Monday, April 21, 2014

Twelfth House

The twelfth house is a cadent house. Its natural sign ruler is Pisces and its natural planetary ruler is Neptune.

That which is hidden or below the surface, karma, self-undoing, soul growth, hidden strengths and hidden weaknesses, dreams, private affairs, lost items, hospitals and prisons, spiritual studies.

This house is typically considered to be negative and dark, the psychic garbage pail of the zodiac. In Medieval times, it was known as the house of troubles and indicated possibilities of imprisonment, illness, secret enemies, poverty, and dire misfortune. While such possibilities exist with this house, its core meaning is deeper.

Twelfth house signifies expenditure, monetary loss, debt, punishment pronounced by lawful court, enjoyment and suffering, information about enemy, bedroom enjoyment, expenditure for just cause, salvation etc.

The Tradition classifies houses because, on the one hand, their influence on an individual is not equally important, and on the other hand, they have different specificities in terms of characterology. There are three classifications. The first one deals with accentuation, and the other two, with quadrants and hemisphere emphasis.

It corresponds to the native's inner self, ordeals underwent his whole life through, hidden enemies, and serious illnesses. It is related to places of confinement such as hospitals, prisons, convents, etc., and also includes solitude and major inner crises.

The Twelfth house represents the way we explore and deal with our inner depths in solitude and silence, marking a difference between spiritual growth and escapism. It is through this house that we transcend through the definitions of reality that confine us, creating a desire to move through and beyond what may be causing pain within our lives. Planets in the Twelfth house have a subtle, rather than a strong, influence, with the house working on a subconscious level of our mind.

The Twelfth house represents how we build our own inner strength to overcome limitations, fears and sorrows – allowing for individuals to adapt to the collective. Within this house we are able to come to terms with self-undoing by working out why we are not completely free, where we stand in our own way and who we desire to become.

Karma, betrayal, sacrifice, secrets and limitations play a strong role in the Twelfth house. It reflects our subconscious and emotionally based feelings of responsibility, describing the extent we feel guilt for problems within the larger world. The house is most commonly associated with psychic sensitivity, spirituality, hidden understandings and awareness, omens, the need for time alone, the subconscious, karma and traits existent but unknown to one's self.

The twelfth house represents the personal unconscious, the parts of ourselves that we've disowned — all that is hidden from our conscious perception. Here lie the dregs of early defeats and disillusionments, which ultimately were repressed and not integrated into the rest of our personality. Here, too, are aspects of ourselves that for one reason or another we don't want to express openly to others. These hidden parts of ourselves often come out later in life, surfacing as fears, weaknesses, or phobias that work against us.

The twelfth house in the horoscope represents all the energies that are beyond human control, beyond our normal understanding. With a twelfth house there is not much you can do, but rather learn to BE, and accept. It is not an easy house in this society that values tangibility so much, and attempts to shut out the dreamers, the people who know that they cannot control themselves or their life. It is known in traditional astrology as the house of hidden enemies, of incarceration, and loneliness. It doesn’t have to be so, but someone with a strong 12th house never really feels like they belong here to this saturnine society.

Why is this house so feared? 12th house people have a wish for some security from the busy everyday world that seem so alien to them. In this house the eradication of the ego is not just words, it is an actual happening that is experienced with its accompanying fears, need for time alone, open boundaries that cause the person to look for shelters.

The boundaries between real and not real are not so easily defined in this house, a huge longing for simplicity, for the easiness of being without the need to prove yourself resides here, and a connection to all energies and forces be they good or bad.

The twelfth house always suggests life beyond the norm. It could be the outsider living in a small apartment in a crowded city, the homeless, the one who chooses to live in a tent, and on the other scale, someone who is very rich, very famous, and therefore needs to live secluded and protected.

The 12th house is the house of secrets only because it is hard to explain to the rational mind, what it is meant by feelings, by intuitions, there is no proof in the 12th house, chaos rules, and we feel out of control of our minds, our behavior, our obsessions, our addictions. The only way to cure any of the above is by faith.

In reincarnation terms, this is the house is always connected to the mass karma of humanity. The longing for the Oneness. This is the house of surrender, and allowing the energies to clear the Ego from residue, in order for spirit to shine in. I personally believe that in future as was in past societies, this house will get back to its position of prominence, instead of the fear and misunderstandings it receives now.

Planets in the 12th house in the horoscope will bring you situations where you feel out of control, where you know that there is something more, but cannot explain it. You will attempt to hide, evade, and feel different. You will either need help with expressing these planets constructively, or shut them out as much as you can. Therapy will not work here. Meditations, healthy living and faith are the only way to go.

If you have a 12th house planet/s, please remember that there is a limit to what other people can take: they see you keep repeating the same mistakes, and feel sorry for yourself again and again. At some point they are fed up and walk away.

Sometimes, these repressed aspects find expression in our most intimate relationships. The daughter of an alcoholic parent, for instance, may find herself confronting her childhood experiences in her relationship with an alcoholic spouse.

On a higher level, the twelfth house can embody spiritual, psychic, and mystical experiences that deepen our connection with the divine.

A benefic planet occupying the 12th place makes the native live happily, he earns name and fame, he spends money for just cause. Ketu in the 12th is the cause of salvation. Sani, Ravi and Mangal being in the 11th make the native extravagant. He seldom enjoys material happiness, may not get family peace, and there is chance of his suffering from various ailments including disease in anus and eye.

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