I am assuming you've read the previous articles on energy, elements, and the elemental triplicities. If you haven't, I recommend starting there and coming back.
(Disclaimer: Trying to push these articles out quickly in hopes of making some editing passes later. Apologies for the rough writing.) The water bringer brings change to society/civilization.
My apologies, but air signs are complex. I will borrow a principle from animism(I swear I'll put it back when I'm done) to lend a sense of life to ideas. This is the same way we might consider viruses to be alive.(This was up for debate last I checked, but we can make this assumption for this line of reasoning) We may even consider them to be intelligent. Note that a virus is too small for organelles, much less brains. It has to outsources its thinking to the realm of physics. Natural selection is an intelligence built into all self-replicating, mutating populations. The actual lifespan of one life form is its fitness test. The greater the fitness, the more successfully the life form will seed the next generation. Those who fail entirely are purged, and those who succeed marginally are outcompeted by their more successful strains. The virus's brain is its entire population. This is the same brain that has guided hydrogen into helium, stardust into primordial soup, and coaxed simians out of the trees and into office buildings. The Greek stoics called this intelligence anima mundi. Before he abandoned science in the name of bigotry, Richard Dawkins wrote theory about this intelligence referring to it as memetics. Whether you consider this an extension of physics or a pantheistic god, it nonetheless is the driving force behind innovations such as genetic algorithms. In other words, it is part of the world that we can exploit, and which effects our life.
However, we're not talking about viruses or even biology here. We're talking about something far less tangible: ideas. Ideas are like viruses, except that they entirely lack bodies. An idea, as an artifact, is a chunk of data which is cold and dead on its own, not really a life form. However, if you load that data into a compatible host computer, you may find it capable of influencing and animating that computer's actions. You already know what robots are, those dog-shaped things with machineguns on their backs. Truthfully, not all robots are dog-shaped. Some robots have two arms and walk on two legs. Some robots are flesh-and-blood humans. Trading out a Von Neumann computer for a wet brain. Humanity has yet to unlock the mysteries of this mechanism in a scientific capacity sufficient to create new ones or repair existing ones. Just as with the "virsuses are alive" statement, please run with my assumption that humans use ideas to think. I'll engage in some speculation in order to drive home my next points. If anything I say is discovered to be pseudoscience, I trust you will swap out the bits of pseudoscience for actual science and adjust or discard the rest as is appropriate.
When a person wakes, do they boot up HumanOS and check for system updates? Of course not. There's no single monolithic program that guides the human brain like a Von Neumann computer. Our architecture is some form of whacky neural net. Stroke victims can lose hella neurons and retrain the surviving ones in order to relearn to walk, so please don't compare this neural net to artificial neural nets running on Von Neumann computers like we might find in Chat GPT. Like viruses, the human brain outsources some of its intelligence to good ol' anima mundi, but it's way more complex than simple natural selection. This is all to say that our brains are weird and work in weird ways. One of those weird things is the way in which we can sort of use ideas in a plug-and-play fashion. One minute, we're these soft and squishy critters with neither claws nor fangs. A man can't fight a tiger and win. He'd get a couple good swings in, tops, and then get torn to shreds. But if we download a weapons upgrade in the form of spear.exe, a man learns to augment himself with a long, prosthetic fang that can be thrown a great distance. Equipped with this upgrade, he is no longer bound by the limits of man, for he is spearman. Spearman can kill a tiger while man cannot. Spearman's anatomy is part flesh(the human body), part machine(the spear), and part idea(spear.exe). With all three parts, man is transformed into a cyborg.
TL;DR: ideas live inside us, allow us to do cool stuff, but also shape us.
