

You may experience much pain and suffering in the world, either directly or in empathy with others.

Subconsciously, you may adopt defense mechanisms against this debilitation and these mechanisms themselves are likely to be negative. 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. For this reason, it is generally essential that you spend some time alone with yourself, or you risk burn-out. You are prone to take the needs of others into consideration before your own needs are met.Īs 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. This serves to recharge you, provide a needed rest and preserve the balance that you have established. While engaging in compassionate social interaction, it is often the case that you feel the need to withdraw temporarily and focus within yourself. 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. 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. 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. 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.

If anyone asks you to commit to a relationship (or to a permanent set of values of any sort) or tries to become too deep and intimate with you, you are likely to feel threatened and push them away. Driven by a fear that commitment to a single relationship will fatally limit your freedom to bond with anyone at any time, with Venus in Gemini, you tend to stay aloof from all commitments as a defense mechanism and avoid depth in a relationship. You are too insecure in your selfhood to give yourself away to another. Having Venus in Gemini, you need to feel a sense of freedom and you fear that the loss of your freedom will deprive you of a central value upon which you have based the validity of your selfhood. If you are male, you are likely to be attracted to someone who projects or embodies Gemini-associated traits. Thus, if you are female with Venus in Gemini, you are likely to model your femininity in order to incorporate characteristics typically associated with Gemini. Venus also symbolizes the anima in the psyche. With Venus in Gemini, the relationship functions symbolized by Venus tend to be more pronounced in your psyche and personality than is the case for most people. The basic harmony inherent in the Venus in Gemini placement is symbolized by the natural trine between Gemini and Venus-ruled Libra, while the tension is symbolized by the conflict between the free-moving air of Gemini and the stable and enduring qualities associated with Taurus, which is also ruled by Venus. However, this may not be conducive to building stable relationships and value systems.
12TH HOUSE GEMINI MEANING FREE
With Venus in Gemini, Gemini is the Mutable Air sign and here the Venusian energies symbolically become light and free in Gemini’s changeable air environment. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Gemini are a result of your need for freedom from restraint in relationships and in the operation of a value system, as well as the mental energy with which you engage these areas of life. This placement also symbolizes an approach to those functions symbolized by Venus that is mental in nature. This sometimes manifests as an ambivalent attitude toward commitment. The placement of Venus in Gemini indicates that you have a need for flexibility and freedom, both within your relationships and in the way in which you formulate your value system.
