9th House Astrology A Guide To The Zodiac's Ninth House
The ninth house, tells us how we learn and expand our knowledge. It talks about our higher beliefs and spiritual identity and indicates where our hopes and desires point to.
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Let’s take a look at the ninth house.
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- 9th House Meaning In Astrology
- Planets In The 9th House
- 9th House Through The Signs
9th House Meaning
9th House Of Astrology- What Is It?
In Astrology, the ninth House refers to philosophy, religion, law, learning, higher education (as opposed to early education by the 3rd House), ethics, morals, long journeys, travel, foreign countries and interests, spiritual urges, dreams, visions, higher mind, ideas, understanding and wisdom, books, publishing, ceremonies, and rituals. This is the House of big thoughts and big ideas.
The ninth house of astrology gives information about the spiritual and religious beliefs of a person. This house is mainly affected by the karma of previous life and controls the childhood. It also gives information about the principles, morals, strength, and luck of a person. This house is also responsible for the realization of mistakes.
9th house “understanding” is more complex than 3rd house “knowledge”. The act of “knowing” belongs to the 3rd house because it implies simply the direct contact of a person with something in his environment. Understanding involves the synthesis of known data.
While the 3rd house refers to an individual’s need to understand his close and personal environment, the 9th house is an area in which one seeks to discover the significance of larger fields of social existence which one may not experience directly but which his mind may explore through the use of analogy, generalization and abstraction. The 3rd and 9th houses symbolize the 2 polarities of the human mind, the concrete and the abstract.
In summary, the 9th house includes experiences that we encounter when we search for the meaning of things. Whatever expands your field of activity or the scope of your mind – long journeys, contact with other cultures, great dreams, and even experiences with fortunetellers.
- House Ruler: Jupiter
- Position: Cadent
- Keyword: Learned Beliefs
Word Summary describing the nature of your travels and new perspectives in life, depending on what Zodiac sign you have in the 9th House:
- Aries – Sudden
- Taurus – Slow
- Gemini – Carefree
- Cancer – Emotional
- Leo – Intended
- Virgo – Prepared
- Libra – Planned
- Scorpio – Surprising
- Sagittarius – Distant
- Capricorn – Elaborate
- Aquarius – Unconventional
- Pisces – Difficult
- Sun – Constantly
- Moon – Wished
- Mercury – Curiosity
- Venus – Smoothly
- Mars – Drastic
- Jupiter – Frequently
- Saturn – Duty
- Uranus – Discovery
- Neptune – Fantasy
- Pluto – Inevitably
Planets In The 9th House
Planets In The Ninth House
The ninth house of astrology is ruled by the planet Jupiter which brings high principles, values and morals. Following is what different planets bring to the ninth house of astrology :-
Sun In 9th House
All of this focuses mostly upon activities which serve to further and explore – or it certainly should do. Such activities could therefore include publishing, travel, philosophy, law, religion, teaching, sports and further education. It’s important for you to find a meaning to your life and to gain a sense that everything is ultimately going somewhere because then you’d have a broad view of life issues, possess an evolving sense of right and wrong, and also make a good travelling companion.
Moon In 9th House
Whatever your feeling nature is, there is an energy and enthusiasm to it because you are instinctively aware that the World is more than we can ever know. And so you perennially sense the possibility that around the corner waits another enthralling clue to the mystery of life. For the same reason, you can be adept at reading signs and omens.
Mercury In 9th House
Primarily, you use these mental capabilities to evolve a philosophy of life, (through travel, study, conversation, etc.) that keeps you free of stale ideas and biased attitudes that slow so many others down almost to a standstill. You aim to maintain a free and open mind. On the negative side though, you can be inclined to roll around the world and accumulate not much more than passport stamps and a globe trotting, laid-back manner.
Venus In 9th House
These love feelings of yours find a clearer focus in your developing a philosophy of love through your covering mental or physical ground and so the love you seek is likely to be experienced upon a journey or with a person in, or from, a foreign land. Places of higher learning are also conducive to your finding love, as well as pleasure and rewards.
Mars In 9th House
Your manner of self-assertion most readily finds expression in the field of your beliefs and in areas of furtherance – such as travel, law or higher education. You see – or need to see – your moral convictions as especially valid ones because they are what determine the strength of your assertiveness. Taken to extreme, you can have a righteous and crusader-like attitude and this means that you are bound to meet someone or something that challenges it.
Jupiter In 9th House
Jupiter in the 9th House puts Faith in life for you should always be on the up and up because opportunities for furtherance – through such pursuits as travel, higher education, philosophy or religious seeking – come and go in abundance. However, a lot depends upon whether you make the most of them by putting hard work and effort into making progress an ongoing thing rather than just a chance occurrence that peters out.
Saturn In 9th House
Saturn brings these lessons and tests (and the authority that they can earn you), focus largely upon issues of belief and morality. As if to set this in motion, you were probably brought up with a very strict morality and rigid religious doctrine, or, in the absence of any kind of faith or divine law. It could also have been a combination of the two – like a political ideology – or you could since have reversed your philosophy of life. In any event, what you are trying to attain is an image of ‘God’ that is more practical and accommodating of your individual personality.
Uranus In 9th House
Uranus brings These changes and advancement through technology or alternative disciplines, are likely to find their way into your life via further education, travel to foreign parts, or generally seeking to broaden your horizons through religion or philosophical thought and discussion. What you believe in has to have an unconventional, even rebellious, quality about it. You are likely to pursue systems of belief that originate in a culture very different to your own.
Neptune In 9th House
For you, such sensitivity and spirituality manifests itself in a search for some belief or higher meaning to life. Any need that you have to find an ‘answer’ or a ‘way’ is strongly influenced by emotional fears and fancies. You are therefore liable to convince yourself that anything or anyone who offers an all-inclusive philosophy (or way out) of life is worth giving up a lot for.
Pluto In 9th House
Pluto in the house of Power and transformation come to you via your beliefs and moral standards. You have deeply held convictions concerning these matters, or else you’ll feel hounded until you discover them. Behind all this you could have a ‘hell-fire and damnation’ sort of image of God which can either put you off religion altogether or make you into a zealot.