House 8

The eighth house describes what gets shared at depth: intimacy, sexuality, joint finances, inheritance. It also covers the crises that transform you and your relationship with what lies beyond your control.

Counted from the seventh, the eighth house is the other person’s second house: a partner’s money, pooled resources, what you receive or pass on. It is also the house of intimacy and sexuality, where you let yourself be seen without armor. Tradition linked it with the end of life and with inheritance; modern astrology reads it mainly as endings and renewals in the symbolic sense. Planets in the eighth house often bring an intense inner life and a taste for psychology and secrets. The Moon here heightens sensitivity; Pluto, which modern astrology links to this house, sharpens questions of power. An empty eighth house foretells nothing: its cusp and ruling planet show how you handle trust and change.

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