posted April 11, 2006 01:26 AM              

With Saturn (duty, also career) focused in the 9th house (expansion, also travel), perhaps you would be more likely to do business trips around the world! :-)

Businessifying,

posted April 11, 2006 02:32 PM              

Like you, I have Mars and Pluto in the 9th (Pluto conjuncting the MC from there), as well as Moon and North Node. This is using Placidus – with Koch, Venus and Saturn would be added to the picture, making that house quite huge in my chart. Personally, I have always loved to travel and have been lucky to have come in touch with that area of life from a very early age. In fact, most of my earliest memories stem from the first long-distance trip I went on with my parents the summer I had just turned three, to visit relatives in Asia. It's kind of funny - this year it will have been twenty-five years since then, yet many scenes are still so vividly imprinted in my memory it might just as well have been yesterday. As far as danger is concerned while travelling, I haven't experienced any so far. (At least, as long as I'm not counting situations such as being on a boat without life jackets during a heavy storm, and waves so high most of the natives were getting sick and/or starting to pray for their lives, while to me (I was eight or nine then), it was all just a big adventure . We did arrive at our destination safely, of course. )

posted April 12, 2006 07:12 PM            

I traveled extensively in my last position (and quite a bit now) for work. If I could swing it, I would add on a few days before or after the biz trip.

What ends up happening is you get the majority of the trip paid for (airfare or car allowance, hotel etc..) and you just add the rest. The rates are usually lower as well because you piggy back the deal with the conference rate (meaning if you have to attend a workshop and the hotel costs $85 instead of the normal $150 - you can usually get that deal another 2-3 days).

posted April 12, 2006 10:03 PM            

I know someone with a 9th house Saturn (in Pisces). He travelled the world for 10 years for business, while installing and repairing communications towers.

His Saturn is the tail of his kite pattern: opposing his Pluto/Uranus conjunction in Virgo in the 3rd, trining Jupiter in Cancer in the 12th and trining Neptune in Scorpio in the 5th. Saturn also sextiles his Aquarian Descendant.

He has Mercury in Aquarius in the 7th house of partners. So the Mercury and Uranus are in mutual reception. Capricorn rules his 6th house of work and service to others.

He has Aries on the 10th house of profession with no planets in that house. Mars in Libra is in his 4th house and inconjuncts the Saturn in the 9th house.

He never had any safety issues, while travelling for all those years.

posted April 12, 2006 10:39 PM              

I was so interested by this thread, as I myself am dreaming of traveling outside of the US in the near future but have had trouble because of financial situations. Yes, I know so many and countless books probably on how to travel within a tight budget (Funny I mention this because I picked up one the other day! :laughing . But for me, this realistically takes planning and is much easier said than done. And someone who's mainly traveled on the east coast but would like to travel afar someday myself, I resonate with Kat's statement too(I actually have an empty 9th by the way, but my ruler of the 9th is in the 12th; and like pidaua, my house is ruled by Taurus).

posted April 17, 2006 06:20 PM              

Thanks for the compliment!

You know, when you mentioned that quote of yours you'd like to say to everyone, I felt like that in the past...and that was especially because there were friends and relatives I knew who would be traveling outside of the US and I'd feel like they're so lucky because my family and I were always in a money crunch (And we still are!). I wanted to travel so badly because everyone else was doing it, so much so that I felt like shocking everyone by just doing it out of the blue when no one thought of it or thought I would do it.

But, I look back and felt I kind of pressured myself into traveling because everyone else was doing it and right now, I honestly haven't really put a lot of passion, focus and energy into doing it. I won't rule out traveling ever, but right now, my heart isn't in it and I don't want to just do it because everyone else is doing it only to look good...I have a lot of other important things right now that I'm dealing with.

posted April 19, 2006 10:52 PM              

I am doing OK right now...thanks for asking, I hope you are too.

If this is what your heart's desire truly is and the fact that you are taking action to save up some money now for those two years ahead, good for you! You are trying to make your dream come true!

By the way, where would you like to travel? Kat mentioned Turkey and you thought that would be fascinating. Is there anywhere else you'd like to go?

posted April 24, 2006 11:44 PM              

Do you have any Uranus/Aquarius/11th House influences?

I think that energy works well with pulling a Saturn in the 9th out of the sludge. I can think of a few more, but although you are concerned with that, you are also very quick to consider rebelling.

My 9th House Saturn has never made me want to do "business abroad". But the closest thing to that was wanting to study anthropology, then travel and write. But although the more detailed historical stuff was interesting, it didn't grab my passion. But understanding and learning from other cultures has always been at the forefront of my life, no matter where I am physically - and this would include mind travel as in dreams and the Internet.

posted April 26, 2006 06:16 AM              

Those in America are extremely lucky in this.
Arizona, Colorado and Alaska have places akin to over 80% of European countries.

Exotic locales? Orlando has the best of the entire world packaged into one huge tourist spot.

Once you appreciate and get a feel of the energies of these locations into your Aura, somehow or the other opportunities will come to visit the actual location itself. You can visit any place that your Aura vibes with.