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The Eighth House, associated with Scorpio, is traditionally called
the House of Death or the House of Taboos. It is related to lessons
of psychological change and our capacity to deal with the "taboos"
of our culture, such as death, sexuality, and the occult. What is
stored within the Eighth House is psychological material that needs
to be resurrected and transformed. Often our unconscious patterns
of negativity comprise this material. These could be expressed as
envy, jealousy, repressed anger, justified hatred, greed, or desires
for power and revenge. Here we rationalize and enjoy injuring others
with our spite, our rumors, our slander, and our lies. Here we confront
the darkest side of ourselves.
This house is also associated with our capacity to express healthful sexuality and with our
capacity to accept death. Poor functioning
here keeps us trapped in psychological patterns of negativity, or keeps
us fearful of death or of our sexual expression. Effective
navigation of this house leads to a transformation of negativity which, in turn, awakens the genuine essence of our soul. Then, we have the capacity
to bond with others on a very deep psychological, spiritual, and sexual
level.
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Signs of Intelligence - Astrological Roadmaps for Life - The
Eighth House
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