# 245. Self-Abandonment & the Twelfth House

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Podcast: [Moon to Moon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/moon-to-moon-984954)
Published: 2026-06-26T10:00:00+00:00
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In this episode, Britten closes her series on self-abandonment through the houses of the birth chart, turning toward the Twelfth House. She explores the Twelfth House as a place where self-abandonment can happen when we refuse to take space for ourselves, shame the need to step away from ordinary time, or become enmeshed with someone else's way of coping with being here. The Emergence Astrology Pathway begins with a 9-month Hermitage so you can take some fucking space for yourself . The experience is one that will connect you to the longings and the wisdom of your 12th House Self. Topics She Covers: The Twelfth House as the finale of this series, and as the house of Britten's Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Persephone in Pisces. Britten's relationship to promotion, voice, and the assignment she feels to get her teachings to those they are meant for. The question, "What are you looking for in astrology?" and why Emergence Astrology is more interested in expansive questions rather than fixed answers. The houses as spaces of self-healing, where we can recognize and begin clearing patterns of self-abandonment. The Twelfth House as self-undoing, solitude, retreats, hospitals, prisons, sleep, dreams, altered states, and the places that take us out of the day-to-day of life. Taking space for yourself as one of the most powerful ways to not self-abandon in the Twelfth House. The shame Twelfth House people can carry when their nature draws them away from behaviors that overculture applauds. Ritual devotion as a way to understand your Fourth, Eighth, and Twelfth Houses, and as a practice for receiving your own gnosis. Whether you have placements there or not, you have a 12th House, and you have not been encouraged by Overculture to go spend time there. You were told it's a waste of tim…

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