Life has its ups and downs, and none of us are immune to the wavering unfolding of good times and bad times. We all have our own unique struggles that we have to face, and it doesn’t matter whether we are rich or poor, happy or sad; life is almost always challenging our inner and outer strength. In fact, as I’m writing these words, the Major Arcana Card, No. 8 in Tarot, comes to mind. It is a beautiful depiction of not only strength as we all understand it but also a metaphor for taming those hidden aspects that arise from the depths of our being, very much like the 12th house in astrology.
A symbol of inner power and the ability to overcome internal struggles, according to the tarot, the strength card is all about mastering our own inner beast. In fact, as depicted in the image below, a woman without fear is gracefully taming the Lion’s jaws. These are all representations of suppressed fears, ancestral fears due to trauma, inner doubts, and hidden adversaries. We all need courage, courage of heart, and resilience to face so many unexpected challenges that mirror these same internal struggles. Like the 12th house in astrology, the emphasis remains on hidden enemies and subconscious patterns. True strength comes from within, and it depends on how well we are willing to align with our own transformative journey of addressing and integrating the inner nemesis.
The 12th House | Astrology 101
In the science of Astrology, the sky is divided into twelve sections called houses. Each house is represented by the 12 zodiac signs we know, and they deal with different areas of life, such as relationships, career, and personal growth. The 12th house, in particular, is associated with hidden aspects of life, such as secrets, subconscious patterns, and unresolved issues. It also deals with isolation, self-sabotage, and spiritual growth, often highlighting areas where we need to confront inner challenges and hidden adversaries.
If you look at a natal chart, many will have planets in the 12 house, in other words, Pisces planets or afflicted Neptunes with squares and oppositions. So if you have any of these in your chart, you are subject to having been a pretty mean person, especially in a past life, and also subject to having a very large debt to return to other people as far as learning how to be nice to people. You are also subject to having enemies coming out of the woodwork. People who would say things, do things, write letters, and make phone calls to either make your life miserable or spread rumors and gossip about you that are untrue to other people to make you seem like a bad guy or gal.
12th House Vibrations | Karmic Debt
The 12th house in the Pisces vibration is a very strange vibration because it covers a wide spectrum of energy. The Piscean vibration can be very spiritual and intuitive and loving, giving and supportive, or the reverse would be total manipulation, total dominance, total usery, rejection, dejection, and just infatuation. So, depending on which side of the fence you have your Pisces planets, your 12th house planets, or afflicted Neptune, meaning squares or oppositions on that Neptune, you qualify in this topic. Specifically, people with 12th house planets are going to be more subjected to dealing with enemies in their lifetime, which means people coming out of walls who will either spread lies about you, rumors, or gossip.
It’s like being arrested for something and having the newspapers pronounce you guilty, even though you haven’t even been tried yet. There are many people in prison today as we speak that are indeed innocent; they’re not guilty of the crimes they are in jail for, but the way our Judicial system is set up is that sometimes the innocent pay the price. This is where Karma comes into play. If we did do something wrong in a past life, we may have to serve the sentence in this lifetime.
Now, obviously, these are rare cases, and hopefully, they do not happen all that often, but if we are convicted of something that we did not do, it is indeed karmic and is often associated with karmic debt in the realm of spirituality. It is really weird how things work sometimes and how the Universe will take care of people like that, but the 12th house is a weird house because it also rules institutionalization. If you have afflicted planets in the 12th house, you could very well end up in jail, in a hospital, in a crazy house, or subject to some weird institution, or your Karma is visiting people who are in jail, in the hospital, or whatever the case may be.
The Light of 12th House Vibration | Astrology 101
If you have squares with 12th house planets, in astrology, this means that you have a debt to people that you might not like very much, but if they end up in a hospital or jail or somewhere that no one else can help them, sometimes it’s your Karma to visit them, to send them the care package, flowers or whatever. Because squares represent a debt between you and individuals you know. Likely, our prisons are filled with people who have oppositions to Pisces planets and Neptune who have been arrested and convicted of drug dealing or drunk and driving, etc., so if you have oppositions to Pisces or 12th house planets, depending on your lifestyle, you could also end up in jail.
Now, the lesson here is that often, we look at our lives and want to blame other people, but this is how Karma works. If someone has all these planets under stress, they are subject to being in such a daydreamy state, living in a fog, where their life is an illusion and a cartoon, and where they are not in control of any of it. It gets out of hand to a point where other people get angry at them, enemies, people who were wronged in a past life, and they will make a couple of phone calls to the police or to the hospital or whatever the case may be. These are heavy debts, but this is how Karma returns.
If we adhere to the light, to the positive side of Pisces energy, and we do have these 12th house planets under stress, we could very well be New Age teachers and heralds. You are naturally gifted as a psychic and intuitive and as a spiritual teacher, astrologer, or healer. Still, many remain traumatized by drug rehabilitation centers, emotional or mental problems, accidents, prisons, etc. The good thing is that we are all directors and writers of our own script in life, and the greatest lesson is to be coherent in what we actually want or where we want to be and to have courage of heart and access this higher power despite our karmic debt, tendencies, inclinations, and so forth.
