Birthday gift ideas for Aquarius 21 January to 19 February
Everyone knows someone who’s a bit of maverick, who tries to fit in but cannot be anything other than different. Take a bow, Aquarius!
Aquarians are unusual. You’ll notice them at first glance (these guys are more likely than any other sign to be the first of a subculture: they were probably the first in their class to be one of the shocking bodgies, widgies, hippies, New Romantics, punks, goths, emos… you get the picture or at least they love dressing up as one as often as they can). Or if they seem normal, your conversation will soon reveal you’re dealing with a very different kettle of fish. Even if they dress normally and behave in socially appropriate ways, they will have a strange, rare or alternative hobby.
Many of them are wildly popular; a stack of them are on the geeky side. Anything that’s cutting-edge technology should thrill them just fine. While it’s a enormous generalisation, if you can think of most urban DJs/geeks/computer hackers as Aquarian you’ll be on the right track. They are typically a citified lot, umbilically linked to the iPhone, iPod, Skype – you get the picture.
They love nonconformity, unpredictability and a scorn for convention. They can be quite outrageous at work, and they just love teasing family, friends and neighbours with no sense of humour. Sometimes they’ll remind you of Dr Spock (curiously unemotional – in fact they rather like items to do with him, and that other guy, Darth and his mates) and at other times their ideas will be so antiquated you’ll wonder if they’ve time-travelled from the 19th century. Both sexes are surprisingly ageless; children love them because they treat them as adults or maybe it’s because most Aquarians never really grow up.
While they sound anti-social, they’re actually groupies when it comes to friends (more is better) who spread themselves thin catching up with everyone. Anything that can help them to entertain great swathes of acquaintances is one suggestion.
As you can guess, these are not the guys to buy chintz doona sets for. Kitsch things like egg chairs, lava lamps or those fluttering fibre optic lamps (or basically anything that decorated Dr Evil’s 1960s pad in Austen Powers) are usually a hit. Many of them are humanitarians who want to make the world a better place. Some of them have a strange attitude towards money; many of them give it away (Paul Newman was a sexy Aquarius). These are the sort you could happily regift something and they’d be happy you weren’t wasting the planet’s resources.
Aquarians can be extremists (they’re very stubborn about their point-of-view) and are either soooo politically correct or a bigoted throwback to the past. They do have a good sense of humour though so you can tease them about their controversial, even unpopular causes.
Many of them are into astronomy, astrology, science and metaphysics. A telescope, a star named after them or just for fun, an acre of the moon could appeal to them.
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