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by Brian Habit

You have the Moon in Sagittarius in the 9th house.

The Moon represents the emotional and magical aspect of your psyche, your general mood or temperament. It’s that wild subjective part of you that will never be rational. The Moon teaches your spirit how to feel comfortable and how to satisfy its deeper needs. What matters to the Sun is how to feel sane. To satisfy your Libran Sun, you’ll need to pursue a long-term strategy of collaborating and negotiating with others, forming and maintaining congenial social bonds. For the Moon, what matters is how to feel content. Your Moon lies in visionary, expansive, idealistic Sagittarius. Your Sun in Libra seeks to draw separate elements into pleasing, effective connection with each other. That’s part of what motivates you at a conscious level. You might think, “This is who I am. This is what I’m about.” In contrast, your Moon in Sagittarius seeks philosophical, mystical, horizon-expanding journeys that help you have a sense of life’s ultimate purpose and meaning. There’s an underlying emotional drive to develop higher levels of consciousness.

When you were born the Moon was in Sagittarius--the sign of the Anthropologist, the Pilgrim, and the Gypsy. You need to channel your imagination, your subjectivity, and your emotional sensitivity into understanding the meaning of life. Look for emotional satisfaction through going on a lifelong quest to discover your reason for being. Horizon-expanding moments can move you deeply, whether they are intellectual, spiritual or geographical in nature. When you break out of the familiar and get a fresh perspective on life, when you express your creativity in the broad sense of the word, you feed your spirit. The same thing happens when you ponder life’s larger theological or philosophical questions.

To satisfy your craving to expand your horizons, you’ll need a strategy. Your strategy should include acting like a gypsy, spending time in first one new environment and then in another. Open yourself to thinking in unfamiliar ways and looking at life from a different perspective. If you go to a foreign country, you are bound to experience this. From a small town? Then go to the big city and see what it’s like. Are you from Metropolis?  Then spend some time in Smallville. You may not even need to travel that far. If you have a neighbor who’s from a different background, then go spend some time with him. That’s bound to open your eyes and your mind to something new.

You could also achieve your purpose by acting like a student or a philosopher. If you act like a student of life, then you learn through reading about new subjects, and you learn experientially. You learn by doing, whether you are formally enrolled in any course of study or not.  If you act like a philosopher, then you consider first one basic concept of life and then another. You approach life intuitively, making leaps based on your experience and continually broadening your vision of the world. 

And where do you most need to act like a gypsy, or a student, or a philosopher? In the 9th house, the house of experiences that lie beyond your everyday routines.

The 9th house is where we confront life’s tendency to become routine and mundane through experiencing the unusual or the out-of-the-ordinary. It’s where we get out of our everyday physical surroundings, rub elbows with people from different walks of life, and consider major philosophical, spiritual and intellectual matters. It relates to our belief systems—our philosophical point of view on life, our ethics and values, our worldview. Concretely, this house deals with religion, higher education, long-distance travel, other people’s communication, publishing, legal matters, foreigners and distant relatives.

With the Moon in the 9th house, you need to continually broaden your horizons and break new ground, physically, intellectually, and spiritually, in order to feel safe and sound emotionally. Whether you go to college, travel abroad, or do something else, anything you do to expose yourself to the exotic or the unfamiliar will feed your soul. To be emotionally satisfied, you need to contemplate existential or spiritual questions about what life is all about.

If you develop the worst potential of your Moon, then you could behave like an emotionally self-indulgent fool, a touchy fanatic, or an overbearing jerk that smothers others. Such behavior could really damage your spirit.

Like an emotionally self-indulgent fool, you could leap into situations without considering the details or the possible consequences realistically. You exercise bad judgment, acting on impulse. Maybe you spread yourself too thin, trying to juggle more than is realistically possible or promising more than you can deliver. Maybe you put your faith in someone or something that is unreliable. This could include falling head over heels for someone, moving from infatuation or the first blush of romance to a major commitment sooner that you would have wanted, in hindsight. Sagittarius loves having the freedom to roam the world, so in the romantic department, you could go to the other extreme. In that case, you become a rolling stone; you can never quite bring yourself to take the step of committing to a relationship, no matter how much you enjoy it or how well it seems to be going. You might take unreasonable risks, for example, not paying adequate attention to your health or to managing your finances.