Who really commands traffic on the highway? Is it the speedster going 90MPH, or is it the Sunday driver plodding along at 55MPH? The latter. For as ferocious as the speedster might appear by tailgating and honking, they still require the cooperation of the Sunday driver. If the Sunday driver refuses to speed up when tailgated, then the speedster needs to pass them or else slow down. The power dynamic is counter-intuitive, perhaps. In Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, the author tells a story about how wheat learned to domesticate humanity. The little grass plant coaxed humans to abandon their nomadic lifestyles to build massive farms, to build irrigation systems, to fertilize the plots and pick them free of weeds and pests. In turn, the wheat rewards its loyal servants with grain that can be ground into flour. The power dynamics of symbiotic relationships cannot be overstated. It's for this reason ideas that lend us utility should be scrutinized. While the machine may act in our service, we too act in the machine's service. A similar dynamic can be found within the abstract notion of power. The loyal pursuit of power changes one, pruning aspects of the individual that would diminish power. In the end, power brokers cannot afford scruples, except when such scruples lend them power. Those aspects pruned sometimes remain pruned, and sometimes the transformation kills parts of us, even large parts of us. "...a trader cannot comprehend a thing that is priceless." In certain cases, we are more machine than man, and our humanity withers.
As an aquarian, this insight into the human condition is paramount to your role as water bearer. If you have a tasty idea that people will gobble up, they'll do so in a feral capacity and be transformed by it, however subtly. Take care to not follow their example. Rigorously examine the ideas you subscribe to and ask how they shape you. Learn to identify your own thought-termination behavior and stick some big red flags wherever you see it. An Aquarian does not lap up whatever slop arrives at the trough the way Sagittarius might. When your friends give you a cool new bit of slang, check to see if it's a slur before you let it leave your lips. This thoughtful curation of ideas is Saturnian in nature. A gentle "Hey friends, that word is a slur." to subtly shift social norms is Uranian in nature.
Do we discover ideas, or create them? For this section, we create them. As noted above, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Ideas transform you. As an aquarian, you are burdened with the responsibility of constructing ideas and bringing them to people. If you spread an idea like the Apple wave, you are more or less guaranteed some cooked Apple devices. Illocutionary force is sufficient for stochastic terrorism and other similar evils. Your best intentions will not save you from how others will use your knowledge, either. The Gatling gun was invented with the intended goal of reducing the troops required for battles, and thus deaths to combat and disease. One might argue this transition fossil in the evolution of auto-loading firearms has lead to many, many more deaths. Certainly, Gatling did not envision his machine gun paving the way for modern school shooters.
When you are the water bearer, you thus need to exercise some caution. If you bring someone knowledge, expect them to use it. Do not give a slingshot to children. Most adults are more-or-less children. My best advice is to give them tools that they can immediately use to solve the problems immediately in front of them. I have found that anyone lacking strong Gemini or Virgo energy will quickly tune out. The existing ideas that infest them will also cause most people to terminate thought before you can give them incompatible ideas. Most people don't know what socialism nor anarchy are, but they will recoil at hearing either word and spit out thought-terminating cliches. If you explain the premise of either concept to folk in simple words that don't trigger their defenses, they might agree with the concepts on theory(perhaps whilst still cursing socialism and anarchism). I don't know what to do with these people, honestly, and at the time of writing my strategy is to stay away from them and hope they don't put me in an oven. I don't have the spoons, emotional labor, time, nor temperment to reparent/deradicalize/educate adults. I don't have the inclination to teach cis people about gender, or liberals about leftist ideology, or Windows users of Linux and FOSS. Reader, I encourage you to go further than I have if you are able. If not, simply share this idea with others who might better embody this aspect of Aquarius. (Note: this is a Saturnian aspect of Aquarius)
Steven Forrest is a liberal, and his worship of the middleground shapes his view of aquarius. He depicts all cultures as inherently conservative due to their tendency to preserve traditional values and spurn deviance. He likewise highlights the tension between this conservatism and agents of social change. He maintains that Aqauarius is that aspect of us which would deviate from the norm to embrace our norms-defying truth. I agree with this analysis. What I disagree with is his notion of compromise straight from the Democrat playbook. While you can certainly take a "boil the frog" approach to gradually changing a given culture in certain cases, other cases require radical change. For instance, the abolition of slavery. There is no intermediate state between "slavery is permitted" and "slavery is abolished". Either there are slaves, or there are not slaves. You can build a progress bar out of the percentage of the human race that is free/enslaved and use it to chart progress towards abolition, but only after the last slave is freed have you truly abolished slavery. Until all of us are free, none of us are free. I identify as a radical and refuse the notion of compromise with the slave owner. Any compromise he would accept is one that fails to threaten his institution. One must consider compromise as carefully as they would consider violence, for there are many no-win games you can be presented. Sometimes, the old house must be torn down in order for a new one to be built in its place.
