Last Updated on May 20, 2022 by astrologerbydefault
The 12th house is an important house and if you are interested in self-growth of the spiritual sort this house needs to be analysed. I wrote a few posts on the 12th house, do go through them (index page). All things considered, the 12th house is a dushamsthan. Even though it is considered the house of Moksha and all that esoteric stuff, it is still not amicable to Life and Living. Any planet in the 12th house should be examined for possible negative effects on the personality. The 12th house is your hidden weakness. If your competitor knows your horoscope he can use the cues from this house to manipulate you. (never share your actual birth details unnecessarily with any one.)
Sun in the 12th house, is a natural malefic in a dusham-sthan so technically can grant power to perform unpleasant tasks but he will drain you in his typical manner. He can indicate power over enemies but the internal fire is weak. The body and the mind also may be weak in certain respects. It is possible that in your childhood you were not allowed to express your creativity or something happened which hurt your self-confidence. With this Sun, you cannot expect much support from your father, elders in your family and your teachers. You feel vulnerable around people who dominantly express solar energies. You should avoid taking advice from such people as they might misguide you. Outwardly a low self-confidence and lack of self esteem is possible, you are hesitant about expressing your genius and creativity. On the inside there may be a damaging sense of self-ego as you unconsciously suppress the negative traits of the Sun, push them into your subconscious mind. There is a unconscious sense of arrogance, meanness, selfishness, high-handedness etc within you which can make you unpleasant company sometimes.
If this Sun is going to act like a malefic then there will be loss of money, unhappiness in marriage, withdrawal from the society, antisocial behaviour etc. In this case do check the longevity of the chart. But if this Sun is auspicious then he will support spiritual practice and encourage you to acts of positive karma. You can become some level of a Guru with such a Sun.
Moon in the 12th house and you will never acknowledge your own emotions or those of others around you. You never express your real emotions in public, possibly you are consciously unaware of your real feelings. Emotional stability can be affected in the long run. Moon is needs, nature, nurture, nutrition etc. Suppressed needs can turn inwards and fester. This can result in actual illness connected to the Moon. This Moon almost always indicates an absent mother. You never were given love as a child or were sickly or frequently ill, either way unwanted or felt as a burden and you subconsciously sensed this. This is perhaps one of the saddest placements, you want to be nurtured and taken care of on the subconscious levels but you cannot express this aloud. You feel vulnerable regarding your emotions, astral self, sleep, dreams, intuition, mediative practices etc. Be careful about your Moon-things, as these can misguide you. There will be secret enemies in life but generally you will be able overcome them. Today you never ask for comfort or love or the things you need and also reject those people in your life who ask you to fulfil their needs. You must be especially careful to offer the necessary love to your children and loved ones now, this will help end your hurt too.
If this Moon is malefic then the body and mind both can be weak, the above negative results will be exaggerated. In this case do check the longevity of the chart too. But a benefic Moon in the 12th will initially give a lot of glamorous but essentially hollow experiences which later can lead to disillusionment. The personality later tries to search for the true meaning of existence and turns towards the inner self.
Mercury in the 12th house often indicates friends and siblings turning into secret enemies. Your team-mates can cause you harm behind your back. Then there is an unconscious dislike of seniors, elders, peers, teachers etc. The thinking process is inverted, turned inwards, the mind works in never ending loops, fantasising. This can create psychological problems. Possibly your mother, when she was pregnant, was never allowed to express herself adequately and you have picked up these vibes from her. In your life too, you may not get a chance to develop your communication skills, the practical ability of interacting with others. Saying what you really want to say can be difficult. You may have a habit of talking to yourself when alone or having imaginary conversations with the people you really want to talk to. But the things you want to say never come to you when you really need them. You may speak in a disjointed non-coherent manner or speak around the topic but never get to the point. Stammering is possible or at least a loss of focus. You are hyper critical of what you think, say and do. Nervous tensions, mental loops of thoughts, restless mind, self-critical, obsessed with details, OCD and often indulge in negative thinking.
