Natural home of: Scorpio
Natural ruler: Pluto
Type: Succedent
Governs: Sexuality, death, transformation, surgery, inheritance,
one's partner's resources
The eighth house is a very mystical, intense house representing one's attitudes toward life, death, sexuality, loss and regeneration. The eighth house shows one's own death, as well as one's ability to cope with the symbolic death of change and to learn and grow from these changes. On a more mundane level, the eighth house shows financial and material support received from others (particularly from the spouse), and support received from the public. Planets here take on the intense, introspective, private focus of Scorpio, and their energy may be bound up with issues of power and sexuality. Traditionally, unconventional, progressive Aquarius on the 8th house cusp is thought to signify homosexuality or other nontraditional sexual attitudes or tastes.
