Also Ganu "taking pleasure" and med "mind," so...taking pleasure in the mind...or God love his mind...I saw that while refreshing on his myth this morning!

My mom and dad are Aquarian Suns, and myself being Aquarian Moon, this talk is brilliant and I highly appreciate it !!! I feel different and alien / detached most of the time

Nina Simone is a very good example for Aquarius. Aquarius rising with Saturn and Venus in the 1st. Her titles are: Doctor of Human Rights and Doctor of Music! She says that she sings and plays so she can move the audience and make them conscious of what has been done to "her people" all around the world. Her music style is an unique mix between Black American Traditional music as blues, gospel and jazz, and Classical European music. Two traditions coming together to create a very unorthodox personal style for expressing awareness, freedom, liberation. That's very Saturn in Aquarius!!! She was a preachers' daughter and a child prodigy. Her biggest dream was to be a concert classical pianist, which was unheard of for a black woman during her time, so she was never accepted in the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, which crushed her dream. Her family always supported her and they even moved to Philadelphia so she can study. So after not getting into the school she started playing in bars and occasionally singing, so she can help her parents with money.

Always had a tough time understanding Aquarius ♒️. This was awesome

It’s worth noting Ganymede is one of if not the largest, moon of Jupiter ......this is one of my favorite myths. Ganymede was a prince of Troy and was taken off the city walls..

Aquarius moon here. Explains why I have always felt like an outsider and I quite like it!😊

It’s encouraging to hear the relationship of seasons with astrology and the Yin-Yang interplay. I have been increasing Yang xu, in lieu of prolonged Yin shi, for so long, that my adrenals and nervous system took a serious beating. I’ve spent several hours, daily for a year now, meditating on building that Yang energy back. Especially in lower dan tien, and about a week ago I started feeling that Yang energy finally return! How exciting to hear how you relate it all to the astrology (and mythology) worlds.

Also, the Pagan holiday Imbolc is Feb. 1, the quickening, first stirring of Spring ...yang rising ..

Acyuta my dad was an Aquarius also, wasn't fun at all & I wish I knew the rest of his chart, because he was so much on the outskirts that it made him bitter, we couldn't even watch a simple comedy on television, he was at odds with so much eventually a person is putting themselves at odds with life itself, which is a no win, it's a form of death while living So I take heed to your warning of our ego priding itself on being at odds even if we think it's in favor of progression. I notice young liberal folks I'm around in this college town get so fired up, they continue to fight even when a truce is being offered in many ways, which reinforces the very separatism that in the 60's we fought to overcome, I suppose our ego weaves its web however subtle. Thanks as always . Blessings Acyuta.

Thank you so much for your great informative story telling! I believe Aquarius is the energy bearer. As an illustrator I studied Aquarius, along with all the zodiac signs. Uranus being the ruling planet of Aquarius, speaks to the nervous system and energy, my understanding is Uranus is a higher octave of Mercury. Makes more sense then being a water bearer. I really enjoy your videos!

Phonetically it would be: ganeemeed. In other words, your first impression was right 🙏🌎🌎

In vedic astrology I'm an aquarius sun (in western venus & mercury). And I've made myself an outcast for the majority of my life. I rebelled against the status quo in so many ways. But now I'm starting to embrace it more and I'm seeing where 'shallow' things serve me and make me feel like an accepted part of the collective.

It was such an eye-opener to learn the meaning of the Water-Bearer. (whatever his name is - lol) It is somewhat comforting now, to understand the path I have taken so many times. Thanks so much, Acyuta!

