.... "Bad things...."
The 12th House is the house of Mourning.
One of the sad facts of being mortal (a condition from which humans suffer) is death. Those who continue living face mourining in the face of the death of a loved one. Sad fact. No escape, no exceptions.
And now we call this "bad". But it is not bad. IT JUST IS. We fail to consider that "mourning", with its great pain and potentially life-changing effects, may bring us much good. But the good comes dressed in a mourning cloak, in sackcloth and ashes, with much gnashing of teeth....
Consider the yioung woman I mentioned in the earlier post. I saw the rape through the 12th house...raped by a hospital orderly in the dead of night while she was a 12 year-old patient.... What I "saw" was "something hidden away in the personal unconscious". When I mentioned this to the woman,, her reaction was immediate and overwhelming -- because the statement had unchained the hidden memory.
The "event" had several levels:
First, the event itself. A rape by an unknown or hidden assailant.
Second, the burying of the memory of the event in the personal unconscious. The event, per se, was so painful and the mind of the girl so unprepared to deal with it....that it had to be hidden away where it could not be accessed.
Third, The exhumation of the buried material by a bumbling astrologer. Now brought to cosciousness, this same material (experience) had to be faced and dealt with (a long process).
As long as the experience lay buried in the personal unconscious, it affected the entire life with the native having no way of knowing what was wrong, why she acted in certain self-defeating ways until the event was unearthed. It is in the dealing with the pain (injustice, violation of the girl's right to self-determination and all the rest) that the "good" comes from this horrible experience.
Life contains, and brings us, "bad" things...death of a loved one, abandonment by parents or others, psychological problems (I am still trying to get used to the idea that I am not King of the World -- **** reality), sickness, financial ruin, dishonor... Suffering is a necessary, vital element of life -- without it there would be no change, no progress, no evolution.
In large part it is our own failure to understand "good and evil" that gets in the way of understanding the Twelfth House. That failure is fundamentally spiritual. In the Bible (Isaish 45:7) God says that he himself "creates evil". Do we not notice that in the heavens above us Mars and Saturn run their courses, the two Malefics. "Evil" is part and parcel of reality. We cannot avoid or escape its reach, and we would be foolish to do so if it were in our power.
Auschwitz is a good metaphor for the 12th House. I am a Jew or a homosexual. It is the dark of night and there is a knock on the door. Cattle car. Lineup. Go left, go right (live or die), at the whim of the SS officer greeting you. Suppose you were lucky and weren't sent to the showers immediately. You are stripped of your Identity. You become Nothing, only a number tattooed on your wrist. Cold, starving, beaten.... Victor Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning), who survived Auschwitz, says that men in such a situation will either become more human, or will become beasts. Same conditiions, but the inherent nature of each man -- coupled with his choices -- will become manifest under such extremes. The book is worth reading if for nothing more than building our understanding of the 12th House.
Perhaps when looking at the 12th House we see "imprisonment" but fail to notice "liberation".
. I am glad I found this sight.
