Self-Imprisonment

The 12th House rules prisons, and in a psychological sense, the 12th House can show how we imprison and limit ourselves, stopping ourselves from improving and showing our talents and potential.

Note: Use Whole Signs!

Aries ruling the 12th: You imprison and limit yourself when you choose to be immature, childish, and selfish. Being inconsiderate of your surroundings can sabotage your stability and consistency. With Mars as the lord of your 12th, destructive conflicts stop you from being your best.

Taurus ruling the 12th: You imprison and limit yourself when you choose to be stubborn and inflexible. Not having the ability to try and learn new things can sabotage your curiosity. With Venus as the lord of your 12th, an inauthentic relationship with yourself stops you from being your best.

Gemini ruling the 12th: You imprison and limit yourself when you do not let yourself mentally rest. Scattered thoughts can sabotage your ability to process your emotions and to situate yourself comfortably. With Mercury as the lord of your 12th, lack of focus stops you from being your best.

Cancer ruling the 12th: You imprison and limit yourself when you choose not to step out of the comfort zone. Your lack of will to confront the unknown can sabotage your ability to situate and grow your identity. With the Moon as your lord of the 12th, complacency from fear stops you from being your best.

Leo ruling the 12th: You imprison and limit yourself when you let arrogance unhealthily interfere with your life. Making everything personal to yourself can sabotage your ability to be efficient and analytical. With the Sun as your lord of the 12th, a sensitive ego stops you from being your best.

Virgo ruling the 12th: You imprison and limit yourself when you let criticisms and judgmental thoughts consume you. Having such negative thoughts can sabotage your ability to be fair to others. With Mercury as your lord of the 12th, overthinking and overly analyzing stops you from being your best.

Libra ruling your 12th: You imprison and limit yourself when you give up your power to other people. Having no regard for yourself can sabotage your ability to be passionate and fixate your secretive inner power. With Venus as the lord of your 12th, how you relate to others stops you from being your best.

Scorpio ruling the 12th: You imprison and limit yourself when you refuse to see hope in the world. Being bitter and vengeful can sabotage your ability to be optimistic and open-minded. With Mars as the lord of your 12th, how you separate yourself from others stops you from being your best.

Sagittarius ruling the 12th: You imprison and limit yourself when you do not take life seriously. Choosing to run away from your responsibilities can sabotage your ability to be mature and successful. With Jupiter as the lord of your 12th, taking life for granted stops you from being your best.

Capricorn ruling the 12th: You imprison and limit yourself when you choose to be pessimistic. Choosing to not rely on others due to a lack of trust can sabotage your ability to keep hope and to bring progress. With Saturn as the lord of your 12th, your expectations stop you from being your best.

Aquarius ruling the 12th: You imprison and limit yourself when you choose to exclude the mysterious. Sticking to a limiting notion of progress in the world can sabotage your ability to love and embrace the world as is. With Saturn as the lord of your 12th, your inflexibility stops you from being your best.

Pisces ruling the 12th: You imprison and limit yourself when you choose to not have a clear direction in your life. Not completely owning yourself can sabotage your assertiveness and courage. With Jupiter as the lord of your 12th, using ambiguity to avoid life stops you from being your best. 

Sun in the 12th House

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 Sun is in the 12th House, a person’s true identity is hidden within their subconscious. This identity is only completely seen in utmost privacy, and for the native, they can often cherish, yet also dislike the fact that their identity is hidden. However, due to the simultaneous revealing and hiding nature of the 12th House, others can see fragments of the native’s identity and they are left to construct an identity they don’t quite understand. Parts of the person’s identity often slips out of the subconscious without the person knowing.

Due to this, those with the Sun in the 12th House can feel misunderstood by others. They can feel that people construct an image of them that isn’t true. However, there are times where people with this placement struggle to know if the identity they made themselves is even true. Due to this, people with this placement can often feel lost in themselves, wondering what about themselves is exactly true and isn’t true. Due to being misunderstood by others, a lot of this inner thinking is full of doubt, since there isn’t a lot of feedback.

Being misunderstood by others as a result can make these people struggle with being in the spotlight. It’s a paradoxical struggle, for these people want to find themselves and to secretly shine, yet at the same time, they shy away from the spotlight, not knowing what parts of themselves will illuminate. However, part of this struggle comes from how their identity was shoved into the shadows. These people are often never allowed to shine, and due to this, these people may wonder if their identity is too intolerable to show to others.

