by Dawn Rose
Why delve into the depths of your Moon in the 12th house?
Imagine a brand new insight into your deep-rooted strengths and weaknesses helps you deal with an emotional issue you’ve been struggling with for years.
Imagine the kind of self-knowledge that gives you clarity and calm simply because you’ve gained a new level of understanding.
Imagine the type of ‘light bulb’ moment, which helps you improve ALL of your relationships, mostly the one with yourself.
This is what true knowledge of your Moon can give you, and so much more!
The Moon in our natal chart is all that lies below the tip of the iceberg – it’s our unconscious desires, habits, and instincts that can be ruining or building the blocks of our life.
The Moon in astrology can offer the answers and relief you may have been seeking your whole life!
All you need to do is read on…
It’s also a good idea to learn more about the Moon in The Houses and The Importance of Your Moon Sign here.
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Moon in the 12th House in a Nutshell
When the Moon is positioned in the water houses, it suggests a predisposition to innate psychological openness and vulnerability. This is especially true for the 12th house.
There is a very thin line between the feelings of Moon in the 12th house people and those of everyone around them.
Almost like psychic vacuum cleaners, they “suck out” everything that circulates in the atmosphere. Often they find it hard to discern whether they are experiencing their own emotions, or someone else’s.
The biggest challenge of those born with their Moon in the 12th house is to wisely develop ways to strengthen their ego boundaries without giving up their inborn receptivity. They need to learn to protect themselves from too much psychic invasion.
Moon in the 12th house people have to master and use theirs sensitivity instead of being taken over by it.
Most of these people will need periodic isolation to rebuild their inner peace and balance. The roots of emotional problems are deeply ingrained in the subconscious and are not easily accessible to conscious memory.
Psychological difficulties in Moon in the 12th house people can stem from very early childhood or even from pre-birth experiences. Difficult aspects of the Moon in the 12th house suggest how current life problems are directly related to unfinished emotional affairs from previous lives. They are likely to manifest as difficulties with the mother, children or women in general.
In any case, the Moon in the 12th house often shows a complex or very unusual relationship with the mother.
The twelfth house does not know boundaries: the child is usually very receptive to the mother’s sensual life and will continue to be so even when they are physically separated. Through dreams, communication with ghosts and apparitions, many people with the Moon in the 12th house are still close to their mothers, even if they are long gone from the physical world.
While Moon in the 12th house people have vivid emotions and dreams, they can carefully hide their feelings and radiate an aura of mysteriousness.
In certain cases, there are secret love affairs or emotional relationships that are kept behind closed doors for whatever reason.
Individuals with their Moon in the 12th house have a natural ability to somehow care for the disadvantaged. As with the Sun in the 12th house, some may be ruled by deep-seated fears and complexes, which may make it very challenging for them to lead a normal day to day life.
In certain cases, Moon in the 12th house people had to be raised by an institution. Sometimes early experiences in hospitals or orphanages have affected them significantly.
In general, the Moon in the 12th house shows a predominant desire to return to the bliss of existence as it was in the womb. Those who have had difficult experiences in a past life, or have lost their mother at a very young age, when their psyche is very fragile, will have to put a lot of effort to heal their wounds before they can embrace this life. .
From a more positive perspective, the Moon in the 12th house is often an indication of a storehouse of wisdom, which the individual can access in those moments when enlightenment and internal resources are most needed.
Some people with their Moon in the 12th house will act as reservoirs for transmitting mythological and archetypal images to others. William Blake, with their Moon in Cancer in the 12th House, is a prime example of this. He believed that the creator, not the priest, was our closest connection to God.
Moon in the 12th House Meaning
Whether Moon in the 12th house people are extroverts or introverts, they need to spend a good time of their day alone.
During these instinctive withdrawals from the stream of life, they like to meditate, ponder, relax, and eventually they are able to re-charge themselves with the energy they need in order to keep going.
We shouldn’t forget that seclusion itself can have a different meaning for different people. Some would prefer to meditate in silence. Others would want to read books. A third group of people would prefer to take a walk in the park by themselves. While there are also those, who would turn up the volume at home and listen to rock music so loudly that their neighbors would leave the building. Essentially, all of these activities can serve as a way of solitude and meditation.
The Moon in the 12th house placement can also suggest working behind closed doors – these can be different institutions, such as prisons or hospitals, where it is necessary to take care of other people (the Moon, related to the mother and maternal functions).
In the old astrological texts, the 12th house is called the “house of hidden enemies”. Often, Moon in the 12th house people have difficult or unusual relationships with their mothers.
In some cases, this may also apply to the father if he has performed the maternal functions in the family. At any rate, the parent-child relationship is very karmic. There is a special section in astrology that deals with this range of issues – karmic astrology. Without going into too much detail, we can only briefly mention that in almost all cases, the respective individuals were related to either one or both parents in previous incarnations.
The roots of all problems that arise in the relationship with the parents must be sought in their previous coexistences. In many cases, things are turned upside down in such a way that in their current lives they feel on their own backs the same influence that they had on others in their past lives.
The 12th house is the home of Pisces, and the key word for this sign is self-sacrifice. Since the Moon symbolizes the maternal, caring functions, it can be said that the safest and most direct way in which Moon in the 12th house people can reach God is to put themselves in the service of others.
By neglecting their personal interests and offering mercy, compassion, sympathy and support to disadvantaged members of society, these people receive a strong impetus for spiritual growth and development.
Just like Pisces is the last sign of the Zodiac, so is the 12th the last astrological house. Most of the things here are hidden from the ordinary eye: they are buried deep in the subconscious.