Aqua sun and venus here with 5 planets cap in house 1. The best way for me to express my Aquarian experience here is through some poetry: I come from the ether, from a past-future paradigm intertwined with ancient memory hotlines, 10000 times my heart was hit, instability made me split, 10000 shattered shards all me reflecting lost soul parts of my Self and the Other 13 archetypes of rhythmic sight, Earth out of sync with its own rebirth, deviated in too much looking at it’s own worth, my mother number death death 1 gave me the world’s suffering, endless abyss of torturous plummeting karma of all lifetimes in a battering ram restructuring untangling links of perception between separation on every wavelength, feeling the universe vibrations feeling every sensation of the 7 wavelengths of frequency out of synchronicity, electrocuted cos I couldn’t ground my roots, heart attack reboots attempting different pathways guided by a star phase navigation system traveller remembering the way back to now, uniting the root and the crown to beam the white light through a rainbow flash flight projected from the Galactic center mainstation the infinite star born nerve center resonation Beam Refractor: Be an unconditonal love accepting attractor, an all encompassing unidirectional beam refractor, absorbing conciousness rays creating a sunshine beam better daze I know the way out of the maze 100000 times over I walked the ways tracing the spiral karmic compassion condense cycle empath machinery regulator I’m not the perpetrator, but a mass emulator reminding of the Self one root road map blueprint found the inner shortcut code to now new open source heart restart recreating constantly riding the wave crest they say.. ‘dont blame me for my actions im subject to deal eb and flow of change and fear with foresight’ anxious awareness trusting the other to know the way..the path of suffering as an external rebirth yet unexplored NOW is unexpected, NOW is where separation lies try asking your Self upper lower feedback loop sky ground connection unifying intergalactic crack sealant team and make just one line, temperance line of pain minimally reduced to inwards looking bedroom manifesto of pure intention, legislation chill da fuck out, condense to central point no aggro the future is past, look at it vertically, observe at a distance with no resistance, preserve INNER peace on a truth loop, yin Yang polar oscillator program striving for a perfection fueled hologram desire wave of simplicity of interest connected in synchronicity I TOOK YOUR SHADOWS!!.. passionate about a reflection an expression of love and trust based intution seek and FLY galactic sunshine projector and reflect light back to the equator i had dreams of a perfect light refractor, a balanced unified attractor expressing e-motions to promote a reactive visibility waypoint capture out of the shadows spaceflight zero karma Mayan 9th waveform factor

I love your meditative videos! There is so much food for thought in here.

This was a very good explanation. Thank You! I have the Sun, Venus, Mercury and MC in Aquarius, and I do feel that dichotomy that you mention; the feeling of being outcast and then start longing for being back to earth with my herd. Then get bored of that after a while and go back to the solitude of my abstract world. Another feeling that I have live with all my life, and I think you describe very well in relationship to Saturn, has being the idea of being in the border between two words or demarcations. These, applied to different things thru my life. Like social groups, geographic borders, social classes borders, religious borders, consciousnesses borders, etc.

I enjoyed that the room and mic was blue visually as you impressively opened our soul eyes to very useful information about the current Aquarius season. Thank you. Great job and really resonated with your welcoming demeanor as well.,

“‘From Greek Γανυμηδης (Ganymedes), which was possibly derived from γανυμαι (ganymai) meaning "to be glad" and μηδομαι (medomai) meaning ‘to think, to plan.’" You can find English and Greek pronunciations on Google translate. I like the Greek. 🙂 However, I've heard that no one really knows how ancient Greek was pronounced, as it was a tonal language, like Chinese. Some suggest the name contains a double meaning. www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Ganymedes.html

"What is unique, breaks." - Friedrich Holderlin

This was amazing. Best description of Aquarius I’ve ever heard. As an Aquarius descendent with Jupiter exalted/retrograde in my 11th house this was highly illuminating for me. Thank you!! Love your work

I can't tell you how much I loved this! Specifically, the bit regarding attention to thinking that "progress" is/or must be progressive! Something to consider. I've had many powerful dreams where I traveled in the "higher realms". I was initially astonished because, without exception, they seemed technologically "behind" our modern world. In some cases, just a few decades while in other, it was centuries or millennia. Eventually, I was shown that the higher up one ascends one's power increasingly comes from within thus the need for technolological "crutches" became increasingly irrelevant. And, as such, the various "higher realms" became increasingly more archetypical. The world I personally seemed drawn to most was a hybrid of something out of Lord of The Rings and our modern world circa 2009 or thereabouts. 🙏🙏🌎🌎🌎

Thank you Acyuta, this was insightful. I had an important reading today, who has the SP Sun in Aquarius on her Ascendant, while she is finishing the transit of her Uranus opposition. A time of significant changes and discerning direction as she is opening to higher awareness and soul. I'm sharing your video with her in my follow-up as I think it adds more depth to what we discussed today. Interesting that you also just posted Mars in Sagittarius video too, which she has at the top of her chart (and is the Lord of the Year for her annual profection throughout 2020), as a Sag Sun, the Jupiter and Mars detail you shared in that video too was just so aligned with the conversations I had today. Interesting synchronicity in receiving both videos together. Thanks!

I've beern so uncomfortable in this life for so many years. I am Aqua and feel it strongly, always have. I had some great times in the 60s and 70s but mostly have felt unaccepted. I am SO gratifies by this new awakening and these planets, except Capricorn has been a pain in the ass!

