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12th
House Collective Unconsious Gifts
"...
in the last analysis; most of our problems come from losing contact
with our instincts, with the age-old unforgotten wisdom stored
up in us." CG Jung Speaking, p 89, (McGuire and Hull) Princeton
University Press
"It
was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I
was on to something." - Ornette Coleman Sun in Pisces
inventor of "free jazz" awarded the MacArthur Fellowship
(nicknamed the Genius Award) in 1994 and the Pulitzer Prize
for Music
in 2007.
As
mentioned on the previous page, the 12th house is our potential "connection" with
the vast "collective unconscious" and the age-old unforgotten
wisdom stored up in us.
As
such... the 12th house is the house of imagination, fantasy,
mysticism, romance, and illusion... the
12th house is a house of spirituality, but it's an introverted,
mystical, spirituality, and faith that is quite unlike the more
extroverted, Jupiterian, 9th house religiosity so popular in
today's society.
 Karen
Hamaker-Zondag on the 12th house: "Responding to
the rhythm of life, and going to meet life in an open and
expectant frame of mind, with a willingness to be fructified
by the moment and to experience joy and sorrow to
the full without a sense of guilt, is a yin quality that
has been lost in our culture.
Another
attitude to life is required, an attitude of openness to things
as they are, and acceptance of life as it comes. In other words,
what is required is some surrender to life, without being governed
by the impulse to control life in all its facets. We should
learn how to flow with the stream while remaining fully aware.
For centuries, this attitude has been laid under a ban in our
Western culture.
If
the 12th house symbolizes anything, then it is this very process, this
complete receptivity and readiness to take what comes your
way... to
integrate it... and to use it as the germ of a new creation
process, whether this takes shape in music, art, science or
your daily life. By this means, wisdom and inner wealth can
be our portion, and when we need help - doors can be unexpectedly
opened for us. Deep down, in spite of pain and sorrow, life
will be worth living."
Trusting
Who's trying to kid who here? For the average person, trusting
and believing in "the
natural process and unfolding of life" can at times be incredibly
difficult.
The
12th house is asking of us the impossible heroic task of accepting
and honoring the times of sorrow as an equal partner in the creation
process. The
12th house is asking us to give up our sense of needing absolute,
complete control over our life course, journey, and destiny.
If,
during moments of crisis, we can remain "quiet"... allowing ourselves
to flow with the natural process and unfolding of life events
(while remaining fully aware) - then, as Dr. Hamaker-Zondag has
aptly pointed out, very often the questions we need answered
and the doors we need opened will, in turn, be miraculously and
unexpectedly
brought to us without "conscious" effort on our part.
Speaking
as someone that has explored and is continuing to learn lessons
of the 12th house, Pisces, and Neptune - remaining "quiet" and
accepting moments of sorrow as an equal partner with moments
of joy is so, so much
easier said than done.
Quoting
again from Dr. Hamaker-Zondag:
"By
daring to take things as they come, we find that in spite of
their unpredictability, they often turn out well for us. If
we interfere and try to control things, the very reverse frequently
seems to happen! It is disconcerting to the conscious mind
not to be able to foresee the course of events. But the unconscious
finds ways to experience things that belong to us, that have
a healing effect and can even support us socially."
Imagination
 There's
a famous quote (usually seen on bumper stickers) of Sun Sign
Pisces, Albert Einstein: "Imagination is more important than
knowledge." However,
what's truly fascinating is that the full quote goes on to say: "Knowledge
is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Reportedly,
one of Einstein's methods of "getting in touch" with
his immense inner source of creativity was to imagine - in his
mind's eye - the numbers with which he was working. He,
then, allowed the numbers to "dance freely" within his imagination.
(I don't know about you, but I figure I'm doing pretty good to
manage a shaky two-step when I'm dealing with numbers in my head.)
Einstein's
experience falls much in line with the response of the physicist,
Prof. C.F. Weizsacker, of the Max Planck Institute in Gottengen
- when asked the question: "Do dreams or pictorial ideas or memories
play any part in the creative process?" (From The
Twelfth House by Karen Hamaker-Zondag)
"When
I know that I have to work on a certain problem in a certain
field, I realize that a great deal of conscious work and concentration
is required; as likely as not exceeding my own strength. My
own efforts never produce a breakthrough, but only a certain
amount of spadework along conventional lines. By concentrating
hard, I slowly burn myself out, like a small fire.
But
if I can then manage to relax properly (for a few minutes or,
if necessary, for days or months), I find that in certain circumstances
at an unexpected moment, such as in the morning when I wake,
I get an inspiration that more or less answers the problems
concerned. Afterward,
I have to concentrate again; this time on interpreting the
inspiration for the understanding... Occasionally,
an inspiration of this sort formulates or announces itself
in a dream. Now and then, too, it takes the form of images,
although not predominately so."
Summing
it up...
In the Crash Course, while discussing the "elements" and the "modes
of reaction," I illustrate by giving the example of what might
happen if you "threw a feeling" at a Pisces. The "feeling,
mutable" reaction of Pisces was to absorb and synthesize the feeling,
and then re-fashion the feeling into their own creation and make
it a part of themselves. This,
in a nutshell, is both the blessing and the curse of the 12th house
(Pisces and Neptune).
"All
the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What
right have we then to depreciate imagination."
Carl Jung
"Follow
your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there
were only walls" -
Joseph Campbell
Suggested
reading:
For those seeking a deeper understanding
of their birth planets located in the 12th house
The Twelfth House
written by Karen Hamaker-Zondag
(This book is truly Hamaker-Zondag in her finest hour!)
Buy
it now at Amazon.com
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