Jupiter rules the ninth house by nature and operates there without impediment. Belief, higher study, foreign places, and the long view are its own ground. The native needs a framework large enough to stand up in, and finds one — a faith, a discipline, a philosophy — usually more than once. Foreign countries are not visited but inhabited; many such natives live abroad for years and speak of it as the making of them.
Learning continues lifelong and is undertaken for its own sake rather than for a qualification. The native reads outside their field, takes the additional degree at fifty, and teaches whether or not anyone is paying them to. Publishing, the law, the academy, the church, and the travel trades all suit. There is an unusual capacity to hold the long view in practice: this native can wait fifteen years for something and does not experience the wait as a hardship.
The cost is a doctrine that outgrows the evidence. The native generalises magnificently from too little, and the resulting position is defended with warmth rather than argument. Preaching is a constant temptation, and the native does not distinguish it from conversation. There is also a tendency to be permanently in transit toward a larger meaning, so that the actual life — the household, the accounts, the neighbour's fence — is handled distractedly, as an interruption.
What It Gives
- ◆Lifelong appetite for learning
- ◆At ease living abroad
- ◆Genuine long-range perspective
- ◆Teaches with real generosity
What It Costs
- ◆Generalises beyond the evidence
- ◆Preaching mistaken for conversation
- ◆Practical matters handled distractedly
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