Mercury is the messenger so will translate the resources already with you in the language of the 12th house. Much will depend on the position and power of the birth Moon.
Venus in the 12th house can indicate problems in material desires, there may be deviant or too many of them. Several intimate relationships which fail because there was no emotional need linked to them. There may be deviant intimate relationships too. You have unreasonably high expectations from the physical act. Expressing emotions is difficult. You do not believe in equitable fair relationships with others. Also faith in spiritual practices is low. There is a high level of secrecy in your life, you do not open up, you cannot share. You can be vain, self-indulgent and absorbed in your own pleasure. You are not honest with yourself. If this Venus is disturbed then materialistic tendencies can lead to depravity. You try to show that you are at perfect equilibrium with yourself but this is not true on the subconscious levels.
This Venus can make you go to extremes, go overboard with material desires or become a celibate. You will either create more karma by entangling with others or move faster towards Moksh by denying all sensual desires. Venus is exalted in the natural 12th sign of the zodiac, Pisces. So a well-placed Venus can grant that deepest relationship with the own internal self leading to self-realisation.
Mars in the 12th house is again a malefic in a dushamsthan so is supposed to work well here. But his effects on the psychological level are not good. A sense of being a prisoner, helplessness, isolation etc. This can indicate suppressed rage, sadism, cruelty, depression, selfishness etc. There may be tendency to self-harm where you hurt your mind or body in fits of self-cruelty. Physically and mentally you are strong but you never get the chance to express your strength in life. Possibly no brothers where you could have competed with in your childhood. No healthy routes to let out your aggression, courage or risk-taking ability. Physical intimacy will be very less, eg your spouse may work in the army so you do not get this outlet either, repression all around. (Affairs are possible if the 7th lord is afflicted.) You are outwardly perfectly behaved but there is unexpected rage roiling inside. This can lead to physical and emotional issues. You keep your own self in strict check, your energy and competitive spirit is subconsciously directed against your own self. In the conscious world you display your Martian energy in subtly twisted ways. You keep your anger internalised so as to avoid hurting others but this will cause problems for you later.
If he is going to act negatively then these above tendencies are exaggerated. If this Mars is auspicious then the spiritualising influences from your past lives are brought to the surface. You can even act as a guide for others on their spiritual journey. But whatever it may be, you are required to face some very deep seated issues, outbursts of energy, misdirected passion and pain in life. And there will be at least one episode where you will be ill. Either a long illness or an undiagnosed illness will give you physical or psychological hardship.
Jupiter in the 12th house can have the unfortunate effect of making you self-righteous, rigid, a religious extremist at the subconscious levels. You might outwardly show that you are an atheist or an agonist, or not concerned with religion or philosophy, but you have very deep rooted opinions on these topics which you generally do not speak about. You project a sense of superiority to hide an underlying sense of inferiority. You might show that you are outwardly very spiritual but in your heart you want material pleasures. This also makes you rather uncomfortable around people who are overtly religious or like discussing philosophy. It irritates you, so do your spiritual teacher, your seniors, peers and patrons, you do not get along with them. You cannot reconcile to people who have different opinions and world-views which differ from your own. In such cases you can get into heated arguments or even violence. You might not have access to good books or schools to develop your own thinking processes. Often there is some problem in the family, possibly your parents had a severe differences with the elders when your mother was expecting. Or your family lacked resources or you were denied these resources.
Jupiter is the natural owner of the 12th sign, Pisces. So if he is capable of giving good results here, he can grant the ability to develop a personal philosophy, a spiritual bent of mind and you might move inwards for stability and spiritual growth. He will be a protective influence in your life as long as you regularly do some personal spiritual activity.
