Birth Chart - 8th House - The Natural House of Scorpio

The 8th house is naturally associated with the sign of Scorpio and its ruler Pluto.

If the 7th house represents relationships in general, the 8th represents relationships or partnerships in which something is exchanged or held in common.

In sexual relationships there is an emotional exchange, in business partnerships there is an exchange and sharing of finances and resources. This house represents the area of life in which we relate to others on a deeper, more emotional level.

It is in this house, therefore, that we often experience emotional pain, crises and death (symbolically that is). Hence this house has various but related meanings. It is the house of sex, beginnings and endings, joint resources and money held in common, and inheritances.