Birthday week for the Aquarian Sun

It was my birthday two days ago and I was joking with a friend about it being birthday week. 

I was able to be specific about the qualities of birthday week. For example, my friend ironically asked whether birthday week started precisely on my birthday or sooner. I said that up until this year I would have said it started on my birthday, but that this year I could feel it coming on a few days before my birthday. 

Joking along these self-aggrandizing lines is a demonstration of ego. Which makes sense because one's birthday is about the Sun's position in the sky relative to earth. And the Sun is about ego. 

The Sun signifies other things as well. The Sun is the Atma Karaka, indicator of soul. It is a karaka or indicator of body, father, power, status, fame, vitality, respect, the eyes (ability to see), the heart (the heart radiates as does the Sun).

The Sun likes recognition. The Sun shines forth the self. The Sun is a planet of honour, fame, leadership ability.

What occurred to me this turn around the Sun was that my evolution from birthday to the self aggrandizement of birthday week suits my Aquarian Sun. Having the Sun in Aquarius is a weak placement. The Sun shines anemically in February. Aquarius is a social sign more concerned with collective welfare than self importance. Its energy is diffuse.

Therefore, it makes sense that those born under the Sun sign of Aquarius would conduct their birthdays in a similar diffuse or widely distributed manner. The Aquarian recognizes their birthday is not just about them. It’s not exclusive like the earnest ego inflation of its opposite sign Leo, the sign of the king and the home of the Sun. Its inclusive, socialistic. The Aquarian’s birthday must include everyone! It takes time for the Aquarian’s slow-burn Sun’s mild ego to come to this self-realization. It takes about a week.