12th house

According to Ptolemy, the 12th corresponded to that part of the sky, just above the horizon, where stars were
obscured by the thick, misty exhalations from the moistures of earth. According to the Egyptians, stars here were
lost in, and debilitated by, the suns light at sunrise. For both traditionalists and moderns, the 12th represents a
colossal blind spot. Its house of our on undoing.