Are You a 9th House Person?

Here is what I wrote in pertinent part to this person with a 9th house chart:

For you the Mind is all.  Everything is Mental.  Yes.  But not the way you think.  You keep building reality constructs that cave in, like slippery Shibboleths or Towers of Babel, upward spiraling gyres that fall in upon themselves under their own weight of half truths.  The part that is problematical about this, however, is that this bothers you.  The rest of us do this all the time and in fact, we expect it to happen.  It happens everytime someone says, “I never thought something like this could happen to me.”

The critical piece of information is the part about “me”. I knew it happened in the world.  I knew it happened to others.  I just didn’t know it could happen to me.  Therefore, I have to rearrange all the files in my mind to include this possibility and now the world is a very different place … and my reality map is a little better.

Almost all your security in life came from elegantly arranged explanations of things, beliefs about things, probably beliefs about goodness or what does and doesn’t happen to “good” people, likely some sly little hidden clauses about rewards for good behavior and that sort of thing, beliefs that set you apart from others for superior qualities that were tacit assumptions in your negotiations with the Almighty for a meaningful life.  

Instead of true covenants with God, you struck cheap bargains and waved words superstitiously around like Talismans to protect yourself and ward off the evil spirits  — if I say these things enough, maybe even I will believe them.  

You professed to believe in a good, true, beautiful, proper and orderly world which is fine and your Mind was a good, true, beautiful, proper and orderly mind but you also believed in a good, true, beautiful, proper and orderly God which set you up one day for a huge hangover when He/It/She didn’t act that way or reward you for your obstinate unquestioned faith and for the dogged way in which you repeated the required phrases, many of them used to cheer others up — and for your faithful public attendance at the altar, so to speak. 

Whatever triggered this event may have happened in public or involved humiliation or put you in a situation where you could have been accused of hypocrisy had you backed down on your original assumptions.  Very, very tricky.  This part of it is actually pay back time for other lifetimes where perhaps as a priest-king you did some double dipping.  Reminds me of when Jesus threw the money lenders out of the temple.  As spiritual beings we are supposed to live in two worlds, not be two different people.

If you don’t have an experience of past lives, please consider this a metaphor.  It works just as well.

At this point there is only one book I could recommend and that is Jung’s Answer to Job.

Your path in life is to become a powerful advocate for the truth, for the highest truth of which you are personally capable.  To reach this place, you have to kick the stool out from under yourself.  I truly and sincerely hope that is what you have done recently.  When you landed on your keester with a black hangover, at least you finally had something important on the ground.

You have spoken and read so many words that were so useless, so meaningless, you have quoted people ad nauseum, used every platitude imaginable — that one of the finest things you could do for yourself not to mention others would be to take a vow of silence for the rest of your life :-)   I exaggerate to make my point.  However, have you ever gone on a silent retreat?  I recommend this.  Let the first words that break your silence be as painful as painful can be, having known the ecstasy of the time before words, before the OM vibration, before the Mind knew itself, reflected upon itself and began to create images in its likeness.  This particular kind of darkness, stillness, is not an abyss but a matrix of creation with all things possible stirring deeply within it.  The first words you speak begin the act of creation and thus you learn that you are a very powerful God indeed.  The purpose of your chart is to be one of those people who push God into evolving.  This is why I recommend Jung’s Answer to Job.  God is a verb.

There are so many wonderful things written about the Mind is All but Unity comes to mind foremost.  If you would like some acquaintance with this try putting Unity Daily Word in a search engine and each day read the simple words of truth. You must unlearn your fancy vocabulary and learn new words before you can build up to concepts and ultimately to truths.  In the process, learn more and more about language and silence, how they relate to one another and the power of the Spoken Word.  There is also a small book called Your Word is Your Wand by Florence Schoville Schinn.  I am selecting Unity because Unity refuses to be intellectual.  First you must learn words.  Later you can use phrases, then sentences.  Words (chitchat, buzz words, pat phrases, quotes, answers to everything … ) have been WAY too much with you.

The second feature of what you are learning in this lifetime, in order to become a powerful conveyor of the truth, is the process of destruction.  You are used to building methodically and you do this well.  But in this lifetime you must destroy as much as you build and the process of destruction is messy, dirty, chaotic and sometimes intimidating. When you swing that wrecking ball in the middle of a downtown block, it better hit just right! 