Saturn in the 12th house
Saturn here will give a permanent feeling of restriction and confinement. Perhaps your mother or father was overworked, unhappy, under strain, tired out, during the pregnancy or your baby life. And this subconscious impression that you picked up from them affects you even now. Or as a child you were never appreciated for your efforts or successes in school. You were a good child but never got praised or appreciated or recognised and never will be. You know only hard work and a sense of anonymity and seclusion. Today if someone appreciates you, you do not know how to respond, it makes you uncomfortable. You cannot believe that you did something praiseworthy. A sense of inferiority and worthlessness resides in your deepest heart. There are obstacles to your rest, you cannot sleep well and the dreams can be disturbed. You can work like crazy. You work hard in your conscious life, this reflects in your subconscious and helps you balance your internal loneliness. You are in perfect control of yourself, but excessive control leads to rare spectacular breakdowns. You are not outwardly ambitious, your only desire is to restrain your self. Saturn in the 12th house is a permanent state of loneliness, fear, guilt or grief. You cannot come to terms with your internal sense of failure, defeat, sorrow and tiredness. You also cannot let go of the past, a repressed personality. You are not consciously cruel nor a hard-taskmaster nor a strict boss. But you are perceived to be by others who then fear you.
If Saturn is unfavourable then in addition to the above there is a pronounced and unhealthy desire for material stuff, social recognition and wealth. But if he is a benefic for the chart then you will be urged on the spiritual path, you will be deeply convinced that your methods are the best and they will work for you because you believe in them.
I wrote on Rahu and Ketu in the 6th 12th axis, the detailed post here. In brief the early life is often troubled. There are problems with the material life and this can give a spiritual orientation later You might move away from your hometown for some reason and then your real progress will begin.
The 12th house energy does not allow you to become aware of what it or the planets in it are upto. It is also those facets of your personality of which you remain unaware. The 12th house patterns are those of the sub-conscious mind, in the periphery, never in direct focus. So all this may not be very evident to you unless you critically analyse yourself, your behaviour and your overall personality. This above was a generic list of the results you can expect, but naturally this will vary depending on the sign in the 12th and other factors. So when a planet gets placed in the 12th house, check the following
- The planet himself and his keywords
- The sign in the 12th house
- The signs ruled by the planet and which houses of the chart are these placed in
- The houses of your chart being aspected by this 12th house placed planet
- Finally check if there are any planets aspecting the 12th house.
All this energy gets linked into the 12th house in some way or the other. This exercise gives you a complete picture of the 12th house planet in your birth chart. Eg Aries ascendant, Saturn in the 12th house will mean that,
- Saturn’s energies are modulated by the environment of the 12th house, Pisces sign.
- Energies of the 10th house Capricorn sign and 11th house Aquarius sign link to the 12th house. Saturn will try to fulfil the objectives of the houses he owns by drawing energy from the house he is placed in and vice versa.
- Saturn will aspect the 2nd house Taurus sign, 6th house Virgo and the 9th house Sagittarius.
- You can also open the navamsha chart and check the power of Saturn to give results (post here)
- Ashtakvarga, note the power of Saturn in Pisces and the total score of Pisces sign (posts here and here).
The 12th house is the house of losses, the unknown. Too many unknowns factors can cause unexpected issues. Your charts represents a finite quantum of energy you can access in this life time. How you use these units of energy is indicated by the planets placed in your horoscope. Too many planets placed in the 12th house indicates that a significant portion of your life energy is being consumed in the house of the mysterious, the psychic, the astral, the swapna-avastha, the dream states and inner worlds. Thus lesser energy available for sustaining the physical personality and the manifested environment around you. You might be weaker in actual life.
The 12th house energies are used in solitude and in the subconscious states. These are, after, all the subtle resources on which your overt personality is based. So do try to delve into your 12th house, recognise its energies and try to consciously use them in your life.
38 responses to “Results planets give in the 12th house”
Dear Tejaswinima’m,
I really wait for your post and check the blog everyday. Today I am so happy to read this important post and like a child who answers first in the class, I am happy to comment on it first !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have two query. First is, while checking the 12th house issues as above, do we also check the subtle level issues using navamasa? e.g. I have no planet in 12th house in birth chart, but MArs Rahu Neptune in Scorpio Anuradha in navamasa. And I do feel some issued mentioned by you here about Mars in 12th and Rahu in 12th at the mental level.
