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TWELFTH HOUSE MERCURY
The House of Drawn Shades - The field of unseen cause
Karmic liabilities. Behind-the-scenes maneuverings. Sacrificial service. Repressions, neuroses, and psychogenic complaints. Deception, secrets, and treachery. Hidden enemies. Prisons, asylums, and hospitals. Occultism.
Mercury in a house indicates the field of experience in which the power to communicate information, to remember the results and causes of past experiences, and to establish relationships between such experiences can operate with maximum effectiveness. What is also shown is the type of circumstances which will require the use of this Mercury power.
It is fortunate that the individual with Mercury in the twelfth house can keep secrets because their friends might be astonished if they divulged the intriguing things they know about people's private lives.
This placement makes a sensitive psychologist who can analyze obscure problems and release repressions by encouraging clients to say whatever comes to mind. To their discerning intellect, words are charged with subtle shades of significance and every gesture tells a story.
People with this involuted kind of mind absorb knowledge intuitively through soul-searching meditation, and they often understand far more than they can express.
There may be conflict between the logical elements of Mercury and the intuition and emotion of the twelfth. It will be excellent if they can rationalize their intuition and channel the emotions, expressing them with all the positive communicative abilities of Mercury. Another conflict can sometimes be felt when solitude is demanded yet there is also a need for communication and social intercourse.
A love of literature (especially poetry) can be present, plus considerable critical acumen. Sometimes people who work in the media, especially the radio, have this placing. If there is a flair for technology, the engineering side of broadcasting can be worthwhile.
In the twelfth house Mercury points to a life turned inward, a life of meditation perhaps dedicated to transcendent purposes, or forced to withdraw perhaps by society or by illness from outer activity.
Much attention should be paid to intuitions, hunches, or inner guidance. The mind may be focused on dealing with social crises or injustices, or with one’s own personal karma and subconcious urges.
For those with religious faith there is usually a great belief in the power of prayer, and a deeply held conviction that positive thought always has its desired effect.