RAHU IN 12th HOUSE

 Rahu in 12th

• 12th house denotes privacy and isolation
• Rahu in 12th house at some stage in life especially after 36 years of age will start producing a strong desire for seclusion and private activities.
• Such people will prefer being far away from society and indulge in activities like meditation, reading a book in the privacy of their house, any creative activity where they are alone
• 12th house indicates things and places hidden from public view
• Rahu in 12th is the biggest indicator of secret things and clandestine activities which remain hidden from the society.
• Rahu in 12th can give a rise in life or gains via secret dealings especially in foreign lands, espionage activities like CIA agents operating on foreign soils, behind the scenes work like visual effects artists who remain hidden behind the wonderful VFX on movie screens, movie directors who remains hidden behind the camera
• Since our imgaination is hidden from the public view, Rahu in 12th can fire up the imagination power of an individual which can only be visible when an individual produces some tangible creative work
• Rahu in 12th can produce gains via places like sanctuaries, ashrams, hospitals that tend to be away from the society
• If this Rahu is badly placed or the dispositor is really weak, it can indicate prison sentence or time in jail in seclusion for some secret law breaking activity
• 12th house indicates loss, ill-health, expenditure
• Rahu in 12th can really increase the monetary expenditure especially on exotic items, foreign goods or a give a compulsive habit to spend. Unless the 2nd lord or 11th lord is in good shape, Rahu in 12th can bring in severe bankruptcy if not careful
• Rahu in 12th can give diseases or loss of vitality due to which the individual might be forced to spend time in hospitals away from everybody
• 12th house denotes dreams, sub-conscious, illusions, bed pleasures
• Rahu in 12th can produce difficulties in day to day work (6th house) because it can really force a person to just day dream or constantly live in illusions of grandeur. Dreams are a by-product of unfulfilled desires in sub-conscious and Rahu indicates desires. So this Rahu could be troublesome in case material desires of a person is not fulfilled as a person can create castles in thin air but not focus on the actual work in hand.
• Rahu in 12th can produce an obsession with sleep and relaxation. The individual should watch out for excessive laziness. Rather the person should divert that energy into meditation which is both relaxing as well as enlightening
• Rahu in 12th is notorious for sexual adventures if badly afflicted. Lot of pornographers and people indulged in extra-marital physical pleasures tend to have Rahu in 12th. Example: Sunny Leone.
• 12th house indicates foreign lands, global boundaries, travel
• Rahu in 12th can be a great indicator for foreign settlement if other factors support it
• The significator for foreign things Rahu in the house of foreign shores 12th house produces great gains and rise va foreign trade, careers in foreign lands, business dealings with foreigners, export business, foreign travels. Rahu the planet for aviation can also produce air hostesses, pilots who constantly fly for a career
• 12th house denotes occult, paranormal, clairvoyance, astral worlds
• Rahu in 12th under extraordinary past karmas can grant occult powers and contacts with astral worlds. But this sounds highly unlikely in today’s illusory ultra- materialistic world. This Rahu though can produce unknown fears, fear of non-existent ghosts, interest in occult subjects like tarot, astrology, parapsychology etc.
• 12th house indicates charity, dissolution, separation, sanyaas etc.
• Rahu in 12th can make a person charitable and indicate expenditure due to donations, visit to ashrams and pilgrimages. This Rahu can also give sanyaas or renunciation from the material world provided there are other indications by Saturn and Ketu. Rahu in 12th can also bring in separations from family members, homeland or relatives.
• The karma in this life is to balance day to day work and struggle (6th house) with some time off that could be used for meditation and self growth through imaginative activities.

Examples:

Coco Chanel (Source: Wikipedia, astrotheme.com)

• French fashion designer and businesswoman, founder and namesake of the Chanel brand
• She was left in a convent orphanage at 12, abandoned by her father. She had many affairs some of them secretive and was thought to be a Nazi spy
• Rahu is in 12H (orphanage, secrets, global name, abandonment, imagination).
• Dispositor Venus is in 9H (foreign affairs, fortune, women, luxury) and is also 7L (business, affairs, masses) with exalted 2L (money) and 5L (creativity, romance, purva punya) Jupiter and aspected by 3L (self made, entrepreneur) & 4L (fashion house) Saturn

Arnold Schwarzenegger (Source: Wikipedia, Astrotheme.com)

• Austrian-American actor, filmmaker, businessman, author, and former politician and professional bodybuilder
• He got success in a foreign land (USA). He acknowledged using steroids secretly and also got divorced after admitting to fathering a child with housemaid. There were allegations of sexual misconduct also
• Rahu is in 12H (foreign lands, bed pleasures, secretive work) with 6L (competition) &11L (recognition, extra-marital affairs) Mars (body-building).
• Dispositor Venus is in 2H (wealth) with 8L Sat (injecting forbidden substances) & 9L (fortune) & 3L (media) Sun

Nelson Mandela (Source: Wikipedia, astrotheme.com)

• South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999
• Mandela served 27 years in prison
• Rahu is in 12H (seclusion, jails, charity) in Scorpio (lockdown, revolutions) aspected by 6L (struggles, conflicts) Venus.
• Dispositor Mars is in 10H (career, power, leadership, public activities) aspected by 2L (values, opinions) & 3L (courage) Saturn

Rocco Siffredi (Source: Wikipedia, astrotheme.com)

• Italian pornographic actor who because of his psychological intensity and athleticism, earned recognition and ultimately a cult following
• During his initial retirement starting in 2004, Siffredi battled sex addiction and disappeared from home for days to have sex
• Rahu is in 12H (bed pleasures, secretive work, taboo) in Gemini (multiplicity) with 11L (multiple partners) Venus (sex, women).
• Dispositor Mercury is in 10H (fame, career) with 10L Mars, 6L (addiction) & 9L (fortune) Jupiter, 2L (money) Sun and aspected by 7L (sex) & 8L (secrets) Saturn

Swami Vivekananda (Source: Wikipedia, astrosage.com)

• Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna
• He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world. Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission
• Rahu is in 12H (meditation, spirituality, foreign shores, ashrams) in Scorpio (transformation) aspected by dispositor Mars from its own 5H (intelligence, spiritual discourse, disciple). Mars is aspected by 1L (self) & 4L (mind) Jupiter (guru, religion, knowledge)

Steven Spielberg (Source: Wikipedia, astrotheme.com)

• American filmmaker. Spielberg is one of the American film industry's most critically successful filmmakers, with praise for his directing talent and versatility, and he has won the Academy Award for Best Director twice
• Rahu is in 12H (imagination, behind the scenes work) in Taurus (creative) aspected by 1L (self) & 4L (masses) Mercury.
• Dispositor Venus is in own sign Libra in 5H (creativity, stage) with 7L (fame, masses) & 10L (career) Jupiter and 2L (money, values, opinions) Moon (imagination)

Marilyn Monroe (Source: Wikipedia, astrotheme.com)

• American actress, model, and singer who was known as a ‘sex symbol’. She spent most of her childhood in foster homes and an orphanage. She faced a scandal when it was revealed that she had posed for nude photos but that increased her popularity
• Monroe's troubled private life received much attention. She struggled with addiction, depression, and anxiety
• Rahu is in 12H (sex, privacy, isolation, orphanages) in Gemini (media) aspected by 6L (struggles, depression) & 9L (fortune) Jupiter from 8H (scandals).
• Dispositor Mercury is in 11H (gains, fame) with 2L (money) Sun