These individuals may not have been encouraged to have a strong identity growing up, and due to this, their identity is scattered, parts of it showing in certain occasions. While there is a disunity, there is flexibility. In a sense, this flexibility in identity makes these people elusive and enigmatic. These people can often seem fascinating to curious individuals. Due to this, others can try to pry in these people’s lives, making it even more important for these individuals to keep their privacy. The identity of these people are only unified by themselves.

However, this flexibility in identity is often the case due to the person engulfing the identity of others. This is one of the reasons why people with this placement are often in solitude. Seeing the many various identities of others can often be overwhelming for sometimes, these people can struggle to handle their own identity. By being in solitude, these people can recharge and reassess who they are. Even if these people have a strong group of friends and lovers, they will still need alone time, and often, this need for alone time is a good way for these people to determine which friends and lovers are worth staying with.

Many of these individuals will often have a strong imagination, finding that their flexible identity is shown best through subjects that can not be easily found in reality. People with this placement will often get immersed with characters in TV shows, video games, and other mediums where they feel that can have a solid grip on themselves. It’s not that these individuals literally believe they are these fantasy characters, it’s that these individuals find that their identities are best articulated by these characters. Also, the message in some of these mediums can often present a possible path and purpose for these individuals, for these people often struggle to find an identity because they struggle to find a purpose to sustain it. These individuals feel that they are not correctly identified by conscious reality.

With the feeling of being lost, people with this placement are often introspective, and they will often spend a lot of time by themselves. In their solitude, these people will often do activities that reflect their identity. By doing the personal, private activities they enjoy, these people can work to have a truly intimate sense of self that is constructed by themselves and only themselves.

At their best, an individual with their Sun in the 12th House can construct a truly genuine sense of self that defies the current societal understanding of having a strong identity. Even with flexibility and change, these people have the potential to show that you don’t have to maintain a set, foundational identity to have a strong identity. Individuals with this placement show that strong identities are identities that are flexible enough to withstand adversity. An individual with their Sun in the 12th House can have a strong intimate relationship with themselves that can’t be shaken by the circumstances of reality.

Moon in the 12th House

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.

Misunderstood

• Planets in the 12th house come in and out between the boundaries of the conscious and subconscious. People can see bits and pieces of your 12th house planets, only to misunderstand you.

• Sun in the 12th: The overall general sense of being is misunderstood. People will see bits and pieces of you, but they will struggle to have a firm grasp on who you are. How you distinguish yourself is elusive.

• Moon in the 12th: Your emotional processes are misunderstood. People can often struggle knowing how to exactly comfort you. People can also often question your coping mechanisms and sense of comfort.

• Mercury in the 12th: Your mind is an enigma. People struggle to understand your mental processes, and due to this, miscommunications occur. It's hard for people to exactly know what you want to say and what you think.

• Venus in the 12th: People misunderstand the way you show your love to others. What exactly attracts you is often a mystery for others. It's hard for people to exactly know what you want in a relationship.

• Mars in the 12th: People tend to never quite know your intentions, and due to this, people tend to misunderstand your actions. Due to this, you can often have confusing arguments where your anger is misunderstood.

• Jupiter in the 12th: People tend to misunderstand your talents. It's hard for people to appreciate what you're good at. Your personal philosophy is often misunderstood and hard to articulate.

• Saturn in the 12th: People tend to misunderstand your expectations and ambitions. Many people tend to not understand the struggles you've been through, for your struggles aren't easily seen.

• Uranus in the 12th: People tend to misunderstand your unpredictable nature. Your quirky, liberated self-expression is hard for others to grasp. Your innovative thinking is difficult to understand.

• Neptune in the 12th: People tend to misunderstand your bursts of creativity and compassion. People can struggle with the insightful or confusing ways you express yourself. It's difficult for people to define you.

• Pluto in the 12th: People tend to misunderstand your sense of power. Your fears and your strong sense of privacy often confuses people. The power struggles you face with yourself are difficult to understand.

Enemies in the Natal Chart

Open enemies are represented by the 7th House while secret enemies are represented by the 12th House. Enemies are represented by these houses because planets and signs in the 7th and 12th house are often prone to be in the control of others if the native doesn’t own themselves. With this in mind, planets in the 7th and 12th House can be spots of vulnerability if you don’t take ownership of your planets.

