When Pluto transits the 9th house your need for transformation and power influences your search for meaning, truth and self-development. Pluto destroys and regenerates old structures and represents your need to be empowered and reborn in this area.

When Pluto transits the 9th house it brings intensity and evolution to your religion, beliefs and philosophy of life, higher education and teaching, long-distance travel, publishing, and the law. Pluto will challenge you to transform your beliefs and what life means to you and this can manifest in many areas of your life.

You may experience some kind of crisis of faith or breakdown of your belief system that forces you to rethink how you see the world and why you’re here. This may happen as a result of power struggles within your church or spiritual group or community, or because you have an experience that overturns your old views. You may discover religion for the first time, or have a spiritual awakening that transforms your view of reality.

You could meet a powerful spiritual teacher, or one who tries to control and manipulate you. Or you could become fanatical and try to impose your beliefs onto others. You may need to free yourself from a belief system that’s preventing your soul from growing and this may involve confronting and healing old wounds so you can find a more authentic spiritual path.

You may go through an intense period of self-reflection as you question your beliefs and cultural conditioning. You can learn a huge amount by letting life teach you, or you can learn through education, study, or travel, and your view of the world can deepen by the end of the transit.

Travelling abroad and exploring other cultures could have a transformative effect and may trigger emotional complexes and old fears that you need to confront and heal. You may find healing abroad, or you could encounter people from other cultures that change you in significant ways without you needing to leave home.

Studying at college or university could transform your view of the world, either due to what you’re learning or because of other experiences you have while there. Whatever you study can be done in great depth, although you may encounter difficulties with your education, such as power struggles or other conflicts.

This also applies to experiences you may have with publishing, but you could also produce work that has a profound influence on others. If you get involved with the higher courts, any legal battle or conflict could be complex and take longer to resolve than you expect and may bring up extreme emotions that force you to go through a kind of death/rebirth process.

Possibilities with Pluto transiting the 9th house:

• Deepening your belief system or philosophy
• Spiritual awakening or conversion experience
• Renewal of faith
• Profound experiences while travelling
• Deepening your mind through education and study
• Discovering your true purpose in life

Watch out for:

• Crisis of faith or loss of meaning
• Confrontation with the dark side of religion
• Dodgy gurus or spiritual leaders
• Challenging or scary experiences while travelling
• Power struggles or problems with education or publishing
• Conflicts that end up in court

My Notes:

Pluto transited my 9th house from 1985 to 1998, from age 15 to 28, and coincided with finishing high school, going to college and then entering the adult world. During this transit my world opened up due to meeting lots of people from different backgrounds while studying music at college. I had no religion or interest in spirituality but that was about to change.

Experiences I had at college brought a lot of unhealed wounds to the surface and forced me to question who I was. My mind cracked and I had a huge crisis of meaning that triggered a spiritual awakening and overturned my whole identity and worldview.

For a little while, I believed I was going insane but then realised there was a deeper part of myself that knew what to do. I learned to trust that small voice and began to study psychology, philosophy and astrology and this transformed my beliefs from atheist to agnostic. (The full-blown mysticism came later!)

I began to work on healing the wounds of my childhood by expanding my mind and view of reality. By the end of the transit I had almost become a different person and returned to college for a second time to pursue my dream of becoming a sound engineer (more on that here).

As Pluto reached the end of this house and approached my Midheaven, I got a job in a small project studio recording local bands and finally felt like I had become who I was meant to be. Sadly, it didn’t last and I had to get a ‘proper’ job to pay the bills as Pluto entered my 10th house. More on Pluto in 9th here.

More Pluto Transits: 1st house / 2nd house / 3rd house / 4th house / 5th house / 6th house / 7th house / 8th house / 9th house / 10th house / 11th house / 12th house / natal planets

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