Venus in 8th house

Venus :

According to Indian Vedic astrology, Venus is a significator planet of wife, youth, beauty, vehicles, sexual pleasure, wealth, flowers, scents, and perfumes.Venus stands for  our capacity to compromise in love, relationship, Venus also presents passion, pleasure, happiness, creativity, and arts.

8th house :

8th house is a natural place of Mars - an agent of mystery, discovery, sexual-pursuit, invasion, and psychic or physical penetration.This house is  ruled by the sign Scorpio. All issues related to Scorpio rule this house,most importantly death, sexuality, secrets, other people’s resources, sacrifice and the unseen world of spirits, astral entities, ghosts or our direct experience with such things. Anything that is taboo, intense, uncomfortable and deep lingers in this house. Having planets in this house will cause individuals to obsess over death.

Venus in 8th house :

Personality profile :

1. Venus in 8th House according to Phala Deepika: Venus posited in the 8th house at birth, will make the native wealthy, long-lived and a landlord.
2. Venus in 8th House according to Saravali: If Venus is in the 8th, the native will be long-lived, will enjoy incomparable happiness, be very rich, be equal to a king and moment after the moment will feel delighted.
3. This is the house of sacrifice. Individuals with 8th  house energy must transform and let things die in order to benefit.
4. Whatever is taboo and forbidden for other people can be normal and desired by such a person.
5. The native enjoys the aesthetic of secrecy, confidentiality, masking, camouflage.
6. Pleasure from the discovery of hidden resources.
7. Enjoys discovery, revelation , and mysterious relationships.
8. Occult, occluded, cloud-cover or veiled then revealed, agreements.
9. Luxurious pleasures of Occult Mystery, Hidden Liaison, and Secret Wealth.

Love and Emotions :

1. The placement of Venus in 8th house would make the person quite possessive and jealous in approach towards the relationships around.
2. With Venus in the 8th house ,The native take love and commitment very seriously. He is a deeply emotional and intense person.
3. They  do not look of  for casual hookups. They  get to know someone completely before committing to them. And this isn’t difficult for them as their   incredible intuition allows them to read anyone like a book.
4. They are passionate in love and are truly vulnerable inside.
5. Possessiveness can be totally out of control, leading the person to extreme actions of despair when he feels that his love life is threatened.Especially when Venus is afflicted by Rahu/Mars .
6. Prefers to hide even the conventional aspects of romantic relationships. However, the relationships are rarely too placid. There is always something tantric and controlling about their lover.
7. Relationships may begin and end suddenly.
8. Prone toward secret alliance (potentially extramarital, but also extra-political e.g. outside one's party loyalty).
9. They would fear from being hurt & betrayed in relationships for which they would have very few relationships in the early or young age.
10. One may show the public some sort of conventionalized facade, but behind the facade, there is an intense energy of psychic domination and control.
11. If Venus is very badly aspected by malefic, there are even possibilities of dramatic losses in love. This does not have to be a physical loss, but rather a symbolical one, where the adored partner either abandons the owner of the horoscope  or seizes to have the loving role that he once used to have.
12. Casual affairs are simply not for them and act just as a substitute until a proper partner is found.
13. The sign of 8th house  will filter the spouse's invasive dynamic. Yet underneath the veneer of marital pleasures, there is an agenda for the lover to penetrate the psyche and control the behavior of the native .
14. The lover-partner is not always a human person. Sometimes the most intimate companion is a beautiful spirit being/invisible helpers/diety/angel/alien etc .
15. Venus in 8th house may invite camouflaged guiding forces  such as spirit-beings and invisible masters or helpers  to take control  or channelizing through them.

Sexuality :

1. Venus is the planet of love and attraction. Thus, it is natural that natives with such placements desire deep relationships and soul bonding.
2. Those who are born with Venus in 8th house , have a natural charm that sexually attracts large numbers of people.
3. Many people would not even understand what is that which pulls them towards the native because Venus is hiding in the depths of this mysterious house.
4. Even if the person is not physically attractive, he will see that there exists some strange kind of magnetism from him towards others, running below the surface.
5. Physical intimacy is an intense and potentially catastrophic experience for them .
6. 8th house Venusians have deep and intense emotions. For them, sex is not just a physical activity but carries all forms of art on it. They are operating in highly sexual octaves, which even depicts in the way they behave in bed.
7. The 8th house is strongly connected to the unconscious levels of the person, and thus, sex represented here is of a deeper kind, the one that blends and bonds, creates soul-to-soul love relationships, and breaks down the borders of the ego.
8. Venus in 8th house afflicted by Mars/Rahu indicates a tendency for extramarital affairs .

Secret Relationships :

1. They have many secret admirers.
2. Male nativity is attracted to women whose influence generates conditions of profound life change. The woman may have hidden assets and she is willing to keep the relationship secret, at least for a while.
3. Venus in 8th house has a certain preference to conduct relationships incognito, which can lead to a taste for masked, undisclosed, cloudy, camouflaged environments and extramarital affairs.
4. There is a high possibility of attraction towards personalities that are engaged in occult work.