In my birth chart ie normal Janma LAgna the same placement is in 10th house Scorpio (I am Aquarius Asc). It has given me wonderful career results in Venus Dasha where I was highly placed in a reputed conglomerate.. but due to Rahu, Saturn affected moon in 2nd house and some mistakes I lost much of my career and wealth.
So, does this mean that the planets give fairly auspicious results in Birth chart as per the house significations (here career) , BUT they govern your mind , 12th house issues, etc inauspiciously if they are placed here (as dushamthana) ?
Hi there
Wrote a lot on navamsha analysis, covered these topics. Use the index page.
Generally yes to both yr Q
Planets in dushams give stress one way or the other.. may also give benefits depending on aspects etc..
Thank you Ma’m.
Always grateful for your reply.
And the second is, if an Aries ascendant has Sun and Moon conjunct in 12th house in a benefic sign ( ie Pisces), which specific upasana should he do? Because both the PRIME sources of energy in the chart are placed in the house of loss … which means no constructive energy available in real life work.
So will the Gayatri for Sun and Moon navagraha mantra help to increase their powers? And Should we increase powers and pray to the planets paced in dushamsthanas?
Hi there
Gayatri will work fr everyone everytime.
Its the power of the internal Sun.
Thanks for the beautiful article. I am a Cancer ascendant and my 12 house is empty. What does that signify?
Hi there
Wrote a post on analysis of empty houses
Use the index
Thanks Mam for the article..I have a sun and a venus in my 12 th and my father remarried after my mom passing away and withdrew giving financial/moral support to me..and yes all the people I did fall in love in life could not love me back.they saw me as a friend rather.
Also mam I was searching but could not find..have u posted any articles on brother sister relationship whether it will be good/strained due to family properties.
Hi there
3rd and 11th houses will b damaged to have issues with brother/sister.
Fr not getting ur share in ancestral properties the 2nd house or its lord will b damaged. malefics here esp Ketu always indicates separation frm family properties. Rahu can mean cheating in some way. Saturn here is family in poverty. Mars is continuing arguments and violent behaviour in the family. And the role functional malefics too will have to b seen.
Thank you Mam..did u mean mars in the second house? And quarrels within one’s family or with the sibling’s family?
Mam,
Do dasha of the planet placed in the 12th house anyway connected with the life span?likewise,if planet placed in the 12th house is in its own sign will it be beneficial?
Hi there
it is possible tht physical death may occur in the dasha of the 12th lord, but have to see the chart in details, other factors will also be involved
ruler of the 12th in the 12th will bring out its results in a more stronger way, obviously the exact nature of these results will depend on the planet and the sign.
Thanks for the insight, madam.
Hello Tejaswini Ji,
Awesome and informative post as usual. My sister (Scorpio ascendant, Mars in 12th house)and brother(Taurus Ascendant, Mars and Rahu in 12th house) has these placement/ They are currently going going Mars Mahadasha. You mentioned people with Mars in 12th house has pent up energy inside them which can cause them issues in later life. So please guide me What remedies should they take to reduce negative impact of Mars and 12th house.
Hi there
I have written a few posts on the manglik tag
A few posts on daan and also on mantra
Use the index page or search bar to locate these if u wish to read
Your assessment is very good and accurate. I have Venus in 12th house and what you mentioned is 100% correct. However striving hard to overcome it.
Excellent explanation!! Thanks for the enlightenment:)
Dear mam,
I have started meditating on “soham” twice a day. I think my subconscious is responding, as something (my dreams) wake me up at sunrise while my body wants to sleep.
I have two questions pls
1) How do we differentiate if some dream is a dream only or it is intuition or is it a distraction.
2) My mind is sometimes singing songs when I don’t want it to. Sometimes it happens in nighttime while sleeping. I am amazed at why this happens.
Thanks so much mam🙏🏻 for recommending soham mantra in your posts . I am very hopeful of it.
Regards
Shweta
Hi there
Tally your dreams with what happens around you.
