JUPITERASC
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Many attribute monasteries to 12th house as places of isolation - otherwise monks/nuns belong to 9th house which represents religious concerns. 12th has rulership over scandals as well as personal fears/skeletons in the family closet and has much to do with shame and the fear of future consequences. Its significations include secret, unknown enemies, such men as maliciously undermine their neighbours or inform secretly against them: traitors, spies; witchcraft, malicious hauntings; weakness, infirmity and bondage. It also rules great cattle, such as horses, oxen, elephants, of which Ezra notes "Those which serve as a mount for men".
Source of the above is http://www.skyscript.co.uk/temples/h12.html
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EDIT - IMO kaiousei no Senshi's post, further down in the thread, sets out the issue well - many thanks kaiousei no Senshi
Source of the above is http://www.skyscript.co.uk/temples/h12.html
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EDIT - IMO kaiousei no Senshi's post, further down in the thread, sets out the issue well - many thanks kaiousei no Senshi
I think it should be said that the actual origins of the 12th house meanings have more to do with the position of the luminaries when they are physically in this house than one might think. It's somewhat humorous that a thread on the origin of the Twelfth house fails to mention its origins.
We have to remember that this is a cadent house which symbolizes an immediate loss of power, especially coming off of the most powerful angle in the horoscope.
We also have to remember what this area of the sky does to heavenly objects that wind up there. Due to the acute angle to the horizon and the atmosphere of the Earth, the luminaries and the stars do not appear in their proper color, luminosity, or clarity when they are astronomically positioned in this area of the sky. Imagine all the otherwordly colors the Sun and Moon appear to be during sunrise and moonrise. Moon is yellow, orange, sometimes red, Sun appears purplish, pink, orange, a whole mix of colors due to the gases in the atmosphere. The Eighth and Seventh houses also share this unique ability, and you see what they are associated with.
Finally, we can't overlook the fact that Saturn joys in this house. These things combined give us our 12th house.
I say all that and then say that the 12th house isn't all bad, as long as we're aware of it and how it can ruin us, there's no reason to see why we can't overcome its toil.
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