ALMUTEM
Mars in House 9
Mars represents your energy, your desire and the courage to act. House 9 is the house of wide horizons: long journeys, higher learning, faith and philosophy. It's the search for meaning and for a truth greater than the everyday.
In the ninth house — of long journeys, of faith, of high study, and of the sacred — Mars occupies a cadent house, where his force acts only in part, far from the full vigour of the angles. The house of the Sun's joy, it is the soil of height and horizon, and the heat of Mars sets out here on a quest. Determined to long journeys — a signification of his when they are perilous — he inclines to the hazardous voyage, to the road through wild lands, to the pilgrim with sword at his belt. It tends to a combative zeal for the faith, to the dispute of doctrine, to the crusade for that in which it believes. It gives ardour for the study that demands effort, a will to conquer knowledge as one takes a stronghold. Upon religion he casts his flame: a fervour that as readily builds up as it sets ablaze. The force aims here far and high. Whether the quest uplifts or runs mad is resolved by the sign of Mars.