When looking at our zodiacal sky we can ascertain that the Twelfth House is just under the horizon, being the darkness that stands still just before the dawn arrives. For this reason it is the home of our invisible worlds that govern what is behind our physicality.
This is the house of the unseen, the unknown. The house of sorrow, of shadows and our perceived enemies. This intangible spiritual dimension can and does assist us in engendering our triumphs as well as understanding who we are with the wisdom and bravery we never knew we had. It is the house of the un-memorialized dead and the forgotten dead. There is also another meaning for the Twelfth House, it is the house that contains the things that your mother may have repressed during her pregnancy. It represents the themes that the ghosts in your familial lineage couldn’t find access to. If the twelfth house is the house of enmity and danger, then it is also the house of resistance. If it’s the house of self sacrifice, then it is also the house of escape.
The energy of the Twelfth House is that of the sign Pisces. In the Piscean energy the deeper layers of the mind are located and together with the mechanism that links thoughts to actions the unconscious and the subconscious. They are fused together to bring forward the themes that we have locked deep within ourselves but we are not consciously aware of.
Our unconscious experiences include our suppressed feelings, auto reactions, our complex’s and phobias. Historically, feelings, thoughts and responses that are outside our human consciousness were attributed to a divine role in dictating a motive or action.
In Utero
The Twelfth House is also the area of the astrological chart that precedes the Ascendant. The latter represents the beginning of your life, from the moment you take your first breath. However, this environment affects us far before we are born. When we are in the womb the fetus already senses the attitude of people towards them and their mother. Not all impulses are positive and encouraging though.
Babies understand that their survival depends on the parents thus they want to appeal to them as much as possible. If your parents suggest to you that some parts of your personality are unacceptable you may try to change yourself to suit their wishes. Here is where many energetic conflicts begin.
You can ignore some parts of yourself but you can’t make them go away. If you do try to suppress them they go right into the Twelfth House and wait for resolution when the soul is ready to confront them and work towards a resolution. Planets that are located here often indicate that the traits of that person were not welcome in the family. The Twelfth House is the place of confinement so we often lock up painful experiences there. Each planet in astrology represents an aspect of the human soul. If you can’t live out them fully, your personality is muted so examining and learning how to process what is located in this house in important in accepting and processing our karmic loads that we have taken on in this lifetime.
Addiction
The Twelfth House governs all addictions. These can be well-known addictions such as alcoholism or drugs. They can also be hidden in subtle forms such as internet addiction, escaping your problems, work even crime. If you have something to face in life, no matter what its nature, whether it be a relationship, money or career problems and you choose to procrastinate or flee into a fantasy world you will experience the darker side of the Twelfth House. An afflicted Twelfth House in the natal chart such as a strong Pisces or Neptunian influence can worsen this issue. Lady Twelfth House will bring you your baggage to work on, it’s a gift, it really is.
Solitude and Things for You to Work on in this Life
Our Twelfth House is the house of isolation, monasteries, prisons, hospitals and that which is hidden and unseen. Majorly different feelings to the Eleventh House protection which precedes it though.
The Twelfth House also stands for seclusion, solitude, and emancipation. This is the house of detachments and of letting go. Whatever you have to detach from is represented by the Twelfth House house in our horoscope, your materialistic tendencies, your source of expenses, unhealthy family attachments etc.
When afflicted, this house can lead to a jail time, hospitalization, insomnia, separation, addictions, secret enemies, suspicion, inferiority complex, and loss of near and dear ones. The affliction of the house also causes mental weaknesses, susceptibility to unspiritual addictions such as intoxication, sex, enslavement, and so on.
Beginnings and Endings
Being the last house the Twelfth House completes our spiritual lifecycle and represents our endings. It’s the last house in our zodiac identity. You can visualize the Twelfth House as the final realm or stage of the zodiac wheel. The gloominess of this house is related to secret enemies, dangers and romantic affairs that aren’t meant to last if they linger unresolved. The Twelfth House assists us in acknowledging the endings that come with cycles of completions and the accompanying grief, healing and enlightened transcendence that these passages involve.
Psychic Abilities and Fallen Angeles
Twelfth House people are born with a variety of spiritual gifts. They can have psychic abilities as well as mystical experiences. From a very young age they are very intuitive, often seeing ghost’s in their childhood homes. They can understand what others are feeling and take on their emotions making them natural empaths. Extremely sensitive and emotional they want to make the world a better place. Strange and unexplained experiences happen throughout their lives. These intense spiritual experiences make them search for the meaning of life. Extremely telepathic they can and do read people’s minds. Sleep and dreaming are associated with the Twelfth House. Dreaming gives them answers to life’s problems. They dream vividly and sometimes they wake up inside their dreams realizing they not really dreaming. They can learn to control their dreams and are interested in dream interpretation. Dreams about future events prepare them for major life changes. Blessed with an inner knowing it’s important for them to trust their gut instincts. Many people with planets in the Twelfth House can use their spiritual abilities to help guide others. Remember this is the house of miracles, where inexplicable things occur.
Many twelfth house people have seen angels, UFOs, ghosts, demons and have experiences with deceased loved ones. Some may have clairvoyant visions or flashes of insight that give them answers to life’s complex problems. They are connected to the unconscious and subconscious realms. Spirit guides, ancestors and guardian angels telegraph through the Twelfth House. Our angels dwell here too. Helpful people like spiritual leaders, holistic healers, even agents and mentors also reside here to offer assistance. Hidden enemies and unwanted forces are also part of the Twelfth House. It’s easy to go into denial or be gullible, but if there’s one accessory you don’t want to bring to the Twelfth House it’s a pair of rose-colored glasses. Here is the place to see clearly with eyes wide open and flex your spiritual muscles.
Liberation
The Twelfth House is about letting things go. This does not necessarily mean it has to be a negative or sorrowful thing. Being the last house, it represents what you have to renounce to move towards liberation. It stands for the upcoming time when you will have to detach yourself from the material world and return to where you started, to the source of your origins.
It is a very important house concerning spiritual liberation. The Twelfth House in astrology represents Moksha, when you are freed from the endless cycle of birth and death and the miseries of our material life here on Earth. It represents the freedom of the soul from the shackles of worldly attachments. This is a crucial house in the horoscope for monks, sages, and people striving towards illumination, kundalini and other spiritual awakenings. It governs places like ashrams, meditation centers, monasteries, places of worship.
Your capacity to relinquish everything and to reunite with our divine force is determined by the planetary position in the Twelfth House. It plays a prominent and critical role in the activities that you indulge in out of generosity. Actions without expectations relate to this house. This can be otherwise known as unconditional love. The tendency to be giving, humble and compassionate is ruled by the Twelfth House. It mainly suggests losing yourself to find the Divine light and be at one.