Yes, destruction is scarey but it need not be depressing.  If your ego becomes involved you will think you are the creator and destroyer of worlds but you are not.  You are merely the creator and destroyer of world MAPS.  When you get clear about this you will not fear your power.

The highest use of your chart would be as a wizard, to manipulate energy using symbols.  There are many ways to study and prepare for this, some of the most common being the Kabala, some of the magic and mystery schools ( Builders of the Adytum). 

You are less interested in people than in the World Mind — what Hegel was referring to in the dialectic of history, where one might (dare we say) reads God’s mind:  the thesis, antithesis and synthesis of creation.  Individual human beings are not complicated enough, not fluid enough, not influential enough and not “big” enough for you to dialogue with — you would prefer to know God’s mind, the outworkings of God’s mind as revealed in things like history, cross cultural symbolism, evolution, anthropological sociology, world myths — also the “great” artifacts of societies such as opera, literature, sculpture, architecture and other footprints left by great minds through time.  You may be akin to Joseph Campbell in this but far more abstract.  Everything Campbell talks about he somehow makes human.  Yours is a process of moving ever farther and farther away from the human — to society — then societies — and then ultimately to race and species — and from there “through time and space”. [Jung was a 9th house person; Campbell is more of a 3rd or 5th house person.]

In some ways, the picture couldn’t get bigger.

If you try to pour all of this into one person, as in a client who comes to you for therapy, it misses the mark badly.  Both you and the individual suffer as if you were pouring ambrosia into your dog’s dish. Your dog, being willing to be exactly what it is, prefers dog food.

Your chart is not a practical one.  In fact, it is the farthest thing from it.  It is so “out there” it is hard to imagine how you could develop it until you were at least as old as you are now.  To use it well requires years and years of preparation, not only learning something of all the topics I’ve mentioned, but making observations of patterns over time and space.  You must have interdisciplinary training when possible and a cross cultural perspective to make this work well.  And much of the preparation goes on in silence, unnoticed, without much practical application and often just based on intuition or personal interest.  Perhaps like J. Campbell you will spring onto the world stage sort of without announcement!

The Indians frm India have a word for 9th house people.  They are called Brahmins.  They are the ones who are chosen to have the privilege of developing the mind.  THE Mind. Our collective mind. Their job is to THINK. These people are on the foremost wave of civilization and all that civilization means.

Our extroverted American culture makes absolutely no place for this type of thing but it is good to know that it is recognized in higher cultures, those with greater spiritual wisdom.  The Brahmins are given this privilege and somehow the universe supports them — they may not all be wealthy (as they once were in India ) but somehow they are provided for, they have enough, and also they have the wisdom not to be greedy.  Their job is to THINK.  To think about things, how they are connected, how they got the way they did, to connect the dots, to remember and make note of things they see and to know why it is that they will not unfold until much later – notice I didn’t say to read, study or quote other authorities.  The job is to think about what you watch and to learn from it … much like the shepherds on the hilltops and mariners at sea in ancient times eventually mapped the heavens.  You are privileged to drink straight from the fountain and you have sometimes spit in the fountain instead

No matter, the time is coming when all of this is revealed to you but not a moment too soon.  You have worked up to this point in several other lifetimes only to lose the thread at the last moment, to turn to idol worship, so to speak because to know the truth is a very, very dangerous thing — to experience the Godhead.  This time, however, you are determined not to make the same mistake.  You are building yourself into a vessel which can contain the truth and that takes as long as it takes. 

There are some wonderful myths about this part of the process, about people exploding because they beheld the Godhead before they were ready.  Some people have made foolish wishes about this.  Semele asked to see Zeus in his godhead.  It destroyed her and from this bizarre union the god of ecstasy and madness was born, Dionysius.  I think this myth has particular significance for you … Zeus took Dionysius from Semele’s body and hid him in his thigh until he was born.  This means something to you.

So take your time and don’t measure yourself by any ordinary standards.  Your chart has a time and flow all its own.  These are things that you will have much to talk about later on … just be sure before you break your silence that you really have something to say.

Ultimately you will take a few apprentices.

You might as well have been Socrates in a past life!

Nancy R. Fenn

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~ by nancyfenn on August 3, 2007.