Aquarius is ruled by Uranus, the planet of disruption and breakthrough. You came in to be slightly out of step — not for the sake of being different, but because you can see five years ahead while everyone else is debating last quarter.
The shadow of Aquarius is intellectualizing emotion until you're estranged from it, and a kind of detachment that protects you but isolates you. The mature Aquarius has learned that visionary thinking and embodied feeling are not opposites — they need each other.
You'll recognize yourself in Aquarius if you've been called weird in ways that turned out to be compliments, if causes mobilize you more than personal drama, and if you process intimacy partly by understanding it.