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The DK Foundation Eight The
Eighth House House of Scorpio Element:
Water Ruling Planet: Pluto and
Mars Area of Consciousness Relating Emotional
regeneration and the development of compassion Sun
in House 8 The
Sun in the 8th House indicates that consciousness is opening up to
compassion, and the agents in the process are emotional suffering and
refinement of desire. This may be a relatively advanced stage of
development because people with the Sun in the 8th House do have the feel
of ‘old souls’. There is a gravity and maturity conferred by this
placement, which is evident even in very young children. The
suffering experienced by 8th House people, is always at the hands of
people with whom they have a close personal relationship, and although
there may be physical cruelty also, it is at the emotional level that the
pain is registered. The pain is nearly always that of rejection and the
knowledge that the intensity of their feelings is neither understood nor
valued. People
with this placement of the Sun tend to experience the transforming energy
of Pluto, the ruling planet of this house, as a force used by others
against them. They do not readily use it themselves even in retaliation.
People born with the Sun in the 8th House are usually born to parents
unable to or unwilling to
recognise
the child's
needs. Usually they have problems of their own and expect the child to be
supportive and understanding. As
the result of the early experience of having the emotional needs ignored the
8th House person grows up expecting little of the partners around whom he
is prepared to build his life. In consequence his relationships are
characterised
by inequality. Whether it is emotional support, money or forgiveness -
more than one 8th House person has discovered that he has married a person
engaged in criminal activities - it is the person with the Sun in H8 doing
the giving. The lack of reciprocity tends to be accepted without
recrimination, and he will not easily give up on a relationship. People
with the Sun in H8 demonstrate a great acceptance of things as they are
and this becomes the source of the peace of mind they are capable of
attaining in their later years. This acceptance may also account for their
characteristic willingness to work with people whom society has condemned
or rejected. A person with the Sun in the 8th House does not readily
judge; he is more likely to respond to the humanness of the offender. Eighth
House people are found in the prison service, and as social workers,
nurses and counselors. In helping others they are often able to make sense
of and redeem their suffering. This
placement of the Sun tends to confer an interest in the astral plane and
in channeling in particular. Mercury
When
Mercury is in the 8th House and the Sun in H7 or H8, perceptions and
communication are highly sensitive to mood. This placement of Mercury
confers intensity in conversation and in ease dealing with the emotional
states of others. It is a common placement amongst bereavement counselors.
When Mercury is in H8 and the Sun in H9, then spiritual solutions are
frequently sought to emotional situations and there is likely to be a
particular interest in channeled wisdom. Venus Venus
in the 8th House indicates that the outworking of karma arising from emotional
and sexual associations in other lifetimes is central to the current
incarnation. This placement of Venus gives great depth to the emotions and
makes a person capable of unconditional and unreciprocated love. People
with Venus in H8 tend not to respond to physical attraction alone and
frequently have long periods of celibacy. The attraction is to people who
embody the energies their souls remember and retain a yearning for. There
is no guarantee that the other party experiences the same sense of
yearning or can match the intensity of the Venusian's feelings. It is the
inequality of the situations which people with Venus in H8 are drawn which
make them so prone to abusive treatment. Yet despite the lack of
emotional reciprocity people with Venus in H8 frequently benefit
from legacies Mars
When
Mars is in the 8th House a person’s will is constrained by the wishes of
those with whom he has a relationship, be they family, lovers or business
associates. This placement is an indication of karma incurred by selfish
and self-interested
behaviour.
Although the constraint may take the form of physical violence, it is more
likely to be emotional pressure, which the person with Mars in H8 feels
unable to withstand. Owing
to the difficulty experienced in acting in support of his own interests
this placement of Mars disadvantages a person in any disputatious
situation, especially when he knows the adversaries. Jupiter
With
Jupiter in the 8th House a person experiences little difficulty in opening
up to and trusting others. This placement of Jupiter is favourable
for partnership matters of all kinds, including those of
inheritance, although
in the matter of intimate relationships, Jupiter in H8 is more likely to
have a number of associations of significance rather than one long lasting
commitment. Saturn Saturn
in the 8thI House indicates a karma arising from an insufficiently
responsible attitude to the well being of partners or close associates.
