In Astrology, the ninth house, is called the house of religion, science, learning, books, writings, voyages and distant travels, It is peculiar to the church; denoting all ecclesiastical matters, and all church preferments; clergymen of every degree. Dreams, visions, and long journeys. In horary questions, the Arabian Astrologers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, represent the ninth house as being "the house of faith, wisdom, and divine worshipping". Guido Bonatus calls it " the house of fame". Haly, terms it the house of prophets and prophecies, council, and prayers; others write it, as being " the house of the wifes, or enemies brethren, being the third house to the seventh, and fathers of servants, being the fourth house to the sixth; and children of children, as being the fifth house to the fifth. Also sickness of fathers, being the sixth house to the fourth; and enemies of brethren, being the seventh house to the third; also friends of friends, being the eleventh house to the eleventh: and private enemies of kings, being the twelfth house to the tenth house in the order of the heavens.'

It is a masculine house, like in bodily rule; denoting the same parts of the body which that sign does.