If ur ketu is posted strongly in birth or in current transit or with moon or with asc lord etc. there are several combinations. then u can gets genuine hints in dreams
Thanks Mam, I ll find out if I can trust my dreams or not.
Could you also tell if I should or should not stop songs playing in my subconscious mind
Regards
Shweta
Hi there
first listen to what your antaratma /internal conscience says.
if you can act as per your conscience then you will not create new karma
but if you go against it you will face the repercussions later.
so you have to decide for yourself. no one else can.
if you feel that eating eggs is as per your conscience go ahead.
if not then dont. its upto u.
Sanatan Dharma has no rules no compulsions, no regulations, no single authority, no one will tell you what to do, even your own sat-guru will not give you directions..
the only rule here is to follow your own conscience/ Antaratma.
regarding what this author has written best ask him for clarification on what he has written.
Thanks for reply.
I saw the explanation about this in the post “your conscience and your soul”.
But it means that for the same act, someone’s conscience will say yes and for others it will say no. And it is applicable for every good/ bad act like theft/killing etc. So, a person with relatively clean conscience will go on doing better things and vice versa. Because, for a person committing crimes, his conscience didn’t show him correct path.
Please clarify, if I’m missing something here or is there logical flaw.
Dhanyawad
Hi there
naturally, for the same act, someone’s conscience will say yes and for others it will say no.
one of my cousins is intent on body-building eats eggs everyday
my other cousin cannot eat even one egg, it interferes with his spiritual practice, (but he used to each chicken like crazy till he was in his 20-s.)
is one better than the other?
or are they following their conscience?
i do not know and neither do i need to know.
its their personal thing.
who decides ‘better’ or ‘worse’ ? their internal voice/ antaratma
the Antar-atma is connected to Dharma
how do you listen to your conscience?
its not really audible unless you still your mind,
the mind is always thinking always looping, always with its preconceived notions
so still your mind to listen to your conscience
and you can still your mind only by doing some spiritual practice regularly,
do something for at least 5mins a day and then listen to yourself.
and the conscience always shows the correct path,
the criminal who does repugnant actions refuses to listen to his inner voice. his mind leads him on, distorted perspectives do not allow the antaratma to be heard. he does not wish to hear it either.
i have written a few posts on criminals,
i have seen several clients of my dad and my mom and their charts. my mom was a very well known lawyer. in her after-office hrs, she used to take on poor people’s cases for free, so many of them in such terrible personal circumstances. and my dad used to counsel them using their charts also fr free. i have seen my fair share of people with criminal tendencies and their charts too.
the 9th house is always damaged. 5th and 1st often too. the dharma trikon is gone.. what can you expect? they are going down a path they have chosen, they will end up in the timir-andh. their choice their karma.
but there are people who do these things for a higher ideal. like spies or even soldiers who kill the enemy for the protection of the homeland. this is their swa-dharma they are following the kshatriya-dharma,
these people are completely clear that they are doing this violence for their Dharma. and this is completely following the conscience. they suffer a lot in this life too and often die horrible deaths, often denied anteyshti etc. but cos they are clearly following their own swa-dharma they still gain the positive karma.
As Bhishma says ‘Dharma is very subtle’
so did you think it was so easy?
it is not, thats why people go on creating more and more karma, tangling themselves for several lives to come.
if it were so easy, there would be no Game to be Played anymore.
Harih Om Tejaswini ji 🙏
A heartfelt Thank You for all the illuminating articles🙏🙏
I hope you will soon post an article on true nodes in direct motion especially with the upcoming eclipse season!
It would be very kind of you if you could shed some light on the nodes’ current transit in Taurus/ scorpio and in this transit if rahu conjucts asc lord (very closely) & birth moon especially for someone who has true nodes in forward motion at birth 🙏
Thank you for sharing your great wisdom with people in need 🙏🙏
Dearest Tejaswiniji,
Many thanks for this super awesome post👌🏻🙏🏻♥️♥️♥️ It can help one understand oneself and others in a deeper way – I loved it♥️. If in D-1, 12th house is vacant (Aquarius sign, Lord Saturn placed in 3rd house) & aspected by Venus in 6th house and in Navamsha Saturn is sitting in 12th house in Virgo (sign lord Mercury in 11th house of Navamsha). So no doubt Saturn is a stronger influence on the 12th house. Besides making an effort to work on the psychology/ thought process to reduce the sense of loneliness & tiredness, will chanting beej mantra of Saturn or other planets help? Will any therapy that helps in healing these subconscious patterns help heal these planetary effects permanently?
