posted May 04, 2008 10:22 PM              

"Jupiter there can make you feel like a king in exile, but it also gives a willingness to help others and causes you to be really good hearted."

posted May 04, 2008 10:51 PM            

When your Sun is in your romantic partner’s twelfth house, your partner finds you intriguingly mysterious, and has a tendency to surrender his or her will to the subtle but pervasive influence you hold over him or her. When your relationship partner’s Sun is in your twelfth house, there is a deeply mystical quality to your relationship. You will tend to have a greater receptivity to emotional vibrations, introspection and spiritual experiences. You find it easier to align with your partner’s goals, and may have a greater willingness to make sacrifices to help him or her.

Sun 12th house
The placement of the Sun in twelfth house of a partner's chart suggests a somewhat intuitive ability to communicate. You are well "tuned in" to him, and there is a somewhat subconscious connection. You may be something of a "help-mate" to the other, especially with regard to understanding life as a whole. Frequently, this placement brings a complete change of perspective to this person whose twelfth house is visited.

Venus in a partner's twelfth house:

When your Venus is in your romantic partner’s twelfth house, it may all seem a bit mysterious to you. There is often something hidden about your relationship which you keep only to yourselves. When your relationship partner’s Venus is in your twelfth house, you will feel intrigued and fascinated by your partner, but at the same time insecure with your position. This may make you more introspective. You may find yourself in circumstances where you feel that you can only let go and let God deal with the situation.

Venus 12th house
Venus in partner's twelfth house denotes close psychic and emotional link in the relationship. You are sympathetic and compassionate toward each other, and this may be the basis of the attraction.

Mercury in a partner's twelfth house:

When your Mercury is in your romantic partner’s twelfth house, you can find that you are psychically linked to one another on a conscious or sub conscious level. You may even discover that you understand one another better nonverbally. When your relationship partner’s Mercury is in your twelfth house you will feel very comfortable thinking and talking about spiritual experiences, creative imagination, self sacrifice, soul cleansing and natural healing.

Mercury 12th house
Mercury in partner's twelfth house denotes a mutual interest in the hidden or the occult, psychology, or perhaps even creative endeavors. When Mercury falls in the twelfth house there is a special interest in the partner's attitude toward life in general, and with this a special understanding of this partner's vulnerable points, placing this Mercury native in a position to give helpful advice. If aspects are unfavorable, however, this advice giving may be resented.

Neptune in a partner's twelfth house:

When your Neptune is in your romantic partner's twelfth house, you are drawn together by a strong psychic bond and are likely to share secrets and mysterious or mystical experiences. Your inspire each other and release abilities. When your relationship partner’s Neptune is in your twelfth house your partner stimulates your spirituality and imaginative creativity. The two of you live both in this world and one of your own making.
http://www.skyviewzone.com/lovematch/sunsynastryhouse.htm and http://www.astrology-numerology.com/synastry-houses.html

Can't find AC in partner's 12th. I think I had Juno in partner's houses at one point in life, but can't find it now. I'll look again later!

8th

posted May 04, 2008 11:17 PM            

thank you for being so kind, 8th! curious to know about the juno placement as well if you can find it again...

posted May 06, 2008 02:11 AM            

Mars in 12th-hidden actions and unseen desires

Moon in 12th-hidden emotions and unseen feelings

Saturn in 12th-hidden restrictions and unseen type structure

http://www.circlesoflight.com/astrology-articles/12thhouse.shtml

http://www.astrologyweekly.com/learn-astrology/mars-in-12th-house.php
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Sun in Libra
Moon in Cancer
Jupiter in Cancer
Venus in Virgo
Mars in Cancer
Ascendant in Cancer

