Positions
Descendant in Aquarius
Modern
With Aquarius on your Descendant you are drawn to partners who are independent, original, and friendship-first, the ones who treat you as an equal and give the bond room to breathe. You look across at someone fair and a little unconventional, often because that cool autonomy is what you want a partnership to honor. The shadow is keeping such a distance that intimacy never lands, attracting partners who will not commit, or projecting your own detachment, until closeness and freedom learn to live together.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
With Aquarius on the seventh cusp the partner is signified by Saturn in his diurnal house, with the moderns adding Uranus for its independence, and shows as a fair, original, and somewhat detached figure who prizes friendship and freedom within the bond. The native seeks a companion as much as a spouse and is well matched when the lord is dignified, but when afflicted the union turns aloof or erratic and the open enemy unpredictable. Read the lord of the seventh for both the friend and the foe.
- aquarius
- descendant
- independent partner
Sources
- Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), p. 300Reads the seventh for marriage and open foes; a Saturnine-airy cusp gives a friendly, independent, principled partner.
- Valens, Anthologies, Book IIAssigns marriage to the seventh place, judged by Saturn here in an airy sign for a fair but distant companion.
- Greene, Relating (1977)Reads the Descendant as projected freedom; an Aquarius seventh meets its own detachment in the chosen partner.