If the Sun is placed in the 8th house of your horoscope, you’re destined to experience the kinds of intense feelings and tragic events that are commonplace on the stage, whether or not you seek them out. You are dragged kicking and screaming into the underworld, or you enter it voluntarily due to a fascination with dramatic events and taboo aspects of life. The key to a rich and mature life lived with grace is having the faith and courage to explore the dark sides of your existence, which contains all the necessary aspects of your growth. In order to address and reveal these primal and destructive parts of human emotion, you must immerse yourself in dramatic situations including life-or-death stakes, abuse, betrayal, violence, and a feeling of powerlessness in the face of a stronger force. Love, loss, death, power struggles, and social isolation are some of life’s greatest obstacles that you may have to endure. It’s not all doom and gloom, but any astrologer worth their salt would be lying if they said there wouldn’t be a fight to be had down in the dirt, in the psyche, and in the invisible portions of life. It could be a sign that you need to do some soul-searching and would benefit from psychotherapy where you can explore your inner depths and discover your inner strengths.
This need for knowledge and enlightenment is the root of your natural purpose and why you are here; you have to experience it all in some form to grasp the precariousness of human life and the struggles you encounter in the human world. A planet’s placement in the 8th house can provide light on your interests and motivations in fields like the occult, psychology, psychotherapy, investing, and the use of power in all its forms, which may be puzzling to others who are inexperienced with them. You can dig deep and keep going until you get what you’re looking for because you have an innate intuitive awareness of other people’s resources as well as your own and all aspects of survival.
I have observed several interesting things about people with the Sun in the 8th house. In one sense, we might interpret this placement as a statement that the individual needs to make a relationship with the hidden world, the unconscious, in order to fulfil himself or herself. The destiny or purpose of life – which I think is very bound up with the Sun’s house placement – here lies in bringing light to the dark world of the Other within himself. By Liz Greene, The Development of Personality: Seminars in Psychological Astrology
Since your whole being is predicated on discovering a meaningful connection with another person, with the Sun in the 8th house you do more than just converse with one another; you become one with one another. Given that the 8th house functions on a level beyond conscious awareness, ego-death or a dramatic metamorphosis often results in an unchangeable fate, in which some part of you ‘dies’ so that new life might emerge in its place.
Planets in the 8th house tend to express themselves as though they were demonic forces erupting from a hidden realm. Physical death, as the outcome may sometimes occur. Equally, other types of deaths may ensue. Planets in the 8th house, because they emerge from unknown levels of the psyche, often shatter existing situations and provoke great anxiety and distress. Liz Greene, The Astrological Neptune and the Quest for Redemption
In addition, the Sun in the 8th house represents your capacity to explore deeper beyond the obvious and create something powerful. For human growth, it’s important to be creative in your life and to cultivate meaningful relationships with others, and these encounters often forge strong “psychic” linkages with the unseen worlds, revealing insight on topics like grief, abuse, and death. According to Jungian astrology, all of the watery houses have a relationship to familial inheritance as well as any fears from childhood that have never been brought to the surface of consciousness. It is likely that healing will involve a significant identity crisis followed by a transformation of the fundamental core of who you are, as you must bring to light the unconscious energy of your past in order to move past it.