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Mars in House 12

With Mars in House 12, you can struggle with asserting yourself in direct, natural ways in your youth, but with time and experience (and perhaps some hard work), you’re likely to learn to work with this energy rather than allow it to work against you. Watch for a tendency to feel defeated before you’ve given something a real shot. You are extraordinarily resourceful, and you can handle many things on your own or in uniquely creative ways. Though you may have a great deal of energy and drive, you lack confidence or the desire to put yourself and your interests first. Positively you can be very unselfish, working more on behalf of others than for yourself. You deny your own desires and needs too much, however, and you are likely to secretly become very angry, which can sabotage your finest efforts. There is a touch of the incurable romantic in your nature. Your daydreaming and fantasizing world is rich and precious to you. You also bring imagination into your sexual relationships, although you can take a bit of time to feel comfortable and to warm up to a new person in your life. Overcoming a vague and persistent feeling of guilt or doom can go a long way towards a healthier, happier approach to the pursuit of your desires.

Being born with Mars in House 12 is not an easy placement for Mars. The energy can be stifled in this house. These children may often be afraid to assert themselves. They can feel defeated before they start, convinced that making any efforts to be seen, or heard, would be futile. The child could express this by being tired all the time. This attitude may have resulted from being with people who have not encouraged him or her very much. Somehow the self-confidence needs to be built and the courage instilled to disregard anyone that tries to inflict negativity. These children tend to work in secret and to act behind people’s backs. They should try to avoid this. Unfortunately, this child can possibly be blamed for things for which they are not responsible, so always check the facts. A total lack of self-confidence can make him/her so afraid of direct action that the natural course is to do everything indirectly. But deep down, this can be a very strong little person. He or she will just need to get over these hang-ups. Or the child will need to be fortunate enough that someone recognizes early to start building up that confidence. Many athletes and surgeons have this placement.

Mars in House 12

These children can work very well on their own, as they do not need supervision. They just do not need anyone to discourage them or to put them down. As they mature, these kids will come to believe in themselves naturally. The child with Mars in the twelfth House has a tendency to “think” about what they want to do, rather than just getting on and doing it. This can cause some frustration. These youngsters “know” but they are reluctant to push themselves, or their efforts, or their ideas. Again, this is a lack of confidence. The sensitivities in this child can run deep through to the psychic nature of things. He/she is likely to have very vivid dreams. These youngsters will stand firm on principles, but may not openly express or explain where the ideas are coming from. He/she can find it easier to project an attitude or a mood to make a point rather than openly express the true feelings within.”

So what happens when our inner warrior is hidden away in the 12th house? This is an interesting placement for Mars. The 12th house is the area of life associated with the unconscious, spirituality, dreams. It is also the stuff we push away and don’t want to think about. It’s known as the house of self-undoing as things that are repressed eventually bubble up through the unconscious and can come out at the least opportune times. When we aren’t aware of why we act the way we do, this can have a detrimental effect on our lives and relationships. With Mars in House 12, our drive, will, motivation and fighting instinct is secreted away in a very private area of the chart. Typically, planets in the 12th house can be given up for a greater good. In a study done by Gauquelin, it was noted that many sports men and woman had this placement. If we think of Mars as energy, your competitive side go-get-it side, then this makes sense because there is often a feeling with sport that what you are doing is for your team or for your country. You give over your power for a greater aim than simply your own. This is also the house of isolation, so you may be drawn to solitary pursuits or pastimes like running for example. Sometimes people with a 12th house Mars are very self-driven behind the scenes so can be strongly motivated to simply ‘do their own thing’. But this is private and for them alone and they may not like others interfering.

Some with Mars in House 12 fight for a cause. The 12th house is the house of hospitals and institutions and can relate to those who are lost and forgotten in society. Mars here may have an urge to help, to DO something. Sometimes, because this is the house indicating no boundaries and is therefore limitless, you may never know when to stop. You may always feel the need to be doing something and yet at the same time feel whatever you do is never enough. Because Mars is connected to your physical energy levels and strength, for some this placement can indicate you need more rest than others. Maybe you are the kind of person who is physically drained when around too many other people. Some time alone will help to re-charge your batteries. You may end up fighting everybody else’s battles other than you own. Your own anger and frustration can be bottled up by this placement. Anger can be displaced. In fighting for someone or something else, maybe you don’t look at or even see your own anger.