Aquarius Sun opposite Pluto/Jupiter/ASC conjunct in Leo. As a child, I taught myself how to make being an outsider fun by choosing my own goals and structuring my own approaches to achieving them. Here's an adult example: In '04, I became a subversive soccer mom when I began subbing at 3 area high schools. My anger at our conservative community over their support for the Iraqi invasion led me to a personal mission: I would fly under the radar and dispense subversive free thinking TO THEIR CHILDREN. My goal was to have kids walk out the door of any classroom thinking about something they had never considered before. Many adventures ensued. I once did 10 minutes on the philosophy of Courage the Cowardly Dog. Met some great kids. So there it is: highly intentional, covert behavior specifically designed to highlight cultural subtext. And it actually worked. Well, sometimes.

I have my Sun at 0 degrees 48 Pisces conjunct mercury in Aquarius with Venus in Aquarius. I always feel like I dont belong and am constantly trying to fit in. My mother told me that she thought I was a changeling, that the fae took her baby and left me.

GAN-ih-meed YES! Thanks for this great talk, as usual!

Useful into on Aquarius!

Thank you!

28:10 there is something very exhausting about being special and different all the time. On the other hand clinging too closely to the status quo and being afraid of anyting new or different because we dont want to be not liked is a problem as well. Thanks a ton for this. I have been swinging between both sides for a while. Have my north node in aquarius.

Nina was everything... EVERYTHING waaaaay before her time. She was also bipolar way before they had a proper diagnosis for it. Tragic of course. Much more respected in Europe than here.

Moon in Aquarius, definitely relate to the alienated feelings, stuck in the middle of paradox. Also Saturn in the first house in Virgo.

Hey man, fantastic illustration thank you..! So its pronounced Ganeemèdes ( and still it doesn't really sound like Greek because a couple of the original consonants don't exist in the English alphabet ) I'm an Aqua rising by the way, w/ Sun, Venus & Mercury in Gemini. I resonated so much with everything you said ...!!!

As an Aquarius sun and rising I never quite feel part of anything. Even when others see me as part of a group or situation I always feel on the outside looking in! Saturn in quite dominant in my chart but I learning to embrace it.

Sun conjunct Uranus here...thanks for this interpretation.

Not gonna lie now I am happy about my Aquarius sun with 13 aspects to other chart points and NN has 12 aspects and Mercury has 12 aspects in Aquarius . 😮Stuck between realms. Explains why I have never fit in emotionally or spiritually . The strange one since I was little . 😂I am 51 and just now good with that . Very mis understood . Love to learn more about Janice ❤

The below comments here are wonderful, informative and supportive. Thank you all.

Aquarius moon agreed🌻

I had the best Birthday present yesterday, I found out that I share a birthday with Dogen and Hakuin. Feeling so much redemption. 😍😍 being on the day before aquarius with, moon, ascendant, mercury and Jupiter in the First house of aquarius, can truly make you feel that your on the wrong layer of this multi-verse. Not necessarily because of the vibration of Gaia but because of the seated point of perception of self in our fellow humans. 😀😀 requires lots of humility and 2 to 3 hours of sitting in awareness on awareness meditation , hahahaha one day at a time

Thank you for the videos, so interesting, and funny with your sense of humour. Any problems with this guy's name pronunciation lol? I would say GA-NI-MADE (pronounce like 'made' but shorter) :)

I’ve always heard it pronounced like ganny meade (thinking of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, I believe?)

There are no ancient Greek vocal sound recordings, so no one can really say you're saying Ganimedes wrong ;) Love from someone with a sun and saturn Aquarius.

Acyuta-Bhava! In Greek we call him Ganimidis pronouncing the G like the french pronounce their R (the G must be soft). Τhe tone is in the ή - Γανυμήδης (your Greek student)

Marina on darkstar mentioned on first decanate some things I related to. She said that sign is breaking the umbilical cord. Leaving home country in search of the idyllic and never finding a place they feel they belong. Although I have moon 11 mc 6 and have that theme of not belonging I felt that it represented my political Norweigian ancestry and father who found solace in such people born in revolutionary first decanate like Lenin and John Lennon. So I felt more rooted and compassionate realizing a destiny they little realized was driving them. Even my present day female friend calls herself Revy on her car plates having mars three degrees and how close to my moon which may be that umbilical cord. It at times just gets more interesting in its unfolding. Nemeste

the Greek name is " Γανuμηδης " n we pronounce it "Yanimidis" thank you for the report Adam

Aquarius are genius

I think you pronounced Ganymede right at about 20:53 :P

oh boy oh boy being an aquarius is quite the blessing and the curse. Tuned into extraterrestrial frequencies 24/7. Abstract thinking patterns. Aha moments from total confusion which make you want to spiral into more confusing narratives in order to gain MORE clarity. Obsession with thoughts and having to ground yourself 24/7 to not go off the deep end. Its all in a days work. Aqua stellium here Sun, rising, venus, mercury, jupiter and uranus.

