The 12th House

The 12th house is a Neptune ruled house. The 12th house is a very misunderstood house. It represents where we are alone in the world, some say it's the weakest part of the chart or where we feel most vulnerable. It's a Neptune ruled house so our evasive behavior is at work in this house, possibly leading us into mistakes and mishaps. It rules, fear, self imposed destruction. It's where we trip ourselves up.

Our charity, philanthropy, music, forgiveness, drugs, things we hide from others, self imposed confinement, isolation, solitude, You absorb things through the 12th house, escapism, bondage, poverty, avoidance, debts, karmic and financial, hospitals, hotels, punishment, self deception, expenditure, solitude

This is the arena wherein transpires the combat against the inertia inherent in all forms of society - the limiting power of the level of race, religion and caste consciousness. Here are expressed the innermost and secret emotions; the source and nature of hidden and underhanded opposition; imprisonment, hospitalization; the uncles and aunts on the mother's side (v. Fourth House); the secret effects of sins of omission and commission - defects of character that make necessary a spiritual rebirth. Since we can rid ourselves of the presence of these ghosts of the past only by liquidating our indebtedness to them, the Twelfth may be termed the House of the Hangover; of crime, punishment and grief; the pawnshop of the Ego; the Gethsemane of the soul; the Hell wherein one atones for his errors through compassionate self-sacrifice, whereby ultimately to achieve freedom from conditions that limit and restrict. Thus it is also the House of Charity given and received. Termed the House of Bondage, and of Self-Undoing, it is also the House of Initiation and ultimate understanding. While it is frequently tenanted by the significator's of scandal, self-approbation and hardness of heart, its qualities can be advantageously employed for work done in seclusion, for confidential behind-the-scene activities, and for meditation and inner development.

The Terminal Houses or karmic houses, the Fourth, Eighth and Twelfth, corresponding to the Emotional Triplicity of Signs, are concerned with the three most mysterious phases of life; the Fourth, the end of physical man; the Eighth, the liberation of his soul; the Twelfth, his secret aspirations and his disposition in the after-world.

From this, proponents of the doctrine of Reincarnation deduce that the Nativity we have on this plane of expression we earned in a past incarnation, while the one we will acquire in our next incarnation will depend upon the life we lived in this - and are living now. Thus again is involved the Law of Cause and Effect from which is no escape.