Placements
Eros in the 8th House
With Eros in the eighth house, the erotic life-force concentrates in deep intimacy, sexuality, and transformation, a powerfully natural field, so desire is intense, total, and bound up with emotional truth and merging. The gift is a profound, transformative passion that goes all the way. The shadow is obsession, jealousy, or desire tangled with power. The growth is intensity that transforms rather than controls. At your best your passion becomes a doorway to deep union and renewal.
Lean in — Let intense desire transform you rather than control another.
Watch for — Let passion slide into obsession or a contest for power.
- desire
- intensity
- transformation
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Eros as erotic passion and the creative life-force: what awakens desire and vitality.
- Sasportas, The Twelve Houses (1985)Locates the house as the field of life where passion is aroused.
- Pelletier, Planets in Houses (1978)Reads the house placement as where desire and vitality are focused.