Some thoughts about the 12th House.
In this class, we've talked about the Sun Signs of the Zodiac being arranged in a counter-clockwise fashion. So, naturally, issues of all other Houses would come before the 12th House issues, right? Well, not necessarily. The 12th House represents the things that are hidden, and sometimes those things are hidden even to ourselves. Does it make any sense that things that are hidden, even to ourselves, are at the
end of the cycle? I was reading one astrologer who believed that things that happened in the womb, pre-birth (the sounds, impressions, etc.) were represented by the 12 House. If this is true, then the cycle begins all over again with our birth represented by the 1st House. Yet, is it necessary to have some kind of rebirth to deal with the subconscious? To me, that doesn't even make sense! If we have a dream, we are in contact, at some level with the subconscious (12th House). This doesn't involve a rebirth, unless you count waking-up when the alarm clock rings!
When there are things in the subconscious mind that can only be accessed through dreams, meditation, therapy, etc., (all 12th House issues), then how do we ever resolve them or heal them? Well, that is in the 8th House, the house of "letting go" and resolving these subconsciously stored energies. That should be easy to do, since these two Houses, the 12th and the 8th, are in trine with each other. But, to let go of subconscious memories, we have to travel clockwise through the chart to get to the 8th House, where we can let them go, or at least get them out of the subconscious where they can been seen!
This is to let you know that now that we've covered all the Houses in the chart, in their typical order and direction, now it's time to look backwards, and see relationships between the Signs and Houses going in a clockwise motion. What can the 11th House learn from the 12th? What can the 3rd House learn from the 7th? Are there things that the 6th House needs to know that isn't contained until the 9th House? Just throwing out random Houses, to get you thinking...in the other direction!
The Signs of the Zodiac when taken from Pisces to Aries can reveal as many things as when taken from Aries to Pisces.