8th House

What do death, sexuality, transformation, and the supernatural all have in common? Why, they are the primary subjects of the eighth house, of course! Rest assured, your journey into this realm is not one to be taken lightly. Next to the twelfth house, the eighth is one of the most powerful, intense, transformative, and challenging places in the zodiac. But that doesn't mean you need to fear this realm. It has the potential to bring you to the highest of heights and the darkest of nights and come out stronger for the journey.

Death, rebirth and passionate living

From an early age, individuals with a prominent eighth house are marked to go through several life-changing personal transformations. These significant changes are never easy and require the eighth house native to shed their skin and become a more evolved soul. This usually takes the form of some kind of identity crisis where there is no choice but to grow, transform, and leave the past behind. This often happens most profoundly around middle age.

Individuals with a strong 8th house are known for drastic deaths and new beginnings. This can take on many forms. Leaving the place they grew up, which had become toxic for them. Ditching all their friends to find ones that are more aligned with their mission. New ways of artistic and creative expression that come from a place not exactly of this realm. This behavior is not always conscious but instead is a requirement for their souls to continue evolving. If you have a strong eighth house, especially if you have a sun or moon there, your soul came into this life asking for renewal and change.

Since this is also the house of death, it isn't uncommon to find this person surrounded by the sudden loss of people they care about. Sometimes this death takes a physical form, but mostly it shows a pattern of people they are close to leaving their lives.

Finally, it is vital that this person live with a sense of passion connected to everything they do. They are very sensual people at their core, and living a common, ordinary life trying to fit in with rigid systems of stagnation and structure will not work for this wildly transformative individual. Learning to embrace their passionate nature is a vital portal for growth for 8th house natives.

The house of transformation

If you were to step gingerly into the dark of the eighth house, you'd enter a place that might at first look a bit like a traditional haunted house. A noise in the dark from upstairs. A flash of cool but strangely seductive energy. Creaking from the basement, suggesting that you may think you are alone, but are always being watched by a presence of some kind. Eighth house natives just feel this supernatural energy much more strongly. While you may not feel like you are in a Stephen King novel, there is an air of the otherworldly about you.

A final note about this house: if you do have an eighth house presence, do not fear; you have the power not only to go through massive growth but also change the world for the better. In the end, that is what the power of this house is really all about - benefiting the universe through personal transformation.