The Astrological Houses: The Spectrum of Individual Experience by Dane Rudhyar

Author:Dane Rudhyar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-10-26T16:00:00+00:00

THE NINTH HOUSE

Exploring Possibilities for Expansion

The Development of Understanding and the Use of Symbols

The Dangers of Over-expansion in Individuals and Society

Experiences related to the ninth house are essentially those encountered by an individual in the course of his search for the meaning of things. This House, being a “cadent” House, also refers specifically to matters which enable partnerships and all kinds of group activity to operate most successfully and to expand within the framework of a particular society and culture. This requires a knowledge of the over-all conditions, procedures, and laws which structure a particular society's way of life and the possibilities this way of life presents for success and expansion. The ninth house is traditionally the house of philosophy and religion, but it also deals with all legal matters. It refers in general to whatever expands a person's field of activity or the scope of his mind – long journeys, close contacts with other cultures and with foreigners in general, and those “great dreams” which reveal to the open consciousness facing life-changes the meaning of past, present, and expectable events as well as the trends of individual and collective destiny. Experiences with seers, prophets, fortunetellers, future-oriented statisticians, extrapolators, etc., also come within this ninth house field.

The ninth house opposes and complements the third house. While the third house refers to the need of an individual to come to terms with, and thus to know and understand, his close and personal environment, the ninth house is an area in which he seeks to discover the significance of larger fields of social existence which he may not experience directly but which his mind may explore through the use of analogy, generalization, and abstraction. These two houses symbolize the two polarities of the human mind, the concrete and the abstract. Any fully developed mind operates in terms of a combination of both types of thinking, but nearly everyone will tend to favor one over the other. In our analytical and empirical age, the man with a scientific bent will naturally focus his attention on third house experiences; Louis Pasteur typifies this trend, as his birth chart reveals a complex aggregation of planets in the third house.

On the other hand, the metaphysician or the philosopher whose function is to synthesize data and to discover general principles could be expected to have a full natal ninth house. Such an expectation, however, is not too often justified, because planets in a house do not necessarily indicate that the individual will have outstanding experiences or produce great things in terms of what the house represents. A planet in a house indicates that the function signified by this planet should be used to its best advantage in dealing with the experiences to which the house refers; it should be used because problems will arise in that field of experience which can best be solved in this way. Where, however, there is no great problem in that field because the person is spontaneously able to handle what he finds there, the house may well be empty.

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