The 8th House serves as the reverse spotlight. You are overly aware of the characteristics in your 8th House, and due to this, you hide what you find to be undesirable in the 8th House. However, while your undesirable qualities are hidden, you also hide your potential.
Aries ruling the 8th House: You hide your aggressive and immature nature. You ideally don't want to present yourself as obvious and straightforward. However, you tend to hide your passion and leadership skills by hiding the fire within you.
Taurus ruling the 8th House: You hide your stubborn nature. You ideally don't want to present yourself as an inflexible person. However, you tend to hide your steadfastness and morality to the environment by hiding the stability within you.
Gemini ruling the 8th House: You hide your flaky and inconsistent nature. You ideally don't want to present yourself as a scattered person. However, you tend to hide your knowledge and curiosity by hiding the student within you.
Cancer ruling the 8th House: You hide your moody nature. You ideally don't want to present yourself as an overly emotional person. However, you tend to hide your compassion and nurturing nature by hiding the mother within you.
Leo ruling the 8th House: You hide your arrogant and egotistical nature. You ideally don't want to present yourself as a dramatic person. However, you tend to hide your creativity and talent by hiding the star within you.
Virgo ruling the 8th House: You hide your critically and overly observant nature. You ideally don't want to present yourself as a nit-picky person. However, you tend to hide your reliability and analytical nature by hiding the worker within you.
Libra ruling the 8th House: You hide your need for social interactions and passivity. You ideally don't want to present yourself as someone who seeks from others. However, you tend to hide your charm and social awareness by hiding the socialite within you.
Scorpio ruling the 8th House: You hide the fact that you are complicated and secretive. You ideally don't want to present yourself as a person who's easily misunderstood. However, you tend to hide your passion and self-empowerment by hiding the transformation within you.
Sagittarius ruling the 8th House: You hide your reckless and rootless nature. You ideally don't want to place yourself on a pedestal due to wanting knowledge. However, you tend to hide your open-mindedness and intelligence by hiding the teacher within you.
Capricorn ruling the 8th House: You hide your ambitious and realistic nature. You ideally don't want to present yourself as someone scarred by reality. However, you tend to hide your hardworking nature discipline by hiding the authority within you.
Aquarius ruling the 8th House: You hide your quirky and uniqueness. You ideally don't want to present yourself as a strange outsider. However, you tend to hide your independent and innovative nature by hiding the revolutionary within you.
Pisces ruling the 8th House: Your hide your creativity and intuitive nature. You ideally don't want to present yourself as malleable and easy to control. However, you tend to hide your selflessness and imagination by hiding the dreamer within you.
Sun in the 8th House
The 8th House is often a house talked about, for it is a house that is uncomfortably revealing, but also secretive at the same time. With secrets comes shame, and matters of the 8th House aren’t revealed easily. The 8th House at its core represents the ways of merging two souls into one, whether it be through life, death, shared possessions, or through intimate relationships. The merge is often rare and transformative - and is not for the light-hearted.
With the Sun in the 8th House, the person’s sense of identity is hidden. Natives with this placement think that they know who they really are, which drives them to hide themselves, especially the part of themselves they don’t find to be likable or pleasing. These people are often good at giving enough information about themselves to where people aren’t curious, but at the end of the day, nobody knows much about these people.
However, while these people think they they know the identity they’re concealing, their identity and the people themselves change while it is purposely hidden. The longer the natives chooses to hide themselves, the more change their identity will take underneath. People with this placement often become very paranoid, so there is a suspicious, but also investigative vibe to their identity. These people are very careful with handling information about themselves.
Also, in regards to the changes their identities can take, after hiding and concealing their identity for a long time, the paranoia and suspicion that can take over these secretive individuals can often manifest into illusions about their identity. The constant paranoia and suspicion can often twist the identity to where the native often think that the negative parts of their self-expression is overly exaggerated, dramatic, and unlikable when it really isn’t. The more the native tries to use fear rather than empowerment to hide their identity, the more twisted their identity can be.
