The first house represents the beginning, the birth, and the 12th house in Vedic Astrology, being the last house completes the lifecycle and represents the endings. It stands for seclusion, solitude, and emancipation. This is the house of detachments. Whatever you have to detach from is represented by the 12th house in the horoscope, your materialistic tendencies, source of expenses, and so on.

When afflicted, this house can lead to a jail sentence, hospitalization, sleeplessness, separation, addictions, secret enemies, suspicion, inferiority complex, and loss of near and dear ones. The affliction of the house also causes mental weaknesses, susceptibility to unspiritual addictions such as intoxication, sex, enslavement, and so on.

The twelfth house in Vedic astrology is the house about letting things go, but this does not necessarily mean negative. Being the last house, it represents what you have to renounce to move towards liberation. It stands for the time when you have to detach yourself from the material world and return to where you started – the purest form.

It is a very important house concerning spiritual liberation. 12th house in astrology represents Moksha, when you are free from the endless cycle of birth and death, miseries of material life. It represents the freedom of the soul from the shackles of worldly attachments. This is a crucial house in the horoscope for monks, sages, and people striving towards illumination. It also governs places like ashrams, meditation centers, monasteries, places of worship, etc.

Your capacity to relinquish everything to unite with the divine force is determined by the planetary position in the 12th house. It plays a prominent role in activities you indulge in out of generosity. Actions without expectations relate to this house. The tendency to be giving, humble and compassionate is ruled by the twelfth house. It mainly suggests losing yourself to find God, be one with him.

The twelfth house in astrology gives detachment from people that the planets occupying the house represent such as parents, siblings, neighbors, friends, and relatives. This detachment can be in the form of separation or death.

The 12th house also relates to bed comforts so your sexual ability, desires, fulfillment, and sleeping tendencies fall under this house too.

The 12th house also represents detachment from the native place, in the form of long-distance travel to faraway places, foreign residency, travel abroad, trade with foreign cultures and people, import, export, international tourism, and business.

This house relates to the 12th sign in the zodiac circle, Pisces that also relates to intuition, isolation, and imagination. It is also known as the Vyaya Bhava in Vedic Astrology and gives an insight into wasteful expenditure and spending habits. Saturn is the natural significator of the 12th house.

In Mundane Astrology, the 12th house in the horoscope represents law enforcement, punishment, health care institutions, charitable organizations, crime, secret forces, espionage, and so on.