The Astrological Neptune and the Quest for Redemption

For Neptune in the 9th, travel may also provide the promise of salvation. Neptune's deep sense of exile means that home can n

Travel is traditionally one of the domains of the 9th house. Individuals with an emphasised 9th house are often renewed and invigorated by travel because they are able to acquire a different and broader perspective on their personal lives. Travel as experienced in the 9th house puts us in touch with a wider world, full of diverse attitudes, languages, customs, and lifestyles whi

source and the mortal teacher who purports to be its mouthpiece, and in ensuring that one's narcissism does not generate a secret inflation which undermines the ego's relationship to the outer world.

The challenge lies in differentiating between the divine

Neptune in the 9th may display a predilection for mystical spirituality, and may offer its allegiance to a guru or a philosophy requiring the sacrifice of possessions or former attachments. Spiritual communes may be especially attractive to Neptune in the 9th. Neptune's idealisation of spiritual or religious leaders

experienced as an oceanic divine source.

When Neptune is in the 9th, God is

Neptune in the 10th may be nobly inspired to serve the collective, or it may

toward the helping professions, as a means of giving shape to the archetypal pattern. But Neptune

The mother in such cases usually appears to her child as a victim, unconditionally loving yet the undeserving bearer of life's unfairness and pain. This