You are pronouncing Ganimeads (Spelling ?) name correctly

'y' = short 'i'

I love your stories and especially this one . My Chiron is in house 5 in Aquarius and resembles your words . The misfit , scapegoat , the problem child . I've always felt I never belong and family dinamics , over showed over looked . Jupiter and Saturn in my house 4 natal Capricorn the last few years have been and still a working progress . Through astrology and study this has given me the insight and motivation to evolve . House eleven is my natal Uranus attracted to different types groups and energy . For all life's problems misfortune and oddity , I embrace the very essence of self celebrate worth intergrate with groups ....

Ganimidis, G as y in yes, d as th in this, the tone is at mi.

Forgive me Acuyta: 1} I addressed you as Adam. 2} it's GAN E MEDE. We should not overwork to pronounce Greek words.

Aqua stellium and I definitely identify with the unique rebel, and I think the yang return from out of the yin is so prevalent in the nature of aquarian energy; I am inclined to notice and even seek out that thing within the soul of a person where I see a need for action and change, and will be the first person to speak it directly to them. Which I honestly feel like is a kind of hidden service I subconsciously give to people. It’s just a natural unraveling, I need to figure them out and help them if they seem burdened, like I draw the light out of them for no particular reason

My mum Aquarius Saturn so much like Capricorn so rigid and reserved January born,me Uranus ruled to the truth,Feb born Aquarius exact opposite to Saturn ruled Aquarius ,we are so opposite Even though both aquarians.Uranus Aquarian are very rebel independent can't stand being bossed but very alert forward thinking sees things other people don't ever see.mum Saturn ruled Aquarius very much like Capricorn boring and tedious always good goody 2 shoes.

Here's an audio recording from wiki which gives one pronunciation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:02-Zeus_and_Ganymede_2qual.ogg

Mike Bloomberg has a stellium in Aquarius, which I thought would mean he cares about implementing humanitarian policies. However, Politico has an interesting opinion piece entitled”Mike Bloomberg likes to watch”. that talks about how he has used surveillance technology to monitor NYC, and likely plans to roll that out nationally. I suppose there might be “good” in that somewhere but I find it super creepy. Interesting Aquarius twist though.

I am asking because of myself not knowing, where did the planet names come from ?? Gods yes, but this is this enough ? probably could google it , but the question came up while listening to you pronounce names..?? I once asked the minister who is God,, his answer was not enough and thought him unknowledgeble in his field, and started asking the skies,,I waa a child, and began to think that humans really didn't have the answers i needed and began to ask the universe for answers no one else seem to know.. hagd.

Aqua sun/ Taurus moon 🤦🏻‍♀️

I always have thought Jeff Goldblum's "crazy mad eccentric scientist" in Cronenberg's 80's remake of The Fly was a great archetype portrayal of the socially inept and aloof Aquarian outsider loner and Aquarian surreal way out there type of Water Bearer genius........ "Gaenimi-d" is the pronunciation, in some tellings Ganymede is a young shepherd boy, in others he was a young Trojan squire, young Trojan recruit/young Trojan warrior in study..............and now, for laughs...an example of the Neptune In Pisces effect and delusional news from the Truthful Fabrications channel I watch in my mind, and that is this very "Neptune in Pisces non-fact of fact" that the Japanese film director Noriaki Yuasa in the 1965 film Gamera, The Giant Monster shortened Ganymede's name to Gamera, which is easier to pronounce, and turned Ganymede into Gamera, a monster fighting giant flying turtle, who like would hang out in water too, was a loner, and outsider, so a water bearer in a way.. kinda....ahem...I can't help it..Im a Sag with a Libra ascendant so I see a joke in everything..so if you want, just say Gamera like I do when speaking of Ganymede...

He is called Ganymed, Greek mythology....to speak ganimed.

Obama is an Aquarius rising !

Don't agree about Trump. People don't like him just because. There are legitimate reasons for the dislike. Our democracy imperfect as it is, is in danger of taking a turn we may never recover from. One is the truth the other is freedom of information.

Ganymede + Ganny-Meed. simple :-D