posted May 06, 2008 11:33 AM              

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"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." Carl Jung
"Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?” Lao-Tzu
Matters of the 12th House
(With affinities to Pisces and Neptune)
Yep! I'm the first to admit that in traditional astrology, the mysterious 12th house has had a rather gloomy and downright nefarious reputation. Planets in the birth chart placed in this house were thought to be hopelessly lost and in a nebulous, impenetrable fog. The 12th house has traditionally been associated with addictions, secret enemies, prisons, and other institutions where one is "hidden away." So having Saturn in the 12th house (for example) might be traditionally associated with an irrational fear of going to prison and/or of being institutionalized at your local Mental Health Institute.
But Here's the Low Down
The 12th house is also our connection with what the renowned Swiss psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung monikered as the "collective unconscious." As such... the 12th house can be our connection with dreams, visions, fantasy, romance, illusions, and redemption.
There's No Escaping It...
Further, according to archetypal astrologer, Dr. Karen Hamaker-Zondag, the 12th house may also likely refer to events and emotions we experienced while still in our mother's womb and/or during the first year or so of our life. These are experiences which occurred so early in life that we're virtually unable to consciously remember them happening. But the images and emotions connected with 12th house events remain active within our psyche and continue to unconsciously affect us in our everyday life and in our relationships with other people.
The effects and results (i.e. the baggage) of the 12th house may in some ways seem very similar to the experiences of the 8th house (discussed in another section of this web site). But generally speaking our 12th house experiences took place and were formed at a time so early in our development that we were not able to be active participants in the events.
Family Issues - Unlived Life
The 12th house may also likely have connections with "family life issues" or "gifts" that our parents (and perhaps our parents' parents) were given... but they refused or were emotionally unable to give expression to and/or resolve these "family life issues" during their own lifetime. And now it's been left up to the child (you) to experience and resolve these energies for the parents.
"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent." Jung - from The Development of Personality
Soaking it all up...
As very young children, we were literally "psychic sponges" actively soaking up the images, emotions, and events in our environment. Thus... the 12th house irrational feelings and fears we're left with as adults are often quite vague, unclear, and "foggy." We're never able to put our finger on and/or pinpoint the source of these irrational feelings and fears. As a result, our 12th house feelings and fears may leave us with the uneasy feeling of somehow being "victimized" and "violated" by life without ever knowing just exactly why.
To target 12th house issues that remain active in your life? Look first for any planets located in the 12th house. Also look for the planetary ruler of the 12th house and any planets which aspect the planetary ruler. For example, if your birth chart Moon is located in the 12th house - then look for experiences and needs surrounding the issues of emotional security, the need for nurturing, and possible crippling, irrational fears of abandonment.
Plain English...?
Putting this in plain terms - if your birth Moon is in the 12th house, then there's a strong chance that your birth mother (Moon) may have been going through some very emotionally difficult times just prior to or after your birth... or... becoming a wee bit foggy, again... there may be some of sort hidden sacrifice surrounding the archetypal image of "The Mother."
But if Mom was going through some hard times - then don't even try to kid yourself...
it will be something you'll eventually
have to deal with in your own life
and in your own fears...
Sign on the Cusp?
If, for instance, Taurus is located on the cusp of the birth chart's 12th house, then look to see where Venus (the ruler of Taurus) is in your chart and which other planets aspect Venus. (Cusp is just a fancy word for the very beginning of a house.)
Any Hope?
Okay, I figure you're wondering at this point, if the 12th house has any redeeming value at all?
Good golly, yes! Absolutely! Most assuredly, the 12th house has many extraordinarily priceless gifts to bestow upon an individual. The 12th house is all about redemption! I'm a strong advocate for the many hidden riches contained within the various life experiences of the 12th house! But be forewarned that the riches of the 12th house may be an "enrichment" that the average person in our "modern scientific world" may not be exactly thrilled or (for that matter) comfortable with...
12th House Gifts
As mentioned on the previous page, the 12th house is our potential "connection" with the vast "collective unconscious." As such... the 12th house is the house of imagination, fantasy, mysticism, romance, and illusion... the 12th house is a house of spirituality, but it's an introverted, mystical, spirituality, and faith that is quite unlike the more extroverted, Jupiterian, 9th house religiosity so popular in today's society.
