In this blog entry I'll give an overview of how and why the 12th House often creates a difficult experience for those with personal planets there. I'll also give specific insights into how each of the personal planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars) operate in the 12th House. 

The twelfth house is certainly an interesting place for a planet, especially a personal planet, to fall in a natal birth chart. The 12th House is sort of like the doorway between the world of spirit (the Great Beyon...
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    This morning I woke up earlier than usual for a lazy weekend day, planted some jonquil bulbs, re-potted a lilac bush I purchased last night, watered these and the other plants, and cleaned up the debris and mess than the landlord's maintenance workers have left around the house lately, and cleaned my computer. Other plans for the day include riding my bike back from downtown (where I left it Friday night after attending Knoxville's "First Friday" art gallery event), taking the recycling, ...
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    I remember so many times as a child in school having the teacher chastise our class, saying, "You guys always want to make things harder than they have to be!" This is sort of the impetus of Mars in Capricorn. The planet Mars is our drive, our ambition, our body, how we assert ourselves, how we pursue our dreams and talents, our manner of expressing passion. Capricorn is self-reliant, slow-moving, interested in long-term stability, interested in conservation, old-fashioned, ambitious, and...
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    I was driving home from work tonight admiring the peaceful landscape of the rural outskirts of Knoxville and I decided to use that moment to make a prayer for someone who called me recently looking for assistance--this person was having trouble (like so many of us) moving on from a life situation that was no longer good for him. So I said, "please help this young man move forward in his journey," and as I said those words "move forward," I suddenly backtracked. What if he needs at some po...
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    The other day it occurred to me that physical exertion corresponding to the sign and/or house placement of a person's Mars could serve as a sort of active meditation to get a person more in touch with the meaning and intention of their Mars energy.  Mars is vitality!  Mars is passion and drive! So why wouldn't we want to get in touch with that daring little bastard?  Read on for your Mars Exercise Routine!

Mars in Aries/First House

For the purposes of this exercise, you need to workout SOLO...
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