Saturn’s mahadasha got over in childhood, but does the planetary influence remain throughout the life?
Thanks in advance ♥️
Lots of love and gratitude
Dear Mam,
Would you as a spiritual aspirant get COVID vaccine, I am sorry if this question sounds irrelevant, but I wonder if vaccines would spoil some part of us.
Regards
Shweta
Hi there
this is a personal choice, each one of us will make it,
if you are used to allopathic medicines then vaccines are a part of this system.
homeopathy and ayurved do not have a concept of injected vaccines
Dear Mam ,
Are there any houses which aspects and get aspected by the 12th house?
Regards,
Shandilya
Hi there
in Jaimini the rashis aspect each other
in Parashari the planets aspect each other
but houses aspecting each other is not in any system
Thanks Mam
Pranams Tejaswini Ma’am,
Could you please give an understanding of the current situation. If our soul at the time of birth chooses all that we will go through in this lifetime, which karmas to repay, is it that all the souls leaving at this time chose to exit at this point during this pandemic. Did the family choose to go through this suffering? On one hand we have parents losing their young children on the other there are 90 year old grandparents recovering and returning home. Thank you.
Hi there
yes
Thank you Ma’am
Namaskar Madam,
If a soul makes a conscious choice at the time of birth, as to what he wants to experience during the life and also the way the death will occur
1) Why would any soul want accidental death involving physical trauma/agony ? Wouldn’t peaceful option be better for each one?
2) Terrorist/Mass murderers made a conscious choice of killing crores of people beforehand e.g. hitler ? And the victims had it coming ( because of law of action and reaction) ?
Dhanyavaad
Hi there
it all depends on what karma the soul has to resolve.
what is good/bad is for that soul to decide, you cannot decide it fr it
i have written a lot on karma, death, how the soul chooses a new life etc also written on victims,
one client was used as a pretatma minion, he went insane fr a few lives after tht episode, it was that souls way of coping from the horror it went thru, it shut shut down the mind,
wrote about this also somewhere
do use the index page or the search bar
i have written over 8 lakh words, search them
in the future i will not reply to Q which ask the same things i have already written on.
Hi mam
Could you pls write a post on antar-atma. If everyone’s antaratma guides rightly? Kids enact per their heart/ antaratma, however if we let them keep on with it, they get bratty and then rules are made by parents.
How do we know which one is antaratma’a voice.
Now science messes up with mind and culture suppresses antaratma’s voice. But in previous eras, there was lot of freedom of expression and people enacted as per their anyaratma. Then why have we progressed to so much suffering now.
Best Regards
Shweta
Hi there
‘acting as per heart’ and listening + following the antaratma are two very different things.
today’s kids are an unfortunate lot, so many distractions, no one to guide on the real things in life,
they do not recite the gayatri mantra or even light a diya and do namaskar to the family deities!
most of them are looking at very unsatisfying and unbalanced lives in their future.
there is only one thing which can save these kids, reciting the gayatri mantra
https://psychologicallyastrology.com/2019/01/13/the-gayatri-mantra/
it will increase awareness, intelligence, improve mental/emotional health and lay a foundation for spirituality in the child.
in fact they will be more reasonable, not bratty and behave sensibly with the power of gayatri charging them daily.
everyone above the age of 6yrs must recite it. recite it properly and mentally , manasik jaap is best.
Thank you, I understood the 12th house much better than ever beginning. But I am still confused about this placement: If Jupiter is in Sagittarius (Moola) in 12th house with Rahu will it still have negative results, making person self-deceptive?