9 house: Worldview and long trips

Houses

What expands my world and what do I believe in?

The ninth house expands the horizon: higher education, long journeys, foreign cultures, beliefs and worldview. It concerns what a person believes in and how they explain the structure of the world.

Look at the planets in the ninth house and Jupiter: they describe beliefs and a pull towards the distant. Saturn here indicates a demand for proof, Neptune indicates faith that does not require evidence.

A house without planets does not mean the theme is absent. It is read by the sign on its cusp and the ruler of that sign: where the ruler is placed, the theme goes. Empty houses in a chart are usually more than half – there are ten planets and twelve houses.

Houses are built with the Placidus system from the time and place of birth. An error of four minutes in the time shifts the Ascendant by about a degree, and an error of an hour can move a planet into the neighbouring house. Without a known time the platform shows no houses at all, rather than inserting noon and producing a plausible but wrong chart.