One of the better questions asked in astrology is why do some people get prison sentence, remain in solitary confinement or have restrictions placed on their movements. There are times when natives are totally innocent and would not have done any major crimes yet they have to remain locked up in a room due to depression or other mental illness. There are times when government puts restrictions on movement of private citizens. For example Julian Assange was held up in an embassy.

     These people are not necessarily criminals. Actually there are many prisoners who are innocent or locked up in prisons cause they don't have money to pay for parole or probably cause someone screwed them over pretty bad.

     If you do see prison sentence, have restrictions placed on your movements or are locked up in a room or solitary confinement then you probably have a bad twelfth house at time of birth. Alternatively it could also be via heavy influence on twelth house due to transit of planets. Bottomline is that twelth house play a key role in one going to prison, having restrictions on movements or getting locked up in a room.

     The strangest part is twelfth house is also consider the House of Moksha. Moksha is freedom from the cycle of life and birth, freedom from pain and suffering. So how is that a horoscope house which deals with confinement be able to grant moksha? Its not that difficult to understand if you understand what twelfth house stands for. Twelfth House is the house of spirituality, ashrams or monestaries, Phd. and research as well as that of prisons. All of these subjects restrict movements of a person and yet all of these portfolios grant a native higher learning and spiritual advancement.

     So twelfth house is indeed a dushamsthana. But it is also the house where knowledge and self awareness increase thus helping the native become free from bonds that tie him to material world. Twelfth house is the doorway which connects a person to spiritual enlightnment and higher conscious. Once a person achieves that than solitary confinement is just a state of mind.

     According to Shree Krishna in the Bhagwad Gita:

वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि ।
तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णा न्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही (Chapter 2 Verse 22)

     Translation: The soul changes bodies just like we change our clothes. This never ending cycle can only be broken via blessing of twelfthhouse. Your greatest weakness often turn out to be your major strength if you learn to control them. Similarly the twelfth house maybe a hell house as it gives prison sentence and confinement but it also leads a person to spiritual growth, self awareness, intellectual growth, higher learning and the best of them all: moksha which is freedom from cycle of life and rebirth.