02/05/2025
Meanings of the 12th House:
Posting because I see so many misinterpretations and blatant misrepresentations of this area of the sky.
"It hath signification of private enemies, of witches, great cattle - as horses, oxen, elephants, &c.; sorrow, tribulation, imprisonments, all manner of affliction, self-undoing, &c., and of such men as maliciously undermine their neighbours, or inform secretly against them.
It hath cosignificators Pisces and Venus; Saturn doth much joy in that house, for naturally Saturn is author of mischief; and it ruleth in man's body the feet.
In colour it presents the green.
It's a cadent house, feminine, and vulgarly sometimes called cataphora, as all cadent houses may be."
~William Lilly on the 12th House, Christian Astrology
"The designations used for the 12th house are Duhkha (misery), Anghri (leg), Varna Nayana (left eye), Kabaya (decline). Suchaka (tale-bearer, spy), Anthya (last). Daridrya (poverty). Papa (Sin), Sayana (bad), Bandha (imprisonment)"
~Mantreswara on the 12th House, Phaladeepika
"Specific Indications [of the 12th house]: Loss, expenditure, expenses, debts, misfortune, Moksha, self-realization, enlightenment, final liberation, salvation, the state after death, planes of existence, bedroom, bed pleasures, unknown or foreign places, life in remote lands, hospitals, prisons, places of confinement, hearing in the left ear, vision of the left eye, feet, a**s, waste, experiencing thieves and robbers, secret enemies"
~Richard Fish and Ryan Kurczak on the 12th House, The Art and Science of Vedic Astrology: A Foundational Course