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Venus in the 8th house - Apple of the Unconscious Eye

The Princess is in tattered and worn clothes, alone and without any servants. She is to make servants of these inner beasts, or risk becoming one completely herself. In the pitch of the night, you are blind. You have to use your other senses to navigate you. If you keep lying to yourself and other people about who you are, you can never change or grow out of destructive habits. She is on the quest for truth on the dark side of the mirror.  What she eventually finds is more exquisite than words could describe

Venus in the 8th is the ballerina inside Pandora’s Box. She is the innocent girl abducted by the figures of the underworld, and they fight for the Queen reserved for the Lord of the Underworld Himself. She is the ravisher of the pomegranate, and all pleasure is cursed so everything forbidden is mixed with sugar syrup. She gets addicted to the taste of being bad for her, and once she falls into the abyss of love she never returns completely as that person again. The condition of Venus in the 8th doesn’t necessarily follow the script of a chaotic or toxic relationship. Couples with good personal insight and boundaries can bloom a very meaningful, honest, and dignifying relationship with a ‘power couple’ approach to the world. She is the star performer in Aphrodite’s Black Parade. Her reflection casts twisted ideals, and she can appear as the woman living out one’s sins. She can also be a victim of projection, and find that other people claim some sexual entitlement or expectation when she has suggested nothing of the kind.

The superficial characteristics of Venus in the 8th outline surface traits like jealousy, vengefulness, drama, power, and control. However, these individuals tend to have a good capacity for self-insight, and are mostly familiar with this part of themselves. But nothing is superficial about the 8th house, and her treasure is buried so deeply below the surface that only a rare mere mortal endures to discover her. She personifies the great mysteries of love, the contract of ‘til death do us part’, sometimes she makes you want to die, but you wonder how you ever lived without her. She is the heirloom that closes generational cycles, specifically referring to relationships, loomed into the maternal and feminine heritage. Her spiritual sensitivity and psychic gifts are part of her ancestral inheritance, the special child guarded by crossed maternal family members.

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Pluto in the 8th House - Sweetheart Cyanide 

Revelation and transformation is the theme of life Pluto in the 8th house. The individual is chartered by something greater, voyaging through invisible battles to rise higher than the sun. Relationships contour life in a sort of brutal bliss. There is the relentless desire to elevate, destruct, and rebuild relationships in the search of the soul contact. From the shadows, unconscious longings emerge, and they steer life in unusual and confrontational ways. The personality is likely cryptic, and secretive regarding their trauma, talent, and power. Pluto is welcomed into the 8th house, and the individual is anointed the underworld sovereign. This is the master of life and death, the tightrope acrobat between thresholds. The response to events and relationships is insatiably passionate, emotional, reactive and intense. The individual’s aura and presence cuts like a knife, and remains long after the body vanishes. This is the heirloom of a thousand centuries of searching. As a child, the hidden curses, attempts at concealment and secrecy from caregivers were ineffectual with the eyes of Pluto in the 8th looking on. There was not a moment missed, for example the mother’s secret heartbreak, or the father attempting to hide the abuse. It was all revealed to the individual, and thus was realised that she was different. And nobody could ever know. 

The psychic forces are sea storms with Pluto in the 8th. They can visit with tsunamis of prophecy, inner psychic surgery, delusion and paranoia. They are remedied by euphoria and love and lunacy can become too sweeping for some. Individuals can become lost in the 8th house madness, plunged into unconscious symbolism with blurred vision. It can erupt a volcano of aggression, sexual compulsion, volatility, and destructive relationships. The wall between worlds is leaky with Pluto in the 8th house, and the susceptibility to unseen forces is extremely ominous. The individual’s fear of death can pour into hysteria and phobia, a sort of petrified response to uncontrolled energies and messages. It can force withdrawal, isolation, and depressive episodes that can imitate death. But for some individuals, the Pluto partnership is profound and evokes a sort of magic and necromancy roused from a cauldron of unconscious prophecy. The sort of impression the individual leaves on others filters into the soul, engraving a lasting legacy. Relationships can become obsessions, a sort of compulsive response to a need to fill the void, a split in the spirit and personality, something that appears to have never been born. Sexual activity may wax and wane, experiencing drought to generate the energy that shakes worlds. Rather than photographs, the individual can reminisce about life through the eyes of old selves, those that have been burned away and sawed into glowing rubies for the spirit. The individual may reflect on former personalities with disbelief. 

Self destruction may become routine with Pluto in the 8th. The individual can have little or no knowledge of its cause, and why everything seems to be destroyed as the peak is approached. Solitude is cherished, and typically used as reflective periods or acute research. There are no boundaries with Pluto in the 8th. Secrets are exposed, corruption is leaked, and deception is shattered. The individual knows how to read the language of the unconscious as its written across the 8th house sky, illuminating with purple radiance just for them. This is what can make the individual brilliant with occult studies, mediumship, or depth psychology. People are read like books written by Freud or Jung. The individual knows their dark thoughts cannot be rejected, but accepted and integrated to create truth and vision and clarity. Steven Forrest says Pluto in the 8th individuals are capable of ascending to the “Rimpoche”, or “Special One”, a term which defines sacred instinct and healing forces in Buddhist philosophy. Beneath the sea swims a Pluto drenched mermaid, swimming below a shadow into the oblivion, following a compass nobody owns or knows how to follow.

-Cherry

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