Named in 1999 as the Man of the Century, Einstein’s status as a scientist and physicist has few parallels throughout history. Aspects in his horoscope reveal how a perceptive yet disciplined student rose to international renown through his Theory of Relativity.
Einstein’s Horoscope
Albert Einstein was born on at 11:30 a.m. on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. A brief glance at his chart shows Sun in Pisces in the tenth house, Moon in Sagittarius in the sixth house and Cancer rising.
The placement of the Sun in the tenth house indicates that Einstein would rise to prominence in the public eye whether he sought it or not. Those born with the Sun in Pisces are inclined to be kind, mild-mannered people who are highly intuitive.
Pisceans avoid confrontation and often defer the practical managing of their lives to others. Einstein’s reputation in all of these characteristics preceded him. He avoided playing chess because he thought it too aggressive and delegated virtually all everyday tasks to his wives, secretary or stepdaughters. Pisces is a water sign and the planet Venus, the sign of arts and music, is exalted in it. Einstein’s favorite pastimes were sailing and playing his violin.
Mercury, the planet that indicates how information is processed, is in the sign Aries and conjunct Saturn, the planet of boundaries and restrictions. This tight conjunction of Mercury and Saturn is also in his tenth house of public image and career, indicating that his connection with the implementation of tightly structured information would make the world sit up and take notice of him. The fact that this conjunction is in the sign of Aries, the sign that signifies anything new or trailblazing, is quite appropriate in the case of Einstein.
Einstein's Intuition and Imagination
Einstein was an excellent student in his youth, and was usually at the top of his class in science. At age five, his father showed him a compass, and his fascination with the compass needle always returning to true north made a lasting impression on him.
At age 16, Einstein visualized himself traveling alongside a beam of light to determine its speed of travel. In mid-life Einstein asked a poet how he worked at writing poetry. When the poet responded that intuition and imagination played a large role in its creation, Einstein responded, “It's the same for a man of science. It is a sudden illumination, almost a rapture. Later, to be sure, intelligence analyzes and experiments confirm or invalidate the intuition. But initially there is a great forward leap of the imagination."
Jupiter, the planet of expansion and higher learning, is in the progressive sign of Aquarius in the ninth house of academics, publications, ethics and foreign countries. While born in Germany, Einstein eventually claimed Swiss and then American citizenship.
Aquarius is the sign of science and technology, and it was his prodigious ability in these areas that ushered in the atomic age. The ninth house also rules religion and it is no surprise that the free-thinking Einstein eschewed organized religion, leaning toward a more cosmic and universal design with his famous phrase “God doesn’t throw dice.”
The Theory of Relativity
Einstein’s fame was secured when he published his discovery of the Theory of Relativity in 1905. During this year, Saturn, the planet of structure, was exactly conjunct Einstein’s strongly placed Jupiter in Aquarius in his ninth house of higher learning. This transit of Saturn was an extremely strong indicator of scientific breakthrough with international impact.
A very basic explanation of this theory (E=MC 2), is as follows: Tiny amounts of pieces of mass can be converted into huge amounts of energy. More specifically, one kilogram of mass would convert into approximately 25 billion kilowatt hours of electricity; the energy contained in the mass of a raisin could supply most of New York City's energy needs for a day. It was this theory that presaged the development of nuclear power.
Source:
- Walter Isaacson, Albert Einstein, His Life and Universe.
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