12^th House Key Phrases: Intuition; dreams; secrets; the subconscious; the intangible.

Dominant houses are usually calculated as “dominant” because they contain more than one planet.  Look to your chart to see which planets (or Sun or Moon) are in your twelfth House for further clarity in how your twelfth House is expressed.

Rulership:  While the 12th house primarily rules 'all things unseen (dreams, secrets, pain, emotions, intuition), these themes play out on a material level. 

The twelfth house is associated with hospitals, mental institutions, and places of restriction, confinement, and privacy; areas for functioning behind the scenes out of the public eye, such as in confidential work, crime detection, or research. Even though the twelfth denotes imprisonment and bondage, personal secrets, secret liaisons or negotiations, it also rules anonymous philanthropy. It also represents those who work in hospitals, prisons, large institutions, detective agencies, and places where secrets are often generated, which are later to be made public.

Occupations:  Biomedical engineer, chemist, FBI agent, researcher, psychiatric social worker, statistician, historian, inspector, hospital workers (especially surgeons), psychoanalyst, private investigator, prison guard, x-ray technician.