidarity with a sidekick overnight. They can rumba away from a friend, as well as a lover, with hardly a backward glance, if they feel strongly enough about it.

Aquarians can be very adventurous and will often do things you wouldn’t normally expect people of their age group to do, such as going to a musical instead of a rock concert at the age of fourteen and taking up hang-gliding when they’re eighty.

Water Carriers can be driven by desires and cravings, and sometimes these take an unlikely turn. You can be sitting with an Aquarian pal, who says he or she wants to spend the day quietly at home, reading. You say OK and scuttle off to make a sandwich. Ten minutes later, your Aquarian chum will be standing in the doorway, wearing their hat and coat, and a scarf knitted from cat fur, with matching mittens and asking you if you’re ready yet. They’ve decided to take a day trip to Doncaster. A quiet day with an Aquarian can often turn out to be quite nerve-racking! But whatever else they are, you have to admit, with a forced smile, if necessary, that they are never boring. Tiring at times, but not tedious.

Their Fixed quality can come to the fore, and they will stick to a viewpoint like chewing gum to your best frock. If you let them go on in their own sweet way, their current obsession will die a natural death, but if you try to chivvy them along and utter inanities such as ‘Snap out of it’, they will become more firmly entrenched in their views than ever. They will be determined to be proved right even if they drop down dead in the process.

Aquarians like mates of both sexes: they really don’t mind whether their best pal is a woman, a man, or a bit of both. They just need their mates to be tolerant of them and allow them to do what they want. A friendship between two Uranian Aquarians would be a disaster, but a pairing between a Saturn Aquarian and a Uranus Water Carrier would be brilliant, as their relationship would be well balanced.

like everything else about them, the zany Aquarian sense of humour can be directed at the weirdest things. Unlike Taureans, who love knock-about slapstick comedy, Aquarians appreciate subtlety or sarcasm with their sniggers, and will love comics like Woody Alien and John Cleese. They adore dry humour and send-ups of authority and red tape will have them rolling in the aisles.

So, if you want-to jolly along your Aquarian mate, take them to a funny film, buy them some popcorn, and help them laugh their troubles away.