Venus in Pisces in the Twelfth House

The placement of Venus in Pisces indicates a need for universality in your relationships and your value system. However, this ideal of universality is a difficult concept to actualize and, in practice, it is often manifested as ambiguity or confusion. Thus, you often feel a need for flexibility and the removal of boundaries or definition in your relationships or with respect to values. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Pisces are a result of your need to return to a feeling of oneness or undifferentiatedness.

The Venus in Pisces placement is generally conducive, although there are some inherent tensions present in the placement. This is symbolized by the natural sextile between Pisces and Venus-ruled Taurus, combined with the natural quincunx between Pisces and Libra, which is also ruled by Venus. Pisces is the Mutable Water sign. Pisces’ watery nature is compatible with the softness and passivity associated with Venus. The Venusian energy symbolically diffuses to the maximum extent through the Piscean medium of changeable water. If your character is sufficiently imbued with substance, it is the positive qualities associated with Venus that are allowed to envelope you and those around you. If there is nothing to support the Venusian energy, however, then it is diluted and loses itself in an ocean of chaos.

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

Insecurities

As an individual with Venus in Pisces, if you are insecure, you try to bolster your ego and validate your selfhood through your relationships. Your ego feels as if it will be overwhelmed by the universal energy to which it is constantly being exposed. Desperately, you seek the approval and acceptance of others, to be included in their sphere of relationship and, thus, given some identity. Therefore, with Venus in Pisces, you give yourself indiscriminately in relationships of whatever depth or permanence. Making yourself so vulnerable, you are often being hurt by others and constantly at risk of harm. To protect yourself from your own vulnerability, you may adopt a variety of negative defense mechanisms.  Frightened at losing all sense of self, you may become consumed with ensuring that your own needs are met within a relationship in order to assure yourself that your selfhood still exists.

Venus in the 12th House:

There is often a natural tension represented by Venus in the 12th House between the quality of selfhood that is a necessary component of both relationship and evaluation and your conscious or unconscious focus on losing your selfhood.  Having Venus in the 12th House, you must learn to balance the legitimate interests of the self with your desire to attain selflessness if you are to be successful in your relationships and if you are to authenticate your values. You must realize, at some level, that the ego – though it be an illusion – is a necessary tool for functioning within the illusion of existence.

With Venus in the 12th House, you are capable of sensitive and compassionate behavior in relationships, true concern for others, a perception from a higher perspective and the adoption of a value system that is based upon selfless service to others. While engaging in compassionate social interaction, it is often the case that you feel the need to withdraw temporarily and focus within yourself.  This serves to recharge you, provide a needed rest and preserve the balance that you have established.  You are prone to take the needs of others into consideration before your own needs are met.

As an individual with Venus in the 12th House, you evaluate your situation and that of others from a selfless and sensitive perspective and are ever ready to respond with empathy and care. For this reason, it is generally essential that you spend some time alone with yourself,  or you risk burn-out. With Venus in the 12th House, if your attitude and assumptions are not in balance, the drain upon your psychic resources that others impose generally will debilitate you in some manner. Subconsciously, you may adopt defense mechanisms against this debilitation and these mechanisms themselves are likely to be negative. You may experience much pain and suffering in the world, either directly or in empathy with others. This experience generally has a marked effect on you, either in a positive or a negative direction.

Insecurities

Having Venus in the 12th House, you have no idea of an authentic self and you are, therefore, at the mercy of each and every pull from without. You may think that you give to others, but in reality either they take until you have nothing left or you “give” to feed your ego and to try to establish some identity as a “selfless soul” of “superior character.”

As an individual with Venus in the 12th House, whatever defense mechanisms your subconscious may try to insert in order to protect the ego, you are more likely to be taken advantage of. Thus, you may engage in a series of self-destructive relationships in which your partner takes from you and leaves you in pain. You may make choices that are extremely poor and lead down a self-destructive path. With Venus in the 12th House, you are often attracted to that which will be your own undoing. Often, this attraction is bound up with some illusion or fantasy.  Frequently, you are deceived. Having been deceived so often, sometimes, in self-defense, you become the deceiver and exploiter yourself.

Evaluation Focus

With Venus in the 12th House, your tendency is to evaluate people, things and situations from a selfless point of view. Sometimes, you may have no clear idea about your own values, but you attempt to please others by adopting their tastes and values. If who are able to define your values, generally you will find that you rank highly such qualities as generosity, service to others, contemplation, sincerity and sensitivity. However, if you have not examined your values, you may remain confused. You may be subject to deception and being led astray or may find yourself living in an illusion, unable to distinguish the real from the false. Sometimes, your values and choices may be borne out of your experience of suffering.

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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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