Eighth House

The eighth house is the house of depth and transformation. It governs intimacy, sexuality, death and rebirth, and the resources shared with others, including joint finances, debt, inheritance, and other people's money. This is the house of merging, of what is hidden, and of deep change. It resonates with Scorpio, and as a succedent house it holds and concentrates power. Planets in the eighth house shape how a person handles intimacy, trust, and crisis. They describe attitudes toward sharing control, facing loss, and the deep changes that remake a life from the inside. The sign on the cusp colors how someone approaches vulnerability and the things most people would rather not look at. An empty eighth house draws its manner of facing these depths from the cusp sign alone. This house deals with the parts of life that cannot be controlled, only entered. Its work is transformation, learning to let go, to trust others with what matters, and to be renewed by what would otherwise overwhelm.