Jupiter in Aquarius

Saturn held Aquarius as his day house in Lilly 1659, and Ashmand's footnote to his 1822 Ptolemy records a particular familiarity between Saturn and Jupiter, a link he traces to the sextile between Aquarius and Sagittarius. Jupiter therefore enters this sign as a planet with an old connection to its owner.

Lilly calls the sign hot and moist, rational and humane, and its qualities match Jupiter exactly. He allots Jupiter degrees 21 to 25 as terms, and that is the only entry for this planet here. Ownership of Aquarius is disputed among later writers, with Adams 1928 giving it to Uranus and Heindel 1919 sharing it between Uranus and Saturn.

The pair has no portrait among these sources, so the method is all there is. Modern popular astrology connects this placement with ideals about society and with faith in reform. That link is a modern one, and a Jupiter sign stays in force for roughly a year of births.