8th house in astrology
What the 8th house rules in the birth chart, how to read a planet in it and the axis it forms with the opposite house.
Deep intimacy, sexuality, shared resources, inheritances and debts, crises, therapy, what transforms
succedent house · natural sign Scorpio · natural ruler Pluto (modern) / Mars (traditional)
The 8th house is what we go through together: the money that belongs to two, the confided secret, the body surrendered, the crisis that turns everything over. It's the house of symbolic deaths, the end of one cycle that opens another, and of the power gained by facing what once frightened you.
A planet in this house
A planet in the 8th house shows how a person deals with intimacy, control and transformation. Venus here bonds deeply and suffers with half measures; Mercury here thinks about what others avoid and is good at research and at difficult conversation.
The axis with house 2
Ours and mine. See the axis of the 2nd house: a base of one's own on one side, real sharing on the other.