Astrologer Ingrid Lind on Aquarius

Before we went away last week I ordered, from the UK, a used copy of a little book, long out of print: British astrologer Ingrid Lind's Astrology & Commonsense (1962). I didn't expect it to arrive for several weeks. It appears that packages from the UK to the USA are being held by the Department of Homeland Security for assessment/investigation before passing them on for delivery. A scare due to some terrorist threat from the Yemen is the reason for DHS's intervention, according to a source online. DHS are said to have hundreds of thousands of packets backed up; delivery can take anything up to 2 months. An item I ordered from the UK before Christmas has still not arrived! This slim paperback slipped through though (possibly because it contains no metal or liquids?) It was waiting for me on our return home. Marked 3/6 net (3 shillings and sixpence in British "old money"), well-worn, pages browned with age, but no worse for that.

I first became aware of Ingrid Lind via another used book I bought last year: Astrology by Louis MacNeice. I can find no information about her online. I'd love to have her birth data if any passing reader knows of it.

I'm impressed by Ms Lind's approach, to which I can relate very easily. Her continual emphasis that the Sun sign is not "all there is" is refreshing. She is the astrologer from whom I picked up the term -type: Taurus-type, Aquarius-type etc in preference to the more usual Taurean, Aquarian. Her ?-type is a far more accurate and less misleading mode of expression, in my opinion.

As the Sun is now in Aquarius, let's look at what Ingrid Lind had to say about the sign. She does lapse into using "Aquarian" here. It's not easy to avoid, and perhaps her use of ?-type came later. We ought to bear in mind that, as Ms Lind explained in an early chapter, "no-one is solely and wholly Libran, Taurean, Arien or whatever sign it may be that corresponds to the birth-month. As I have insisted, the Sun in a given sign does not necessarily give the most prominent feature in the make-up......." I feel fairly sure that she would prefer the reader to take any reference to "Aquarian" as "Aquarius-type".

I've broken the piece into paragraphs which dont exist in the book, but I suspect this makes for more comfortable reading online.



From Astrology and Commonsense by Ingrid Lind (1962) :

AQUARIUS: Quality: Fixed. Element: Air. Ruler: Saturn. Positive. (Modern astrologers consider Uranus as ruler).

It seems to me that the combination of Air (communication and intellectuality) with Fixity is the key to the Aquarian personality.

Aquarians are the most determined and independent people and they can be obstinate, headstrong and perverse. They show certain qualities that to my mind cannot be deduced from the ingredients unless Uranus is added as co-ruler.

Everything that can be deduced from the Quality and Element plus Saturn is applicable and I feel no doubt that Saturn is concerned, for there is a cold detachment about the reasoning powers that can be related to this Planet; but if we stop there we miss out many of the strongest characteristics of the Sign. I would suggest that there are Aquarians who might be termed Saturnian Aquarians and others who are Uranian. The former are serious and hold very firmly to their views. The latter have the Uranian urge to disrupt. They are the revolutionaries, the visionaries, or, if they go wrong, the fanatics and perverts, the people who go against law and order through an instinctive revolt against restraint.

But, and I cannot repeat this too often, no one person is wholly of one Sign; and in character interpretation we find generally that the effects of a Sign on the Ascendant, or of a Sign containing the Sun, are modified by other prominent Signs and the general shaping of the chart and planetary pattern.

We talk, then, of Aquarian characteristics, knowing they could manifest through a group of Sun-Aquarians in differing intensity. But a common feature would be independence, detachment, and a wide interest in humanity. Nobody with this sign strong likes to be pinned down to intimate personal relationships for longer than such a thing is felt as a personal need. They are like horses that must be ridden on a loose rein. If they feel that they are making the decisions and working in their own method all is well, but at a hint of coercion they turn into rebels. They cannot act a lie and are thus often considered unconventional.

Aquarian Qualities
Fixity of purpose.
Humanitarianism
Truthfulness
Ability for scientific & abstract thought
Voluntary faithfulness.

Aquarian Faults
Obstinacy
Perversity: Separatism
Fanaticism
Scepticism
Rigidity

Reminder: If anyone has knowledge of Ingrid Lind's birth data I'd be very grateful to receive it.