House of
philosophy, higher education, religion,
spiritual
quests, and broadening your horizons.
© 2011 by Joyce Mason
All Rights Reserved
In Part
1, we explored Jupiter by sign. We covered how the flavor of your Planet of
Expansion influences your quest for life-long learning. As astrologers and astrology
students, knowing how your Jupiter ticks is nearly as important as having chart
software. Playing to the needs of your Jupiter will help you learn, grow, and
grasp new concepts better, make you a better spiritual adventurer, and give you
the broadest view of life.
This second article will
explore what’s going on in your 9th house. You know how Jupiter
likes to get bigger. This article series has expanded to three parts. Next
time, in the final segment, we’ll explore the house where your Jupiter lives,
if like most of us, it’s not in the 9th.
Door Number 9
Although we are mostly
focusing on Jupiter’s association with higher education and life-long learning,
I’ll add to the keywords under the 9 photo, above: long-distance travel,
contact with foreign cultures, cultural trends, history, prophecy and
educational institutions. These concepts, too, can have relevance to your best
learning environment profile.
If you don’t have any
planets in the 9th House, whatever sign is on the 9th House
cusp will be the prominent influence of your 9th House. It won’t be
quite as strong has having your Jupiter in that sign, but it will nonetheless exert
a significant influence on your learning atmosphere. Revisit Jupiter in the Signs
in Part
1 to get a sense of how that sign will work on your 9th House
cusp. Jupiter in Aries is a lot like Aries on the 9th House cusp.
Jupiter in Taurus a lot like Taurus on the 9th, and so on.
Get a feel for what
color your 9th House is painted—a red the
color of the planet Mars for Aries, a beautiful earth tone for Taurus, yellow for
Gemini, and perhaps an light blue for Cancer, the color of a
spring-fed lake. Leo might be gold, Virgo a
cool gray-blue, Libra a lush pastel, Scorpio blood red, Sag a fiery orange,
Capricorn a business suit gray, Aquarius an electric blue, and Pisces the blue-green
of the deep ocean. Visualizing the color brings the energy of your 9th
House to life.
Who Lives There?
Now let’s take a look at
the planets that reside in your 9th House, if any, and what they
might do in this astrological “building” akin to a college campus, library,
revival meeting, or a ship sailing ‘round the world.
Sun. You “are” the 9th House, a teacher
and/or learner in some form, traditional or more informal, depending on the
sign involved. Your creative self-expression is likely to run toward
publishing, law, or spirituality. You shine in 9th House enterprises,
and if you aren’t doing something that’s 9th-oriented, you are
likely to loose your luster and feel depressed. Especially if you’re a fire
Sun, you’re likely to be as much an entertainer as teacher. Regular travel is air
to you. Without it, you can barely breathe.
Sun in the 9th:
To feel whole, you must get out and experience other people and places on a
regular basis.
Moon. Feelings are your guru. You feel your way
through life and quite possibly have prophetic dreams and whispers that send
you on the next leg of your journey to learn more. If you aren’t expanding and
growing, you are in acute discomfort. The dark night of the soul is when so
much is going on for you emotionally; you can’t sense your connection to Spirit
and the All Knowing. Spirituality and
the quest for knowledge are supreme for you. Like Sun in the 9th,
Moon in the 9th is often a teacher as well as a life-long learner.
Moon in the 9th:
Let the Moon lead you, and let travel feed you. Your best vacation is often a
spiritual retreat.
Mercury. You love logic and analysis in learning and the
interaction of an educational community. Your many clever ideas find a home in
any multiple of classes, formal or informal, and thrive at the pace of the
Internet, a speed in keeping with Mercury, the Quicksilver God. You are also
the press agent for the 9th House, gathering articles and references
that you share widely, if you aren’t writing them yourself. You love news,
writing, facts, and practical education. You are the Professor of Gismos and will
help your friends know just which electronic toys to buy to make sure they can
Google on the remotest island.
Mercury in the 9th:
Nothing could be scarier to you than not having knowledge at your fingertips!
Always bring the charger for your Smartphone.
Venus. Mix
the planet of love and beauty with life-long learning. Envision a campus with
rolling hills, autumn leaves turning, and a student fed by those surroundings,
inspired to learn and grow. Ninth House Venus is likely to go to school or
community classes as much to meet others as to learn the course content. There’s
nothing wrong with that, inasmuch as relationships are the biggest university
in the School of Life. For this person, friendships and beauty must be part of the learning
equation—and teachers who are considerate, fair, and balanced in their approach
to sharing knowledge.
Venus in the 9th:
You love to learn with and through others in a comfortable, peaceful, happy
atmosphere.
Mars. You are action-oriented when it comes to learning,
and you’re likely to take a pioneering educational cruise—or to sign up for
other such learning ventures on impulse. Years-long degree courses are hard for
you to tolerate for their slow pace. You’re much happier with certificate
courses that let you get in, get what you need, get out and get on with it. You
love the competitive aspects of school, and if you feel you need a degree to
get what you want, the “sport” aspect of school will keep you going—and probably
the actual sports themselves. University sports are an important part of the
spirit that keeps students stoked through the educational process.
Mars in the 9th.
You’re likely to be drawn to subjects with adventure potential like archeology.
Surely Indiana Jones must have had Mars in the 9th.
Jupiter. Lucky
you, if you have Jupiter in its “own” house! Professor, minister, and spiritual
teacher are all possible professions. You are the biggest “lifer” of all the
life-long learners, and your quest to know truth will lead you to all kinds of
adventures, both in the classroom and out in the world of multicultural
influences. Your positive attitude and enthusiasm attracts students, fellow
learners, and truth-seekers with your magnetic personality.
