12th house of horoscope
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The first house represents the beginning the birth and the 12th house in Vedic Astrology being the last house completes the lifecycle and represents the endings. It stands for seclusion, solitude and emancipation. This is the house of detachments. Whatever you have to detach from is represented by the 12th house in the horoscope, your materialistic tendencies, source of expenses, and so on.
When afflicted this house can lead to a jail sentence, hospitalization, sleeplessness, separation, addictions, secret enemies, suspicion, inferiority complex and loss of near and dear ones. The affliction of the house also causes mental weaknesses, susceptibility to unspiritual addictions such as intoxication, sex, enslavement and so on.
The twelfth house in Vedic astrology is the house about letting things go but this does not necessarily mean negative. Being the last house, it represents what you have to renounce to move towards liberation. It stands for the time when you have to detach yourself from the material world and return to where you started the purest form. It is a very important house concerning spiritual liberation. 12th house in astrology represents Moksha, when you are free from the endless cycle of birth and death, miseries of material life. It represents the freedom of the soul from the shackles of worldly attachments. This is a crucial house in the horoscope for monks, sages and people striving towards illumination. It also governs places like ashrams, meditation centers, monasteries, places of worship, etc.
Your capacity to relinquish everything to unite with the divine force is determined by the planetary position in the 12th house. It plays a prominent role in activities you indulge in out of generosity. Actions without expectations relate to this house. The tendency to be giving, humble and compassionate is ruled by the twelfth house. It mainly suggests losing yourself to find God, be one with him. The twelfth house in astrology gives detachment from people that the planets occupying the house represent such as parents, siblings, neighbors, friends, and relatives. This detachment can be in the form of separation or death. Also, the 12th house relates to bed comforts so your sexual ability, desires, fulfillment and sleeping tendencies.
The 12th house also represents detachment from the native place, in the form of long-distance travel to faraway places, foreign residency, travel abroad, trade with foreign cultures and people, import, export, international tourism, and business. This house relates to the 12th sign in the zodiac circle, Pisces that also relates to intuition, isolation, and imagination. It is also known as the ‘Bhaya Bhava’ in Vedic Astrology and gives an insight into wasteful expenditure and spending habits. Saturn is the natural significator of the 12th house.
In Mundane Astrology, the 12th house in the horoscope represents law enforcement, punishment, health care institutions, charitable organizations, crime, secret forces, espionage, unseen realm and governs all things that exist without physical forms- like dreams, secrets, emotions, separation, addictions, hospitalization, Detachment, separation or death of a close one, vehicles, spiritual energy, suicide, blackmail, fraud, long-distance travel or foreign settlement, business in a foreign culture, import and export.
The 12th house reveals the time, when one has to cut off from the materialistic world. There is an urge to feel truly liberated and return to your place of origin. People want to get rid of the cycle of miseries, greed, pain, and attain Moksha. It represents spiritual liberation. Thus, this house opens up opportunities to get peace and Moksha. This house is also about growing in order to achieve life’s purpose. One follows the path of salvation to get a better life in the next birth.
But, the path to Moksha is not free of sorrows and pain. One has to prepare mentally to undergo pain to feel liberated from attachments. It is also the house of sorrow and isolation. Planets in this house cause natives to feel isolated from society. People may feel like an outcast in society. One can suffer from loss of identity and emotional crisis. Furthermore, it gives rise to fear, anxiety, misgivings, doubts & inferiority complex. Many illnesses like mental problems also fall under this realm. It also highlights issues like substance abuse and alcohol addictions. It also directs places of worship like ashrams, meditation centers, monasteries, etc.