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TWELFTH HOUSE VENUS
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.
This placement shows a love that expends itself behind the scenes and in the hidden recesses of the heart. It can indicate clandestine romances, platonic affairs, or a life of sacrificial service. Secret attachments may endure for years without being discovered. In some cases, the affections are repressed and wither on the vine.
One may work or live in a convent, hospital, or monastic atmosphere where their personal comforts and desires are disregarded. Rich inner resources enable them to remain content with their own company.
There can be great secrecy about love relationships and often, due to inhibition and shyness, there can be an inability to express feelings, resulting in silent passion and adulation from a distance. If this happens, a tendency to fantasize will develop and, while this is usually very healthy for most people, it may get out of hand in this case.
The subject can also become isolated. Under stress, comfort may be sought from eating or drinking too much.
Religious faith is sometimes strengthened, with a love of the Deity and a sense of vocation being used to suppress sexual and emotional relationships.
An aesthetic or creative interest which is carried on in peace and quiet will be good for the individual, especially if it brings concrete results.
In the twelfth house Venus may represent either dependence upon traditional values and profits from state institutions, or the individual’s attempt to fathom the meaning of both their own past and their society’s accomplishments, perhaps mainly in order to have a significant basis for making a new start.