side (v. Fourth House); the secret effects ot sins of omission and commission - defects of
character that make necessary a spiritual rebirth. Since we can rid ourselves of the presence of
these ghosts of the past only by liquidating our indebtedness to them, the Twelfth may be
termed the House of the Hangover; of crime, punishment and grief; the pawnshop of the Ego;
the Gethsemane of the soul; the Hell wherein one atones for his errors through compassionate
self-sacrifice, whereby ultimately to achieve freedom from conditions that limit and restrict.
Thus it is also the House of Charity given and received.
Termed the House of Bondage, and of Self-Undoing, it is also the House of Initiation and
ultimate understanding. While it is frequently tenanted by the significators of scandal, self-
approbation and hardness of heart, its qualities can be advantageously employed for work
done in seclusion, for confidential behind-the-scene activities, and for meditation and inner
development.
The Terminal Houses, the Fourth, Eighth and Twelfth, corresponding to the Emotional
Triplicity of Signs, are concerned with the three most mysterious phases of life; the Fourth,
the end of physical man; the Eighth, the liberation of his soul; the Twelfth, his secret
aspirations and his disposition in the after-world.
From this, proponents of the doctrine of Reincarnation deduce that the Nativity we have on
this plane of expression we earned in a past incarnation, while the one we will acquire in our
next incarnation will depend upon the life we lived in this - and are living now. Thus again is
involved the Law of Cause and Effect from which is no escape.
In a Mundane Figure: Labor disturbances, plagues and epidemics, conditions that militate
against the public welfare; correctional institutions, jails, prisons, workhouses, houses of
detention, hospitals and charitable institutions; organizations devoted to forcible control or
condemnation of people; involuntary services ordered by law; the nation's secret enemies in
war and peace; spies and confidential agents of foreign countries; crimes and criminals; the
personal journeyings and writings of those in power in the government; the nation's secret
societies, both political and religious.
In an Organization: forces inclining to dissolution of the organization as an entity, hence
enemy and secret organizations; the secret intelligence department; investigative agencies in
connection with hospitals and prisons; labor unions, insofar as they represent Sixth House
personnel; organized and social units, as distinguished from the parent organization; strikes
and labor troubles-which have their inception in the Sixth House, but come to fruition in the
Twelfth.