Karen Hamaker-Zondag on the 12th house: "Responding to the rhythm of life, and going to meet life in an open and expectant frame of mind, with a willingness to be fructified by the moment and to experience joy and sorrow to the full without a sense of guilt, is a yin quality that has been lost in our culture.
Another attitude to life is required, an attitude of openness to things as they are, and acceptance of life as it comes. In other words, what is required is some surrender to life, without being governed by the impulse to control life in all its facets. We should learn how to flow with the stream while remaining fully aware. For centuries, this attitude has been laid under a ban in our Western culture.
If the 12th house symbolizes anything, then it is this very process, this complete receptivity and readiness to take what comes your way... to integrate it... and to use it as the germ of a new creation process, whether this takes shape in music, art, science or your daily life. By this means, wisdom and inner wealth can be our portion, and when we need help - doors can be unexpectedly opened for us. Deep down, in spite of pain and sorrow, life will be worth living."
Trusting
Who's trying to kid who here? Trusting in "the natural process and unfolding of life" can at times be incredibly difficult. The 12th house is asking us to accept the times of sorrow as an equal partner in the creation process. The 12th house is asking us to give up our sense of needing absolute, complete control over our life course, journey, and destiny.
If, during moments of crisis, we can remain "quiet"... allowing ourselves to flow with the natural process and unfolding of life events (while remaining fully aware) - then, as Dr. Hamaker-Zondag has pointed out, very often the questions we need answered and the doors we need opened will, in turn, be miraculously and unexpectedly brought to us without "conscious" effort on our part.
Speaking as someone who has explored and is continuing to learn lessons of the 12th house, Pisces, and Neptune - remaining "quiet" and accepting moments of sorrow as an equal partner with moments of joy is so, so much easier said than done.
Quoting again from Dr. Hamaker-Zondag:
"By daring to take things as they come, we find that in spite of their unpredictability, they often turn out well for us. If we interfere and try to control things, the very reverse frequently seems to happen! It is disconcerting to the conscious mind not to be able to foresee the course of events. But the unconscious finds ways to experience things that belong to us, that have a healing effect and can even support us socially."
Imagination
There's a famous quote (usually seen on bumper stickers) of Sun Sign Pisces, Albert Einstein: "Imagination is more important than knowledge." However, what's truly fascinating is that the full quote goes on to say: "Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Reportedly, one of Einstein's methods of "getting in touch" with his immense inner source of creativity was to imagine - in his mind's eye - the numbers with which he was working. He, then, allowed the numbers to "dance freely" within his imagination. (I don't know about you, but I figure I'm doing pretty good to manage a shaky two-step when I'm dealing with numbers in my head.)
Einstein's experience falls much in line with the response of the physicist, Prof. C.F. Weizsacker, of the Max Planck Institute in Gottengen - when asked the question: "Do dreams or pictorial ideas or memories play any part in the creative process?" (From The Twelfth House by Karen Hamaker-Zondag)
"When I know that I have to work on a certain problem in a certain field, I realize that a great deal of conscious work and concentration is required; as likely as not exceeding my own strength. My own efforts never produce a breakthrough, but only a certain amount of spadework along conventional lines. By concentrating hard, I slowly burn myself out, like a small fire.
But if I can then manage to relax properly (for a few minutes or, if necessary, for days or months), I find that in certain circumstances at an unexpected moment, such as in the morning when I wake, I get an inspiration that more or less answers the problems concerned. Afterward, I have to concentrate again; this time on interpreting the inspiration for the understanding... Occasionally, an inspiration of this sort formulates or announces itself in a dream. Now and then, too, it takes the form of images, although not predominately so."
Summing it up...
In the Crash Course, while discussing the "elements" and the "modes of reaction," I illustrate by giving the example of what might happen if you "threw a feeling" at a Pisces. The "feeling, mutable" reaction of Pisces was to absorb and synthesize the feeling, and then re-fashion the feeling into their own creation and make it a part of themselves. This, in a nutshell, is both the blessing and the curse of the 12th house (Pisces and Neptune).
"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
Carl Jung
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls" -
Joseph Campbell
Suggested reading:
For those seeking a deeper understanding
of their birth planets located in the 12th house
The Twelfth House
written by Karen Hamaker-Zondag

