The 12th House can often simultaneously represent freedom and imprisonment at the same time. Our dreams and subconscious, free, but also contained spaces are represented in the 12th House. Prisons and hospitals are often represented in the 12th House because prisoners and patients are restricted to stay in the building, but they are free from the brutality of the societal norms outside.
When the Moon is in the 12th House, the person’s emotional processes are often ambiguous to them in some way, whether it be knowing what their emotions are truly or knowing how to handle the emotions they are currently feeling. Due to this ambiguity, these people tend to conceal their emotions because usually, they don’t quite know what to do with them and would ideally not like their emotions to cause an unneeded bad situation.
Also, due to this ambiguity, these people can struggle to comfort others using their emotions. These people will tend to use other facets of their personality that they’re conscious of to comfort someone, whether it be through their logic or their actions. However, while these people do tend to struggle with comforting others with their emotions, they do have a hidden intuition that they use to find people who are in need. They will also work very hard to emotionally help others, often absorbing the emotional pain of others onto themselves by being good listeners. These individuals have a great potential to be empathetic.
It is often this intuition that can help these people stay away from bad situations. There are often times when these people regret not trusting their intuition the first time once they find themselves in an unideal situation. These people tend to doubt their intuition because a lot of their intuition stems from their feelings. Chances are, if they do not trust their emotions, they won’t trust their intuition.
These people will often not share their emotional pain to others openly, and they can even struggle to clearly articulate their feelings to their loved ones. When these people go through a bad situation and they have to tell someone about it, they will often tell the events and what exactly happened, but they will never tell you how they felt about it. Due to this, when these people are sharing their feelings, they can often sound too neutral. These people tend to not process their emotions in front of others, and is often done in private.
Those with Moon in the 12th House have the potential to be a nurturing figure and a part of them deeply wants to be this figure. Deep down, these people want to help and care for the people they love. These people deeply crave to completely open up to people who care about them and care for those who do the same. However, these people need to learn that if they want to be nurturing to others, they must let others nurture them also.
A possible reason why these people can struggle with accepting nurturing from others is that perhaps, they didn’t get nurtured growing up. People with this placement will place high importance onto the parent they saw to be a motherly or nurturing figure. However, this nurturing figure was somehow inaccessible and absent to these people. Due to this, a lot of these natives grew up handling stressful situations without their emotions playing a direct role, placing their emotions in the background.
However, if these people do learn how to harness their emotions, they are quite caring individuals. These people tend to have a strong awareness for other people’s feelings and will act accordingly so that other people can be as open as possible, for they know the pain of hiding their emotions. When a person with their Moon in the 12th House feels completely safe, their emotions are often dynamic and open.
These people tend to emotionally cope by being in solitude. People with this placement can spend long periods of time alone to process and express their emotions. If these people have a strong foundation within themselves, these people can find comfort in being alone and they often like to implement little intimate comfort rituals by themselves.
However, if these people do not have a strong foundation, they will tend to emotionally rely on someone they trust in a codependent way. If these people are not careful, they can emotionally drain the people they rely on. These natives tend to cling to relationships that emotionally soothe them, and can struggle with letting people go.
Some people with this placement are aware of their dependent tendencies and can tend to emotionally detach themselves so that they don’t hurt other people, yet this is another way to escape their ambiguous emotional processing. The theme of their emotional struggle is learn the art of giving and taking with their emotions, and to learn healthy emotional self-reliance.