When we speak of the eighth house of a personal horoscope, we can say with full confidence that this is the most hated of all houses. The strange thing hides in the fact that there is really nothing to hate here except ourselves and our own limitations, fears, and taboos. This is a house that hides all things that are dirty, our trash and our anger, our emotions, relationships and things that we need to set free from, as well as everything we push under the rug, refusing to deal. In its final manifestation, this is the house of death, coming as the end of the road after too many things have been dismissed for our body to handle, but also as an inevitable part of life. It is also called the House of Reincarnation, while its Latin motto mors literally means "death."
AREAS OF LIFE
Eighth house relates to the sign of Scorpio and always speaks of hate and revenge, in whatever shape, color or manifestation we see it in our lives. It rules all things that are dead, buried and gone. The key mystery of it is in the fact that it also magically speaks of our conception. To truly understand rivers of our eighth house, we have to fully accept that there is no beginning without an end and vice versa. Any planet set in our eighth house is a planet we fail to see in all its glory. Even when Mars or Pluto are here, given their strong dignity due to the connection this house has with Scorpio, they still tend to be dismissed and thrown into trash, one way or the other. What's one man's gain is another man's loss, and this is best seen though the symbolism of the eighth house, for it represents someone else's possessions and everything we get from those who left us behind.
This is a house of change, all curves and bumps in the road, and everything our unconscious has to send our way to protect us from life-threatening situations or throw us into them. This is the place of danger and fear as much as it is a place of liberation. Its seed thrown from its preceding seventh house is strangely connected to relationships. We can see that all people we shoved aside accumulate here and create spasms, dissatisfactions, and more fears since we didn't allow change and acceptance. As all things that are taboo, this is a place where all intimate sexual relationships go and one where we can find all kinky preferences, choices hard to understand by others, and things we are ashamed of. In another extreme, this is a house of committed and deep relationships, those that shine beyond vows of marriage, giving promise for lives that are yet to come.
The beauty of the eighth house is seen through our ability to transform, break our cocoons and become colorful, flying butterflies. It is a place of regeneration and one we turn to when we are wounded and lost, so carefully estimate the position of all that is hidden there. It will show us a path of our shadows and what we have to face in order to grow, as well as all we need to turn to when we aren't happy, or when we have something that needs to be forgiven, changed, or simply accepted as it is. This is a place that transforms us into better people, so it is really not a house to hate but rather to worship.
THE EIGHTH HOUSE IN ARIES
With the eighth house in Aries the main challenge of life is to accept the constructive force of anger and conflict. If Mars isn't extremely well positioned, this speaks of one's tendency to waste their energy on irrelevant issues, these seen primarily through challenging aspects of Mars. Change will come pretty much naturally, but with a lot of fire and fuss and never easy. Instinct needs to be nurtured and most often this is the position of those born with an ascendant in Virgo, meaning they tend to overthink things and shove their instincts and gut feelings aside. The most damaging thing a person can do with this setting is to approach life reasonably instead of instinctively. This is also a setting that accents the fact that all problems with young men full of energy, leadership, police, or army, have to be mended and brought to a level of emotional acceptance and understanding.