Jupiter in the 9th: Think Santa
Claus gone back to school with all his generosity, jolliness, warmth and
goodwill. You are a beloved teacher and as a student, quite often the class
clown.
Saturn. You
don’t mind the discipline and structure that’s needed to get a higher
educational degree or the most complex of astrological certifications. You are
willing to deal with the structure, self-sacrifice and nose-to-grindstone
needed to get a diploma and probably a few other special awards along the way.
You’re wise and grounded, and you make a nice complement to some of the other
Jupiter signs among your peers who need your rooted responsibility to make the
organization work, whether it’s the university, the denomination if you’re a
minister, or your local astrological organization.
Jupiter in Saturn: You
provide the bones in educational organizations and endeavors and the framework
necessary to make them lasting. As both a student and teacher, you are hard
working and a dependable, often cherished authority figure.
Uranus. You’re the Dean of the Experimental College and the University without Walls! The more untraditional the learning
environment, the more you fit in. If you must be in a more conservative setting,
you’re a reformer. You turn the powers-that-be on their collective ear with
your innovations and bold objectives. As an astrologer, you are in hog heaven,
as it’s the kind of learning system that appeals to you, especially because
each chart is as unique as a fingerprint. As a social, friendly professor or
student, you love the group learning process. You prefer it, even though you’re
independent and have plenty of brainstorms solo that you bring back to your
colleagues or students.
Uranus in the 9th:
You want to unleash the power and brilliance of the individual to innovate
education, learning, and truth seeking. These great minds brought together
constitute a think-tank that can change the world—or at least your corner of
it.
Neptune. Learning
inspires you, and it’s just another way of getting to the truth of our Oneness.
You learn by intuition and through many right-brain media: dreams, music, myth,
spirituality and mysticism. With this placement, you may have difficulty at
times grasping and grounding what you’re learning. You may have a tendency to
escape "the real world" by becoming a professional student. School is
bliss, but it can’t get you to Universal Love without being shared. As a
teacher, you are intuitively inspired and often beloved.
Neptune in the 9th: You’re an ecstatic learner or fantastic
teacher, challenged to bring your visions of truth down to earth in a way that
others can grasp what you’re seeing.
Pluto. Ninth
House Pluto has deep and life-changing experiences around higher education,
religion and philosophy. He or she is often the embodiment of current cultural
happenings. Teachers change this person’s life. Sometimes there are deep
relationships involved, even sexual. This individual can also be affected to
the core by a guru or fellow student. Education might be this person’s “ticket
out” of a difficult life and make a huge difference in the trend of where s/he
was headed.
Pluto in the 9th:
You’re a zealous student and a powerful teacher.
North Node: With North Node of the Moon or the Dragon’s Head in the 9th,
your life purpose is deeply connected with learning. Fortune, prestige, and
connections are likely to come in educational and/or spiritual settings. Stay
true to your values and you will realize your dreams and visions.
North Node in the 9th:
Your path is the path of learning. Realizing your potential depends on keeping
both feet on the path at all times.
South Node: If South Node or the Dragon’s
Tail is in the 9th, you are likely to have teachers or professors in
the family as a legacy—even a past life as a scholar or learned elder. You come
from “brains” and wisdom. You may have the ability to draw on these roots as
unconscious talents. For you, it’s not so much about learning as remembering.
South Node in the 9th:
Tune into what you know from your genetic or past-life memories—and don’t being
afraid to trust your instincts.
Modifications/Taking Notes. Of course, all of the above will be tempered by the
sign in which each of the planets expresses. It will also be further modified
by having more than one planet in the 9th. In one article series, even
a three-parter, these permutations too large to tackle. But here’s what I call some homeplay (as
opposed to homework) that will help you better understand your Jupiter and 9th
House signature:
Start some notes from Part
1: Lift key words from the description of your Jupiter sign that really fit
you. In this Part 2, jot down the key words from planets in the 9th that
stand out to you the most. Once that’s done, add key words for the planets in
the signs from memory or your favorite reference, those that are most “you”. In
Part 3, you’ll add the House placement of Jupiter, if it’s not in the 9th.
By the end of the three articles, you’ll have the most important nuggets of how
Jupiter works for you.
9th
House Quotes by Robin Williams
Comedy is acting out optimism.
I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can
change the world.
Example from the chart of
Robin Williams, who teaches and entertains us by way of comedy:
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Jupiter in Aries (5th)
– Creative beyond most human boundaries, quick witted, fires one joke after another with machine gun speed, usually with profound punch lines. Loaded
9th: Uranus, Mars, Sun in Cancer followed by Pluto and Mercury in
Leo. Innovative, quick, intuitive, transformative, life-and-death and sexual
issues. With Mercury right on the MC in Leo, he’s a look-at-me messenger of
cultural angst and wisdom. Note Scorpio Rising and Pluto as chart ruler
conjunct Mercury. His profession of stand-up comic seems to meet all his
life-long learning needs and fits many of his other chart factors to a T, like
Uranus trine Moon. (He’s so far out; we originally met him as Mork from Ork.)
It’s great to remember
that laughter is both teacher and healer!
~~~
Next: Jupiter
in the Houses for the majority of us who don’t have Jupiter in the 9th—and
the conclusion and synthesis of the series.
by Willis Harman and Howard Rheingold, turned me on to the importance of down time in the creative process.
I’ve found myself “plumb tuckered,” an expression I learned from a Southern
belle, that I just love. I need to veg and to escape my own writing by reading
others’ novels. How do I fit it all in? My month has its share of previous
commitments, appointments, meetings, and a visit by my niece and her family.
Most of these things were planned before I got the Bell Rock Whisper that I was
being redirected to work on this book now. I’ve decided that I will continue to
rely on inner guidance to determine which things I can blow off or postpone and
which things I cannot … and those I simply have to view in a different way.