We can safely say that most of the problems of the respective person are a consequence of his instinctive reactions in various life situations (the Moon), which at first sight are completely irrational and illogical (12th house). On closer inspection, however, we can find that most of their problems arise from people from previous rebirths. Usually these are souls they have unfinished business with.
However, if these strong karmic connections are not taken into account, Moon in the 12th house people behavior may seem completely irrational to the bystander.
For example, a person gets a new job. From day one, they start sensing certain resentment from one of their colleagues. They try to avoid each other, because their animosity is mutual. At first glance, the situation is absurd, as there is absolutely no objective reason why these two people are not able to normally coexist in the office. Moreover, their activities may not even be related.
Gradually, however, their mutual resentment grows. The person may find that the colleague in question has started spreading false and insulting rumors and slander against him. He could ignore them, but this does not solve the problem.
Increasingly, the behavior of other colleagues starts to change, and all sorts of unpleasant incidents begin to happen in the workplace. It turns out that most of them were provoked again by the colleague in question. The tension in the team is slowly becoming more intense and intolerable. In the end, the person in question may even have to leave the company and look for another job.
This whole story has no logical explanation. It can only be explained by karmic astrology. The horoscopes of these two people must be compared and the situations in which they were connected before must be found. Only then can we discover the real reasons for their mutual resentment and their inability to work in the same place.
These dynamics are especially strong in the presence of negative aspects to the Moon in the 12th house.
Then problems with the mother (or the parent who performed the care functions in the family) come to the fore. Problems with women in general are also not uncommon. At the same time, the issues that arise are hidden, invisible; the confrontation is silent, the blows are inflicted behind the back and there is no logical reason, which would explain such irrational behavior.
On the other hand, if the aspects are positive, Moon in the 12th house people have easy access to information embedded in the collective subconscious. Thus, they have the potential to access the hidden causes that drive things. They are able to “feel” the karmic connections between people. And it turns out that by birth they are well equipped to provide compassion, empathy or help to those in need.
Moon in the 12th House Strengths
People born with their Moon in the 12th house are usually being ‘called’ by the Universe to go beyond the personal and experience another level of emotional involvement.
They are being challenged to rise above their own issues and pains and to lose themselves for the sake of others. This naturally makes the nurturing and caring functions, which are connected to the Moon very strongly expressed in these individuals.
One of their greatest strengths is that they are inherently caring, sensitive, and nurturing. They can be amazing nurses and caretakers.
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The 12th house is also very much attuned to the Moon’s intuitive and psychic qualities, which gives Moon in the 12th house people a strong predisposition to be bestowed with psychic gifts. They are highly imaginative, deeply intuitive, and can easily pick vibes and thoughts, floating in their immediate environment.
This can be a double-edge sward, since their heightened sensitivity can leave them feeling overwhelmed with all the energies that they spontaneously absorb and have to deal with.
They need to put boundaries in order to be able to take control of their inborn gifts and use them in a way that benefits everyone involved.
Even if they are among a crowd of people, those born with their Moon in the 12th house find retreat and seclusion in their own world – one, which they’ve created with their vivid imagination. This is actually the approach that will help them succeed in this earthly life, because if for some reason they try to seek publicity or attention, they will start facing more difficulties in life. They were born to stay behind the scenes and help with their inherently selfless, empathetic nature.
Moon in the 12th House Challenges
This is a rather lonely position of the Moon, and people with this placement may spend a lot of time in isolation for one reason or another. Sometimes it’s on their own will, other times it’s because of a sickness or even being sent to jail (like Nelson Mandela, who has his Moon in the 12th house).
Men with this Moon placement often find it hard to keep a relationship. Even if they do, the woman would have to be the face of the couple and take on the burden of social responsibilities, because the man is likely to cloak himself in isolation from time to time. It’s also a real challenge for the partner of a Moon in the 12th house individual to penetrate his seclusion and get them to share feelings and emotions. This is usually deeply rooted in a complicated relationship with the mother, her loss from an early age, or simply the lack of her care and nurturing.
Women with their Moon in the 12th house are also prone to breaking off relationships before they can mature. They have a very pronounced need for privacy, and are inclined to withdraw without explanation when a relationship starts becoming too intimate. They are prone to leaving without explanation, even leaving for another city. Both sexes tend to be romantic about relationships, but don’t really enjoy true closeness. This is why they are prone to disappearing without explanation.
Moon in the 12th house people can also take the role of the martyr when they make huge sacrifices and don’t receive anything in return. They may be tempted to impose guilt on others by often reminding them how much they’ve stretched themselves to provide care, help, and assistance. Instead of doing that, Moon in the 12th house people should try to put boundaries and respect them.
Moon in the 12th House Remedies
The best approach for Moon in the 12th house people would be to seek ways to heal their wounds – both with the help of therapists and psychologists, and with their own strongly developed sixth sense and intuition.
They can easily regress to past lives to see the deeply rooted reasons for certain difficult situations that may be currently hanging like a cloud in their life. They should be careful, though, to make the difference between truthful visions and fantasy.
At any rate, they should always remember that a lot of the events happening to them in this life are a direct consequence of their deeds in the past.
Moon in the 12th house people should really secure time and space for regular withdrawals, so that they can re-charge their batteries and cleanse their aura from the huge amount of impressions and outer energies they may have unintentionally absorbed.
Working on their own energy and psychological protection, while developing their sensitivity and intuition in order to make good use of them is the best route Moon in the 12th house people can take.
Moon in the 12th House Celebrities
Rihanna, Scarlett Johansson, Billie Eilish, Kendall Jenner, Björk, Charlize Theron, Renée Zellweger, Marilyn Manson, Russell Crowe, Nelson Mandela, Matt Damon, Katie Holmes, Jennifer Garner, Miranda Kerr
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