Continuing our discussion from the past nine months, the energy of planets in the natal 12th house are often less accessible or more difficult to tap into than other placements.

Pluto is the planet that represents empowerment, new perspectives, and transformation.  It is also symbolic of the Phoenix principle, necessary destruction to arise from the ashes.  When Pluto is in the 12th house, any of these (or indeed a mixture of them) may be active. 

One typical manifestation of Pluto in the 12th that has been powerfully brought forward by Noel Tyl is an intense feeling that "the world just doesn't understand me."  People with Pluto in the 12th may feel isolated or misunderstood.

High profile  people with Natal Pluto in the 12th include:

Sports figures Muhammad Ali, NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, track star Florence Griffith Joyner, and tennis star Ilie Nastase.

Actors/actresses include enigmatic Yul Brynner, Patty Duke, deaf body-builder/actor Lou Ferrigno, Judy Garland, Don Johnson, Steve McQueen, Jack Nicholson, Tatum O'Neal, Jane Russell, and Brooke Shields.

Musicians include blind Italian singer Andrea Bocelli, Tina Turner, rockers Curt Kobain, k.d. lang, country stars Willie Nelson, and Hank Williams.

Comedians Flip Wilson and Jonathan Winters.

Producer Martin Scorsese who specialized in crime/underworld related movies.

Surrealist painter Salvador Dali and "underground artist" Andy Warhol.

Generals George Patton and Norman H. Schwarzkopf.

Both American industrialist Wm. Randolph Hearst and his granddaughter Patty Hearst.

Hotel and property entrepreneurs Leona Helmsley and Donald Trump,

Both O.J. Simpson and the high-profile Judge Lance Ito.

Criminals include mass murderer Ted Bundy and Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray.

Hard to categorize celebrities include TV Psychic Miss Cleo,  transsexual Christine Jorgensen, Monica Lewinsky, stockbroker/insider trader Michael Milken, "beautiful-mind" John Nash,  and sadist extraordinaire the Marquis de Sade.

* data searches performed using  AstroDatabank