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

Neptune is the planet that represents camouflage, confusion, disorientation, escape (including drugs and alcohol) as well as inspiration, creative visualization, and spiritual enlightenment.  When Neptune is in the 12th house, any of these (or indeed a mixture of them) may be active. 

One typical manifestation is an intensely private vision of how things should be.  People with Neptune in the 12th yearn to express their personal vision in various ways -- by creating a fictional character, providing inspiration (spiritual or otherwise), provoking thought, or helping others (or themselves) to escape their routine in some way.  While this may be quite challenging to do, those who are successful can often experience the benefit themselves while sharing it with numerous others.

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

Sports figures Hank Aaron, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Arthur Ashe, Boris Becker, and Jimmy Connors.

Actors/actresses Julie Andrews, Warren Beatty, Ingrid Bergman, Left Behind actor Kirk Cameron, Sally Field, Glenn Ford, Harrison Ford, Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man), Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched), Edward Norton, Della Reese, Donald Sutherland, and Natalie Wood.

Musicians Jimmy Buffet, Phil Collins, Charlie Daniels, Neil Diamond, Jose Feliciano, Jerry Garcia, Roy Orbison, Prince, Rod Stewart, Eddie Van Halen, and The Sex Pistols Sid Vicious.

Comedians Milton Berle, Sonny Bono, Drew Carey, Tim Conway, David Letterman, and Peter Sellers.

Producers Frank Warner Capra, David O. Selznick, and artist Salvador Dali.

Religious figures Saint Teresa of Avila and Pope Paul VI.

Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs, and American Way of Death author Jessica Mitford.

British royalty Prince William, Prince Henry,  Sarah, Duchess of York, 

Troubled Christian Brando,  Winona Ryder, and Vincent Van Gogh's brother Theodorus show the darker, more frustrating potential of this placement, while Public Enemy #1 John Dillinger, and Enron CEO Kenneth Lay represent deceptive, hidden Neptunian influences. 

Also, some hard-to-classify celebrities include TV horror film hostess Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Hollywood gossip columnist Rona Barrett, psychic/telekinetic Uri Geller, antiwar activist Jerry Rubin, and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

* data searches performed using  AstroDatabank  

Next Month:  Natal Pluto in the 12th