Open enemies are ruled by the 7th House because usually, the native is aware of an enemy attempting to attack them. These attacks usually occur in interactions. With secret enemies however, the native may not be aware of the enemy for the attack can be done in secret.

• Sun in the 7th/Sun in the 12th: With these placements, there can be an aversion to people to who are arrogant and egotistical. However, this feeling of aversion can also point out the arrogance in the native themselves. Your enemies will attempt to attack your ego and who you essentially are.

• Moon in the 7th/Moon in the 12th: Natives with these placements will dislike others who are manipulative and lack restraint on their emotional impulses. However, this feeling of aversion can highlight the lack of emotional control the native may have. Your enemies will attempt to hurt your feelings.

• Mercury in the 7th/Mercury in the 12th: Natives with these placements will dislike those who are flaky, picky, and intellectually demanding. However, this feeling of aversion can point out the intellectual struggles the native themselves can have. Your enemies will attempt to attack your intelligence, mind, and words.

• Venus in the 7th/Venus in the 12th: Natives with these placements will dislike those who are shallow and overly indulgent. However, this dislike can highlight the shallowness they may have in themselves. Your enemies will attempt to attack your ideals, appearance, and sense of comfort. It is unlikely for these natives to have many enemies.

• Mars in the 7th/Mars in the 12th: With these placements, these natives will dislike those who are inconsiderate, those with anger issues, and those who use their anger destructively. However, this dislike can highlight how the native can struggle to handle their own energy themselves. Your enemies will attempt to take advantage of your energy, passion, and anger.

• Jupiter in the 7th/Jupiter in the 12th: Natives with these placements will dislike those who are arrogant, preachy, and ignorant. However, this dislike can highlight the arrogance the native brings onto others. Your enemies will attempt to attack your hopes, your talents, and attempt to downplay your skills. It is unlikely for these natives to have many enemies.

• Saturn in the 7th/Saturn in the 12th: Natives with these placements will dislike those who are close-minded and restrictive. However, natives with these placements may struggle to realize the restrictions they place on themselves and others. Your enemies will attempt to attack your standards and will attempt to show your flaws.

• Uranus in the 7th/Uranus in the 12th: Natives with these placements will dislike those who are unpredictable, detached, and arrogant. However, these characteristics can also be shown through the native through others or the subconscious. Your enemies will attempt to attack your creativity, make your life chaotic, and put down your aspirations.

• Neptune in the 7th/Neptune in the 12th: Natives with these placements will dislike those who self-victimize, manipulate others, and wrongly sacrifice themselves. However, these natives may struggle to acknowledge these characteristics in themselves. Your enemies will attempt to confuse, manipulate, and place a false image on you.

• Pluto in the 7th/Pluto in the 12th: Natives with this placement will dislike those are volatile, manipulative, and power hungry. However, these natives may struggle to acknowledge these traits in themselves. Your enemies will attempt to attack you by making you feel powerless, manipulating you, and exposing you wrongly.

In addition, these planets will be lords of the house ruled by the signs ruled by the planets. The location of where your 7th/12th lords are ruling can show where and why your enemies attack you.

Example: Pluto in the 7th, Scorpio Rising. Check Lord of the 1st House since Pluto rules over Scorpio.

• Lord of the 1st House: Your enemies attack you because they dislike your self-expression. Your self-expression can be highly affected by your enemies.

• Lord of the 2nd House: Your enemies attack you because they dislike your values and self-security. Your security (through values, money, and self-confidence) can be highly affected by your enemies.

• Lord of the 3rd House: Your enemies attack you because they dislike your mind and words. Your words and thoughts can be highly affected by your enemies.

• Lord of the 4th House: Your enemies attack you because they dislike your past and family. Your past and family can be highly affected by your enemies.

• Lord of the 5th House: Your enemies attack you because they dislike your creativity and romantic partners. Your attempts to inspiration and your romantic relationships can be highly affected by your enemies.

• Lord of the 6th House: Your enemies attack you because they dislike your way of living life. Your daily life and health can be highly affected by your enemies.

• Lord of the 7th House: Your enemies attack you because they dislike how you interact with them and others. Your interactions in general can be highly affected by your enemies.

• Lord of the 8th House: Your enemies attack you because they dislike your secret self or want to expose your secret self. Your sense of intimacy can be highly affected by your enemies.

