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leverage other people’s money and resources to grow your own prosperity. As ever with Jupiter, your experiences depend on your consciousness and where you invest your faith. If you create massive debt, your faith is in the illusion of lack, not the truth of abundance.
Capricorn or Aquarius on the Eighth House
And if you have Capricorn or Aquarius on the cusp of your Eighth House, Saturn, the Archetype of the Judge is your debts, nancial obligations, and shared resources. e boundaries that matter most to you are the ones that de ne “mine,” “yours,” and “ours.” You hope to understand and master the Laws of the world of form by exploring shared resources and nancial
relationships and responsibility.
Houses Related to the Eighth House
e Eighth House has the strongest connections to the Second House ( nancial) and the Fourth House (death). It has no legitimate connection at all to the Fifth House (sex).
The Eighth House is your debt and other people’s money; the Second House is
your money.
Both houses need to be considered to get a full picture of your resources and your attitude towards money.
Debt is not necessarily a bad thing, and in fact, debt can be an integral component of wealth and prosperity.
The Eighth House relates to the manner of death; the Fourth House relates to the timing of death.
Both the Fourth House and the Eighth House are connected to death, although modern astrology
emphasizes the Eighth House connection to death and rarely mentions the Fourth House connection. Since present day astrologers rarely explore death- related questions, and almost never make death- related predictions, this hasn’t been an issue. But for the record, the Eighth House — including the ruler of the Eighth House—relates to how you die, while the
Fourth House relates to when you die.
But before you go looking at your chart for answers,
you need to keep a few things in mind. All of the resources relating to medical astrology, including illness and death are only accurate given the medical resources and technology available up to about the 16th or 17th century. A disease or health crisis that would have been chronic or fatal at the time is now eliminated with a dose of antibiotics. Medical astrology is fascinating, and still has some value today, but you must be certain to adjust the context of the interpretations.
The Eighth House is the house of death and the Fifth House is the house of sex; no one confused the two until Freud came along.
e rst recorded example of anyone associating sex with the Eighth House appeared in a 1910 edition of e Key to Your Own Nativity by Alan Leo. Here it is,
in it’s entirety (the emphasis is mine):
“ e Eighth House of each nativity governs legacies, and money coming from others, such ass co-workers, partners, etc. It is also concerned
with occult a airs, mysterious and secret undertakings; it indicates the sex tendencies.”
at’s it. Five words. Five words that y in the face of two thousand years of sex belonging exclusively to the Fifth House.
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