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TWELFTH HOUSE SATURN
The House of Drawn Shades - The field of unseen causes
Karmic liabilities. Behind-the-scenes maneuverings. Sacrificial service. Repressions, neuroses, and psychogenic complaints. Deception, secrets, and treachery. Hidden enemies. Prisons, asylums, and hospitals. Occultism.
Saturn in the twelfth house denotes a person of reserved and solitary nature who may become a recluse. Subtle psychological fears generate doubt and lack of confidence. Often these misgivings seem justified by insoluble problems.
When afflicted, the shadow of ancient wrongs glowers over the present so that a person is oppressed with the necessity to make restitution for unremembered sins.
Even at best, the life still has a fated tinge, but strict inner discipline makes it possible to pay karmic debts and emerge into the clear light of unreserved self-acceptance.
At its most potent, this tends to make the individual something of an isolationist, and at its least powerful gives a need to retreat from worldly concerns. Sometimes the subject may only feel safe within his or her own little world. They will do an excellent job during the day, then look forward to returning to the security of their own home at night.
It is not a good idea to try to nag them out of this pattern, for it will only encourage them to enclose themselves further. Instead, someone with this placing should learn to enjoy quiet hobbies - music appreciation, reading and handicrafts, for instance.
Too much introspection should not be encouraged, since it can lead to hypochondria and perhaps other phobias. Even so, it is excellent if the subject can accept that the warmth and security of their own home is restorative, since that is where they will gain psychological and physical refreshment.
Creative exercise through some form of expressive dance or movement is excellent therapy, but yoga and such contemplative disciplines are not as rewarding in the long-term. That is because they may increase the subject's introspection which, if anything, needs to be countered.
A very meaningful sense of vocation may be present. The subject might identify with suffering or with those confined to institutions, and can derive considerable psychological reward from helping such people.