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Reading from Tracy Marks, _Your Secret Self': Illuminating the mysteries of the Twelfth House_.

Your twelfth house moon suggests that you are a private person, hesitant to reveal your feelings and needs. Often, fearful of your vulnerability, you block awareness of your feelings; you seek refuge from your inner world in habitual activities which you may perform in an automatic manner. Contacting your hidden emotional self may be difficult for you, because you have developed a lifetime of defenses against primitive levels of need and dependency which frighten you. You may feel intense shame in regard to the child-self which is buried within you.

Repressed for a long time, your sadness and longing may sometimes burst forth as infantile tears, which seem regressive and inappropriate. Like Alice in Wonderland drowning in the flood of her tears, you feel overwhelmed, and seek to squelch future displays of feeling. "Be strong;don't cry" may be your motto. You are afraid not only of drowning in your feelings and your needs, but also of revealing your vulnerability to others, then being rejected or abandoned.

Perhaps because of traumatic experiences as a child, in which you experienced unbearable helplessness, need, and dependency in relationship to a parent who could not sensitively respond, you learned to turn to yourself early in life and to establish your self-sufficiency. "I must do it alone; I don't need anyone," you decided, as you withheld yourself emotionally in relationships, and learned how to engage with people without full involvement. Emotionally self-contained and insulated, you became a capable survivor, and learned how to effectively play the roles required of you. But often, as a result of your repression, you feel empty and depleted, out of contact with your source of inner sustenance.

If your moon is deeply buried, you may struggle against fear of the primitive infant locked within you, and against a desire to return to the womb or to escape into fantasies of total nurturance. Fearful of your passivity and your desire for motherly love, you compensate through cultivating your adult competencies and by becoming a caregiver. But although you are independent in the external world, you hold onto your established patterns of behavior and to whatever internal sources of security you have developed.

Forced to turn to yourself early in life, you learned how to take care of yourself, and how to substitute behaviors and activities for the nurturing from others you did not receive. You may as a result be compulsive about your self-caretaking rituals, particularly in regard to food. Tendencies toward anorexia, adherence to strict diets, preoccupation with cooking, and fear of eating in restaurants are all manifestations of a twelfth house moon. Sometimes, you become ill as a means of resting from the demands of your adult self, and in order to allow yourself to receive the caretaking that you seek.

Your twelfth house moon suggests that you never felt allowed to be a child. Perhaps your mother was emotionally a child herself, and wanted you to cater to her needs rather than become capable of responding to yours. She may have been deeply troubled, psychologically or physically unavailable; she may have sacrificed herself to involvements in the outer world at the expense of her family life. Whatever your situation, her negative responses to your needs and feelings, and her messages of "don't cry" "be strong" or "do it yourself" led you to believe that you had no right to have feelings. The hurt or trauma you experienced then may have resulted in a deep-seated decision never to make yourself vulnerable again. "I'd rather die than need you," you may have inwardly said to your mother, "because if I need you I will have to bear the intolerable pain of your failure to meet my needs." As you grew older, fearing the re-stimulation and opening of earlier wounds, you may have said to yourself, " I will not be dependent upon anyone ever again."

Often a twelfth house moon signifies a failure in the early attachment bond with the mother, although a deep inner bond with her exists. Such a bond ( accompanied by idealization) persists in part because you need to hold on to her psychically, as a result of not having received adequate nurturing. Frequently, a twelfth house moon suggests problems in the oral or suckling stage or lack of adequate physical nurturance. If your mother was unable to rspond to your nonverbal (and verbal) signals, you learned to distrust closeness to other persons, and failed to develop a healthy degree of trust.

Because of childhood trauma, you may have repressed your early experiences, and remember little of your family life; you may also have developed a lifestyle which involves minimal family contact. Perhaps because you neer had a secure home, or because you fear experiencing your need for a home and family life, you may avoid creating a home that could be truly nurturing for you. Sometimes, people who have Twelfth house moons never develop roots anywhere; they move frequently, unable to settle down, afraid of sinking into the feelings and needswhich they associate with attachment to home and family.

Another influence of a twelfth house moon is confusion in regard to female identity and to relationships with woman. Lacking an adequate female role model, you may have distorted ideas about womanhood and motherhood. If you are female, you may be insecure about your identity as a woman, and inclined to equate female role behavior with self-sacrifice; you might then, in reaction, reject the traditionally feminine, and seek refuge in "male" values. Sometimes, woman with twelfth house moons deny the desire for motherhood; or, in contrast, allow themselves to become pregnant in order to recreate them mother/infant bond.

