The 12th house is naturally associated with the sign of Pisces and its ruler Neptune. After becoming part of a larger group structure in the 12th, in the 12th house we experience the dissolution of our separate individual ego. This house represents the area of experience where we feel that we are influenced by forces and powers that are beyond our control. In this house we surrender our individual wills to the service of a higher power or ideal, or direct our energies toward greater self realisation and spiritual goals.
On a more mundane level, this house is associated with large institutions such as hospitals and prisons, where many people end up if the self-surrender described above is overdone, or made to the wrong ideals. Hence this house is also known as the house of self-undoing. Extracts of text taken from Soul Scope Report written by Lyn Birkbeck
Sun in the 12th House
All of this is most likely to focus upon, and be caused by, experiences of the dim and distant past - of this life, womb-life, or even before that. Whether these experiences are like heavy shadows or like paradise lost, your Will must bend itself to clearing out that closet of repressed longings, regrets and vague reservations.
Depending upon your Sun Profile as a whole, this can be quite some task and will restrict your life to a degree that is proportionate to how much that closet has not been cleared. In the process, you can become a light in the darkness to others who are similarly confined by their fears and weaknesses. Inner peace for one and all is the only ultimate goal for you, so meditation, selfless service and psychological awareness are your essential ways of living. Because of your basically reclusive nature, you prefer to work behind the scenes, go into retreat occasionally, and not be too much in the public eye. Get my Soul Scope Report
Moon in the 12th House
All these needs and feelings are most likely to be met through friends, clubs, social movements, or the nurturing of some ideal. All these matters will go through phases, causing your goals and allegiances to fluctuate. Overall, you manage to keep your emotional life fairly light and breezy.
You prefer not to get morbid and heavy in one-to-one relationships and, if things get that way, you will go out with friends or to somewhere impersonal. This can be a good safety valve, but a bad habit if you make your friends or associations into an emotional crutch. It is wise to take a break from them every so often in order to re-establish your own identity, not to mention facing any more intimate emotional commitments.
All the same, you are capable of appealing to the crowd on an emotional level, which means that you have a finger on the pulse of the public's attitude to political, sociological or cultural issues. Get my Soul Scope Report
Mercury in the 12th House
During some period in your past you somehow gained the impression that these mental capabilities of yours were inadequate because an emotional force of some kind overwhelmed you. As a result of this - or rather what caused it - you have a mind that can pick up all sorts of intimations, vibrations and undercurrents. These can either haunt you and impair clear thinking, or be useful in determining a subtle way through difficulties for yourself or those who need it. Establishing regular intervals of retreat - when you may restore your mental composure and safely open your mind to those unconscious powers of the imagination that you are especially privy to - is essential.Get my Soul Scope Report
Venus in the 12th House
Ultimately, these qualities and senses are discovered and your needs for love and beauty are satisfied through some form of confinement or withdrawal. This is because these aspects of your being are highly complex, subtle and quite soulful. As such they need peace and quiet to be developed - rather like exotic blooms in a hothouse. Furthermore, when you have contacted your inner beauty and love of yourself in this way - which very possibly should involve some kind of artistic pursuit - an external relationship becomes more viable and rewarding.
Whether you find yourself in this retreat from the 'normal' world voluntarily or otherwise, you need to appreciate that being there is in aid of you contacting that indefinable and very sensitive quality that lies deep within. Merely escaping from the world is liable to result in feeling lonely, cut-off and being regarded as a bit peculiar. Alternatively, this attraction to keeping your sensitive self hidden away may show itself externally by your falling for someone who is unavailable in some way. Consequently, such a relationship also has to take place in secret or in stolen moments. Get my Soul Scope Report
Mars in the 12th House
Such as they are, your powers of self-assertion are somewhat repressed and hard to get a handle on. Some deep-seated fear or desire seems to force your hand - despite what you think or want. Experiences of forcefulness from your past - even in the womb or before that - have had a profound effect upon your own sense of effectiveness.
