The sign is generational and impersonal; the ninth house is what makes this native, specifically, a believer. Faith arrives here not as a conclusion but as an experience — something that happened once, in a building or a landscape or a piece of music, and cannot be argued about because it was never argued into place. The native is religious in temperament whether or not they belong to anything, and finds the sceptic's position not wrong but oddly deaf.
Distance exerts a pull that has nothing to do with tourism. The native is drawn to a particular country, tradition, or language with the force of homesickness, often before ever going there, and on arrival experiences recognition rather than novelty. Pilgrimage, mission work, translation of sacred texts, and the study of what cannot be measured all belong here. Such natives make inspiring teachers and unreliable scholars.
The cost is a credulity that costs real years. The native follows a teacher, a movement, or a system on the strength of how it felt in the first month, and cannot be reached by evidence until the disillusionment arrives on its own schedule. Study is pursued dreamily and rarely completed. And a belief this beautiful makes ordinary life seem provisional, so the native lives at a slight angle to the century they were actually born into.
What It Gives
- ◆Faith experienced rather than argued
- ◆Inspiring, atmospheric teaching
- ◆Deep affinity with foreign traditions
- ◆Comfort with the unmeasurable
What It Costs
- ◆Follows teachers too readily
- ◆Formal study rarely completed
- ◆Ordinary life feels provisional
This is one line of a whole chart. The rest of it — every placement, house and aspect at once — is a birth date away.
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