The Room of Requirement - The 12th House
The houses are a new concept to me and I wasn't particularly fascinated until someone posted this on Instagram...
I recognised it. Literally, I physically recognized that room!
And so I read and read…
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned but in June when we looked at our charts at Astro school, I just shrugged when it came to my moon. I shrugged and said, you tell me! I don’t know, I didn’t understand how it related to me. I kinda got it... but I was generally baffled.
BLIND AS A BAT.
A magical summer of spiritual exploration, new people, a family holiday, lots of reading and it’s all started to make sense.
The 12th house is a “Pisces (12th sign) style” house. It’s VAST, nebulous, mystical, boundless, lost, without structure. It’s like the room of requirement In Harry Potter. Did I mention that JK Rowling is a fully trained astrologer? Well she is. That room… that vanishes and appears, that contains anything you want it to contain, is only accessible to those who need it truly. It’s a 12th house type room… and it’s actually so crucial to the success of Harry and Dumbledore’s Army.
"It is a room that a person can only enter when they have real need of it. Sometimes it is there, and sometimes it is not, but when it appears, it is always equipped for the seeker's needs"
Planets in the 12th house are equally difficult to access. Their needs are not always clear to us and so we can’t always get in. I think that without PROPER understanding of the REQUIREMENT of that planet, you won’t be able to get to us.
The planets basic needs…
The sun is the ego, destiny, life journey.
The moon is nourishment, food, love, value… to a certain extent.
Mercury is our mind, thoughts and ability to communicate.
Venus is value, attraction and love.
Mars is action, assertiveness, physical attraction.
Jupiter is philosophy, travels, beliefs.
Saturn is fears, authority, structure.
Uranus is freedom, eccentricity and ideas.
Neptune is spirituality, compassion and understanding.
Pluto is occult, transformation and power.
Historically, planets in the 12th were considered a real problem and bad luck… the house of SELF-UNDOING. Unraveling, getting lost… being a drunk, crack addict, in a mental asylum, monastery or hospital. The placement represents big institutions (loss of the individual) this is all about the COLLECTIVE (like Pisces.)
The big question I was asking...
HOW TO HEAL THIS 12TH HOUSE BARREN WASTELAND?
With my moon stuck out in the 12th in stubborn Taurus with a Saturn opposing in Scorpio. What the hell do I do to remedy my lost, mental, inaccessible emotions?
Well, you go to live in the asylum. OR you find a way to ONENESS. To find these planets you have to get lost in the collective. I think this is where my love for yoga has come from. Go to the studio, lose the ego, meditate and THEN and there, I find the solutions. It enables me to feel more in tune.
Michel Gauquelin said that 12th house placements are big indicators of career and the moon in the 12th is that of a writer. Whenever I’m deep down low with the collective, I start writing stuff in my head.
I’m the same on the dance floor. I like wearing disco specs, not because I'm off my face, but because I don’t want to make eye contact with anyone and enjoy dancing on my own! Off into my head, in my own world. Dancing alone, having a good old think about things and writing... dancing and thinking about things that I'll later write down. Ha. Moon = love, nurturing, creativity. 12th house = asylum. Taurus = pleasure, fixed, nature.
So now I know! I get it... I can use the language of astrology to understand why I do this. More importantly... I have grasped a better understanding of how this would work for other people. I can help people to unlock their 12th house and find their passion... as if you've read my old blogs... that's what I want to do! I want to free people from their own self sabotage and restless anxiety.
When you soothe the 12th house you TAP into the collective consciousness. When you understand that you have something to share or something to sacrifice, the power arrives. When you learn how to use the room of requirement, you have the most versatile, helpful, accessible, generous, healing and protective source within yourself, at your disposal. The nature of the 12th means that when you tame the wild beast (planet), you will be a MASTER. You may find your HIDDEN TALENT.
Everyone has a 12th house, not everyone has a planet there, but the chart paints a picture and will illuminate which area of your life you manifest the least well!
It takes a while, and it’s not easy, but it’s worth it and if you want to be positive about things (you should) you can see planets in the 12th as a gift. A gift that is well-deserved and fully appreciated, not the gift given to a spoilt child.
These are gifts given to the wise.
My cousin is also rising Gemini and therefore also has Taurus on the 12th house cusp. She has Mars in Taurus in the 12th... so whilst it's my feminine (moon) emotional energy her masculine (mars) assertive energy is difficult to reach, private and confusing. She's only 9, but I asked her, "do you ever get angry?" and she said, "sometimes, if I'm on my own or in my room or maybe with my family, but not really."
From the mouths of babes!
xx