If you are male, you may feel insecure about the hidden female within you, which at times feels like overwhelming need and passivity. You may devalue the "feminine" realms of life, while simultaneously idealizing women, falling in love with inner images and fantasies, yearning for the perfect woman/mother/mate, or attracting clinging, dependent women who force you to make contact with the energies you project.

To the extent to which you fear your vulnerability and hunger for nurturance, you attract people who need you and become dependent upon you. Fleeing from relationships which awaken your own need, you are nevertheless quite capable of responding to need in others. In fact, you may even respond with a sensitivity and sympathy which you are incapable of giving to yourself. Psychically sensitive to others, you are attuned to their feelings and intuitively know what to say and do.

Because you are a natural caretaker, you are probably drawn to work in the service professions, where you can meet the needs of wounded or troubled humanity. Identifying with the troubled, ill or weak, you demonstrate your talent as a nurse, healer, or counselor. Having sacrificed your personal mother to the world, you may also sacrifice your personal mothering needs in order to mother humanity as a whole. You seek to give to others what you always wanted to receive. Such giving may not fill the empty space within you, but it does provide vicarious satisfaction and the experience of having made a significant social contribution.

Another advantage of your twelfth house moon is your keen intuition an innate spirituality. Because of your sensitivity, you need to spend a considerable amount of time alone, reflecting upon aspects of your personal life which you do not share with others, and clearing yourself of the psychic overload you have accumulated as a result of too much contact. Your solitude may also be important to you because it helps you to regain contact with yourself, to connect with your feeling nature, and through meditation, music, or other pursuits, to let go of the walls you have created and surrender to forces greater than yourself.

Because you have preserved your true child self deep within you, in a form that is largely untouched by the world, you are capable of contacting and drawing from rich sources of inner nourishment which reside with that child. Because its boundaries are thin, it is capable of openness to spiritual realms. The more you are able to honor that archaic child within you, the more you will become attuned to your divine nature and be able to enrich yourself with the openness to higher energies which it can offer you.

You need to contact, accept, and embrace the child within you, to tolerate its terror of abandonment and its primitive feelings and needs, and to learn to soothe and reassure it. Feeling-oriented therapy, re-birthing, self-psychology, primal therapy, and past-lives therapy all may facilitate this process. As you begin to acknowledge and honor your inner child, you may also choose to create for yourself a home which is truly nourishing, and which helps you to feel warm, safe, and emotionally secure. Once you begin to hear, accept, and meet the real needs of your inner child, you will experience a sense of realness and wholeness which previously was inaccessible to you; you will also be able to give to others more effectively, to meet their real needs, rather than vicariously using them as a means for recovering your lost self.

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The Twelfth House: Misery or Moksha
Dennis M. Harness, Ph.D.

The twelfth house in the natal horoscope is often a mysterious domain of perplexity and paradox. According to Vedic astrologer, Dr. B.V. Raman, the twelfth bhava (house) "indicates misery, loss, expenditure, waste, extravagance, sympathy, piety, divine knowledge and worship, moksha (final emancipation) and the state after death". Whether an individual encounters loss or gain through the twelfth bhava is usually reflected by the natal chart, navamsa and current dasas and transits. But just as important, the attitude and consciousness of the individual exploring the twelfth house will have great influence as to what the soul learns through the experiences. How we react and respond to life's karmic lessons is our free will or choice. As one encounters the twelfth house, it may be said that, "some pain is inevitable; suffering is optional".

My very first experience with a professional astrologer was in 1976 and involved the twelfth house. The astrologer noted that both Moon and Jupiter were placed in my natal twelfth house and that Saturn would be transiting over these planets in the coming year. His dire prediction for 1977 was that I should " be cautious because you may end up in jail". This was a little disconcerting for a twenty-one year old who was moving away from his family to California to complete his college education. However, his prediction did come to fruition. My first job in California was as a youth counselor in a juvenile prison facility. I was literally in jail for up to sixty hours a week counseling adolescent boys. I have always thought that this was Divine Mother's loving and compassionate way to balance the scales of karma for Saturn's transit over my twelfth house planets.

