Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Gay Astrology - Aquarius

Aquarius

Loving your Aquarius
You could not call him shy, so why is he not picking up on your obvious interest in him?
Aquarius more than holds his own in a discussion of the upcoming election or String Theory. However, when you corner him for more intimate conversation, he becomes evasive. His impersonal charm evaporates when the contact becomes personal. The Aquarius über-dork will stare a hole through you at the bar, but will not ask for a date when you introduce yourself.
Aquarius lives in a clear-cut world of mixed signals. He gets them from others and he puts them out himself. The subtle, unexplainable rules that we use every day to dressed appropriately, eat right, know who to come on to, etc., are for him a confusing mishmash of mystical nonsense. That is why this sign has the worst gaydar. You could be dressed like Liza Minnelli, ordering drinks from a bare-chested bartender in a night spot called The Cock, and he will still have to ask some mutual acquaintance if you might be gay.
His oblique semi-come-ons are an attempt to play the game right without embarrassing himself. When he finally realizes that you have been trying to encourage his advances, Aquarius will pounce on you like a horny teenager.

Attracting an Aquarius
You are going to have to work to get this guy.
Though he wants to be cool, rational one, Mr. Waterboy is a self-contradicting, unpredictable, erratic, eccentric freak of nature. This makes hard to define just who the real Mr. Waterboy is. His words and his actions seem to come from two separate personalities. His inconsistency is the only constant about him, yet he thinks he is the one stable man in a world of Lucy Ricardos.
Aquarius views emotion as quicksand that will sink anyone bestial enough to indulge in it. Passionate men are walking vats of quicksand seeking to lure Mr. Waterboy to his demise. Still the cool Aquarius wants the heat that such men bring into his life.
Somewhere in his head Aquarius has a Platonic ideal of what a good relationship is that bears no resemblance to actual human life. However, this ideal is more real to him than the raw desire that overcomes him when he finds love. So it will take more than simple attraction to hook him. His ideal relationship is largely mental bonding, so you need to let him see the measure of your mind. Aquarius is drawn most strongly to men who give him a fresh perspective.
Conventional wisdom says that if two men are friends, they cannot become lovers. This does not apply to Aquarius. He does not see much difference between being a friend or a lover, so one will not preclude the other.
Because he feels that no individual relationship can possibly stack up against the fate of society and the world, Aquarius equates romantic love with outrageous egomania. Sentimentality and clinginess on your part will only confirm this view, sending him flying. Aquarius is not a boyfriend for the easily embarrassed or the touchy.

Breaking up
Mr. Waterboy sincerely believes that any conflict can be resolved by discussing it. Yet when he has reached his breaking point, Aquarius leaves without a word.
Aquarius stays faithful more because it is easy than because it is right. Falling in love is not something he does often, but when he does it rocks his foundations. If he falls for another while with you, even if there is no cheating, he will resent you until he gets over it. Still, Aquarius is rarely in hurry to end a relationship and is even less rushed to start a new one, so it possible to weather this rough patch.
There are two ways to decisively end the relationship. One is to simply absent yourself. If you are not nearby, or at least in frequent phone contact, Aquarius will not pine away for you.
The other way to break up is to increase your demands on him. He likes to imagine that after a time relationships take care of themselves. If the upkeep taxes him too much, then you will be seen as a liability. Though his love never quite disappears, Aquarius will amputate any relationship that threatens to pull him under.
If Mr. Waterboy seems too calculating in matters of the heart, he is. More often than not he hurts himself most of all when leaving a lover. Since he tends to value the public face of the pairing more than intimate support, Aquarius often severs an emotional lifeline because his lover does not fit in with his circle of friends.
The one small mercy is that Aquarius does not bad-mouth his ex-lovers.

4 comments:

Marc W said...

The guy I've loved for 25 years is an Aquarius, and he is very much like the description here. He has always been very ambivalent about our relationship, lives very much in the future, and basically keeps everyone at arm's length. I'm a Capricorn and I live in the past; I made my choice 25 years ago, and that's that. I'm patient, and I'm not giving up on him - and, though I can't really describe how I know, I do know that he won't let me give up on him. We're tightly bound together in a way that defies description. It sounds silly, I know, but our relationship is very similar to that of Jack and Ennis in "Brokeback Mountain" - I'm Jack, trying so hard to break through his hard, tough exterior, at times coming close, but never quite able to do so; and knowing we could make it together - if we tried. He's Ennis, fighting against emotions he's never really been comfortable with, and are from a place in his distant past, but those emotions are so powerful, they won't stay trapped inside forever; and knowing that being together poses many risks and outright dangers. Each of saw the movie - separately - and he said later he felt like the character of Ennis was created with him in mind. I had already felt that way, but hadn't said, about the role of Jack.

Unknown said...

Yup, this very much describes me. And I am the only sane one in a world full of Lucy Ricardo's.

Unknown said...

Yup, this very much describes me. And I am the only sane one in a world full of Lucy Ricardo's.

Touan said...

We're So Complicatedly Amazing 🤦🏾‍♂️