House 8 is known as the "House of Regeneration". The challenge that brings to the personality is the need for evolution. To transcend personal boundaries through inner reflection and change. This House is ruled by Scorpio and Mars (in traditional astrology) and by Pluto (in modern astrology). House 8 represents the closest relationships and the emotional transformations that result from this interaction. It is the House where personal crises occur and where the deepest personality changes take place. People with good aspects in this House tend to strive to get better and better. People with tense planets in the 8th House, on the other hand, resist the process of personal transformation. They may even start the process, but they usually give up before completing it.
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The Eighth Astrological House
- Sphere - Metamorphosis, transformation, transcendence
- Planet - Mars (Traditional Astrology) and by Pluto (Modern Astrology)
- Signo - Scorpio
- Element - Water
- Quality - Fixed
- Polarity - Female
- Position - Successive
- Physiology - Reproductive organs
- Places - Businesses, funeral homes, cemeteries, ancestral property, obstetrics services
- Color - Black
- Keywords - Interaction, birth-death-resurrection, integration, sexual union, regeneration, extended consciousness, loss, emotional charge, childhood memories, inheritance, others' money, sharing mode, metaphysics
House 8 and the Material Goods
House 8 covers several areas. It is the opposite house to House 2, the one of “values and personal goods” and, therefore, it is also called “house of other people's goods”. The signs and planets positioned in the 8th house suggest how we behave financially in marriage and at work, and in the face of inheritance and wills.
Jupiter in this House, for example, indicates a financially prosperous marriage, the prospect of receiving an inheritance, or good financial results in a society commercial. The poorly positioned Saturn may suggest a financially poor marriage or one with great financial difficulties, debts or financially disastrous trade associations.
The Eighth Astrological House manages the money and assets of others through banks, stockbrokers, financial analysts, and accountants. However, this House represents more than other people's money. It also describes how we are willing to share our wealth and how we relate to others.
Elaborating and expanding what we started at House 7, the Eighth House is the essence of relationships: what happens when two people - each with its temperament, material resources, value system, needs, and biological clock - begin to relate. Two worlds meet. Each one with its peculiarities and way of being.
A number of questions and potential conflicts arise: how are we going to use the money we have? Do we consume, invest or save? When are we going to have intimate relationships? For me once a week is enough but my partner looks for me every day. In my opinion, sometimes you need to spank to discipline children but the other parent is absolutely against corporal punishment. I don't like his friends and I prefer to go out and get along with mine. Who will win and who will yield? If there is no desire to make things work, marriage easily becomes a daily battleground.
House 8 - Death and Transformation
The Eighth Astrological House is naturally associated with the planet Pluto and with the sign Scorpio, also being entitled as the "house of sex, regeneration and death". According to mythology, the virgin Persephone is kidnapped by Pluto (or Hades in Greek mythology), the god of the underworld and the dead, who takes her to the underworld. When she returns to the overworld, she is a woman and not the innocent teenager of yore.
This myth reminds us that a deep relationship with a person has the ability to change us. Our ego and our personality are transformed when we dive into the world of another. We adapt to live together. We can even stop being the same person. We die as an isolated “I” and are reborn as a “we”.
Eighth Astrological House and Sexual Energy
Our sexual nature is represented in House 8. In intimacy, we become fragile, we expose the part of ourselves that we normally hide from others. We lose the mask. Sexual union can be either the physical part that makes us feel good or the deepest and most honest connection with another person (such as tantric sex, an oriental esoteric doctrine that worships worldly pleasures as a means of achieving spiritual fullness ).
Relationships as Agents of Change
When we interact with others, we give something from ourselves and we receive anything in return. But how we relate to each other also reflects the nature of past experiences. The relationship between parents and children, childhood memories, the home environment and family relationships in general, leave marks for life and condition the various roles we play (of children, parents, partners).
We are all born fragile and dependent. We are not self-sufficient, nor do we start exploring the world on our own feet a few hours after birth. We need someone's love and protection. Of food and care. These feelings are contained, for the vast majority of us, in the mother figure.
