House 9

Far travel and the clergy sit together here in Lilly 1659, with voyages beyond the seas, bishops and lesser ministers, books and learning. The link appears to be distance from the familiar. The Sun has his joy in this house, and Jupiter is its cosignificator, a planet naturally tied to it.

Lilly reports from his own casebook that Jupiter here marks devout people and that the malefics here go with unbelievers or extreme sectarians. Those are a seventeenth-century man's judgments on religion and they stay in his century. The house is cadent, the group he ranks lowest, though his order places it above the other three cadent houses.

Sepharial 1920 adds publications and legal affairs to long travel and belief, and Alan Leo, writing before 1917, stresses higher thought and the image-making power. Modern popular astrology speaks of university, philosophy and foreign cultures, which follows the old outline fairly closely.