The Eighth House is the house of shared resources, intimacy, and transformation. It describes everything that involves the exchange of resources with others: loans, inheritances, taxes, and the financial resources of marriage. It also describes the deeper dimensions of intimacy: sex, emotional merging, and the transformation that occurs when you truly open yourself to another.
In traditional astrology, the Eighth House is called the House of Death (or the House of Others' Money). It describes not just physical death but all the endings and transformations that mark the journey of life.
A planet in the Eighth House describes how you handle shared resources and intimate relationships. Pluto in the Eighth House is at home, giving a powerful need for depth and intensity in intimate relationships, and often a capacity for profound transformation. Venus in the Eighth House gives a deep, passionate approach to love, and often financial benefit through marriage or partnership. Mars in the Eighth House gives intense sexual energy, and often conflicts over shared resources.
The Eighth House is naturally associated with Scorpio and Mars (or Pluto): the sign of transformation and the planet of intensity. When planets are placed in the Eighth House, they take on something of this Scorpionic quality, becoming more intense, more secretive, more focused on the hidden dimensions of experience.