THE NINTH HOUSE IN ASTROLOGY

The ninth house in Astrology is the natural ruler of the sign of Sagittarius and the Planet Jupiter.  Sagittarius and Jupiter combined speak of optimistic expansion through the use of the mind and through life’s experience.  This house seeks to expand the scope of the mind’s focus using whatever means appropriate in reaching this understanding.......whatever that understanding may entail.

Higher education is one means to finding answers, whether this is through actual academic schooling or through the school of life.  As learning can come from many sources in the ninth house, long distance travel, foreign cultures and travel through the mind are all areas that relate to this house.  Many of life’s issues and deeper understandings can be attained while visiting foreign countries and the people one meets along this journey.  One seeks to discover more of our world through communication with people of different cultures to gain an appreciation of our own life’s meaning.

This house provides learned through gathering of information gained through experience.  It is the house of philosophy and religious interaction, and planets found in this house use their particular energies to uncover philosophic meaning to an otherwise conventional world.  Within the realms of the ninth house, the higher meanings of life can be unearthed by wisdom gained through experience of whatever satisfies this yearning for truth.

Dreams and visions also come into play in this house as the mind’s focus shifts and works through channels that consciousness only discovers when delving into these states.  Problems can be resolved through these avenues and then modified to fit into the proper channels of your life which are understood on a conscious level.

The ninth house is where we uncover the truth through whatever channel that provides us with answers.  It is the study of religion in its highest order and through philosophic understandings and truths that we slowly grasp while travelling our life’s journey. 

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Enter Spring

As life is a symbolic journey and we are now into the season of spring, it is significant to pay attention to the seasons in terms of our life’s course.  Life is a mirror’s reflection and spring is a time of renewal and a time of new life emerging.  As the perennials once again begin to sprout and emerge from beneath the surface, we can feel this energy in our environment and can join forces in the awakening that is taking place around us. 

Life is sprouting and starting anew and our quest for awareness draws ever stronger.  We all participate in this process whether we are aware of this consciously or not.  Why are you reading this post?  It is part of the process and we are joined together as one uniting in our ongoing focus on the emerging of self as an individual but also as part of our pure essence. 

Spring is a beautiful season, as the grass begins to awaken with its brilliant colour, as the trees buds and as plants push forward with the intent to bloom.  As new life begins to unfold in the spring so do you, although this process does not begin with the seasons but resonates with them.

Our journey is ongoing just as the journey of each of the plants that are emerging from the ground.  They lie dormant for the winter, as we lay dormant before our awakening process or during times of holding onto negative energy.  Life pushes through the surface with great vigor but has to fight its way from beneath the surface as we do when attempting to recognize our evolutionary growth.  Breaking through the surface is always the most difficult and in maintaining our pursuit, we must remain relentless.  We have to push forward regardless of restraints and obstacles, just as the plant emerges through the pressures of the earth’s weight and obstacles in the way to finally break the surface.

Eventually we emerge just as the new sprouts of spring.  These sprouts are nurtured by the atmosphere, the sunshine and the rain shared by the clouds.  We in turn are nurtured by our attitude, love and life lessons.  It is obvious that we are all joined by our essence, something far beyond the mundane concerns of everyday living.  Those small obstacles that get in our way from time to time emerge initially as giants that penetrate our otherwise calm existence, yet when faced and dealt with dwindle in significance and no longer are seen as overwhelming obstacle.  The emerging plant deals with such adversity when stones and broken branches block the sunlight and obstacles which it too has to has to overcome.  If we are flexible, we can bend to get around any blockage in our growth.

Our life plays out as a mirror’s reflection.  If we pay close attention to our immediate surroundings and the environment we dwell in, we will realize that our exterior world is simply a reflections of inner self.  Take hold of life.  Defeat the challenging obstacles that hinder progress and allow your true self to emerge from beneath the surface and blossom into the beautiful flower you have always meant to be.