Due to the secretive nature of these individuals, they can often feel lonely in a large group of people. Even though they’re going through the motions of social interaction with other people, the meaningless of shallow talk doesn’t satisfy these individuals. Often, in a social gathering where the native is surrounded by people they are not close to, they can often feel lost in a social fog. There’s a feeling of being separated from others even when people accept them, for these people think that as long as parts of themselves are hidden, they’re not completely accepted.
Due to this reason, these natives can also be very extreme in their relationships. When it comes to acceptance and intimacy, it truly is all-or-nothing. These people expect complete acceptance from those they choose to trust, and in return, they will completely accept other people. If this exchange works out, then the native will have a budding intimate relationship. However, if this exchange fails, there can often be many power struggles between the native and the other person.
However, when the native chooses to conceal themselves out of realizing their own power rather than their own fear, the native often becomes powerful and self-sufficient. There is a self-awareness that the native can use to keep themselves stable in situations where others try to hurt them. These natives will often develop healthy boundaries, only letting good people in and keeping the toxic people out.
Due to being secretive individuals, these people are often very perceptive of other people. It’s often easy for these people to have a general picture of what someone is like before talking extensively to them. It’s also easy for these people to find the secret flaws in others, and due to this, it’s not easy for them to make deep relationships. With that in mind, Intimate relationships are incredibly important for these people.
Intimate relationships are very important for these people because these people will only reveal who they truly are to those they feel safe and intimate with. With that being said, the native can often have a few close relationships, the native often strongly valuing them. The nature and workings of the intimate relationship is also important for these people, for these people identify themselves most naturally through the intimate people they choose to be with. With that being said, these people need to be careful with who they choose to be intimate with, for it’s hard for these people to let their loved ones go. To let these loved ones go means to let a part of themselves go.
These natives often define themselves through the major changes they face in their life. These natives are never quite the same after going through an important or traumatic event, especially the death of a loved one, or a figurative death in themselves. However, these natives also define themselves through the new, fresh birth of self-expression. In regards to self-expression, there are several transformations, with the native defining themselves through each transformation. Eventually, the native will often see a timeline where they’ve seen themselves in certain phases in certain stages of their life.
Having the Sun in the 8th House is a powerful placement. People with this placement are often very socially intuitive early on due to having a lot of practice with micromanaging their self-expressions. While the natives of this placement could be ashamed of their self-expression, what these natives need to learn is that through their concealment, they are not only hiding their unlikable selves, but also their potential and power. Once the natives know this, they will empower themselves and be unstoppable.
Intimacy and Acceptance
Aries in the 8th: You feel intimately accepted when you have a relationship with a person who accepts how immature and aggressive you can be sometimes.
Taurus in the 8th: You feel intimately accepted when you have a relationship with a person who accepts how stubborn and afraid you can be sometimes.
Gemini in the 8th: You feel intimately accepted when you have a relationship with a person who accepts how inconsistent and restless you can be sometimes.
Cancer in the 8th: You feel intimately accepted when you have a relationship with someone who accepts how moody and sensitive you can be sometimes.
Leo in the 8th: You feel intimately accepted when you have a relationship with someone who accepts how egotistical and dramatic you can be.
Virgo in the 8th: You feel intimately accepted when you have a relationship with someone who accepts how picky and nervous you can be.
Libra in the 8th: You feel intimately accepted when you have a relationship with someone who accepts how indecisive and passive-aggressive you can be.
Scorpio in the 8th: You feel intimately accepted when you have a relationship with someone who accepts how secretive and manipulative you can be.
Sagittarius in the 8th: You feel intimately accepted when you have a relationship with someone who accepts how arrogant and reckless you can be.
Capricorn in the 8th: You feel intimately accepted when you have a relationship with someone who accepts how rigid and pessimistic you can be.
Aquarius in the 8th: You feel intimately accepted when you have a relationship with someone who accepts how detached and unpredictable you can be.
Pisces in the 8th: You feel intimately accepted when you have a relationship with someone who accepts how impractical and impressionable you can be.