Aquarius seeks to bring truth to society. Generally, society has already heard this truth and refuses it. Everyone with access to a conscience knows slavery is wrong, whether they are willing to accept it or not. They may have mind games, word games, legal games, emotion and public relation games, that they can employ to thwart you progress and cast doubt onto an idea like the abolition of slavery. However, Aquarius is the energy of one who seeks to unite the people with the truth of their idea. When an authority is present, one must circumvent that authority to succeed. Undermine the mechanisms of propaganda, peer pressure, and law in order to weaken authority's hold. This is not a game I am good at, unfortunately, but history is replete with examples of success. Note that none of these consist of asking politely and respectfully for freedom and having it granted by benevolent authorities.(Note: this is the Uranian aspect of Aquarius)
Steven Forrest spends a good chunk of his introduction to Aquarius and Uranus talking about queer folk as an outsider. He gave it a college try, but I'll take another swing. Queerness is relative to the viewer's norms. Norms at a societal level are intersubjective. Many liberals are "progressive", which means they claim to stand for the enlightenment ideal of progress over tradition. In fact, this just means their traditions are progress-flavored and guarded just the same as the 90s Republican sensibilities they oppose. Case in point, a lib joke that furries are degenerates made the day before I'm writing this article. I agree with Steven Forrest that cultures are inherently conservative. This is to say that people don't rigorously think through the ideas they hold onto. Instead, people are infested with ideas, holding them uncritically. This is why a "progressive" liberal might respect brand-name queer identities(lesbian/gay/bi/trans), but might still act with intolerance towards lesser-known queer identities like intersex, polyamorous, furry, therian, or non-binary folk. They don't understand and rigorously apply an understanding of queerness. what they instead know is "I need to be nice to this list of approved identities, because that's what the herd is doing".
Aquarian energy accrues in those who are othered. Black folk may learn to code switch, autists may learn to mask, and trans women can boymode. In each case, a minority plays by majority rules to avoid the most severe forms of bigotry. This is the aspect of Aquarius energy where the Saturn-Uranus duality is most starkly represented. When elements of a society would oppress or attack you for what you are, the path of least resistance is to conform and act the part of a herd animal. This might take place subconsciously, as with repression. This might be a conscious calculation, such as when I consider the safety of being a trans woman in a particular situation. Pride is a radical, Uranian act. It follows the logic of "The bigot will persecute us whether we play their game or not, so let's not". At the same time, the Saturnian side of this aspect is that through deception, you can confer the privileges of the majority groups. I could probably convince an army of psychologists I'm allistic and a cishet, and this will advantage me when others who are formally diagnosed with "autism spectrum disorder" and "gender dysphoria" are punished. In some sense, this is most responsible to myself and those who depend on me. An autism diagnosis might keep me from fleeing to other countries, or create loopholes for insurance companies to deny me medical care. Appearing cis might save me from harassment, having to teach cis people about gender, or trans panic. At the same time, my responsibility to myself is balanced by my responsibility to other queer folk. I might be able to teach someone the "be nice to trans people" rule that they pick up through herd instinct, and that might save another trans woman from being attacked. At the same time, there's a slight chance tolerating trans women might generally relax someone's bigotry and help other minorities. One change like this doesn't mean much, but multiplied by a few million can cause a societal shift. This is where Saturn and Uranus are arm-wrestling. Bring your Libran energy to this kind of thing, for sure.
The dark Aquarian can be a troll who exploits the sheep-like psychology of the masses for sadistic pleasure. The Dark Aquarian can be a well-meaning person visited by the good idea fairy, paving a road to hell with their good intentions. A total absense of Aquarian energy can lead someone to always conform and repress every aspect of themself that could offend a normie, leading them to become a hollow shell of a person containing the withered corpse of the true self they could have been. Whatever the case, the solution can be found in the more evolved expressions of Aquarian energy. Be responsible with what ideas you share. Be gay, do crime. Simple as. Next article, please!