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SATURN/URANUS INCONJUNCT IN ASTROLOGY

Beginning in the third week of June and then strongly emphasized in July and then weakening in August of 2014, transiting Saturn and Uranus are making an inconjunct to one another at 15-17 degrees in Scorpio and Aries.  If you have, for example, your midheaven in 15-17 degrees Aries or Scorpio (in particular these two signs but other signs at the same degrees will also be under this influence), you will experience a need for adjustment and potentially a change of direction.

The inconjunct or quincunx is an Astrological aspect of transition and adaptation and usually signifies the requirement for alterations and adjustments to life.  The quincunx is not considered an extreme condition, such as a square and an opposition.  Some Astrologers link the quincunx to an added agitation which sometimes surfaces as health concerns, although not extreme in nature.  These stresses indicated by other influences in the Chart will surface and may turn into health concerns due to the strain of the initial contacts.

Inconjuncts suggest that one should face the situation accordingly and not to try to rid oneself by ignoring the issue.  It is important to actually face the problem and challenge its validity.  Once faced, you can make alterations which will help facilitate change necessary to overcome the condition.  It is like an added anxiety to an already difficult situation that exists.  These require an adjustment and the inconjunct expedites this action.

If your Ascendant or Midheaven is 15-17 degrees and particularly in the signs of Aries or Scorpio during the time frame as we first mentioned, your working environment, your aspirations, your goals in life and many aspects that affect you personally such as marriage and partnership will be activated and affected.  Your status in life may go through periods of change, and adjustments will be required during this time period.

If your Ascendant or Midheaven is affected during this time and natally (in the Birth chart) they are well aspected, these changes may not be very disruptive and may even be welcomed.  If these areas in your Natal chart are poorly aspected, you may experience turbulent times and abrupt changes that you will have to adjust too.  It should, however, be pointed out that aspect regardless of their nature always have a silver lining.  In most cases, the final conclusion of these events offers a new beginning and a chance for a new start.

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FOLLOW YOUR HEART

How frequently do you question what it is you are doing with your life?  Do you currently feel stagnated and not sure which way to turn?  Does your heart say something and you mind tell you something else?  What are you supposed to follow – your heart or your mind?  How can you be sure if you are making the right decisions?

It is a question of faith.  Are you following your heart’s desire?  Are you listening to your inner guiding voice or are you using logic to come up with a resolution to you concerns?  Sometimes logical and emotional responses are miles apart.  What exactly are you trying to accomplish?  Will your decision meet all of your needs?  Other people also play into the decision making, but ultimately, you have to do what is best for you.

Make sure that you are not surrendering to a situation and giving up the fight as there is always fight left in you. 

Make sure you are not intentionally hurting others with your choice.  How will others be affected by what you do?  Be honest and know that you can never fool yourself.  What will the ramifications be from your actions and how will it affect you down the road when you move beyond the current conditions in your life?

If you have given yourself the time to fully and honestly contemplate your actions, you have to trust yourself that you will uncover the answer.  There are times that the decisions will be tough ones and you may have to go through some challenges initially, but you will overcome all obstacles in your life.  Know this and stay strong to your conviction.  Know that once your action has been initiated, you will need to stay true to yourself and your decisions.

There are those that feel as though they have come to a point in life where there is no longer hope.  You have to remember that this is your current view coming from a vantage point that knows nothing beyond what is has experienced.  You will persevere and reach the other side of this situation.  Do not give up.  The answer lies at the next juncture. 

There is a life plan for you and you serve a unique purpose.  You WILL uncover your path.  You just need a little push to get beyond that barrier and you are the only one that can do this.  Meditate to receive assistance in your decisions.  The response may not be a miraculous answer (although who is to say it cannot be) but without doubt, you will receive guidance that will help you to keep putting one foot in front of the other.  Never give up!  Know that your mission is tailor made with you in mind.  You are precious and perfect.  You just have to allow this part of you to shine and you will.  Have faith.  Meditate on faith.  Know that the answers will come.  Persevere.  Remain intent on overcoming all obstacles that come between you and your destiny for these are the life lessons you must learn.