Another hazard with the Moon in Sagittarius in the 9th house is going awry in terms of acting based on principle. At one extreme, you could see life as holding no truth or meaning. In that case, you act in unprincipled, narrowly self-serving ways, without regard for what is just or right. You get involved in organized crime, or you steal what you want from others. You’re the lawyer who engages in malpractice or gets in hot water for tax fraud.

At the other extreme, you become a touchy fanatic. You see your philosophical perspective as being ideal, and you see anyone who believes otherwise as being deluded. You consider the model of the world that you carry around in your head to be the Way It Is. When someone questions your values or point of view, you become defensive or lash out in anger. When you have experiences that don’t fit within your worldview, you don’t budge. You fall into a rut, and you bore yourself silly. You get into heated ideological conflict with others, whether you’re the one who instigates the conflict. You’re the person who gets excommunicated from the church because you get a divorce. You’re the artist or the intellectual who has a falling-out with fellow members of a movement, or with people who share similar views (well, similar for a while). The 9th house is associated with international travel, so you could stay on the move, make decisions about where to live or travel based on how hospitable or hostile the current climate is toward your ideological outlook.

If you act like an overbearing jerk that smothers others, then you take your dogmatism a step further. You get in other people’s way by trying to do things “for their own good,” based on your values or principles, of course. You’re tactless and patronizing.

If you develop the best potential of your Moon, then you could conduct yourself like a nurturing philosopher, a comforting explorer, or an imaginative student.

If you act like a nurturing philosopher, then you don’t give up on the ideal that life has purpose and meaning. No matter what changes of fortune life brings, you don’t become disillusioned. You’re resilient. You develop a personal sense of what life is all about, of why we’re alive, and you act in noble, principled ways. You don’t latch onto an anything-goes outlook. Not only do you develop some sort of inspiring philosophical point of view, but you also reach out to others based on it, in a bold, supportive way. You’re the professor who encourages her students to pursue their own creative vision. You’re the community member who sees children suffering with cancer, and believes so much in the importance of finding a cure for the disease, that she raises money for research. There’s an emphasis on pushing activities beyond a narrow scope to encompass a greater experience of life. For example, if you’re a successful artist in your own right, then you might use your clout to support “outsider art”—art that is produced by people who have had little or no formal training in art, and who have little regard for the mainstream art world's recognition or marketplace. 

Like an imaginative student, you could pursue an intense intellectual life with eagerness, with enthusiasm, with effervescence. You take assignments or ideas and run with them, coming up with larger possibilities. “You wanted us to read about organic farming. Why don’t we go visit some farms…in a few different countries? How about Friday?” Maybe the class doesn’t jump on a plane this Friday, but because you spoke up, everyone could have a much richer and more enjoyable learning experience than they might have done otherwise. With the sensitive, highly reactive Moon in visionary Sagittarius, knowledge and ideas sometimes seem to come out of nowhere, too. Perhaps you exhibit a striking prescience, a highly developed sense of intuition, or what people might refer to as psychic ability.  

If you act like a comforting explorer, then you continually break up the routines in your life. You make inspired leaps of faith, and you take your chance on the unknown or the unfamiliar. You’re restless, but you don’t act thoughtlessly or irresponsibly toward others as you follow your impulses or your principles. Let’s suppose you’re in a musical group. The band becomes a major commercial success, but eventually you want to grow more musically. You want to explore new styles or experiment with techniques, whether or not they’ll be financially profitable. Unfortunately, that idea just won’t fly with the band or the band’s recording label, so you prepare your fellow band members for your departure. You put them on notice that you will eventually strike out on your own, at least for a while. You’re honest with them. Maybe you use a little humor in your conversations to encourage everyone to keep their spirits up during an uncertain period. You all part ways on good terms. They respect you for following your spirit.

 

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