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human
Different anon here, this was quite a good objective explanation about a planet in a particular sign, but as you said one is to consider the whole chart.
What do you recommend as a first reading, Chris Brennan's book or William Lilly?
gpt
Read five pages of both, then read the one you like more.


Most of these tendencies are down to the Sun being in the seventh house. The Sun seeks mastery and rulership everywhere he goes, and so in the seventh he can become rather overbearing and patronizing depending on the things he depends on.

However being distant from others and feeling that most people are boring or manipulative is definitely due to being in the sign of Aquarius. I mentioned that Aquarius is interested in others and likes to encounter different perspectives, but over time he becomes a bit like a gourmand and once he's been exposed to enough of the more sophisticated types, he becomes bored of more simple-minded folks. Likewise because Sun is in detriment in this sign, when he is placed in the seventh he indicates difficulties in whatever house he lands in, in this case the seventh which is the social realm.

As for the difference between the modern and ancient view of Aquarius, there's not too much difference which is relevant to us except that during the Victorian era, the theosophists developed the theory of the 'age of Aquarius' as being a wonderful new age of progress we were entering into, and started projecting an idea of the sign of Aquarius as being a sign of revolution, rebellion, and reform. While I do think Aquarius as an intellectual sign with a more negative and anti-social orientation is conducive to creating these types of people, I think it's more complicated than just saying that a planet in Aquarius wants to be rebellious and start a revolution, and I think it's a mistake to conflate the search for truth and the desire to make up one's own mind with revolutionary tendencies.
human
How different is Leo from Aquarius?

I also don't understand the nature of these signs:
Libra
Gemini
Sagittarius
gpt
Each set of opposed signs has a piece of the other inside it. Think of the Tai-Chi symbol, or the 'yin-yang' as it's popularly called. However just because they have similarities doesn't mean they aren't qualitatively different. 

For Leo and Aquarius, they are similar insofar as they are both very group-oriented signs and both are prone to conceit, however Aquarius is a cold air sign and Leo is a hot fire sign. Leo is the center and Aquarius is the fringe. Leo wants to be at the center of things looking out Aquarius wants to be at the edge of things looking in. Leo takes his pride from how others perceive him, whereas Aquarius takes pride from how he perceives himself. However they are both steadfast characters and are both oriented towards the truth.

As for those other signs, Gemini and Sagittarius both enjoy the breadth of things and have a love of learning and of truth, however they both are oriented towards different kinds of truth and they have different motivations for finding the truth, as well as different methods of ascertaining the truth. Gemini seeks to understand a great many things, all while compartmentalizing each thing it studies into its own neat little box. Sagittarius on the other hand, while it does study many things, it's not trying to understand everything on its own but is really trying to understand everything together and establish how it all fits into a coherent system. 

Libra I admit I personally don't understand with too much depth, but generally I understand it through the access point of being a Venus-ruled cardinal air sign. Thus it is primarily social in orientation, concerned with bringing things together and establishing coherence, and is concerned with ideas and expression. Thus it creates artistry, commerce, intellectuals, lawyers, judges, politicians, and it predisposes one to seek out much advice and many councilors both to benefit from them as well as for the joy of discussing the subject near to their heart.