8th House ~ Transformation:

Fixed, Water, Yin, Interpersonal; Relates to Mars and Pluto; Corresponds to the Sign Scorpio.

Transformation: the emotional consequences of a relationship, intense unions, sexual activities, death and rebirth, joint resources, investments, dowries, legacies, inheritance, will and life insurance. Delving into the unknown, psychic research, surgery, the world of the occult, sorcerers, nature’s secrets, deeply felt peak experiences, after-death experiences, the door to the world beyond, any occupation connected with death. Personal unconscious, psychology, attitudes towards growth and change, letting go, releasing attachments, dealing with your partner’s attachments, counseling, depth interactions with others.

Death and taxes! The house where we take from others and they take from us. Our partner’s resources and what they may take from us or expect us to share. Darkest and deepest emotions, instinctual desires. The occult or spiritual dimensions of the self. Awareness of mortality. Denial or acceptance of negative qualities, renewal and transformation at emotional, spiritual, and material levels. The house where we struggle to survive yet are willing to give over life into the hands of another. Inheritance, struggle, loss, rejection, acceptance, gain, overcoming of intense life and death issues. Deepest secrets of the self. All the outer experiences in the world that affect us through pain and the need to surrender … all that changes us at a very profound level in our view of the world of relationships and the inner self.

Legacies, shared feelings; life force elements of sex, birth, and aging, and attitudes towards death and the after-life. Big business; stock exchange, insurance companies, crime. House of generation (sex), degeneration, or regeneration. Regeneration through enlargement of viewpoint, both spiritual and mental. Rules the psychic levels (the Astral Plane). People with planets here have often brought over a legacy of sensitivity to invisible currents. If afflicted, may have misused psychic sensitivity in the past, especially Mars afflicted to Oceana, (Neptune). Every operation here is a Celestial Messenger in disguise: the challenge is to penetrate this disguise and become the recipient of the Blessings they bear.