‘The Biggest Mind I Can Find’ - the 9th House in Astrology (🎙️ podcast)
I had the joy of appearing on Kira Ryberg’s podcast, Threads of Fate, where she is convening some of my favorite thinkers in my generation of online astrologers and spiritual pontificators, to cover a huge range of stuff - the fixed stars, the decans, the houses.
I was stoked to join her, alongside my favorite, Daniel Norman, to talk about the 9th house.
In the 9th house is where so much of my visible work sits- divination, religion, magic, philosophy spiritiuality, the quest for meaning, the sun, and god (oh is that all, lol).
Daniel, Kira and I all have our chart rulers in the 9th house, and we’re also great friends. So the results were delish.
Check it out.
links to stuff we discussed, and more things you’ll enjoy if you liked this episode, below the shownotes.
shownotes with timestamps.
0:00 - Introduction and elevator pitches for the 9th House
1:00 - Hawk- The Sun's joy in the 9th House: this is ideal place for the Sun
2:13 - The 9th House as a place of expansion and foreign experiences
3:20 - Self-discovery through travel and beliefs
5:55 - The 9th House and God/religion/spirituality
8:23 - Authority, ceremony, and our relationship to spiritual systems
10:34 - The king, authority figures, and top-down belief systems
12:15 - Religion vs. local worship: 9th House vs. 3rd House
13:29 - Institutions, law, and the structures that house belief systems
15:07 - The Sun rejoicing in the 9th: unifying notions and harmony
20:00 - “Bridling the storm” (sick).
21:51 - The Apollonian vs. Dionysian split and its problems- (“is now a good time for me to bring of Nietzsche”??)
24:45 - The relationship between the 3rd and 9th houses
30:00 - The Thema Mundi & other zodiacal teaching models - abc house, maybe we were too harsh??
34:03 - Cadent houses: inactive and not conducive to business
40:00 - The Thema Mundi vs. ABC Houses
43:21 - Divination: “omens enter through the 9th and land in the 3rd” (i really liked this part)
43:56 - the gang crashes out about abc houses (not in the way you might think)
51:17 - What is the 9th House for people who aren't religious??
54:05 - Culture shock as a 9th House travel indicator
55:04 - Publishing, filmmaking, and presenting a coherent vision
58:40 - Personal stories. Daniel’s Religious Lore
1:02:03 - Hawk: making 9th House concepts visible
1:05:38 - Kira: living abroad and the quest for meaning
Resources & links and other stuff we mentioned
Join my mailing list for updates on my magical mentorship, Walking by Lamplight, and everything else.
Book a solar return with Daniel, they did mine 2 years in a row. They can see sorcerous things through sorcerous spirit technologies.
Kira's Houses Guidebook - a comprehensive exploration of all 12 houses and their connections. It blew me away.
Check out my event in the pacific northwest, North Star Campout. This is what I’m doing with like 1/4 of my year now.
If you like me on the houses, I covered the 11th house, with Amiya from Resonance Astrology, here. I’m interested in completing the set someday.
Me, Kira, and Chloe Margherita did an ep on the fixed star Regulus here.
I liked, and am cited in, Maeg Keane’s big project on the Sun, which expresses some hard-to-put-into-words stuff here.
Oh , and if you want more about gods show up in your birth chart, with chart examples from real practitioners workers, i have a workshop - Good God! The Nativity and the Gods who Claim Us.
