Whereas the Moon was associated with the Great Earth Goddess, influencing human life through its earthly and mortal environment, the Sun was the Supreme Lord and Ruler of the Divine Heaven. [
] Its traditional rulership includes religion, revelations, dreams, visions and soothsaying. Today we call it the house of religion and the church, often forgetting that spiritual matters were once intricately linked with divination as a route to divine revelation. Cardan referred to the Suns sphere as that which pertained to the moral world, although ancient pagan religion was not only concerned with doing what is morally right, but also paying due respect to the gods, connecting with their will, and winning their approval in order to gain their favour. [...]
Being associated with the Sun, all things concerned with Higher Spirit or philosophical understanding are attributed here, and it is linked with places where wisdom and understanding are developed (such as universities, at one time the dominion of the church). Its identification with long distance travel is said to be an extension of the desire to learn, in the sense that we travel to broaden our horizons physically and mentally, and this seems naturally supported through the modern association Jupiter.
9th House Associations through History:
Manilius: destiny and decrees of the gods, temple of the sun
Others: travel, God, manifestations of the gods, revelations, soothsaying, friendship of and benefit from kings
Firmicus: religion, foreign travel, the social class of men, the home of the sun god, favourable because it aspects the ascendant by trine
Al-Biruni: travel, religion, fate, attainment of knowledge from the stars and divination, philosophy, interpretation of dreams
Lilly: foreign lands; long journeys; far away places, religion, clergy, dreams visions, learning
Modern: higher education, travel, foreigners, languages, moral ideas, conscience, dreams.
Associated Planets:
The Sun rejoices in the 9th.
Sagittarius and Jupiter are cosignificators.
Deborah Houlding: The Houses, Temples of the Sky
