Moon in Capricorn in the Ninth House

In the Moon in Capricorn placement, Capricorn has both a stabilizing and restrictive effect on the shifting influence of the Moon. The Moon represents the emotional, sympathetic side of a personality whereas Capricorn is an unemotional and undemonstrative sign. Individuals with their Moon in Capricorn have to overcome obstacles and complexities within their own natures to find the happiness they constantly seek.

If you have your Moon in Capricorn you have an alert mind and are very eager to learn. However, you are not interested in vague theory; you want to put your knowledge to use. An example of this talent for practical application is Thomas Edison, a Moon in Capricorn whose Sun was in Aquarius. In Edison we see the inventive, far-reaching vision of the Aquarian truth-seeker, but the focus of his work was to make his experiments useful, to put them into everyday utilization. His inventions of the telegraph, phonograph, electric light, and moving picture changed the way we live. Another example of a Moon in Capricorn is Gene Kelly, whose Sun was on the Leo-Virgo cusp. In his life we saw the creativity and exuberance of Leo, the hard work ethic of Virgo; his Moon in Capricorn was evident in how he took his knowledge of dancing and applied it in a practical way to film choreography. In the process he introduced an entirely new genre of musical comedy and changed the very way such movies were filmed.

If you have a Moon in Capricorn you are organized, ambitious, and usually a prodigious worker. Self-sufficient and a bit solitary, you are haunted by a feeling of responsibility, of a task you must fulfill.

Having your Moon in Capricorn, you are a determined person but your single mindedness can sometimes turn into obsession. You pin your hopes on one idea, turn all your energies in one direction; if you fail you may suffer serious depression. Of course, because of their unshakable commitment, most Moon in Capricorn individuals succeed and often make an imprint on the world. Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln all had their Moon in Capricorn. Moon in Capricorn individuals who have their Sun or Ascendant in one of the cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn) have particularly auspicious auguries for leadership.

With your Moon in Capricorn, money is important to you, not so much for what it can buy as for the status it bestows in the world of business, politics, finance, and high society where you wish to shine. You have charming social manners and an instinct for getting to know the right people.

As an individual with your Moon in Capricorn, unknown to all but your closest relationships, you suffer from feelings of insecurity and loneliness. Often you conceal this with a dry sense of humor. Your secret terror is of being abandoned or having someone you love cease to love you. You find it hard to reveal your deepest feelings and therefore may be perceived as being cold or calculating. For many Moon in Capricorn individuals, authority and power are a compensation for the difficulties they encounter in emotional areas. With your Moon in Capricorn, you are cautious and reserved, you tend to turn your feelings inward, and you need a lot of emotional reassurance before you allow them to be drawn out. You also have difficulty putting your complete trust in someone else. But at some point, usually when you are past thirty, you find the person you can become totally involved with, and then your love is durable.

Having your Moon in Capricorn, when you feel secure within an emotional relationship your commitment may last your entire lifetime. You are loyal and steadfast, generous and giving. In fact, you often give more than you get back. This is especially true about the relationships of females with their Moon in Capricorn to their lovers and friends.

The sign position of the Moon describes how we habitually respond to other people and to the circumstances of our lives, as well as how we experience our emotions and seek emotional fulfillment. Its house position corresponds to the area of life in which we operate most unconsciously, according to past patterns and instinctive responses.

Moon in the 9th House:

With your Moon in the 9th House, although there is some danger that the emotional side of your personality may not be as fully developed internally, the Moon in the 9th House shows the potential for your emotional development to occur in other ways. The focus of the type of experience represented by the 9th House is outward, experiential and cognitive rather than emotional. Thus, having your Moon in the 9th House, you may not develop or exercise your emotional faculties much in intimate and personal settings. You are more likely to experience emotions that are energizing, thrilling or have to do with discovery.

As an individual with your Moon in the 9th House, you are most likely to respond with your emotions when you are confronting or are involved with the wider world. You may also be driven to understand your emotions or your subconscious. Thus, with your Moon in the 9th House, rather than being directly felt, your emotions may become an object of cognition and reasoning. This may tend to negate the subjective side of the psyche that is symbolized by the Moon. If you do not regain touch with this subjective world, you are likely to lose a vital part of yourself. On the other hand, by being detached from your emotions and through understanding the emotional process you are more likely to be in control of your emotions and to be able to maintain a state of emotional equilibrium.

Insecurities

Having your Moon in the 9th House, if you are inwardly insecure, you may be intimidated by the wide scope within which you feel called upon to operate at the emotional level. You may feel that you cannot possibly give of yourself emotionally to the range of experience indicated by the 9th House. You, therefore, hold back emotionally and you fail to develop or manifest your emotional side.

Alternatively, with your Moon in the 9th House, you may take such an objective approach to your own emotions that you feel intimidated by any subjective experience of their reality that may intrude on you from your subconscious. This leads you to be fearful of becoming emotionally intimate. Having your Moon in the 9th House, another manifestation of your emotional insecurity is for you to broadcast your emotions, almost treating the emotional side of life as a sport or adventure. This is a defense mechanism that allows you to avoid intimate emotional experience.

Focus of Emotional Development

As an individual with your Moon in the 9th House, you will tend to develop emotionally by acquiring broad experiences (e.g., travel) and by attempting to understand your own emotionality. Thus, emotional development may occur later in life, after a sufficient amount of experience has been accumulated and your horizons have been widened. Your emotions may also lean toward excitement and enthusiasm as appropriate emotional responses to your discovery of a wider world.

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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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