In addition to the twelfth bhava signifying jails and prisons, confinement can also come thru ashrams, monasteries, and other places of spiritual renewal. The great saint of India who taught in the West, Paramahansa Yogananda stated that "seclusion is the price of greatness". The twelfth house can teach us the benefit of aloneness, instead of the experience of loneliness. Meditation, yoga, and other spiritual austerities may be experienced through this house. Islands, remote places, and caves are also associated with the twelfth bhava.

The traditional karaka or significator of the twelfth house is Saturn. Sani or Saturn can reflect the loss, suffering, austerity of this domain. In my opinion, Ketu can also be viewed as a secondary karaka of the twelfth bhava. Ketu is the "moksha karaka" graha and also reflects twelfth house matters to an extent. Ketu is the planet of enlightenment and liberation as well as loss and confusion. Ketu placed in the twelfth bhava can reflect a deep spiritual awareness. The great saint, Mother Teresa had Ketu residing in her twelfth house of her natal horoscope.

The twelfth house is also reflective of the unconscious mind. The great Swiss psychiatrist, Dr. C.G. Jung once wrote "that which we do not face in the unconscious, we will live as fate". One of the goals of both psychotherapy and astrology is to make the unconscious, more conscious. Both methods of introspection attempt to bring light into the caverns of the sub-conscious mind. Planets transiting thru the twelfth house can bring to light certain psychological complexes related to fear, worry and paranoia. Hidden family secrets or ancestral patterns may also be revealed. As Jung had stated; "the greatest sin" is to remain unconscious.

The twelfth house is also associated with the bed. Activities such as sleeping, dreaming, and even making love (bed pleasures) are depicted here. Benefic planets here may reflect the enjoyment of the bedroom and its related pleasures. Malefics posited here can reveal insomnia, nightmares, sexual dysfunction or lack of sexual enjoyment. The left eye and the feet are correlated with the twelfth bhava. Thus, poor eyesight and/or feet problems can occur due to afflictions to the twelfth house or its lord.

Loss of money, heavy expenditures, extravagance and debts can be experienced in relation to the twelfth house. However, this house can also reveal unusual resources and be a hidden treasure chest at the time of need. It is important to remember that the twelfth house is the eleventh house of gain from the second house (money) and also the second house from the eleventh house. It can provide the proverbial " the check is in the mail". Benefic planets in the twelfth house provide sustenance during the difficult times. Humanitarian or charitable work may be suitable for a benefic twelfth house person.

In summary, there are many methods to consciously explore the twelfth house. Psychotherapy, astrology, hypnosis, journal writing and working with one's dreams can be effective tools for exploring the unconscious mind. Meditation, prayer, and other spritual practices can also assist one in contacting the super-conscious mind of the higher Self. The ultimate goal of "transpersonal psychotherapy" and Vedic Astrology is God Realization or Moksha. Exploration of twelfth house activities can assist us in finding our way home to God and the state of consciousness we may experience after our final liberation.

The following is a brief synopsis of the grahas in the natal twelfth house. Of course, the sign of the planet, aspects, and current dasas/transits will greatly enhance the interpretation and outcome.

Planets in the Twelfth House:

Sun: Hermit nature, need for seclusion, absent father, lack of family support for ego-development, dominant mother, low self-esteem, the power behind the throne, trouble with authority figures. Search for personal identity.

Moon: Lack of nurturing as a child, absent mother, fear of appearing childish, need for meditation time, enjoyment of the bedroom, sensitive to sound, water is healing, success in foreign lands, spiritual mother with different religious beliefs, raised by siblings.

Mercury: Good for writing and keeping a journal, psychic nature, tendency to ramble in speech, excellent for research and working behind the scenes, poetic, worry or fear issues, creative dyslexia.

Venus: Good bed pleasures, fear of loss in love, little public display of affection, trouble in early marriage, hidden treasures and gifts. Love of mystery, good longevity, peaceful death, attains heaven.

Mars: Kuja Dosha, early marriage may end in divorce, passive-aggressive personality, possible hidden abuse issues, good for hatha yoga. Assertiveness training may be beneficial.

