The ninth house is belief, higher study, and foreign places. Venus there attaches affection to the far off. Such natives fall for the country before they fall for anyone in it, and then frequently fall for someone in it. Marriages across nationality, faith, or language are common and usually work, since the difference itself is part of the attraction rather than an obstacle to be managed.
Beauty is sought as a form of meaning. The native travels to see particular buildings, learns a language for the sake of its poetry, and holds religious or philosophical positions largely on aesthetic grounds — this account of the world is more beautiful, therefore more likely true. Teaching, translation, the arts of another culture, and the hospitality trades abroad all suit. Generosity extends to strangers with an ease that surprises the native's own family.
The cost is the enchantment of distance. What is near is dull by definition, and the native undervalues a good local arrangement in favour of an imagined better one three time zones away. Beliefs are held because they are lovely and abandoned when a lovelier one is offered, which produces a sincere but unstable succession of convictions. And the same partner who was fascinating as a foreigner becomes ordinary once the customs are familiar.
What It Gives
- ◆Genuine love of other cultures
- ◆Aesthetic feeling for ideas
- ◆Generous toward strangers
- ◆Marriages across difference
What It Costs
- ◆Undervalues what is near
- ◆Beliefs chosen for beauty
- ◆Fascination fades with familiarity
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