The 9th house is naturally associated with the sign of Sagittarius and its ruler Jupiter. After the often painful experiences in the 8th, in the 9th house we seek to understand the meaning of our experiences and our connections to the greater whole. This house represents our search for meaning through philosophy and religion. In this area of life we also seek to expand our knowledge and awareness through travel and higher education. Hence this house is also connected with all forms of higher education, travel to foreign lands, the law, religion and the use of the higher or more intuitive mental faculties. Extracts of text taken from Soul Scope Report written by Lyn Birkbeck
Sun in the 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.
Sometimes your ability to see things as a whole means that you overlook important details. On the other hand, your prophetic sense of the shape of things to come - and your personal growth itself - would be severely hampered by having to consider too closely the pedestrian issues of life. Get my Soul Scope Report
Moon in the 9th House
All these needs and feelings are most likely to be met through friends, clubs, social movements, or the nurturing of some ideal. All these matters will go through phases, causing your goals and allegiances to fluctuate. Overall, you manage to keep your emotional life fairly light and breezy.
You prefer not to get morbid and heavy in one-to-one relationships and, if things get that way, you will go out with friends or to somewhere impersonal. This can be a good safety valve, but a bad habit if you make your friends or associations into an emotional crutch. It is wise to take a break from them every so often in order to re-establish your own identity, not to mention facing any more intimate emotional commitments.
All the same, you are capable of appealing to the crowd on an emotional level, which means that you have a finger on the pulse of the public's attitude to political, sociological or cultural issues. Get my Soul Scope Report
Mercury in the 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. This, or some other form of being a rolling stone, could be a way you have of not letting life get to you, but it can reach a point where very little gets to you at all - and boredom ensues. Your naturally philosophical bent really does have to continue looking for a meaning to life - an endless journey.Get my Soul Scope Report
Venus in the 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.
As well as love, artistic expression has to have some kind of religious meaning to it. Both love and art must teach you something and allow you to teach others. For you, the whole issue of morality carries great weight where love and relating is concerned - for good or ill. Love for you is generosity of feeling and greatness of understanding. Get my Soul Scope Report
Mars in the 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.
If you are aware of the fact that your quixotic temperament can lead to you looking a bit foolish at times, then this trait of your character can be generally regarded as enlivening others' philosophy of life. In a sexual context, this can be regarded as endearingly chivalrous if you are male - or as being deserving of chivalry, if you are female. If you are not aware of this, it could have quite the opposite effect. Get my Soul Scope Report
Jupiter in the 9th House
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.
You are keen to discover some kind of overall meaning to life, again though; you can have the attitude that the 'meaning of life' is some kind of joke. What all this amounts to is that you either invest in and exploit your many talents and opportunities and not give up when the going gets rough, or, you adopt a cavalier attitude that protects you from having to keep the faith when the odds are against you. In the meantime, of course, your life just trickles away. Get my Soul Scope Report
Saturn in the 9th House
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.
Other areas of trial are higher education, law, foreign affairs and travel, yet with effort and discipline; you stand to excel in one of these fields - including religion. Whenever you feel stuck or held back in life it will be because you're either (a) resting on your laurels, (b) following someone else's rules too much, or (c) living by the letter of the law rather than by the spirit of it. 'Beaten paths are for beaten people'. Get my Soul Scope Report
Uranus in the 9th House
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.
You could well decry religion, God, or anything divine and prefer to believe in what you know from your own experience rather than through what you've been taught. Sudden opportunities to travel or mix with the unlikely can come to you out of the blue. Such openings should be jumped at - it is your soul speaking! However, if Uranus has difficult Aspects to other planets, there will be a need for caution while you travel in or to other countries or unknown territories. Get my Soul Scope Report
Neptune in the 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.
This can involve anything from going off on a journey to some exotic foreign part to find what you are seeking, or just dropping out of college for a life of drugs or alcohol. Anything that takes away from the dull everyday plod of life is what exercises a strong pull.
This can lead you down many a false trail; but this is all part of your search - as you probably know. For you the road really does lead forever on - and with some discipline and creative imagination you can then turn this into a positive feeling and convey this sublime truth to others in some way. Get my Soul Scope Report
Pluto in the 9th House
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.
At any rate, you are fiercely opinionated. Sooner or later, you have to forge a reverence for some set of laws and beliefs that will guide you along your way, even though they will constantly go through changes. All this can give a prophetic sense of doom or the 'Day of Reckoning'. The prospect of death also plays an important part in your philosophy of life. Travel and higher education are activities that can change your life. So, if transformation is what you're after, then get thee to a college or an airport! Get my Soul Scope Report
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Each Planet is located in one of the 12 Houses of the Chart.
