Aquarius

Aquarius is the rebel of the zodiac – and the know-all. Original, inventive and very smart, there’s no use trying to tell them the rules. They pay no attention to tradition, whether it’s in their eclectic dress sense or their capacity to change accepted ways of behaviour. They may sound like eccentrics, but Aquarians are one of the friendliest signs in the zodiac, and find someone to talk to wherever they find themselves in the world.

Sick of the sycophantic, singing, sick
Of every afternoon’s compulsory games,
Sick of the little cliques of country names,
He let the inner timebomb start to tick,
Beating out number. As arithmetic
The plot took shape – not from divided aims
But short division only. Then, in flames,
He read: ‘That flower is not for you to pick.’

Therefore he picked it. All things thawed to action,
Sound, colour. A shrill electric bell
Summoned the guard. He gathered up his faction,
Posied on the brink, though, and created hell.
Light shimmered in miraculous refraction
As, like a bloody thunderbolt, he fell.

Anthony Burgess

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