Venus in the 8th House
The 8th House is often a house talked about, for it is a house that is uncomfortably revealing, but also secretive at the same time. With secrets comes shame, and matters of the 8th House aren’t revealed easily. The 8th House at its core represents the ways of merging two souls into one, whether it be through life, death, shared possessions, or through intimate relationships. The merge is often rare and transformative - and is not for the light-hearted.
With Venus in the the 8th House, there are many things hidden, for Venus represents many things. Venus, being the planet of beauty, is a planet of standards and ideals. With a person’s Venus in the 8th House, what the native considers beautiful and ideal is something that is often kept a secret. There may be a feeling of shame for liking the things and people they are attracted to, hence the secrecy. There’s an attraction to the items of life that are often kept in the closet, or not appropriate for casual interactions. For the native, however, casual interactions are dull. There may also be a shame in having or showing self-confidence, for Venus represents the beauty within us. There is a feeling of not revealing the most beautiful parts of yourself because not everybody deserves to see it.
However, when the native chooses to completely own their sense of ideals and standards, there’s a strong sense of empowerment that can come over the native. The 8th House is a house that also represents an individual’s power, and through confident ownership of the self, the native can be intimate and loving with themselves in a way never felt before. Self-acceptance is a concept that natives with this placement can struggle to consistently do, but with each impressive feat, there is an impressive transformation for the better.
The ideals and standards the native can have can also be unpredictable. Perhaps one reason why the native’s ideals are hidden is because the volatile state their ideals can be in. One moment, a simple idea is glorified and loved. The next moment, that same idea is thrown into the trash. With this chaos, there is a secretive intimacy created. For the native, their ideals, what they want, is not just what they want. It’s a special yearning that has gone through hell and back, and it is a yearning that can toss the native in all directions. There is most definitely a strong connection in place.
The native’s standards and ideals aren’t the only things they can create strong connections with. With Venus in the 8th House, there is an attraction to having and keeping intimate relationships. Natives often never completely reveal their romantic relationships with others - and their relationships are often secretive and maybe even scandalous in nature. While the Venus in the 8th native is attracted to intimate relationships, whether those relationships are strong or not is another story. The relationship dynamics seen with Venus in the 8th is tumultuous and chaotic, but interestingly, it is the chaos that keeps the relationship strong and attracts the native to stay. After all, those with Venus in the 8th are picky with their relationships. They would most definitely rather stay in an interesting, but perilous relationship than a peaceful, but bland one.
While the relationships created with Venus in the 8th can most definitely be intimate and strong, at the same time, these relationships can almost instantly disappear, as if it’s never happened in the first place. Regardless of the longevity of their relationships, the relationships a Venus in the 8th native have will always leave a mark, if they choose to invest all of themselves into a relationship. After all, with a Venus in the 8th native, it’s all or nothing. Love transforms the native for the better or worse.
With a strong connection, it’s not surprising that Venus in the 8th natives are skilled in reading other people. It was mentioned earlier that Venus in the 8th natives can go through many ups and downs with the standards and ideals the have. With that being said, there is a secretive knowledge they have with this, and with standards and ideals, it can often say a lot about what a person strives to be. With this knowledge, natives with this placement can easily find a person’s weakness by seeking what the person lacks. The native can also gain a lot of information about others by seeing them at their worst. The native can often see this easily for they often bring and attract situations that would bring the worst out of people.
With the 8th House, it shows a merging between two, and financial matters are included. With Venus generally considered as a benefic planet, there are numerous financial benefits a Venus in the 8th native can have with the relationships they associate with. With family and lovers, through connections, natives can often gain a lot of money and resources. With the planet of charm in the house of intimate relationships, it’s not hard to see why the native often has success in getting what they want. These natives often have a deep relationship with the magnetic charm they possess and can use that charm to benefit not only themselves, but others.
With Venus in the 8th House, it is often a house where the native gains power through self-acceptance and love. There is a strong need for balance with Venus in the 8th House because in order for the native to gain the power they desire, they must involve others. One lesson natives may need to realize is that power can be destructive, and with the connections Venus makes with love and intimacy, this power can be destructive to other people. These natives need to learn that strength in relationships is not only found through the harshest circumstances, but in the most peaceful of times.