Pluto in the 12th House ****************************************************************** You may be deeply private person, different from how others perceive you. You may feel a strong need to bring the hidden and undeveloped sides of your personality to the forefront. You may be fearful of being overwhelmed by forces within you so that you try with all your might to keep them under control. If Pluto is well-aspected by other planets, you should be able to utilize the positive forces of your subconscious. As you possess the ability to learn from your mistakes and defeats, you will understand that it is necessary to complete one cycle or phase in life in order to start something new. In this way, even suffering and pain can serve a purpose if it helps you to find your way to a certain type of completeness. Depending on the nature of your total expression, you may approach life by latching onto something familiar, such as tradition, and deny any force larger than yourself. You could be agnostic, realizing that there is a force out there but resisting any association with it. Another way in which Pluto in the twelfth house might manifest involves attempting to learn how to expand your awareness to merge with the universal whole. Relatedly, you may perceive your individuality as an extension or element of the total consciousness. If you identify with tradition or are agnostic, you will likely experience strange dreams, cycles of emptiness or futility, disillusionment, and discontent. This occurs in order to induce you to a more active development towards a heightened consciousness. You should be careful about allowing emotional guilt patterns and feelings of self-persecution to gain the upper hand. The key to growth is to establish definite spiritual or higher consciousness attitudes in all aspects of your life. People with this placement will ultimately experience unity when they have a sufficiently heightened consciousness. Many individuals with Pluto in the twelfth house will align themselves with work in human service. It is interesting to note that a significant number of the world's most gifted actors, writers, and composers have Pluto in this house.