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.
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.
The 9th house rules one’s teacher or preceptor, higher education and higher knowledge, long journeys, luck, fortune, publicity, grand children, worship, penance, dharma, prayer, spiritual initiation and inclination. This is the house of faith, wisdom and worship. The 9th house rules religious and philosophical beliefs, weather a parson is religious, devoted, charitable, orthodox or meditative all is to be ascertained from this house. It is considered to be an auspicious house as it shows one’s fortune in the present life as a result of past actions. The ninth is the house of intuition and pure reason it rules the higher education, higher knowledge and higher thought. The degree of knowledge one may develop whether collegiate, academic, philosophical, religious, literary, artistic or scientific – is to be deduced from this house. The ninth house presides over research, invention, discovery and exploration. The ninth house governs publishing and all forms of advertising, long journey, sea voyage, air travel, etc. It determines the amount of travel in far-off places or countries and the success achieved there. We can say this is the house related to broadening one’s horizons.
This house refers to the ninth sign of zodiac, the Sagittarius or the Dhanu or Dhanush. The natural significator of the ninth house is the planet Jupiter. The parts of the body ruled by the ninth house are the thighs, hip and the buttocks. As per Mundane or State or Political Astrology, the ninth house signifies law courts, judges, clergy, religious majority, legal departments, matters relating to religion, temples, churches, publishing, universities and those connected with them, emigration and immigration, import and export of the nation. It governs all the matters signified by law and justice ministry.
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