Aquarians Are Often Eclectic, Imaginative and Free Spirited Thinkers

~ sometimes erratic and sometimes brilliant.

" Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form." ~ Albert Einstein

The name Albert Einstein has become synonymous with genius. The scientific definitions of our modern age ~ from the Bomb to space travel, electronics and quantum physics ~ all reflect his amazing radical thinking.

Although not a Sun Aquarius, Einstein had Aquarius in the ninth house, the house of higher learning. The 9th house represents the collective mind after it has been organized. Here is where we gather our thoughts together into one principle or belief system. Thus laws, religions and philosophies are created that represent the thinking of many minds.

Certainly, with Aquarius on the 9th, Einstein's beliefs were anything but common and seemed crazy to many people of his time. With Uranus, the modern ruler of Aquarius, in the 3rd house, Einstein had a brilliant, creative and intuitive mind plus a radical and restless quality of mental and nervous energy. His radical and revolutionary thinking led him to rebel against the established beliefs of his time. The "nice little Aquarian/Uranian T-Square" mentioned above is well expressed in his very famous quote ~ "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

Other Quotes from a Genius ~

On Intelligence ~

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning."

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

On Science, Art, and Religion ~

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"It is the theory that decides what we can observe."

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

On War ~

"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service."

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."

On Relativity ~
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"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity."

On Life ~
"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible."

On the Universe ~

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."

"When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about."

Genius is more than just originality, creativity, or intelligence, genius is associated with achievement of insight which has transformational power.

We all have Aquarius and Uranus, its modern ruler, somewhere in our birth-chart and these are the areas of our genius. Think about where you think in ways you have not been taught to think. Where is it that you march to the beat of a different drum? It's in these areas of your life that you can best understand the gifts and trials of Aquarius and Uranus.