2022 Aquarius Horoscope Preview

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Aquarius Horoscopes, Year 2022: Summary/preview of the year ahead for the zodiac sign Aquarius.

This forecast is designed for people born with an Aquarius Sun sign (those born from approximately January 20/21 to February 18/19*) AND for those who have an Aquarius Ascendant** in particular.

See also the full Aquarius 2022 Yearly Horoscope.

2022 Aquarius Horoscope Overview

The following is an overview horoscope for the zodiac sign of Aquarius the Water Bearer for the year 2022, outlining areas of the lives of Aquarius set to expand, grow, and improve, as well as those life departments in which there is likely to be change, new approaches, transformations, and simplification or downsizing.

(Click on any sign above to navigate to that sign’s preview horoscope).

Areas of Expansion in 2022 for Aquarius:

Your Aquarius 2022 Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand, improve, or grow.

- Money
- Personal Belongings, Resources, and Assets

Self-worth
Communications
Mental Outlook
Learning
Transportation

Until May 10th, and then October 28th-December 20th, 2022, money, personal possessions, valuables, and self-worth continue to expand, increase, improve, and grow. Your desire for security and comfort is hearty now, and you’ll pursue these things with more confidence and verve. You feel that you deserve more or that you’re at a stage when you want to more thoroughly enjoy the fruits of your labor.

This influence spans three date ranges, and we’re on the second and third waves this year:

from May 13-July 28, 2021,
from December 28, 2021-May 10, 2022,
and from October 28, 2022-December 20, 2022

In other words, you’re experiencing these themes in steps, having experienced the first step from May-July last year. You begin the year 2022 having just started the second step.

This is a strong time for buying long-term valuables. You are likely to make bigger decisions about your material resources during this period.

This cycle is strong for attracting more money from your associations or an online business, as well as for expanding a business. Be careful if you are suddenly in the position to receive, for example, a credit line or sizeable loan – spend wisely. It would be best if you watched for overspending.

Potential difficulties: Be on the alert for an attitude towards money that is careless. If you are accumulating personal possessions too quickly, for example, this can lead to clutter and disorganization. If you’re overconfident about your ability to make money, then you might take risks, such as borrowing from your future. Watch for over-indulgence. Be extra careful if lending or borrowing.

You more easily make personal sacrifices for what you believe to be the better good, especially in April. Caution should be exercised with legal matters, finances, and worldly, practical affairs, in general, as the tendency to ignore critical details runs high. You’re seeking more idyllic conditions regarding money, comfort, and security.

Otherwise, this is a good period for bringing a fresh, positive, and confident attitude towards your self-worth and value or to your practical affairs, including work. You could be more enthusiastic or optimistic about earning a living. A money problem may clear up, or a major purchase or sale can figure strongly. It can be a time of a significant memento or financial benefit from a friend, a wonderful personal possession, or a windfall related to a visionary or progressive approach.

You might have more resources to invest in your home or property, especially in February and early May. You are pouring more heart, energy, and perhaps money into your comfort, safety, and domestic life. Income can improve through counseling, helping professions, behind-the-scenes work, home-related pursuits.

You can expand your resources, develop your talents, and improve your money situation. It can be a time of a pleasant feeling of self-sufficiency. There can be powerful changes in how you view your money, resources, assets, personal belongings, and natural talents or earning power during these periods.

From May 10-October 28, and then from December 20th onward, you begin to expand your personal interests, mind, and connections. You are ready to take on big projects! Your confidence in the future is very strong during this cycle that begins this year and will further develop in 2023.

This influence spans two date ranges, with the first wave happening in full this year, and the second one starting near the end of 2022:

from May 10-October 28, 2022,
and from December 20, 2022-May 16, 2023.

You’re experiencing these themes in steps, starting this year from May to October.

During this trend, your communications increase and expand. Depending on your current situation and your unique personality/circumstances, this influence can play out in several ways: You enjoy a more remarkable ability (and desire) to express yourself, and your interests grow. You might develop a mental interest or project more fully this year.

You can experience good fortune with vehicles, transportation, and the communications industry, or this good luck comes from siblings, classmates, or neighbors. You are sharper, more perceptive, and others are more receptive to your ideas. New opportunities to communicate can open up to you.

It can also be a busy, exciting, and rewarding period for learning. Your curiosity grows, and the chance to boost your skills or knowledge can emerge. If applicable, you might go/return to school or take some courses.