This placement can indicate someone who doesn’t like to show their anger, maybe when they were little they were told ‘it’s not nice’. Perhaps you are submissive, agreeable yet secretly you’re working hard to get to the top and beat them at their own game. Because the 12th house can represent the womb before birth, sometimes it can indicate that your mother found the pregnancy with you challenging. Maybe you kicked hard! Perhaps you don’t show you are anger because you were frightened into keeping it hidden. Maybe you were bullied. You may be afraid of your own anger. Perhaps you’re scared that if you show your anger, if you get into it – you’ll never stop. It can feel like imploding. You may be the kind of person to rage in silence. You may have dreams of fighting or battles or perhaps angry thoughts come to you seemingly without reason. In extreme situations, where Mars has been denied altogether, Mars turns the battle on himself so self-destructive anger and self-harm can result. Mars in the 12th can be the poster child of being your own worst enemy. Maybe you run from confrontations. Maybe you feel like there’s a hidden or invisible enemy. Perhaps you are an escapist. Maybe you’re inclined to jump ship when the going gets tough. Perhaps it’s just that you feel like it’s not worth fighting for. The challenge with this placement is that sometimes you can feel defeated before you ever start. It’s a ‘what’s the point’ aspect. You may have a feeling that you are ineffectual or you just can’t assert yourself.

Mars in House 12 may bring high sexual expectations in your conjugal life, but you may not enjoy or experience that complete sexual satisfaction every time.

Because Mars is connected to your desires and sexual attraction, you may find it difficult to openly pursue those you are attracted to. Secret desires may be unrequited or perhaps you are drawn to those who are unobtainable. Perhaps you just find it hard to ask for what you want from a partner. Sometimes relationships can trigger psychological complexes. This can be damaging or healing depending on how it is handled. Some people with Mars here may be celibate. On the plus side, Mars in the 12th house can indicate that sex is a spiritual experience, perfect for investigating tantric practices. Look to the aspects that Mars makes in your chart. If they are positive, it may show that one of your karmic lessons in this life is to use your Mars for others. In a past life you may have honed your Martian energy – maybe you were strong and powerful yet kind and compassionate. Maybe you had mastered your body through martial arts or athleticism. Perhaps you were a natural leader and you bring that quality into your current life. Mars in the 12th can be on a mission. You are called to take action on those things that promote peace and connection between all things. Mars here could be said to be a fight for peace.

With challenging aspects, maybe in a past life, there were unwise actions or problems with anger and competitiveness, so in this life, it’s about learning to use the energy of Mars more effectively both for yourself and others. It may be about learning how to handle anger on a personal level, dealing with unresolved anger and ultimately forgiving yourself. Working at its best, Mars in House 12 can indicate you are kind, compassionate and peaceful yet willing to challenge people and situations that seek to put others down. You are self-motivated and able to assert yourself without fear. As this can be a very creative house, Mars here may motivate you to become the quiet but talented artist or musician. The positive side of Mars in House 12 is that here he is in spiritual warrior. Where Mars is in the chart, he likes to feel strong. He shows something we want and where we tend to actively go out and get it. In the 12th house, this can be the active pursuit of the soul and a desire to work on your spiritual life. Your dream life may be very active too so it can be helpful to keep a dream diary. You have all this energy deep inside of you to draw upon. If you follow a healing path, you may have a very high perception of other people’s energy levels. Mars here can call you to initiate your own healing quest. When you feel stuck and unmotivated, an act of kindness for someone else may help to get you started again.

