Saturn in the 12th House

How Saturn works in the 12th house

Around people you don't know well, you try to keep your emotions in check and show only your public persona. In private with loved ones, however, you become emotional and have a talent for turning events into a drama.

You often need peace, quiet, and solitude. You deliberately limit contact with others and become a hermit for a while. Although you can work successfully on a large team, people wear you out.

You often spend time examining yourself, working on yourself, reviewing the past, or planning the future. You're more inclined to dwell on your failures and forget your achievements. Secretly, you believe the whole world has joined forces against you and that everyone around you is hostile. You do often encounter dubious characters and people who wish you ill. But look more closely and they're not quite so awful—your imagination has simply supplied the horns and hooves. In general, you find it hard to tell a potential friend from an enemy.

What the 12th house governs

The 12th house in your birth chart concerns everything buried deep within you, beneath the surface: your subconscious and your secrets. It represents your deepest feelings and hopes, insecurities and fears, secrets and painful stories from the past that you want to forget. The twelfth house describes everything hidden inside you that others—and sometimes you yourself—can only guess at. It also reveals your strengths and weaknesses, looking beyond the obvious to your hidden potential.

What Saturn represents

Saturn's zodiac sign in your birth chart governs your ability to organize yourself and your surroundings, as well as your ability to cooperate with others. Saturn reveals how you influence society and how society influences you.