The ninth house is where we search for truth: experiences that broaden the mind and help us form our philosophy of life. Here we expand our consciousness, synthesize meaning from facts and experience, adjust personal attitudes to collective ideas, and understand how things are integrated into systems. This house rules higher education, religious and ethical understanding, spiritual visions, in-laws, long journeys, law and the higher courts. Here is what remains of the purification that took place in the Eighth house: its seed or essence. "Religion" comes from the Latin "re-," back + "ligare," to bind, hence, "to bind back," and thus refers to all things that last or endure, such as the truth. Many planets in the ninth are usually an indication of being unwilling to accept the conventional limits within which we were raised.

Astronomically speaking, the ninth house is that one-twelfth sector of the local sky clockwise from the Midheaven (see above picture) occupied by planets two hours after they culminate.

With Uranus in your ninth house your philosophical and religious views are original and unorthodox. You will have unusual journeys, perhaps not confined to physical travel. You could do well in teaching, publishing, or foreign affairs. If your Uranus is unafflicted here, you have an expansive consciousness, and experiences gained in travel and higher education will benefit and enlarge your life philosophy. Your in-laws are probably eccentric, unconventional and willful; and if Uranus is afflicted (in hard aspect to Neptune or Pluto, or in Taurus or Leo), you will have problems with them. You may link yourself with someone from another country.

If Uranus is within 10° of the midheaven it is conjunct the tenth house cusp and much of the above interpretation starts to become weaker. If Uranus is in the ninth house AND within 4° or 5° of the midheaven, then it is said to be on the "dark side" of the tenth house, and it influence will be felt in the tenth as well as in the ninth house. The closer a ninth house Uranus is to the tenth house cusp, the more it will be interpreted as though it were in the tenth house; when less than 3° from the midheaven, a ninth house Uranus expresses itself primarily -- and eventually entirely -- in the tenth house.