The sign, which Saturn occupies, together with the sign and house
placement of the Moon will reveal the reality, which underpinned this lack
of regard. People with Saturn in H8 are made to feel acutely vulnerable in
situations of emotional and sexual intimacy and they are inclined to
attract controlling, even bullying partners who remind them of their lack
of responsibility. Co-dependent relationships which protract the cruelty
and abuse are very common with this placement. This
placement of Saturn can make the lower astral plane very intrusive in a
person's life through nightmares and even poltergeist experience. Uranus With
Uranus in the 8th House there is a developmental need to be freed up from
emotional dependency, and when this placement is present in a chart it
frequently means the loss of a loved one early in life. Whatever the
scenario, emotional security will be denied. In adult life there is a
tendency for partners to die, to leave, or to make themselves emotionally
inaccessible, thereby forcing the Uranian onto his own resources. Uranus
in H8 produces a fascination for the astral plane, most commonly in the
power-conferring forms of witchcraft and magic. Neptune Neptune
in the 8th House gives an attunement to the emotional states of others and
gives understanding and compassion. Mediumistic ability is often present
with this placement, although Neptune, unlike Uranus, is more likely to be
concerned with the astral plane as a source of healing and instruction
rather than power. Pluto When
Pluto is in the 8th House the soul is engaged in the transformation of
emotional energies, in ‘penetrating the darkness of himself to take out
the light’ (Samael Aun Weor). This process in the intensity, which it is
given by Pluto in H8, may go on for many lifetimes and requires those with
this placement to face the Human Shadow manifesting both through self and
other. Pluto in the 8th House tends to create a fascination for taboo
subjects and psychotic people. The Plutonian himself may be the victim of
compulsions and obsessions (his own or those of others) and intrusions
from the lower astral. Nightmares and visitations are common with this
placement. The astral plane may be used purposefully as a source of power,
in which case the interest will be in witchcraft and magic, which may
include the Black Arts. In personal relationships a person with Pluto in
the 8th House transforms the lives of his partners but in circumstances
usually viewed as destructive by all concerned. Violence, whether
physical, emotional or sexual, is common when Pluto is in H8, including
within the relationship with one or both parents. Moon The
Moon in the 8th House is an indication that in past lives the emotional
needs of others were denied as a result of an overly self-centered,
materialistic, or cerebral reality. The sign of the Moon will indicate
which. People with the Moon in 8th House are commonly born to parents who
cannot function at an emotional level. With other planetary factors, this
placement of the Moon can indicate the loss of a parent early in life in
which the child is burdened by the bereaved parent’s emotional needs.
Although acutely sensitive to the emotional states of others, people with
the Moon in H8, who have had little practice in emotional expression early
in their lives, tend to be inhibited and emotionally insecure in adult
life. Unlike the Sun in this House, the Moon in H8 does not feel at ease
in emotionally charged situations and although he may drive his own
ill-defined needs underground and focus on those of partners and
associates, he is more likely to attempt to evade emotional confrontation
by concentrating on impersonal, outer-directed activities and go through
life with his own emotional needs unrecognised
and unacknowledged. AUTHOR’S
NOTE: Like the other
Water houses, the 8th house is not well understood. Some of astrology's
bleakest commentaries have the 8th House as their subject and indeed,
without a belief system which makes sense of suffering and the
transformative function of life on Earth, then the experiences manifested
by the 8th House seem very unfortunate indeed. Even so there are
compensations available to people with emphasised
8th House and these are usually evident in their middle years. They are
rarely short of friends and when Venus and Jupiter are present there is
the possibility of inheritances given in acknowledgement of their
supportiveness. In
terms of spiritual development the compensations for 8th House experiences
are very considerable. It is a karmic clearinghouse, which offers many
opportunities for redressing imbalances and a certain protection against
creating others. When the inner planets are working through the 8th House,
they are rarely used in support of selfish interest. The outer planets,
however, are a very different matter and only the pattern of the chart as
whole will indicate how a person is likely to use the psychic power made
available to him, by these planets. Traditionally,
the 8th House is the house of Death. Since the discovery of Pluto it
seems, in natal astrology at least, that the deaths, which occur as a
result of planets in H8, are likely to take place at an emotional rather
than a physical level. It should be noted though that although planets in
H8 may not weaken the constitution they can create an attraction to
situations which are life threatening. This is especially true of Pluto. |