Jupiter: Good for meditation and yoga, Guru may be absent, hidden financial resources, discouraged to expand past parents narrow belief systems, attains heavenly state after death.

Saturn: Need for spiritual discipline, path of service, issues with fear and withdrawal, feet and/or eye problems, sexual dysfunction. Father not available, may seek older mates, heavy debts.

Rahu: Difficulties with sleep disturbance or sexuality, difficult to diagnose illnesses, astral disturbances, need to focus on sadhana or spiritual practices.

Ketu: Good for moksha or spiritual liberation, intuitive gifts, need for spiritual community or ashram, enjoys distant travels. Need to create a peaceful living environment.

The Outer Planets (not utilized in traditional Vedic Astrology):

Uranus: Good for astrologers, unconventional, inventive mind, may have had originality stifled by family of origin. Underlying nervousness.

Neptune: Creative inspiration, need for fantasy time, poetic, psychic, escapist tendencies, need moderation with drugs, alcohol, transcendental mind. sensitive, compassionate, need time near water.

Pluto: Repressed sexuality and passion, tantric yoga may be helpful, fear of owning one's power, manipulation of others, intense womb experience.

References:

Hamaker-Zondag, Karen. The Twelfth House: The Hidden Power in the Horoscope. Samuel Weiser, York Beach, ME, 1992.

Jung, C.G. Man and his Symbols. Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1964.

Marks, Tracy. Your Secret Self: Illuminating the Mysteries of the Twelfth House. CRCS Publications, Sebastopol, CA, 1989.

Raman, B.V. Hindu Predictive Astrology. UBS Publishers New Delhi, India, 1992, Twentieth Edition.

Rudhyar, Dane. The Astrological Houses, "The Twelfth House". CRCS Publications, Sebastopol, CA, 1972.

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The Twelfth House

I am an eclectic reader and from time to time, I happen by some material that concurs with my own belief systems and I feel reassured that I am in good company.

A case in point ... my personal belief concerning this matter of channeling/mediumship activities ... are not only shared by others whose wisdom have been clearly recognized and embraced by lots of people all
over the world but also expounded in books such as The Astrologer's Handbook by Frances Sakoian (the head of the New England School of Astrology) and Louis S. Acker (who together with Ms Sakoian, also wrote The Astrology of Human Relationships).

These two experienced astrologers redefine classic astrology while their interpretations of the aspects open doors to the esoteric. The following are passages I quote from the book with the wish that dear readers like you shall benefit from other people's awakening, and I also hope sharing these material will precipitate or deepen your own awakening ...

Under the heading The Twelfth House, the text reads: "The Twelfth House and the factors affecting it in the native's horoscope show a great deal about the native's characteristic emotional responses and habit patterns.
The Twelfth House rules the subconscious mind -- the accumulation of unconscious memories and emotional experiences and attitudes.

The special pitfall of the Twelfth House is the possibility of emotional blocks, addiction to unconscious habit patterns, and automatic responses that may not be suitable to a given situation.
(These patterns are based on irrational, unconscious, pleasure-seeking or pain-avoiding responses.)

The tendency to escape into the past is another Twelfth House pitfall and can result in an illusionary existence. Often the native's mental world and perception of reality do not correspond to physical reality
(a common definition of mental illness or insanity). The Twelfth House reveals that department of life in which individuals are most likely to deceive themselves.

The Twelfth House, ruling the unconscious memory, is the house most closely associated with karma. It contains the memory of all our past deeds and misdeeds and links us with all that has a similar rate of vibration, whether or not we are consciously aware of it. It rules secret enemies, because of the unconscious memory patterns and unconscious telepathy with people whom we have harmed in the past or those by whom we have been harmed.

The individual can overcome the limitations of the Twelfth House only by consciously facing the restrictions imposed on him/her by his/her karma. We can only tune in to those states of consciousness and circumstances whose seed lies within us. Thus, we are our own jailers. Only by consciously facing and accepting these conditions and correcting them in ourselves will we pass beyond the limitations of the Twelfth House.

The task of the Twelfth House is to make conscious the contents of the unconscious mind so the individual can draw upon deeper levels of inspiration and clairvoyant visualization and channelship, learning to discriminate between those unconscious impulses which are constructive and those which are not." -- unquote.

