Astrologically I would link paranormal activity to the water signs, houses and aspects and to our hidden selves and psychic sensitivity. I’ve personally experienced personal events that I would class as paranormal, so I am a believer. However, I wouldn’t consider myself obsessed with all things paranormal. I am psychically wide open to a lot of impressions, feelings and unconscious material, and this comes from my own astrological chart which contains planets in Pisces trine Uranus in Scorpio and a tight Moon/Mercury conjunction in Pisces square Neptune in the 4th house.
The watery houses in the natal chart have always been fascinating to study and somewhat elusive to describe. We begin with the 4th house connected to our home, roots, past and all things that have gone before, but which still hold a powerful emotional grip upon the individual. Planets in the 4th house can give the astrologer some clues to what kind of home-life an individual experienced, and feelings often run deep in this domain.
The fourth house is our first connection with family and its where our feelings are first initiated and where blood ties are powerful. The 12th house is where we realize we are all part of a larger human family. In the Jungian sense the watery houses relate to the unconscious and the fourth house relates to the personal unconscious opposed to the collective unconscious of the 12th house. The fourth house can be described as our underground basement. The I.C lies at the ‘bottom’ of the chart and is hidden from public view, and it might best describe our most private selves.
The subconscious keeps things hidden from conscious awareness, and these things have a tendency of submerging us and taking over our rational selves, like the caverns of our memories that harbour unknown attitudes, habits and fears. The fourth house is where we derive a personal feeling of safety and shelter, somewhere we ‘belong’. Whatever happens to us in the world outside we take these feelings ‘home’ with us.
The 8th house rules things that tend to go bump in the night and it’s where we do battle with our psychological demons. For many of us the issues of birth and death brings into sharp focus the belief in reincarnation, and the 8th house is connected to both life and death, and rules the cycle of birth, growth and annihilation. The 8th house is the second of the hidden houses and therefore operates in the realm of what we have buried deep into the unconscious.
The unconscious is extremely powerful and hostility, resentment and hatred can erupt and create untold destruction. Sexual energy also includes the potential of transformation experienced through merging with another being, and, ultimately with the levels of the psyche. The orgasm, in French, is called le petit mort – the little death. Also in the 8th house we have the desire to join resources with another for mutual benefit and it shifts the 2nd house focus from what is mine, to ours.
In the 12th house there is the continuation of “unfinished business” and the confrontation of inherited family problems and the twelfth house gives us the power to release skeletons in the closet. When the impersonal unconscious movements flow through the psyche the ego-self shrinks in fear at confronting these deep and mysterious currents. Unconscious forces push our consciousness with the omnipotence of tidal movements, and sometimes like crashing waves.
The outer world is considered by Jungians to be a blank screen onto which the images of the unconscious are projected. If we are not sophisticated enough in dealing with our unconscious contents we may well be cast into a living nightmare. The unconscious mind is sorted and sifted through in our dreams and our lives are sometimes viewed as waking dreams. The psychic power of dreams guide the individual and the twelfth house depths contain all the elements, instincts, desires, and spiritual yearnings that have ever been, and the collective unconscious includes all human potential and experience.
The collective unconscious contains the whole of man’s psychic history, and rules all kinds of shadowy material, unlived energies and has been described as the dustbin of the zodiac. The 11th house represents greater socialization and progress of man. However, the 12th house dissolves all boundaries, attempting to achieve a one-ness with the whole of life. The 8th rules merging with an individual, and the 12th house is connected with all nature. The twelfth house also rules places we go when we are mentally ill (psychiatric wards), physically ill (hospitals), or immoral and evil (prisons) and all these states can describe a soul in distress, or soul sickness. The 12th house rules our secret sorrows, self-undoing, and self-defeat. It is also the house of limitless growth, spiritual healing, forgiveness and compassion.