Potential problems: Taking on too many daily activities, communications, new interests, and learning endeavors or studies can be a problem now. It’s all too easy to lead a scattered, chaotic life, so try not to overload your plate. There can be a real tendency to want to do it all, forgetting your limits with time and energy. Taking on too many projects or becoming too entrenched in details can cause problems.

However, for the most part, you should expect to enjoy more opportunities through your communications and contact with others during this cycle.

You’re finding your voice and more fully enjoying what you’re doing, learning, teaching, and sharing. You might find that you’re busier locally. Your thinking is more upbeat, positive, and forward-looking, and so is the way you express yourself.

In fact, this is an excellent time for improving your communication skills and your general attitude or mindset. As you pay more attention to communicating effectively, other areas of your life improve. For example, reaching out or making warm gestures to others more often can improve your relationship with yourself in addition to your bonds with others. There can be meaningful opportunities arising through meetings, courses, teaching, and connections you make in the neighborhood or through siblings. More community involvement could be satisfying. If they exist, problems with siblings or neighbors could be put to rest now, although they might magnify initially for problem areas to come out into the open and finally reach a resolution.

There can be increased communications with siblings, classmates, and peers in general during this period. You could be finding that transportation or communications options now available make life a little more enjoyable. Your commute is better, or devices that connect you with others improve. This theme often coincides with new wheels, rides, phones, or other devices that open up new or improved channels for connecting and getting around.

There can be times when your busier or more mentally engaging lifestyle conflicts with your family or domestic life. However, with some moderation, you’ll find ways to achieve a balance.

You may find it easier to express thoughts, feelings, or intuition in words at this time. Others may more frequently turn to you for your wisdom and advice, or people are more interested in your feedback and input.

Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity

Your Aquarius 2022 Horoscope points to areas of contraction, restriction, and necessary “slimming down” in order to test for stable foundations. There are always areas of life that require more simplicity. Tests may be part of the picture as you learn that life with only growth and expansion can run away with itself.

These areas include:

Body
Personality
Mannerisms

All year, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach during this period are associated with the sector of your solar chart that governs your personal mannerisms, personality, image, and appearance. This sector also rules how you initiate things — your first impulse for coping with day-to-day demands. There may be tests of sorts in these areas of life — as if the universe is checking that the foundations are strong. Things built on weak foundations may very well crack under the pressure of these tests. Those that are strong will endure and strengthen.

This influence began in 2020 and will continue until March 2023.

You’ll feel this theme most strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Aquarius. This year, those born from approximately January 31-February 13 and those who have an Ascendant of 12-25 degrees of Aquarius are most directly affected.

During this cycle, you are likely to be more cautious than you usually are and, at times, pessimistic. This transit doesn’t allow you to continue with illusions about the self, the body, and personal capabilities. The end result is a newfound identity and a realistic understanding of the self. In terms of career and projects, outward signs of progress may not be as forthcoming, yet the work that you do during this transit will lay a foundation for future success and progress!

It’s a strong time for literally slimming down if that’s a goal. You can more successfully begin new and improved health regimens, diets, and the like, simply because it is a time when you look in the mirror and see yourself clearly (instead of what you want to see). You can be serious during this phase, with more concern for your responsibilities and duties. You are getting in touch with your inner strength, and this takes some time and adjustment. This is a grounding energy that gets you back in touch with reality.

This is also a significant period for issues surrounding your personal identity and self-image. Try not to come across as a heavy during this period — not everyone is going through the same cycle at the same time as you. However, others are seeing you as more responsible. Self-discipline comes more naturally as well.

The best way to handle Saturn’s transit through your sign is to meet your responsibilities to the best of your ability. Do take a closer look at the areas you’ve allowed to slide, and listen to your feelings of disappointment, but don’t let this turn into regret or resentment. Instead, focus on making improvements and keep in mind the long-term. Short-sightedness now can get you into trouble. Impatience will not be rewarded during this cycle.

While Saturn in one’s own sign is not the most desired transit, Aquarians understand Saturnine energy and do well with it. The last time Saturn transited Aquarius was from 1991 to early 1994.

There may be times when your mission to improve the home front or family life can interfere with your efforts to get back on track, mostly in April, but overall, it’s a period for strengthening your life and building endurance and patience.

