people don’t understand the essence and impact of the ninth house
The ninth house isn’t just an indicator one has an interest in other cultures or spirituality just because you’re born a naturally wanderlust person
Common knowledge: the ninth house is about the application of accumulated knowledge (3rd house corresponding to 9th house), it can therefore be linked to publishing and applying knowledge on a bigger scale, it’s about the institution of higher education and law, it’s about your access and relationships to these institutions and furthermore, since the 3rd house knowledge can be stored and progressively developed in the 9th, and the 9th is house teaching us where we want to apply our knowledge, it can also speak about our general perspective on and aspirations for the future.
It is the house that can ask us about what comes next and simultaneously can raise the question why and what we are doing things for.
The relationship of the all areas the 9th house resides in trickles down to the topic of faith.
Faith deals with what is going to happen to the self and our lived reality in the future.
Faith - doesn’t matter if it’s in our self, other people or something spiritual - is that thing that gives us hope.
To have faith is to have hope, and to have those two is to be daring enough to apply for that university, to publish this book, to go into that court case despite uncertainty, and most (!) importantly to dare to face every day despite the hardships.
Having a negatively affected 9th house can be brought in association with depression. With a lack luster, bleak life, that you will not see the appeal in to wake up for every day.
What if you try to go for that bigger dream but you get tested every day, your tries get shattered repeatedly?
What if your relationship to faith is tested? What if it doesn’t exist? No matter if it trickles down to the faith in yourself, the faith in god, the faith in other people, to have faith will force us to confront our own believe systems and if these systems of trust are strong enough to withhold the chaos of life.
The third house deals with early socialization processes. It’s part of the first thoughts, the foundation, installed into us.
What if the third house is damaged? Can the ninth house truly thrive when the first layer of what we interact with, see, intake, get told by others, how we get treated, is crushed?
Astrology can show possibilities of circumstances and manifestations of all kind. The third house can be strong and the ninth can still be attacked (think about transits activating the ninth house, or outer circumstances that test our inner foundation).
The dead ninth house can lead to a dead life. A dead person. Spiritually, intellectually, materially. It literally can take the spark of your life.
A dead ninth house can feed depression.
Once that spark is gone, what can we look forward to, what is life truly worth living for?
That’s why saturn in the 9th can be so dangerous, for many reasons. It can lead to spiritual death for some individuals.
The ninth house won’t ever just be about travels, a wanderlust lifestyle or a religious being merely for the sake of being one, as pop astrology likes to make one believe.
The ninth house deals with an outmust important area of life just as every (!) house does.