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lemme just rewrite this thread ( https://twitter.com/ionamsak/status/1344259775169777671?s=20 ) so it's neater lmfao. here's a theory on the h9-h12 square and how it could talk about colonisation.
first i'm going to name my identities:
i live in the uk, an imperial centre of the world.
i'm thai and laos isaan (google it for more, i don't have enough space to describe this in this tweet lmfao)
i'm a h9 sun and h12 moon, so don't come for me h9 suns lmfao.
i live in the uk, an imperial centre of the world.
i'm thai and laos isaan (google it for more, i don't have enough space to describe this in this tweet lmfao)
i'm a h9 sun and h12 moon, so don't come for me h9 suns lmfao.
let's look at some basic significations of the houses.
h9 - foreign travel, religion (especially institutionalised), universities, philosophy. the sun finds his joy here.
h12 - foreign places, the shadows, hidden enemies, undoing, isolation. saturn finds his joy here.
h9 - foreign travel, religion (especially institutionalised), universities, philosophy. the sun finds his joy here.
h12 - foreign places, the shadows, hidden enemies, undoing, isolation. saturn finds his joy here.
now let's very quickly look at what the sun and saturn each represent.
the sun - your father, ego, the way you view the world.
saturn - both the oppressors and i'd argue the oppressed, restrictions, delays, limitations.
both of these planets can be classed as malefics.
the sun - your father, ego, the way you view the world.
saturn - both the oppressors and i'd argue the oppressed, restrictions, delays, limitations.
both of these planets can be classed as malefics.
ok, so now let's examine the h9-h12 square. the square is a difficult aspect; it's an aspect that holds a lot of power and can represent a consistently reoccurring space of conflict in your life. unlike the opposition, it's not a feeling of being torn between two opposing forces.
the square more likely feels like it comes in waves; moments of explosion, moments of silence, and moments of recovery.
there's anonyminity (12h) in travelling abroad (9h). we only need to look at sex tourism to see that by being in a foreign land people are emboldened to do that which they wouldn't do; there's a certain unreality (12h) to being in a foreign place.
ever spent more money than you normally would whilst on holiday, because the foreign currency doesn't feel as real to you as your currency at home? that's the 12h's 'unreality of foreign places'.
the significations of the 9h are traditional axes of oppression; we cannot ignore the relationship between institutionalised Christianity (9h) from the West and it being used as justification for colonialism.
the sun finds his joy in the 9h; the British Empire was the 'empire upon which the sun never sets'. the connection between christianity and the gregorian calendar is undeniable. yes it was based on the julian calendar (BC), but it was carried forward as a tool of catholicism.
so the imposition of insitutionalised religion (h9) on foreign lands (h12) is one mechanism of colonialism. obviously colonialism is more than just one thing; but i think there's an argument for colonialism falling into the 9th house.
so there's this constant flow of tension between the experiences of the colonisers & the colonised that continues to this day. colonised people forced to work to the institutions created and maintained by colonisation - international schools; universities; philosophy & ideology.
i think that tension is a really good representation of the 9h - 12h square. saturn, the ruler of the oppressors & the oppressed, finds his joy in the 12h. he's happy in the house of undoing, of the shadows.
so could the square between the planetary joys in these houses show the ways that the oppressors and the oppressed experience these consistently reoccuring moments of conflict/tension thru institutionalised religion, philosophies, and ideologies?
further, look at natal astrology: if you're a colonised person, does the interaction between your h9(/lord) and h12(/lord) represent your peoples' experiences with colonialism? does that show up in our charts at all? it's an interesting question that i don't have an answer to.
notably, the moon finds her joy in h3, the house of local communities, siblings, communication. if i continue with this extension of planetary joys, maybe we should look at the relationship between the sun and the moon as an indicator of your own relationship to colonisation.
(which is all the more relevant to me, obviously, because i have h9 sun and h12 moon lmfao and i know not every colonised person has this). worth noting also that h9 OPPOSES h3 - that constant tearing between two forces, the constant opposition of the oppressors to the oppressed?
anyway so that's my theory. the h9-h12 square could be the mechanisms of colonialism; the way colonial oppression is created and maintained. perhaps, then, the h9-h3 opposition is where we look to for the ongoing struggle for liberation between the oppressors & the oppressed.