Areas of Excitement, Innovation, Independence, and Speed

Your 2022 Aquarius Horoscope points to areas of your life that seem to speed up so that you can take some risks, innovate, and revolutionize. These areas include the following:

Home
Family
Familiarity & Security

All year, family and home life can be unpredictable and unusual, but also inspiring and exciting. You may decide to move during this cycle, or you could now be in the position to move. Or, you might dramatically change your attitude towards your domestic life. You seek more freedom, and if your current domestic set-up feels confining or limiting, you’ll need to make important changes.

Interestingly, for some, better living conditions or arrangements come through a more organized or routine existence at this time–it all depends on how you’ve been doing things until now. Others seek ways to innovate and make positive changes on the home front.

Your attitude towards the past and traditions is also transforming quite quickly. Old ties to your past may be severed, and at times this can be unsettling, but ideally, you are taking important steps towards carving out an identity that better suits and represents you.

This influence continues until April 2026. In 2022, these themes receive nice boosts, especially in February and July. You are changing your definition of comfort, abundance, security, and pleasure, perhaps in ways that also benefit the group or the planet as a whole. You’re redefining what it means to be secure, comfortable, wealthy, or stable.

Areas of Change, Purging, & Transformation: Spirituality, Private life, The Past, Creativity, Romance, Friendship

Your 2022 Aquarius Horoscope reveals areas of life in which change and transformation take place. It’s a time for “out with the old, in with the new.”

Attitudes towards spirituality and the past continue to transform this year. You’re doing important long-term work concerning the purging of past attitudes and confronting inner demons. This influence has been with you for many years and will stick around for a couple more years to come! [It began in 2008 and lasts until 2024.]

You are confronting deeply buried aspects of your psyche, as well as learning unusual things about the hidden side of your nature. With this knowledge, you are also learning to control it. Things that you’ve buried, such as past events that you are ashamed of, emerge and require you to handle them. Facing your ghosts honestly is required of you now and in coming years. Self-improvement efforts can be tremendous.

At times challenging, you should watch that you don’t limit your life due to insecurities. However, it’s a generally good time to clear away lingering problems. In 2022, some boosters occur that help you make the most of these themes, particularly in February and May.

February is particularly strong for boosting income or improving your reputation and general value. You can experience recognition and a sense of intention in your emotional or family life. Caring for family, plants, pets, and/or your home can be more fulfilling, and learning to be taken care of can be rewarding as well. You’re also learning to find more comfort and meaning in your inner world. May brings another boost as you approach your earnings or belongings in a more positive way. It’s possible that you repurpose old resources or ideas and make them work for you in the present. Turning a financial matter around can be a relief.

The North Node transits your solar fourth house from January 18th forward, and it benefits you to pay more attention to home and family life — this is where you find your greatest joy and challenge. There is a real need to get your domestic life into order, as this can bring fantastic benefits and much joy to your life. It’s possible that you’re moving or preparing to move in 2022-2023. While public and personal lives seem to compete, you have every opportunity to come to the right balance.

This theme is about embracing your personal life, domestic world, family, and home pursuits. In these areas of life, you’re likely to see important changes. This influence began with the Lunar Eclipse in November 2021, and it continues with all four eclipses in 2022.

Your modern planetary ruler, Uranus, is again in Taurus all year. When it’s retrograde (until January 18th, 2022, and then from August 24th, 2022, to January 22nd, 2023), you may find yourself in a more introspective phase. Observing more than moving forward often makes better sense during these cycles in a general sense.

Note that Uranus is in the sign of Taurus until 2026. Taurus is a fellow Fixed sign — stubborn, persistent, and loyal like you but is from the Earth family rather than your Air, and you don’t always understand its energy (unless you have Taurus strong in your natal chart). Taurus may feel a little too set in its ways, traditional, and practical for your liking at times, and now that your planetary ruler’s sitting in its sign for years to come, you’ll need to grow more accustomed to it. It’s steady, determined, and persistent, and these qualities can be useful to you now.

*It’s important to note that birthdates for Sun signs are always approximate since the starting date and time varies a bit every single year. If you were born on one of these cutoff dates (commonly known as a “cusp”), you can get a definitive answer using a Sun Sign Calculator. You can also write reports@cafeastrology.com with your birth information and we can let you know your true Sun sign if you were born on or beside the approximate date range given for any sign of the zodiac.

**If you want to know your Ascendant, find out with an Ascendant calculator, such as our What’s My Ascendant?, but do note that an Ascendant cannot be determined for unknown birth times.

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