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Saturn transit House 8

Under Saturn transit House 8, and over the next few years, you will have to realize the values of others, that is, learn to live with these values and assimilate them in a constructive way, without destroying your own individuality. If transiting Saturn makes difficult aspects, it may be that others cut off funds when you need them. The eighth house is where major changes occur in the life of a person, such as, for example, not being able to count on others for material help. Therefore, it is not a good idea at this time to depend on the resources of others. When Saturn transits through your eighth house, you will experience death in various ways, either a real death or the death of old values and ideas that you will now renounce. You may even be entrusted with the affairs of someone who has died. If Saturn makes difficult aspects, it can cause fear of death, heavy taxes, economic losses through joint finances and commercial commitments.

When Saturn transit House 8, the need for security and achievement influences how you use your power and others’ resources. This can be an extreme and painful transit where the testing of your self-knowledge will work itself out through any or all of these areas: financial, sexual, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. When Saturn transits the 8th house you’re challenged to transform and redefine yourself down to the most basic levels of identity. This may involve a kind of ritual purging or stripping away of your old identity to make way for the new. It’s about ending old life patterns and letting go of desires and attachments to whatever is holding you back. Once this process is complete, you’ll experience a rebirth, but first you must undergo the death. Saturn will force you to discipline your desire nature and examine your emotional attachments. This may happen because your desires are frustrated: you can’t get what you need or want, or because you realise that getting what you want isn’t going to make you happy in the long run. You must get rid of anything that gets in the way of you growing into a whole individual.

Saturn transit House 8

Saturn transit House 8 is about transformation and self-mastery, and Saturn will encourage you to examine how you use your power on every level. You may experience a lot of suffering during this transit. Your desires and attachments are stripped away and refined until you become more aware of the deeper forces at work in your life and psyche. Saturn won’t tolerate superficial nonsense or avoidance of reality while in this house. It’s not much fun and can feel like going through a kind of personal hell or purgatory, but it’s necessary. Saturn transit House 8 will force you to confront whatever you’ve been denying or avoiding. You might need to face your darkest fears so you can finally let them go. Issues around the fear of death, control, and the use of power may come up and demand to be dealt with. Your experiences now could bring questions about the meaning of life and death and the reality of your soul into clearer focus, and you may become obsessed by subjects like the afterlife, reincarnation, and the occult. Saturn wants you to face death in a more realistic way and to come to terms with your own mortality and limitations in life.

House 8 is also about inheritance, which is just another way of saying the past impacting on the present, so when Saturn transit House 8, you may experience gains through the death of a family member or spouse. The confrontation with death may also encourage you to organise your finances and perhaps draw up a will or take out insurance. There may be lessons around investments and joint assets which could feel restricting at this time. Not all inheritances are financial and you may be able to free yourself from a long-standing emotional or psychological limitation with roots in the past. This is a good time to dig deep into your unconscious to discover how your conditioning affects your life. You can unearth hidden motivations and perhaps even undo conditioning that’s been in place over many lifetimes, whether your own, if you believe in reincarnation, or an ancestral inheritance. To let go of the past you need to resolve the inner conflicts that hide in the unconscious, so the deeper you go, the more you’ll be able to release. Possibilities with Saturn transit House 8: organising your finances, drawing up a will or taking out life insurance, exploring the mysteries of life, confronting the past and achieving self-mastery. Watch out for: loss of essential resources or money, trapped in a bad financial deal, emotional purgatory and facing mortality.

Saturn transit House 8 is a good time to meditate and to dig deep into your unconscious

The purging and letting go of the past is preparation for when Saturn transit House 8where you’ll incorporate what you learn now into the development of your higher mind. Whatever happens now, you’re seeking to know yourself on a fundamental level and establish soul security. You want to feel at home in the universe and Saturn will take you as deep as you’re willing to go. How far you go with this depends on whether you have a spiritual practice and how much you’re willing to surrender. The deepest meaning of House 8 is the importance of the meeting of opposites, and you may explore this through changes to your sex life and by confronting the consequences of how you use your sexual power. You might experience frustration which forces you to be more self-contained, or you may willingly undergo a period of celibacy to explore other ways of using your life force for healing or spiritual work. Taking responsibility like this will help you to explore the transcendent function of sexuality, which is the meeting of the opposites. Soul security can only be achieved through the alchemy of the union of opposites that produces the divine child, or awakening. Only once you’ve balanced the opposites and integrated the fears of your shadow can you transcend and become whole.

How do you handle power? Your desire nature? Intimate relationships? What kind of obsessions and addictions do you have? What are your deep-rooted compulsions? What are your unhealthy attachments? When Saturn transit House 8, we feel pressure to answer these questions. Often, at the beginning of the transit, we are very sensitive to what seems like outer world pressures that force us to examine some of our deepest desires and attachments. These include our sexual relationships, our finances (especially with regards to debts and shared finances), and our need for control. Sometimes, Saturn transit House 8 brings about sexual dysfunctions, whether we encounter these in ourselves or in our partners. We may face difficulties satisfying our libido and/or encounter problems with intimacy. These pressures are “designed” to make us more aware of our desire nature, and what exactly it is we want. Dissatisfaction and frustrations getting what we want, especially with reference to relationships with others and with our resources, often characterize the first part of the transit. How have we been using power? During this transit, we may find that previous methods of controlling our environment and the people in our lives simply are not effective any more. We may not even be aware just how we have been employing power and control to date. Another realm over which the eighth house reigns is our mortality. With Saturn here, we become much more aware of our mortality.

Saturn transit House 8 often brings with it a realization that we do not live forever. Of course, we know this as a fact at the back of our minds, but Saturn reminds us. Before this transit, it is generally wise to begin organizing one’s finances. If we don’t, Saturn will most likely find ways to force us to do just that. On a psychological level, we face some of our fears that are of a compulsive nature, those fears that lead us to believe we need certain things in order to survive. Take a small example of a superstition. Perhaps we perform some kind of small ritual that we feel will help protect us or give us good luck. If we do it often enough, it becomes an addiction. We are afraid that if we don’t do this little ritual, we will set ourselves up for bad luck. If we get rid of this superstition, we feel strong. Something as simple as a superstition or ritual for good luck can undermine us. Why? Because we are giving away our power over ourselves to this compulsive behavior! We are denying that we have power over our own lives. The same is true of any form of compulsive behavior and addiction. We attempt to control our lives through these behaviours, but what we are really doing is letting the addictions control us.

Towards the end of Saturn transit House 8, we will have eliminated some deep-seated habits and attachments that have been keeping us back from feeling emotionally free. We emerge healthier and stronger. When we give in to compulsive behaviours, we give up self-control, and guilt undermines our lives. We are not ourselves. By attempting to control others, we give away our own power over ourselves. By the end of this transit, we will feel more emotionally healthy. We will have mixed some of our addictions, and mastered our superstitions. We will feel more powerful because we have given up attempting to control things we cannot or should not control, and we will have gained a feeling of self-mastery instead.

 

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