Astrology Glossary

8th house

The 8th house: intimacy, transformation, shared resources. In Western astrology it is a succedent house, one that follows an angle and steadies what it starts, and its natural sign is Scorpio. In Vedic astrology houses are called bhavas, and the 8th bhava is transformation, depth, and the hidden: a dusthana, a house of difficulty.

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