Venus in Sagittarius in the Ninth House

The placement of Venus in Sagittarius indicates that you have a need for expansiveness and understanding in your relationships. Your judgments and value system are likely to be based on concepts in which you have come to believe. The self-reinforcing aspect of this dynamic often results in strongly held beliefs and opinions. On the other hand, with Venus in Sagittarius, your need to be able to explore and understand often manifests as a need for “room” and freedom in your relationship(s). Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Sagittarius are a result of your need to be able to explore the world and yourself through and within your relationships and value system.

The Venus in Sagittarius placement is generally harmonious, as symbolized by the natural sextile between Sagittarius and Venus-ruled Libra. However, the natural quincunx between Sagittarius and Taurus, which is also ruled by Venus, suggests that there are some inherent tensions in this placement. These tensions generally are associated with issues involving conflict between the Sagittarian need for quest and the stability that is desired in relationships and value systems. Sagittarius is the Mutable Fire sign. The Venusian functions are symbolically amplified in Sagittarius’s changeable fire energy. This freedom, plus the beneficent influence associated with Jupiter’s rulership of Sagittarius, may allow the Venus-symbolized functions to find greater fulfillment.

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

Insecurities

As an individual with Venus in Sagittarius, you compensate for your own inner insecurity by seeking expansiveness in your relationships. The more friends you have or, if your mores and opportunity allow, the more relationships you explore, the more you can feel good about yourself and convince yourself of your own self-worth. This may cause you to overextend yourself in this arena, leading to a plethora of superficial relationships. Having Venus in Sagittarius, you can also develop a “bigger is better” attitude. This is another way for you to compensate for feelings of insecurity and inferiority. You do this by identifying with big and important things, thus aggrandizing yourself through association. This attitude of valuing what is grand can also lead to poor judgments that result in excess.

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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