Mars in Pisces in the Twelfth House

The placement of Mars in Pisces suggests that your desires and actions tend toward the universal, all-encompassing and transcendent. However, since it is difficult to conceive and operate at these levels, the actual manifestation of Mars in Pisces is often that there is a diffusion, ambiguity or even confusion with respect to your desires and actions. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Mars in Pisces are a result of your underlying need to actively lose yourself in the Ocean of Love and the difficulty and frustration produced when trying to fulfill this need in the material world.

The placement of Mars in Pisces is generally a difficult one. This is symbolized not so much by the natural semi-sextile between Pisces and Mars-ruled Aries as by the juxtaposition of the first (Aries) and last (Pisces) signs in the Zodiac and the contrast in their developmental energies. Pisces is the Mutable Water sign. The functions associated with Mars symbolically find difficulty in getting any focus or gaining any foothold in the ever – changing wateriness of Pisces. With Mars in Pisces, your goals are likely to appear blurred and your action toward achieving those goals, if taken at all, is often misdirected. Only if your desire can be elevated toward the ethereal plane ruled by Neptune will the Mars energy be able to function without hindrance.

Mars also symbolizes the animus in the psyche. Thus, if you are male with Mars in Pisces, you are likely to model your masculinity in order to incorporate characteristics typically associated with Pisces. This may be problematic, since Pisces is often thought to be a “weak” sign, with more affinity for the feminine. If you are female with Mars in Pisces, you are likely to be attracted to someone who projects or embodies Pisces-associated traits.  Sometimes this may result in your being attracted to men who are weak and will be dependent on you. If, however, you have transcended onto a more spiritual dimension, Mars is likely to symbolize a man or men in your life who exhibit spirituality.

Insecurities

With Mars in Pisces, because you are inwardly insecure, you are timid about exerting your will and are, consequently, confused about what it is that you want. This makes you vulnerable to emotional manipulation by others, who see that your own will is not strong. As an individual with Mars in Pisces, you may either seek escape (which ultimately only leads to more confusion and a loss of self empowerment) or you may erect a defensive front in order to protect yourself against your own vulnerability and hide your confusion.  Whichever defense is employed, it often involves you generating a network of lies and self-deceptions.

Mars in the 12th House:

The Mars in the 12th House placement is most often seen as problematic or detrimental. This is especially true if you are male. This is because the active and assertive nature represented by Mars is opposite the passive and inward looking focus of the 12th House. The blending of the two energies must take place at a high level of consciousness and with care and discipline. In its more positive mode, this placement suggests a desire for hidden knowledge or for the dissolution or transcendence of the ego, with action taken to achieve these ends.

Mars in the 12th House also indicates that you may have an impulse toward compassion and sensitivity. This may shape your actions and desires in a spiritual direction, but it may also result in you holding back your assertiveness out  of regard for others. You may also be attracted to the subtler arts, particularly to music.

Dissolution and boundarilessness, which are associated with the 12th House may also produce negative tendencies without the discipline necessary to hold to a high spiritual path. Having Mars in the 12th House, deception, escapism and self-destruction may infuse your motivations and actions.

Insecurities

With Mars in the 12th House, if you are inwardly insecure, your attraction to the unknown and your sense of boundarilessness will make you fearful. Without boundaries, it is difficult for you to impose discipline on your actions and desires. You realize this and may be afraid to act. The “unknown” which frightens you are the Unconscious, which would swallow up and destroy your conscious ego.

Having Mars in the 12th House, one defense against your fears is to flee from those things that are symbolized by the 12th House and lead a very conventional life. In ignoring the unknown and failing to deal with it, however, you leave yourself open to its unwelcome intrusion in the form of unlooked for sorrows, illness, deceptions, etc. These are nothing more than calls from your subconscious for you to pay attention to your inner self.  Another type of defense against your fears is the opposite of the first. You define your desires and your actions within the purview of the 12th House. With Mars in the 12th House, you undertake roles and actions that are caricatures of the process of Unbecoming.  This is basically a self-destructive, as opposed to a self-transcending path. You can be consumed by addictive and destructive behaviors, such as substance abuse, pathological lying, dependency, etc. The self-destruction may be done openly, or it may remain hidden, with you leading a “double life” – hiding your actions and desires with deception.

Focus of Desires

As an individual with Mars in the 12th House, your desire tends to be inward and for things that are immaterial or hidden.  Mars in the 12th House may signify spiritual desire or a desire to explore the realms of the unconscious. It generally indicates that you do not have much attraction for material objects. Instead, you desire the universal. Mars in the 12th House may also signify desire for things that are hidden or forbidden. Your aims and motivations may be obscure, or your aims and desires may be deceptive.

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Article referenced from:

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 2: Planets in Signs

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 3: Planets in Houses

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