• Lord of the 9th House: Your enemies attack you because they dislike what and how you believe the world to be. Your view of the world and your beliefs can be highly affected by your enemies.

• Lord of the 10th House: Your enemies attack you because they dislike your ambitions and your reputation. Your reputation can be highly affected by your enemies.

• Lord of the 11th House: Your enemies attack you because they dislike your friends and/or your aspirations. Your group of friends can be highly affected by your enemies.

• Lord of the 12th House: Your enemies attack you because they dislike your private self or because they do not know your private self. Your subconscious can be highly affected by your enemies.

Jupiter in the 12th House

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.

For those with Jupiter in the 12th House, the subconscious is not a prison, but a playground. It is a retreat, a place to escape, but also a fun place to discover. With that being said, those with Jupiter in the 12th like to spend a lot of time to themselves because they have the most fun when they are in solitude. They feel as if they are free to escape into themselves and not worry about the burdens of the world around them. Due to this, they can often feel weirdly distanced from others, for they feel their subconscious, their place of refuge, feels like a different world.

The outside world can often feel like a prison for these natives while their private self feels like freedom. Jupiter is the planet that shows what talents easily comes to us in the natal chart, and with Jupiter in the 12th House, people with this placement may feel that their talents are often brushed away. People with this placement can often feel that they aren’t showing their full potential because they are not allowed to. The native can also be unaware of their talents, so therefore, they can either be directionless or will follow a path that doesn’t truly utilize their skills.

The skills and talents that come with this placement lies in spirituality and intuition, for these are the items covered in the 12th House. Their talents lie in a realm that may not be considered realistic or societally applicable, for their skills are most effectively applicable for situations that are expansive, unstructured, and subjective… These are characteristics of items that expand beyond the daily workings of society. Individuals with this placement would often be gifted in subjects that expand beyond the daily workings of reality such as religion and philosophy. People with this placement are skilled in thinking beyond what meets the eye, for they are easily to give deeper meaning and reason for how life works. Jupiter in the 12th natives can be great teachers due to this.

Jupiter is the planet of luck and opportunity. Jupiter is the planet that can twist circumstances for abundance, for better or worse. Those with this placement can be lucky in the most unknown cases. It is often said that those with this placement can have a guardian angel watching over them, since bad events often do not occur due to unknown, but lucky circumstances. However, due to this luck, some individuals with this placement may push their luck, for they don’t often hold the painful weight of consequences until it’s too late.

The subconscious mind of Jupiter in the 12th House is constantly expanding, and with expansion, there is a need to fill the mind with knowledge. There is a deep fascination with the world, for there is often a deep need to discover and learn new things. Hope and beliefs is hidden, but strong in these individuals. After all, they can perceive the world to be a place with limits, and their hope and optimism drives them to go beyond the limits they see. Optimistic wisdom is often naturally present in these people, and their words can often be surprisingly profound.

The lesson that often needs to be learned with those with Jupiter in the 12th House is to find freedom in all places, while still acknowledging the workings of reality. Instead of constantly escaping from the real world, those with this placement can learn to create their own freedom with the optimism and hope found within them. As the planet of Jupiter, natives with this placement often create the most positive opportunities when they choose to use their talents to sacrifice and help others.

Those with this placement are gifted in giving hope to others and providing a different, insightful perspective due to their expanding mind. It can be hard at first for natives to apply their talents into the real world, but through these struggles, they can learn to heal others by expanding their minds positively and encourage thinking what is present beyond the naked eye.

With self-awareness, those with this placement can naturally become wise and profound individuals. At their worst, those who are aware of their secret talents and skills can use this to overly inflate their ego, subconsciously justifying the existence of their skills to consider themselves higher than others. With this inflation of the ego, natives with this placement can struggle to root themselves to reality, failing to realize that everyone, regardless of their gifts, are students.

Mars in the 12th House

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 Mars is in the 12th House, the energy in this planet is simultaneously trapped, but also free in the subconscious. Passion and energy bubbles inside the native, the passion truly becoming something unique and distinctive with all the free, imaginative space of the subconscious. However, when the walls of the subconscious crumble due to the lack of control on the surface conscious, that passion will go through the cracks and escape the subconscious for a short time until it is captured again.

