Mars in Gemini in the Twelfth House

The placement of Mars in Gemini indicates that you have a need to feel free to take any action or to pursue your desires in any direction that you are inclined to do. This need generally is manifested in a desire to actively explore, experience what is around you and participate in a multitude of different types of activities.  With Mars in Gemini, this need can be accomplished within the bounds of everyday life and propriety. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Mars in Gemini are a result of this need for variety in your active life.

The placement of Mars in Gemini is generally positive. This is symbolized by the natural sextile between Gemini and Mars-ruled Aries. Gemini is the Mutable Air sign. Gemini’s changeable air symbolically acts like a prism for the Mars energy, magnifying the power of the Mars-symbolized function as it is activated in several directions. However, if some control is not exercised to structure the flow of this active energy, it may dissipate into too many channels. The air element associated with Gemini also tends to give your actions and desires a mental quality. This is often manifested in your greater willingness to communicate your desires and talk about your activities.

Mars also symbolizes the animus in the psyche. Thus, if you are male with Mars in Gemini, you are likely to model your masculinity in order to incorporate characteristics typically associated with Gemini. If you are female, you are likely to be attracted to someone who projects or embodies Gemini-associated traits.

Insecurities

Having Mars in Gemini, being insecure within yourself, you need to be involved in constant activity in order to feel that you matter. Activity is both a validation for your ego and a distraction from your insecurities. With Mars in Gemini, your need to be constantly involved in some activity is fed by the fact that your desires abound in all directions. These, of course, cannot possibly all be fulfilled. Nevertheless, you feel that you may miss something if you are not engaged in every activity.

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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