Venus in Libra in the Ninth House

The placement of Venus in Libra indicates that you have a strong need for relationship and a value system that is dominated by the importance of interpersonal interaction. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Libra are a result of your need to feel that you are in a harmonious and balanced relationship.

Venus is completely at home in Libra, as symbolized by its rulership over this sign. Libra is the Cardinal Air sign. This active air quality symbolically provides energy and freedom for social movement and communication. The Libran association with balance also epitomizes the essence of the evaluative function symbolized by Venus.

Venus also symbolizes the anima in the psyche. Thus, if you are female with Venus in Libra, you are likely to model your femininity in order to incorporate characteristics typically associated with Libra. If you are male, you are likely to be attracted to someone who projects or embodies Libra-associated traits.

Insecurities

With Venus in Libra, when you are insecure about your own selfhood and your own values, you need the validation of others to support your ego and feel that you have some sense of self-worth. Consequently, so much time and energy is spent in cultivating your relationship(s), that you are dominated by your need for others. The all-important role of self in any relationship is lost. Having Venus in Libra, though you seek to enhance your self-worth by being in a relationship, the actual result of your dependency on the relationship and on your relationship partner(s) is that you lack basic self-confidence and self-esteem.

Venus in the 9th House:

Venus in the 9th House suggests that you engage yourself in your experiences and your relationships in a somewhat detached manner but that you are, nevertheless, involved through searching and expanding the realm of your experience. With Venus in the 9th House, you may be driven to use your faculties of perception to understand your experiences and your relationships. You understand through judging and by reflecting on your experience using the mirror of your values. Thus, there is often tension in your relationships and in your perceptions and attitudes that is marked by a pull to understand and experience coupled with a push away so that you can observe and judge.

Having Venus in the 9th House, you may, therefore, have a tendency to like and enjoy those activities where this combination of involvement and detachment is present. Such activities include the pursuit of academic studies, tourism, and spectator sports. The danger, in terms of your relationships, is that you may become an academician, a tourist or a spectator with respect to your relationship(s).

Insecurities

As an individual with Venus in the 9th House, if you are inwardly insecure, you will avoid any true understanding of your values or your relationships so that you do not risk questioning your ego-based point of view. Without questioning and searching your interior, you are free to experience “anything you like” in the name of widening your horizons. You may justify indiscriminate indulgence with the sophistry that you “understand the world” and have become free of the restrictions that bind more narrow-minded people. Similarly, having Venus in the 9th House, you may prove overly adventurous in your relationships, justifying a lack of fidelity with your need to “understand” and “experience life.” Alternatively, you may blindly go through life, claiming that you “just don’t understand” either people or events.

Evaluation Focus

With Venus in the 9th House, you tend to look at the larger picture when making judgments and to take the broader context into consideration. You usually want to understand a thing or person before passing judgment, but once you think you have such an understanding, you may be very opinionated. You may like things that further your understanding or widen your experience of the world. You may be especially fond of or attracted to academics, travel and sports.

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Article referenced from:

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 2: Planets in Signs

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 3: Planets in Houses

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