The ninth house is belief, higher study, and foreign places. The Moon there makes conviction a source of comfort rather than argument. Such natives need to feel that the arrangement means something, and in the absence of that feeling they become restless in a way no domestic improvement will fix. Faith, when held, is emotional rather than doctrinal — the native could not defend it in debate and does not need to, since it functions as a floor rather than a proposition.
Movement settles them. A change of country, or even of county, produces a lift that no amount of rearranging at home can match, and many such natives make a home abroad and find they feel more native there than at birth. Foreign food, foreign languages, and unfamiliar customs are absorbed with unusual ease. Teaching, translating, and writing about elsewhere come naturally, and the native is a genuinely good guest.
The cost is chronic dissatisfaction with the present location. The next place always promises the settlement this one has failed to provide, and the native may spend thirty years arriving. Beliefs are adopted by feeling and abandoned the same way, which produces a succession of sincere and incompatible convictions. There is also a habit of moralising in the language of emotion — declaring a thing wrong because it feels wrong, and refusing to examine the feeling.
What It Gives
- ◆Ease in unfamiliar countries
- ◆Comfort drawn from belief
- ◆Wide, absorbent sympathies
- ◆Gift for teaching warmly
What It Costs
- ◆Restless with present circumstances
- ◆Convictions adopted by feeling
- ◆Moralising instead of reasoning
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