What is an air sign?
Air is about communication. Air is also around you all the time. You need air to breathe. You need air to communicate. You need air to relate to people. You need air to have an intellect. Air shows the intellect in the chart. It shows the communication in the chart. If you like, it shows where life is in life, where the breath of life is. The first of the air signs, the first way of understanding it, is Gemini, which is all about communication. If you've got a lot of Gemini in your chart, you'll be somebody that likes gossip or soap operas or reading newspapers, or you'll have to get a book and get a little bit of information out here, a bit of information out there. Gemini is all about communication of the world. It's an air sign. The second of the air signs is Libra. Libra has to communicate because it has to balance everything. One of the easiest ways of getting in agreement is to get people to smile and verbally say they agree. This is why Libra rules diplomacy. You can have a very nice agreement where you all smile and you all intellectually agree that things are balanced, but you walk out of the room and you hate each others guts, but diplomatically, you've arranged a peace. Libra the peacemaker, but it's a peacemaker as a mental concept. Libra is about understanding a balance of peace. It's not about a real balance, it's an intellectual balance. That's why Libra is an air sign. The last of the air signs is Aquarius, and Aquarius is about ideas. When you're as progressive as an Aquarian, you can't bring things down to Earth, you can't feel them because they're not real yet. You're living way, way into the future. The only way you can live way in the future, the only way you can be progressive, is in an intellectual way. You know what's coming next, but you can't materialise it, you can't feel it, you have to intellectualise it. That's why Aquarius is an air sign. Who knows why they chose it as a water carrier in the old days? People confuse Aquarius with a water sign. It's not; its clearly an air sign. Aquarians haven't got anything to back up their wackiness, it's just the wackiness of intellect, the wackiness of mind, of creativity. That's why Aquarius is an air sign.
