9th House in Virgo
Avesalom Podvodny. Houses in the Zodiac Signs
The great life wall. This person wants to be honest, precise, neat, clean, to see every matter through to the end and to understand everything down to the subtleties, to be needed and useful to people. He wants to build a house from the beginning to the end so that it stands for a long time and is pleasant to live in. His ideal “self” is built on minutiae, each of which at some moment appears to him extraordinarily significant, and then he can completely forget about it. Deep down he would like to find one, but the most important and truly essential trait of the ideal, although he never manages to do so. The mismatch with the ideal is revealed in small things, concrete details, but they, especially in defeat Virgo, can be very painful, and there may be a tendency toward tedious self‑destruction, more in words than in action. In general this is not the easiest situation (Jupiter in Virgo in symbolic confinement), and the person lacks the breadth and imagination needed in situations of expanded consciousness and reconstruction of the world picture: a psychological crisis arises, and instead of rebuilding the building (the world picture) anew and with a new design, he looks at the ruin, or at least something resembling it. In relationships with a spiritual teacher there is a tendency toward literalism, dogmatism and overly earth‑bound concrete understanding of the teaching subject. One must learn that God is not a machine whose parts can be taken apart and fully understood, and that the religious‑philosophical world picture is nothing other than a key to entering the corresponding egregore, which will assign each person in any concrete situation its own tasks that cannot, and need not, be precisely predicted in advance. When studying foreign cultures, especially in distant countries, the person’s eyes literally pop out; however, with a strong Virgo and sufficient work on the house, he is capable of great effort and the creation of synthetic works from several cultures. With poor work on the house a tendency to superficial‑eclectic assimilation of the relevant knowledge may appear. General karmic indications and goals become clear only after prolonged clearing of the avenging stables, which ones exactly will be indicated by the aspects of the 9th house and the person’s life.
Houses in the Signs. Oleksandr Kostovych
Some imagination and breadth of thinking are lacking in the spiritual sphere. He believes that good education and upbringing help advancement. He works without bending his back in order to obtain a good education and receives it sooner or later. He does not quit studying, even if forced to take an academic leave. His convictions and views are never new, but are always confirmed. He does not count on lucky chances or gifts of fate, believing that each person is the blacksmith of his own happiness, therefore he tries to achieve everything in his life by his own work. Hope lives in him as long as he is active and can work. He is devoted to ideas, but holds the torch for others and, like a true paladin, remains in the shadows. He is most truly evaluated when he is no longer alive. He will have business contacts with foreigners. He is prone to exploiting other people’s labor. He helps others when it is profitable. Distant travels are dangerous and do not yield good results. A hard fate makes him dry, callous, indifferent to people. A homebody does not like distant travel and business trips, but often has to travel on official business. He receives karmic instructions through the small details of his work.
Pavlo Hloba. Houses in the Signs
VIRGO – investigative talent, philosophical inclinations. Ability to radically change views. Absence of ambition, complete involvement in everyday duties. Business contacts abroad. At a low level the person is a bureaucrat and a petty‑town dweller. Lacks breadth and imagination in a holistic understanding of the world. Tendency toward dogmatism, nitpicking and digging into details. Egregore of South Indian culture, Shaivism.