Ultimately this enables you to have a subtler, more psychological idea of what drive and assertion are actually about. Generally, you can find maleness or sex confusing or intimidating. Pursuits that serve to benefit others are, you discover, more beneficial to your subtle energies. Get my Soul Scope Report
Jupiter in the 12th House
We all have a Guardian Angel but yours watches over you more than you know. Just when things are looking bleak, out of the blue comes deliverance, a benefactor along the winding road of life. As a sign that you are often unaware that 'someone up there loves you', you can go over the top by either pushing your luck in an attempt to disprove it, or be gushing and dramatic in an effort to prove that you deserve it.
Actually it is more a case of something deep inside that is guiding and looking after you, so you will contact and confirm your faith that life is essentially benevolent through retreat, meditation, researching your past (even as far back as the womb and before), or by working in some form of confinement or institution that ministers unto others. Get my Soul Scope Report
Saturn in the 12th House
None of this comes to you at all easily; nor perhaps does the establishing of a material position in life. It's as if you're first having to make amends for past misdeeds which are reflected as anything negative in your Saturn Profile - which may simply mean failing to act upon it, or that you've never felt enough sense of personal authority to achieve.
You have to go downwards and inwards in order to discover what lies hidden deep within you that makes you feel as if you've got a monkey on your back. This plumbing of your depths, this contacting and obeying your conscience is essential. Either you achieve it voluntarily through meditation, psychotherapy or creative work, or, you are driven to confronting yourself through some other form of confinement or solitude. The inner stability that you can eventually attain through these means is complete and permanent, because you will have vanquished the most powerful demon of all - the demon within. Get my Soul Scope Report
Uranus in the 12th House
Your urge for change, awakening and to be free to do your own thing is somewhat subdued. It's as if the most original and talented part of you is afraid to show itself. This is probably because at some stage in the past - even in the womb or before that - you felt ridiculed, discouraged from taking risks, or your freedom was abused or under-used. This suppressed sense of liberty can give you an acute insight into what lies at the root of inhibitions in both yourself and others but, sooner or later, you have to track down what originally held you back, re-live it and once more find your wings. Get my Soul Scope Report
Neptune in the 12th House
For you, sensitivity and spirituality are second nature in the sense that you are unavoidably in touch with subtle emotional energies and unseen or mystical realms. This can have a very distinct down-side in the form of feeling that a part of your being is cut off from the rest, or that there is something vague which exercises a certain control over you and keeps you tied to certain people and haunts.
Consequently, you may well suppress any suggestion of what cannot be rationally explained but, sooner or later, you have to go 'into the mystic' and make positive use of the fact that there is only a thin veil between your conscious and unconscious mind. You can then become aware of being in touch with invisible forces or entities, or memories of past incarnations. These in turn can give rise to rewarding mystical experiences through which you and others may be guided or uplifted.
Before this however, it's very important that you become firmly grounded through having established a definite grip on the material aspects of life and an internal sense of control over your life itself, otherwise you are in danger of being like a leaf in the wind as you desperately seek some form of escape or support from something, or someone, not that reliable. Another means of grounding yourself that also makes use of your pronounced compassionate or devotional nature is by working in institutions like hospitals or spiritual retreats. Meditate. Get my Soul Scope Report
Pluto in the 12th House
You have powerful hidden resources, which could also be repressed. This is either because you would abuse them if they were too readily available to you, or because you feel that if they were unleashed, anti-social or even evil forces would spew forth. All of this might be totally unconscious but the fact remains that eventually, voluntarily or otherwise, this power is drawn out in the form of some crisis or psychological process.
Until then you can feel as if you're carrying the weight of the world around, giving rise to work difficulties, absenteeism, not getting along with co-workers, or something more ominous. Essentially, your personal process of transformation is concerned with changing the state of those things that oppress humanity as a whole - but you have to begin by mucking out your own closet.
A fear of death itself could be the prime occupant, possibly stemming from an early experience - in the womb even. Once you have begun to vanquish some of these demons, then angels in the form of psychological or spiritual insights will take shape to assist you further in your delving and healing. Get my Soul Scope Report
More Planets in the Houses
Each Planet is located in one of the 12 Houses of the Chart.