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THE ELDERLY

Most of us have aging parents, grandparents and some of us are entering our senior years.  It can be difficult dealing with the aging process and the issues that go along with it. 

Those of us who have a relatively healthy body and are able to move without restriction should appreciate this miracle.  Regardless of physical limitations, it is important to keep as active as we possibly can and this includes mental exercise.  We need to continually exercise our brains just as much as we need to exercise our bodies.

For those of us caring for elderly parents or grandparents, the experience is not always a pleasurable one.  For some, our loved ones are no longer the people they used to be.  It is difficult to have to stand back and watch mental and physical ailments slowly steal our loved ones from us and there is little we can do about it.  It is important that we continually reassure them that we still care for them and hold them dear to our hearts.  Remind yourself when you are frustrated with situations, how difficult it must be for them.  Unfortunately, for their sake, we should keep our emotional responses under wrap to help them through their difficult transformations.

So many of our seniors suffer from and recognize their memory loss.  This realization simply aggravates the condition that much more.  Understandably, they fight to maintain control of their lives.  It is so important to be aware of the effects of these diseases.  Educate yourself.  You cannot allow yourself to become angry or frustrated with those that suffer these debilitating diseases. 

There are many of these patients that live in long care homes and receive little to no support from their families.  Although they forget, and maybe not even recognize their family members, they still enjoy a visit “from that kind stranger” that came today.  Small actions on our part can have an enormous impact on them, even if only temporarily.

Give of yourself when you can.  One day if we are lucky enough, we may reach our own ripe old age and it would be nice if our loved ones did not abandon us.  Remember we all walk that same road.  How we deteriorate is yet to be determined and how are last days are experienced may be in other people’s hands.

Live a giving life right to the end and help where you can.  There is little to lose and so much to gain.  Live for today as it’s all we truly have. 

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The Eighth House in Astrology

The eighth house is rather a mysterious house, although not quite as mysterious as the twelfth.  It is considered an occult house and many undertones related to the mystic have their origins in this house.  The occult is closely linked to this house, as it is ruled by Scorpio which has its routes buried in the psychic underground.  This house is also ruled by Pluto.  Pluto regenerates and causes one to delve deep into one’s own psyche and discover the undercurrents that push and pull us to where we are meant to go throughout our lives.  Pluto is all about transformations, life and death issues which are all closely linked to the eighth house.

Death and rebirth can be brought forward on many levels.  This house deeply relates to death and rebirth, when a transiting Planet passes through it.  By the time this transit has completed its course we will undergo a transformation which will focus on the energies of the planet passing through this house.  If there are planets located in this house, such as the Sun in our Birth chart, we will experience great changes to our core personality, especially if Uranus or Pluto is the planet transiting our Sun in this house.

This house does offer support along with an interest in uncovering our most inner characteristics, found deep inside the places that we may not venture often.  When an outer planet is transiting through this house, we may be forced to dig up issues that have been locked away in our subconscious for years.  The support that this house speaks about occurs when we confront these so called demons that have been dormant for years and face them head-on and transform them into something that can assist us.

This is also the house of legacies, wills, inheritance, alimony and taxes.  Depending on what needs to surface, a transforming planet such as Pluto passing through this area of our chart may bring these areas to the surface.  Other people’s money is governed by this house as well as joint finances.  Often issues are resolved by the time a planets passes through this house when there is a connection to these matters.

This is the house of the unspoken words, and often there are other powers related to spiritual connections associated to this house.  People with many planets in this house natally often have a marked increase in psychic experiences and especially when linked to any signs that are in the element of water.  It is a powerful house and often the necessary changes that need to take place in a person’s life unravel during times when planets are transiting through this house.  It usually takes a little time to uncover all the transformations that have taken place, as much lies beneath the surface.  You will have to uncover the hidden messages that may be revealed during transits through this house.

Sex is also under the domain of this house.  Much can be uncovered by looking at the eighth house to ascertain the sexual undercurrents in a person’s life.  The sign on the cusp will help to uncover much of the sexual undertones of the individual and how they respond to sexual content entering their lives.

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