The loss of a mother's love doesn't just mean the loss of someone close to us, it can mean abandonment and death. This fear of losing the love of a significant other can later project itself into highly emotionally dependent relationships or into violent jealousies. The fear of being abandoned, of being unloved, of being left alone.
However, if this dependency exists when we are babies, the same is not true in adulthood. We are quite capable of guaranteeing our survival. The knowledge of these truths exposes the origin of our emotions and the emotional charge we bring to relationships, especially to marriage, and helps us to understand the reason for certain attitudes and behaviors.
Feelings of anger and violence can also reflect childhood experiences. Understanding why we feel this way, going back to experiences in the past when we depended on someone else to meet our most basic needs and fight frustration, may give us some answers.
Only when we acknowledge the worst of us and the negative emotions (envy, intolerance, greed, revenge, cruelty, jealousy, anger) that usually manifest themselves in the relationship with the other, it is possible to deconstruct our “I”, to evolve and be reborn. It is not possible to improve something if we are not aware of what it is. Only then do we evolve as a person, become better and aligned with the image we would like to have of ourselves.
Eighth Astrological House obliges this reflection. The darker side needs to be exposed so it can be blurred. "The worst blind is the one who doesn't want to see." This does not mean that, in order to combat the negative energies that reside in us, we have to explode and reach everyone and everything. Only that this awareness allows us to guard against destructive behavior, for ourselves and for others.
House 8 is a complex area, dealing with the most basic and hidden emotions of the personality. So hidden that sometimes even we cannot recognize them. By studying the astral map, we can let go of unnecessary baggage. That brings us nothing and only hurts the spirit. This House reminds you that sometimes you have to destroy to make room for something better.
House 8 and the Ecological Consciousness
House 8 also refers to how we view the planet and natural resources. If we look at them in a selfish perspective and exploit them solely for our own benefit, or if we share and protect them, for the good of all.
Eighth Astrological House and the Astral Plan
House 8 also reveals how we perceive the hidden and mysterious world. We can be more or less sensitive. To believe or not in the mystical side of our human existence. Death itself can be seen as the end of everything or as a passage to a higher plane.
However, the loss is not just physical death. Throughout life, we face various moments and types of losses. House 8 speaks of this issue. If a certain relationship that conditioned our identity ends, part of us is lost with it. There is, then, the need to be reborn. To create a new identity.
On the other hand, if our career suffers a setback and we are forced to do something that we don't identify with, we will experience this feeling of loss, that something is over and we cannot recover it. Once again, we have to reinvent ourselves and build something new from a previous reality that has, however, died out.
Life itself is made up of stages, each with different challenges. We go from babies to children. From children to teenagers. From teenagers to adults. Each of these stages of development corresponds to different obligations and expectations. These are learning stages that come together in what "we are".
Still, while "we are", we do not stop evolving, reflecting, changing. Much of this transformation results from our interaction with the outside world and what we bring into ourselves as a result of interaction with others. What we do with this experience is an individual decision.
The signs and planets present in the 8th house indicate the way in which these transition phases are presented. A person with a strong 8th house tends to live as if their life were a book with several chapters or like a play, with several changes of scenery.
Like the Phoenix reborn from the ashes, we are able to do it again, to renew our "I". Form can be destroyed, but the essence of who we are remains active and is reborn again in some other form.
The 12 Houses in Astrology
- First House - Our Cosmic First Impression (House of "Self")
- Second House - Material Goods, Money, Personal Resources
- Third House - Mind, Communication, Brothers
- Fourth House - Home, Roots, Family Life
- Fifth House - Creativity, Joy, Pleasure, Children
- Sixth House - Work, Health, Exercise
- Seventh House - Love, Romance, Marriage, Social Activities
- Eighth House - Birth, Death, Sex, Transformation, Mysteries
- Ninth House - Travel, Education, Religion, Philosophy
- Tenth House - Ideal Purpose, Career and Destiny (House of Midheaven)
- Eleventh House - Friendship, Electronics, Technology
- Twelfth House - Imagination, Subconscious Mind, Secrets, Mysteries
