Are you mystical as well as intuitive and introverted? You may be a 12th house person...
Liz Greene on the "state of the union" ... this is specifically about Saturn in the 12th house but it is so germaine to my readers, many of whom are mystics, and who are operating sort of alone outside the collective at the moment, I thought I would quote it.
Understanding the meaning of this position takes us beyond the field of orthodox psychology, which has certainly mastered the fourth house (Cancer) and some of the eighth (Scorpio) but is lost when confronting the mysteries of the twelfth.
Recognition of the urge for evolution, for meaning, for the spiritual side of life, as a valid psychological drive in man, is now becoming widespread, however; and when it is understood that this is perhaps the most basic and most important instinct in man - although an instinct of the psyche rather than of the body - then it will not be such a painful experience for a man to sacrifice his personality to permit his total self-expression.
The real potential of Saturn in the twelfth house is unfortunately only available now to those of a mystical bent who are inclined toward the path of inner contemplation. [That's probably most of my readers.]
To them it is the final sacrifice of the sense of separateness, and is willingly undergone because it is the last door between man and his freedom. It depends in the end on one's perspective.
Trying to hunt Saturn down through the mazes of the unconscious is difficult enough in the eighth house where there are still some personality links; but the twelfth is wholly of the soul, and analysis does not help understanding unless it is backed by a knowledge of man's innately spiritual nature.
The gold available from a twelfth house Saturn is the power to serve, not to 'do good' - which is not service at all - but to experience the sense of unity which the mystic is forever seeking and the sense of responsibility and detached love which accompanies this unity. [It makes me so mad when people interpret infp's as being do-gooders. That is not service. That is not a high thing. That is a low thing. We heal. We do not "do good". Nancy]
This will, of course, make no sense to the earthy man, and may offend more pragmatic astrologers; but the fact remains that the twelfth house has not yet been satisfactorily explained any more than has the nature of man. It may be that as scientific evidence piles up, slowly but surely, in demonstration of the occult teachings of the past, the interrelationships of all living things and their essential underlying oneness will be a fact on the objective plane as well as a subjective experience on the part of the mystic.
Liz Greene on the "state of the union" ... this is specifically about Saturn in the 12th house but it is so germaine to my readers, many of whom are mystics, and who are operating sort of alone outside the collective at the moment, I thought I would quote it.
Understanding the meaning of this position takes us beyond the field of orthodox psychology, which has certainly mastered the fourth house (Cancer) and some of the eighth (Scorpio) but is lost when confronting the mysteries of the twelfth.
Recognition of the urge for evolution, for meaning, for the spiritual side of life, as a valid psychological drive in man, is now becoming widespread, however; and when it is understood that this is perhaps the most basic and most important instinct in man - although an instinct of the psyche rather than of the body - then it will not be such a painful experience for a man to sacrifice his personality to permit his total self-expression.
The real potential of Saturn in the twelfth house is unfortunately only available now to those of a mystical bent who are inclined toward the path of inner contemplation. [That's probably most of my readers.]
To them it is the final sacrifice of the sense of separateness, and is willingly undergone because it is the last door between man and his freedom. It depends in the end on one's perspective.
Trying to hunt Saturn down through the mazes of the unconscious is difficult enough in the eighth house where there are still some personality links; but the twelfth is wholly of the soul, and analysis does not help understanding unless it is backed by a knowledge of man's innately spiritual nature.
The gold available from a twelfth house Saturn is the power to serve, not to 'do good' - which is not service at all - but to experience the sense of unity which the mystic is forever seeking and the sense of responsibility and detached love which accompanies this unity. [It makes me so mad when people interpret infp's as being do-gooders. That is not service. That is not a high thing. That is a low thing. We heal. We do not "do good". Nancy]
This will, of course, make no sense to the earthy man, and may offend more pragmatic astrologers; but the fact remains that the twelfth house has not yet been satisfactorily explained any more than has the nature of man. It may be that as scientific evidence piles up, slowly but surely, in demonstration of the occult teachings of the past, the interrelationships of all living things and their essential underlying oneness will be a fact on the objective plane as well as a subjective experience on the part of the mystic.
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