Ernst in another post was warning about this position. Saying beware if it's starved. It can very easily become very bad.
I did worry, even though my Sun in 12th Pisces is pretty much delighted. It has though 33 virupas aspect from Saturn, creating Thirst-Ag. It doesn't damage Uccha, Dig or Chesta of the Sun but still I notice the aspect.
So, in certain environments or contexts that I feel as hostile, I'll hide my light in order to protect myself. Belittling myself even. I really wanna be always aware to fight against this habit.
Despite it, I've mostly followed my inspirations along my life. Sometimes wasting time in wrong things, but never lost the flame of my inspirations. However they have never strongly sustain my path. I haven't create my niche in the world. None kingdom been built other than myself. But in the last 10 years or so, yearning for building a beautiful temple. (Jaimini: Jupiter-Sun conjunction).
Also the conjunction of Jupiter is said to moderate expenses, such is my case.
About that ambiguity others had mention: I hear often people talking about me, describing me inaccurately. But I tend to let them believe what they believe. I don't make the effort to bring the image of myself more in accord with what I feel I am.
About my father, there was a few years of distancing in my early youth years, but even then he was always supporting me without any question. Always happy to see me and available. I also have Sat in 4th and Moon in 10th. I've heard this Moon brings the native emotionally towards the father.
Quite many polititians have Sun in 12th. I have little interest in politics, but as a child, in school and high school, I did present myself as student representative and I always won the elections.
To feel safe and in peace I need some free time to be alone. Sometimes I take too much and so I neglect material responsibilities.
@suzanstars @curioussoul @nkan @marianela Would you say that domination (in bed) tends to be a theme for the Sun in the 12th? Whether it´s as the dominating or the submissive part. (Of course I don´t expect you to talk about your personal experience Marianela, unless you want to.)
Staffan
My friend is a Virgo Rising with Sun and Mercury in the 12th house and Saturn-Moon-Uranus conjunction in her 4th house. She definitely is the most well travelled person I've ever met, she even has the word jet setter in her social media handles haha. She has always had a close relationship with her father and really admires him. Her relationship with her mother is also close, but a little bit more contentious at times as her mother can be a bit neurotic. In recent years, her father has been been facing some health battles, including advanced dementia, so while my friend still loves him unconditionally, she has had to shift into more of a caregiver role for him along with her mother, which has been stressful for her at times, especially when her mother is out of town and my friend has to become her father's sole caregiver. My friend's mother has turned to drinking a lot to cope with the stress of taking care of her husband 24/7, but she is still very capable at the same time of managing being the full-time caregiver to her husband.
I read all the great replies here and decided to look at Sun in the 12th House from Beneath a Vedic Sun to see what it has to say. So I just share what it said which i think you all have mentioned them with your experiences
"The House of the liberation and loss - How I lose myself to the highest in life in order to achieve the greatest freedom and contentment, independent of the variables of day-to-day life. The 12th house is the house of loss, but also loss of the material to gain the spiritual, and thus liberation from neediness. The 12th House is represented by the sign Pisces and the planet Jupiter. The Sun in the 12th house acts like a combination of Sun and Jupiter"
They are interested in leading a spiritual life; balancing spiritual with material growth; achieving liberation or "enlightenment"; doing something charitable and of service to the world; theorizing and engaging in abstraction
They are skilled in traveling or working in foreign locales; managing losses for others; focusing others and oneself on enlightenment, moksha, or self-improvement; good fund-raiser
Favorable Attitudes and Traits: Champions the cause of the underdog; interested in humanitarian efforts; makes advances in spiritual settings, especially in ashrams and monastery environment, works in special health clinics, benefits from work in another country, benefits from solitude; raises money for charitable purposes; advocate for global causes; radiates sensual and spiritual energy
Unfavorable Attitudes and Traits: Take advantage of those who are spiritually vulnerable; works against the best interests of minority groups; causes losses to spiritual or humanitarian efforts; too indulgent in sensual or sexual pursuits; false guru; uses spirituality to get money and sexual attention; gets involved in charitable scandals, spiritual swindler; misappropriates church or temple money; feels their existence is pointless; not much focus for a particular career, too self-sacrificing; loner; not sufficiently drawn to the responsibilities of day-to-day life; wants to escape or withdraw most of the time; wanders around aimlessly
Occupations: Spiritual "expert" or advisor; counselor; specialist in bringing comfort and pleasure to others; sexual instructor or worker; jobs interested in comparative religions and cultures, recluse; yogi; work in institutions devoted to spiritual, charitable and humanitarian purposes, correctional officers, work in ashrams; work in specialized health clinics, fundraiser, does very well with work in foreign countries; bankruptcy advisor; credit counselor; sleep professional
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