Placements
Eros in the 9th House
With Eros in the ninth house, the erotic life-force concentrates in belief, travel, and the search for meaning, so desire is kindled by adventure, the foreign, the meeting of minds across difference, and a sense of possibility. The gift is an enthusiastic, exploratory passion. The shadow is desire that flees the familiar or idealizes the distant. The growth is depth that travels well. At your best your passion turns life into an ongoing discovery shared with another.
Lean in — Find a depth in passion that travels with you, not just away.
Watch for — Chase the distant and exotic to avoid intimacy up close.
- desire
- adventure
- vitality
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Eros as erotic passion and the creative life-force: what awakens desire and vitality.
- Sasportas, The Twelve Houses (1985)Locates the house as the field of life where passion is aroused.
- Pelletier, Planets in Houses (1978)Reads the house placement as where desire and vitality are focused.