With Mars in House 12, you're highly compassionate and selfless with others. On the dark side, you can be incredibly passive aggressive. Sexually, you are drawn to secret affairs, and submission fantasies. You like sex to be out of this world, literally. Mars in House 12 of Horoscope brings much anger, frustration, and delays in one’s life in the field of marriage and career. Mars in the 12th House in the birth chart makes one quite lazy and a lavish shopper, and there is a lot of debt on the native, but progress and prosperity in career happen after marriage from the age of 30. Mars in House 12 makes you secretive & socially active; you may have to travel abroad for work constantly; it bestows you the talent to portray your experiences very differently in an unorthodox way from others. A positive benefic unafflicted Mars in House 12 can give you a high level of sexual satisfaction & pleasure from multiple partners. Mars in House 12 (of subconscious, expenditure, and imagination) indicates having extremely spirited, rich, and passionate power of imagination and creativity, which is helpful in various activities where powerful vision and thoughts are required.

Mars in House 12 is a House of dreams, imagination, and pleasures, which shows the involvement of the native in sexual activities where he or she exerts energy. The natives with Mars in their 12th House will have to constantly travel to foreign lands for work purposes, where they will transform their energy from Mars into productive work life. Mars in House 12 also shows isolation from the physical world for the native, which implies the native can be a researcher or field scientist working alone in a foreign land. The native may get blessed with imaginative and vivid creative ideas that can make him a famous and creative writer. Mars in House 12 in Horoscope might make you aware of enemies and many people from your family or relative side trying to break your relationship with your spouse. However, your spouse, who can be argumentative, may challenge the hidden enemies to protect the connection, your bond, and the marriage. However, the Mars in House 12 may bring high sexual expectations in your conjugal life, but you may not enjoy or experience that complete sexual satisfaction every time.

Mars in House 12 makes you secretive & socially active; you may have to constantly travel abroad for work; it bestows you with an expression to portray your experiences very differently from others. A positive Mars in the twelfth house can bring you a high level of sexual satisfaction & pleasures. A positive Mars in House 12 gives you the opportunity to explore many different things. You will constantly travel to foreign lands and gain money. Your subconscious mind will always be active and creative, which will make you productive and achieve success. You will have vivid dreams which can be utilised for creativity. Your high sexual urge can bring you a high level of satisfaction and pleasures. A negative Mars in House 12 will make you violent, wicked and will keep hurting your loved ones and family members. You will come across as argumentative and challenging to others. This position will make you overspend money, be a shopaholic and create debts for yourself. You will lose money in bad investments and hospitalisation, to name a few. Plus, a lot of latent anger and aggression can create frustration. Your energy will be lost in behaviour triggered by your animal instinct, which will aggravate your anger and aggression. There will be delays and procrastination in career and marriage. You may suffer from eye problems - pain, heat sensation in the eyes, cataracts, infections - and other internal diseases.

Mars in House 12 effects on the psychological level are not good. A sense of being a prisoner, helplessness, isolation may exist. This can indicate suppressed rage, sadism, cruelty, depression, selfishness etc. There may be tendency to self-harm where you hurt your mind or body in fits of self-cruelty. Physically and mentally you are strong but you never get the chance to express your strength in life. Possibly no brothers where you could have competed with in your childhood. No healthy routes to let out your aggression, courage or risk-taking ability. Physical intimacy will be very less, eg your spouse may work in the army so you do not get this outlet either, repression all around. (Affairs are possible if the 7th lord is afflicted.) You are outwardly perfectly behaved but there is unexpected rage roiling inside. This can lead to physical and emotional issues. You keep your own self in strict check, your energy and competitive spirit is subconsciously directed against your own self. In the conscious world you display your Martian energy in subtly twisted ways. You keep your anger internalised so as to avoid hurting others but this will cause problems for you later. If he is going to act negatively then these above tendencies are exaggerated. If this Mars is auspicious then the spiritualising influences from your past lives are brought to the surface. You can even act as a guide for others on their spiritual journey. But whatever it may be, you are required to face some very deep seated issues, outbursts of energy, misdirected passion and pain in life. And there will be at least one episode where you will be ill. Either a long illness or an undiagnosed illness will give you physical or psychological hardship.

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