First of all, Jupiter in Aquarius is extremely friendly. Extremely, extremely friendly. But only if you do not find yourself in their immediate vicinity too often.

Jupiter in Aquarius is like the vast and broad sky. The view is distant. Broad. Ultimately, it is detached. The sky works on what it floats over but not with its own hands. It moves from above and it observes without being affected itself.

That’s Jupiter in Aquarius. Jupiter is the planet of philosophy and Aquarius is known to be a humanitarian. But is Jupiter in Aquarius an humanitarian? What is a humanitarian?

Albert Einstein was a Jupiter in Aquarius. Obviously, he was a genius. His genius lay in his ability to think through old problems from a defamiliarized perspective. If you walk away from a problem and come at it from a new angle, you’ll learn something that you can’t learn from trying the same thing over and over again. That’s Jupiter in Aquarius’s philosophy and that’s what Einstein did with his thought problems.

Politically, Einstein is considered to be a humanitarian. He started the International Refugee Committee for refugee relief. He joined the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and he self identified as a socialist. He was persecuted during the McCarthy era. Einstein even wrote a book called Essays on Humanism.

But what did Einstein think of Asians when he traveled to China? He wrote that China and the Chinese people were a “​​peculiar, herd-like nation often more like automatons than people.” He wrote that Chinese people were “filthy.” He wrote that he didn’t understand why Chinese men are attracted to Chinese women and that he feared Chinese people replacing the world population. In contrast, Einstein wrote that the Japanese people were pure souls who admired their country. This was in 1922. Later, Einstein defended Oppenheimer.

So, this is interesting. Obviously, not all Jupiter in Aquarius people are like Einstein. Barack Obama is also a Jupiter in Aquarius. He wrote essays in college about moving past America’s military focused mindset and then he proceeded to drop a record number of bombs as president.

Flying above the situation does give one a more bird’s eye perspective. However, the detached sky is also where we tend to run into a lot of assumptions. When we don’t get our hands dirty, when we don’t actually engage with the conversations that are happening on the ground, when we veer over entire conversations, we often miss things as they are.

Jupiter in Aquarius is smart. Jupiter in Aquarius has triplicity and often finds itself to be very popular. It tends to work with very popular ideas but I don’t think that popularity is where Jupiter in Aquarius finds itself to be at its best.

Aquarius is actually where the Sun goes into detriment. That means that Jupiter in Aquarius doesn’t like to be visible, to be seen. It flinches away from too much attention. Everyone likes Jupiter in Aquarius but Jupiter in Aquarius actually doesn’t thrive when it has too much power. That’s for good reason.

Another person who embodies Jupiter in Aquarius is Erik Satie. Erik Satie briefly joined a cult but left very quickly. He was known to be somewhere between bohemian and bourgeois society. His music is sparse. Elegant. He founded a society for composers but he was actually the only member.

What Jupiter in Aquarius excels at is esoteric research. That’s Einstein’s whole thing. He was a quantum physicist. It’s Erik Satie’s whole thing. If Barack Obama didn’t become commander in chief of the United States, he would have probably been an independent filmmaker. Jupiter in Aquarius people make very good filmmakers because they are capable of moving through a storm without touching the people involved in that storm. Not everyone can do that. A lot of people feel too obligated to leap in and become part of the story.

You might call Jupiter in Aquarius cold blooded. I would say that they are broad minded. This is a society motivated Jupiter. They are thinking about where everyone’s minds are and trying to find a new perspective. Jupiter in Aquarius is often thinking about what is socially viable. It has triplicity and triplicity is social support.

I don’t agree that Aquarius is a humanitarian. I think that Aquarius is a scientist—a social scientist. Jupiter is the planet of belief. When it is in Aquarius, it believes what can be socially assessed. Often, the air signs are broadminded but limited by language itself. Jupiter in Aquarius believes in the idealism of the languages that it speaks. For Einstein, this was German. For Obama, English, and Satie is French.

Jupiter in Aquarius people tend to be incredible writers. They are adept at using their words in the languages that they know. They also tend to think using the languages that they know.

Not all of our languages are spoken or written. There’s the language of touch—of bodies feeding and shitting and colliding. The embodied world is not the world of Jupiter or of Aquarius. The embodied world, the so-called filthy world, is ruled over by the nocturnal planets and signs.

So, Jupiter in Aquarius doesn’t like to get its hands dirty. They prefer theory. They are utter and complete geniuses when it comes to theory. This is a diurnal and airy planet in a diurnal and airy sign, one that prefers to hover faraway. Language opens doors but it also creates limitations. If you learn to think too well in one language, then you start to use your wit as a crutch.

Jupiter in Aquarius doesn’t always like to be in the world of bodies. That’s why, I think, Einstein was able to be such a humanitarian but feel such disgust at a colonized China that was breaking into several different people’s movements both fascist and grassroots. He liked humanity but he didn’t like people. He didn’t like people’s bodies. Einstein didn’t like India either. Both China and India are places with a lot of people, with a lot of bodies.

And, still, Jupiter in Aquarius is a visionary of ideas. I don’t want to discredit this Jupiter. This is one of the smartest placements. They tend to look up. That’s why they think so beautifully. They want to uplift a whole community. They want to bring people from the dirt up into elegant and beautiful theory. They want people to uplift themselves. That desire for betterment, I think, only comes partially from the reluctance to be on the ground. The desire for betterment, I think, is part of Jupiter in Aquarius’s idealism.

Jupiter in Aquarius is like a bird looking into the distance. Their job isn’t to be involved in everything or even to take that much action. Their job is to just give us a new way of seeing. This is a filmmaker’s Jupiter. They are willing to see even when the world is in despair because, in a flood, a bird doesn’t drown. Jupiter in Aquarius refuses to drown. They refuse to suffer. They only want to chart a new way.