Passion and anger is a neutral concept and the neutrality of it will change depending on how the native decides to use that passion. Anger, like the subconscious, can slip out of the native when they are not aware. In a sense, this can make anger hard to control, and sometimes, natives can even struggle to know the details of the existence of their anger. The anger that can come out of an individual with Mars in the 12th can feel foreign. A native may ask, “Where did this anger come from?” “How did I get angry?” “Why am I angry?” while trying to figure out their anger, only to find out that nothing, yet everything, angers them. Often, they can either express their anger passive aggressively, or impulsively. Or both. With passion, they can find themselves molding their energy into almost every hobby, but that hobby doesn’t have strong staying power. With that being said, it can be difficult for a native in the 12th House to find a hobby that truly captivates them.

With energy ruled by Mars, it can be hard for the native to work consistently and routinely. With energy located in the subconscious, the native is most active when the subconscious is most active… With that in mind, it would not be surprising with someone with Mars in the 12th was always tired during the day when the conscious, not the subconscious is active. Those with Mars in the 12th can get tired very easily, for energy for them doesn’t come very clearly and easily. Natives often need to spent time by themselves to recharge so that they’re not overwhelmed by the world around them. Often, before the native starts a task, it can be hard for the native to really start, for they already feel like they’re asserting so much even though nothing has been tangibly. However, when it comes to dreams, those with Mars in the 12th are very active. It’s common for Mars in the 12th to have very engaging, passionate dreams. It’s not surprising for those with Mars in the 12th House to also have sexual dreams.

Those with Mars in the 12th House often unintentionally hide their sexual tendencies. Hiding sexual tendencies can often lead to various results. It is possible for people to not “see” the sexual tendencies of these natives, and due to that, Mars in the 12th natives can be seen to be innocent, when it may not be the case at all. Hidden sexual tendencies are also repressed tendencies. With that in mind, some natives can struggle to control their sexual urges, their sexual nature subconsciously revealed through their body language, tone of their words, and other escape routes the subconscious may take. In that regard, individuals with Mars in the 12th House can also be very sexual. When Mars in the 12th natives feel free, that’s when they do their best in the bedroom. However, on the other end, natives could also lack sexual tendencies, and maybe even have an aversion to sexual matters altogether.

The main theme with Mars in the 12th House is to realize that while it may be hard to grasp certain things that can definitely help on a daily basis, the purpose of Mars in the 12th House is not for daily things. While it is difficult for Mars in the 12th House to be consistently active, passionate, and assertive, it should be noted that when the Mars in the 12th native is any of those three things, if mastered, it is seen beautifully. The passion and energy that is manifested in the 12th House are not simple, for they are not made for simple matters. Mars in the 12th natives are able to absorb anger, passion, and energies with others and have the strong potential to heal other through their actions. While the energy of Mars in the 12th is hard to manage, the energy present in the 12th House is also very flexible and helpful to others. Mars in the 12th is a test of using one’s energy - if the native can successfully pass through the tests in the 12th House, the native can most certainly help others.

Your Shadow Side + Your Fears

• While our Rising is seen by everyone, including yourself, your 12th House can show what you secretly hide from yourself and others due to your fears.

• Pisces in 12th/Aries Rising: You are seen to be confident, brave, courageous, and impulsive, but sometimes, you really don't know what you're doing. With the hidden confusion in you, you fear that you will lose your identity and your direction in life.

• Aries in 12th/Taurus Rising: You are seen to be stable, comforting, slow, and steady, but sometimes, you can find yourself being impulsive, reckless, and irresponsible. And due to that, you fear being out of control.

• Taurus in 12th/Gemini Rising: You are seen to be talkative, humorous, quick, and witty, but sometimes, you just want to sit down and relax. However, you feel that if you stop and rest for just a second, you'll become useless, dull, and unintelligent.

• Gemini in 12th/Cancer Rising: You are seen to be emotional, nurturing, sweet, and gentle, but sometimes, you just want to voice your true thoughts. However, you're afraid that your words will hurt and emotionally damage others, for you know how they feel.

• Cancer in 12th/Leo Rising: You are seen to be fabulous, charismatic, strong, and charming, but sometimes, you want to tell others how you truly feel. But you fear that your shining, beautiful image will be ruined in the process due to vulnerability.

• Leo in 12th/Virgo Rising: You are seen to be reliable, reserved, intelligent, and quiet, but there is a deep part of you that wants to shine. However, you struggle to because you're scared of all the mistakes you'll see when you show yourself to the world.