Under the heading Mars in the Twelfth House, the text reads: "Mars in the Twelfth House indicates desires and actions that are strongly influenced by the unconscious mind. Work and other activities will be carried on in secret or seclusion. There can be a tendency to act in secret to avoid the open opposition of others.

Natives tend to be secretive about their desires and purposes; they may have secret sexual involvements. Often, they work in large institutions where they can disguise or lose their personal identities." -- unquote.

Under the heading Saturn in the Twelfth House, the text reads: "Saturn in the Twelfth House indicates that much time will be spent in seclusion or working behind the scenes in such large institutions as hospitals, universities, corporations, and government agencies. Work may be carried out in psychology or in charitable institutions.

Saturn afflicted in the Twelfth House means loneliness and depression. If it is badly afflicted, there can be mental illness and confinement in hospitals, prisons, or other places of detention. An afflicted
Saturn here often gives secret enemies who contribute to the native's downfall. However, in many cases these enemies are more imaginary than real. (Here, I wish to suggest that some latitude be given to the interpretation of the word "imaginary".)

People with this position need to get away from their own psychological problems by serving others and by energizing themselves in practical, constructive work." -- unquote.

Under the heading Pluto in the Twelfth House, the text reads: "Pluto in the Twelfth House indicates a need to regenerate the unconscious mind by bringing its contents into consciousness. This can be manifested as an interest in psychology, occultism, or mysticism.

People with this position are capable of deep meditation and of understanding occult mysteries, an ability that is evidenced in highly developed intuitive powers. They have an unconscious telepathic sensitivity to the thoughts, feelings, and motives of others, but it may cause them to withdraw into privacy and seclusion or to take secretive action against those they dislike. Mental preoccupation with their own problems, causing them to ignore the ideas and moral viewpoints of others, often results in an inability to get along at work.

An afflicted Pluto in this house can indicate treacherous secret enemies (and here too, I suggest some latitude be given to the interpretation of "secret enemies"), neurotic problems, and danger of involvement with destructive psychic forces. These people should avoid contact with seances, drugs, and other circumstances that are likely to involve them with lower astral phenomena." -- unquote.

Don't these above examples make you wonder just how much planetary influence IS responsible for seemingly "unenlightened behavior"?

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The Twelfth House
House of the Subconscious
The Twelfth House is commonly referred to as the House of the Unconscious. The unconscious state can help engender our successes, as well as assist us in coping with our failures. Success vs. failure: do we consciously confront our lives or subconsciously sweep things under the proverbial rug?
This House might more aptly be called the House of Reckoning, since it is in the Twelfth that we review what we have been (and done) and decide where we go from there. Along with these unconscious musings, we also deliberate on strengths and weaknesses which are hidden from public view.
Our subconscious works hard on our behalf, trying to make sense of our lives. This shadow play is slow and long, and often fraught with fear and pain. It is in this context that we are confronted with our sorrows, suffering and the secrets we keep from ourselves and from others.
Ultimately, we are also confronted with our fate: karma. Here we meet up with the results of everything we have done. This further puts the focus on repressed agendas and restraint. What have we wrought with in our lives? This is a key question of the Twelfth House, and we will deal with it both consciously and unconsciously. Will the answers compel us to be transformed or reborn?
This is another cornerstone of the Twelfth House -- the manner in which we move forward. We can learn much from the unconscious. In its most noble manifestation, we will be prompted to be charitable. If we learn our lessons, both past and present, we are also better equipped to move forward.
The Twelfth House compels us to seek closure in a spiritual way as an aid to positive growth. The last House of the zodiac also recognizes that we can feel bound in life -- stuck and confined. For this reason, this House rules jails, hospitals, institutions, asylums and any space that inhibits freedom. More gloominess in the Twelfth comes in the form of danger, secret enemies and clandestine affairs. Beware! While some may decry the Twelfth House as the garbage bin of the zodiac, it's really an unfair term.
Ultimately, this House is the champion of positive transformations. It is here that we stand on the precipice and determine how we will proceed. By visiting the unconscious and meeting with the past, we begin to glean what the future will bring.

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posted May 08, 2008 02:13 AM            

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