The 12th House, the synthesis
- Attached to Pisces, symbolizing “We serve”
- Axis of health, duties
- Mode : Mutable (Cadent)
- Element : Water (psychology)
The 12th House represents your inner “Me”, introspection, psychological crises (Depression, the unconscious especially collective and familial, the dream, imaginary, sleep), the loneliness (retreat), secrecy (the hidden life, the shadow), sacrifice (or submission, passivity), spirituality, and meditation (the awareness of Absolute Unity), retreat (withdrawing in order to prepare oneself), trials (material and spiritual), confinement (hospital, monastery, any confinement or even in the sense of a psychological restriction), hidden enemies (as opposed to the declared enemies of the 7th House), the chronic illnesses (as opposed to the small acute illnesses of the 6th House) and the time of healing, of forgetting…
The 12th House is the house of “meaning” (finding, understanding, and especially at this stage integrating the “sense”, the essential), the house of learning the universal, mysticism, dematerialization, disembodiment, dissolution of the ego to complete the cycle of the experiential fields of human life… it can indicate mediumnic gifts, or all types of clairvoyance.
It’s the house of all the Jungian “archetypes”, those primordial images having their autonomous existence and are present in the psyche.
Its symbolism is close to the planet Neptune.
It is also the house of Karma as much in the sense of inheritance, retribution, as of liabilities (or karmic debt).
It can equally symbolize the mother-in-law…
The 12th House is certainly the most complex of the houses (together with the 8th House), to better understand it, it is important to look at the birth chart as a whole.
The Sign in the 12th House will determine character and faculties with which you face this area of assessment, of questioning.
The Planets in the 12th House and their Aspects will give more or less importance to this sector of the sky. A busy and loaded 12th House complicates interpretation and requires a complete analysis of the birth chart to determine the dominants and arrive at a reliable understanding.
For the transits in the 12th House, here again the harmonic or dissonant notions must be relativized and put in parallel with the birth chart astrological aspects, especially the slow planets transits.
Analyzing the 12th House :
- First look at its opposite house, the 6th House, work, health.
- Then look at the Squares : the 9th House, the 3rd House (Cadent Houses, representing adaptability)
- Take into account the Trines : the 4th House, the 8th House (Water Houses, representing psychology)
Planets Rulerships Analogy :
With the 12th House we close the collective hemisphere of extroversion, social appearance, spirituality, and public life, in short of maturity.
The individual has confronted society, he has successively transformed himself, refined his judgment, carried out his philosophical quest and social achievement to the point of detachment and transcendence.
The cycle is now complete, but its end already coincides with the next cycle’s renewal.