• Virgo in 12th/Libra Rising: You are seen to be charming, charismatic, beautiful, and graceful, but there is a deep part of you that is judgmental and critical. However, you can't reveal your true thoughts because you fear that nobody will like you afterwards.

• Libra in 12th/Scorpio Rising: You are seen to be mysterious, quiet, thoughtful, and passionate. There is a part of you that wants to be liked and loved by others, but you fear that your deepness will be sacrificed if you try to please others.

• Scorpio in 12th/Sagittarius Rising: You are seen to be adventurous, reckless, blunt, and humorous. You want to find and decode the mysteries of the world, but you're too scared to sacrifice your optimism when you find that the world is cruel.

• Sagittarius in 12th/Capricorn Rising: You are seen to be mature, responsible, practical, and independent. However, there's a part of you that wants to be free, but you're scared that you'll never attend to your responsibilities due to a small taste of freedom.

• Capricorn in 12th/Aquarius Rising: You are seen to be innovative, quirky, logical, and popular. There is a part of you that wants to be responsible and practical, but you fear that with if you grow up, you'll lose your unique, iconic individuality.

• Aquarius in 12th/Pisces Rising: You are seen to be compassionate, dreamy, creative, and sweet. However, there is a part of you that wants to be logical and concrete, but you fear that you'll never utilize your creativity if you only stick to the hard, cold facts.

The 12th House

Out of all the twelve houses, the 12th house is definitely a house that many people can misunderstand. It’s easy to see why - the house on the outside seems gloomy and negative, and like the 7th house, can be seen as a shadow. Due to this, a lot of people believe that having any planets or being dominant in the 12th house means they’re doomed for life. THAT IS NOT THE CASE! Although having any planets or having a strong influence in the 12th house brings many challenges, so does having planets in any other house. Every placement has their ups and downs, and it’s ultimately up to you whether you want things to go well or not.

The 12th house is commonly seen as the house of “self-undoing” and unconscious, ruled by the dreamy, yet confusing sign of Pisces. Any planets you would find in the 12th house is suppressed and concealed, only seen by others when you are most vulnerable. However, this doesn’t mean any planets in the 12th house are weaker in influence. In fact, they’re probably not only expressed more strongly, but wrongly, mainly because we are not aware. This is the frustration many 12th house natives can feel. People can tell them that they are acting in a certain harmful way, but they wouldn’t even know.

However, although struggles in the 12th house are terribly frustrating and difficult, getting over such struggles will be extremely worth it. If you have any planets in your 12th house, using the energies to do something good will be very rewarding. Don’t let karma be a bitch. Be your own bitch.

With that being said, check if you have any planets in the 12th house!

PLANETS

Sun in the 12th House: Your identity and ego is hidden, meaning that people may misunderstand who you are. In public situations, you may be awkward, coming across as a quiet, reserved individual.

Moon in the 12th House: You may struggle with showing your emotional side to to others. Due to this, people can see you has an unemotional person, which is not the case. Due to a lack of expression in public, you may not understand how to control your emotions.

Mercury in the 12th House: You may be misunderstood due to miscommunication. You tend to keep thoughts to yourself. Expressing yourself in a healthy, direct way is difficult for you.

Venus in the 12th House: People may take advantage of you with the love you give. It is difficult for you to establish boundaries in relationships. You connect love with sacrifices and you give too much.

Mars in the 12th House: You may lack the energy to assert yourself in various activities. You suppress any feelings of anger and sexual desires in yourself. Due to this, people may misunderstand your sexuality and your anger.

Jupiter in the 12th House: You may find yourself constantly going back to what is familiar yet you have a strong urge of wanderlust. Due to this, you find it difficult to achieving your dreams. You’d rather want to think and build on fantasies than to act on it.

Saturn in the 12th House: You strongly believe in handling your own problems and matters by yourself and only yourself. You may find yourself pushing those who want to help you away. You struggle with letting people in.

Uranus in the 12th House: You tend to hide the weird, unconventional side of yourself. You try to appear to others as a put-together, “normal” person. You may take public image very seriously. You may find difficulty in completely embracing yourself for who you are.

Neptune in the 12th House: You are a very compassionate, spiritual individual, but you may hide this from others. You may struggle with making decisions. You may lack a feeling of directness and solidity in your life.

Pluto in the 12th House: You are a very intense individual, yet you struggle in accepting such intensity, resulting in suppression. You fear of showing dominance over others, yet you are perfectly capable of doing so. You fear your own power.