Mysticism :

1. Venus symbolizes love, sensuality, an alluring personality, beauty, and aesthetics. For the 8th house, Venus draws you into anything mysterious or forbidden and makes you want to see more and know more.
2. The 8th house is among others the house of death and sex, a gate to the occult world and strongly connected with other people’s money. Naturally, when the gentle light of Venus illuminates such a dark house, all of the above are receiving a pleasant and even artistic hue.
3. Pleasured by those whom they have healed and by other practicing healers.
4. Both genders are attracted  to women who are secretive by nature, handlers of hidden information, or who work with dangerous, emergency situations.
5. Venus in 8th house , there may be an intellectual interest in the conditions of death-and-rebirth.

For male :

1. For male Venus is the significator of a wife .
2. The wife or lover is often hidden from public view. Due to 8th being  12th from 9th (public ritual)
3. A male may take a female life-partner without the public vow of marriage  Or, one may prefer to conduct love affairs behind a veil of obscurity.
4. For a male, the wife may be an occultist.,healer or she is having penetrating sexual and healing energy .
5. The women in one's life can be intensely controlling and psychologically invasive.
6.  The wife may be involved in  secret matters, for example like wealth-acquisition via confidential information,fuel-resource discovery, buried treasure hunting,animistic occult bush medicine , and alchemical magic.
7. Venus here will also bring some adverse impacts as comprising aggression and short temperament to the spouse of the native.
8. Male prefers clandestine or mysterious "veiled" relationships.
9. Female partner (if any) assists in veiling confidential information and hidden relationships. The marriage partner whether male or female participates in the cover-up.
10. meets the marriage-partner in confidential circumstances or under mysterious, unexpected or surprise circumstances with no warning.
11. Venus in Mars sign ,the native's wife will be an agent of  (forced) rejuvenation.
12. The partners preferred by them are those with an  aura, oozing mystery and spirituality .

for female :

1. In a female nativity, Venus in the 8th house they  typically have few female companions but those who exist may be tantric , trauma healers of a mystical attractive appearance or penetrating psychological quality.
2. The woman herself may be a healer, and she is gifted in the practice of midwifery, surgery, alchemy, or the various arts of identity transformation.
3. Her sexual energy has penetrating, uncovering, unveiling qualities of the mystical huntress. Pleasure from mysteries, secrets, emergencies, shocking or sudden disclosure, and hidden indulgence is indicated.
4. Excellent position for female healers .They may be  managers of the financial estates of the dead, psychiatrists, and occult practitioners.
5. The distinctive sweet tendency toward incognito liaison; or if an artist, a secret artistic pursuit or undisclosed musical gifts.
6. She  may enjoy an inheritance from her parents, a legacy from a deceased previous spouse, or other hidden resources.

Wealth :

1. Many individuals with planets here will benefit through other people's resources.
2. Anything that is given to us through the death of someone close is 8th house territory. 
3. The 8th house is also responsible for inheritance, and the spouse’s money. Thus, people with this native placement can receive big wealth, especially if Venus is well aspected by Jupiter or by other benefices.
4.  Financial gain through marriage or partnership.
5. Gain through legacy or patrimony.
6. Wealth  from undisclosed sources.
7. Indicates that either a considerable inheritance is expected, or the native will marry hidden money.
8. Represents esoteric and mysterious decorative ornaments.
9. One of the primary social purposes of marriage may be is to combine the material assets of two families.
10.  These people could even make out business from the arena of love.

Death :

1. Natural, a peaceful and easy end.
2. Typically, the shell-death occurs in a pleasant place, attended with sense-soothing delights such as refreshing baths and anointment with fragrant oils.
3. If lord of 8th house is  favorable, death occurs in a holy place, supported by harmonious companions and counselors.
4. Often, the beloved is present at the time of death.
5. Instrumental causes of death include wealth and sensual pleasure.
6. If afflicted, kidney problems, diabetes, obesity or urinary troubles may terminate this life.
7. Having Venus in the house of death can bring a very pleasant ending to one’s life. It is often peaceful, in beautiful surroundings, giving happy last moments with people they love.
8. This pattern can even signify closing your eyes in the arms of your beloved person.

Venus in malefic influence :

Venus in 8th house astrology predictions show that intensity of all kinds fuels your wants and desires, but it can hinder your search for a healthy relationship. Not everyone is as obsessed as you are with finding truth in love and lust. Your need for everything to have some hidden meaning can be overbearing and exhausting after a while, and not everyone can keep up with you.If afflicted, separation of marriage partner, loss, grief and many more disappointments.

Venus in benefic influence :

Venus in 8th house meaning shows that while you keep your thoughts and feelings hidden deep within, other people are as transparent to you as glass. This is very important to you, for you need to be with someone genuine who hates superficial things and people as much as you do.

By
Geeta Jha