Venus in the 8th house - Apple of the Unconscious Eye
The Princess is in tattered and worn clothes, alone and without any servants. She is to make servants of these inner beasts, or risk becoming one completely herself. In the pitch of the night, you are blind. You have to use your other senses to navigate you. If you keep lying to yourself and other people about who you are, you can never change or grow out of destructive habits. She is on the quest for truth on the dark side of the mirror. What she eventually finds is more exquisite than words could describe
Venus in the 8th is the ballerina inside Pandora’s Box. She is the innocent girl abducted by the figures of the underworld, and they fight for the Queen reserved for the Lord of the Underworld Himself. She is the ravisher of the pomegranate, and all pleasure is cursed so everything forbidden is mixed with sugar syrup. She gets addicted to the taste of being bad for her, and once she falls into the abyss of love she never returns completely as that person again. The condition of Venus in the 8th doesn’t necessarily follow the script of a chaotic or toxic relationship. Couples with good personal insight and boundaries can bloom a very meaningful, honest, and dignifying relationship with a ‘power couple’ approach to the world. She is the star performer in Aphrodite’s Black Parade. Her reflection casts twisted ideals, and she can appear as the woman living out one’s sins. She can also be a victim of projection, and find that other people claim some sexual entitlement or expectation when she has suggested nothing of the kind.
The superficial characteristics of Venus in the 8th outline surface traits like jealousy, vengefulness, drama, power, and control. However, these individuals tend to have a good capacity for self-insight, and are mostly familiar with this part of themselves. But nothing is superficial about the 8th house, and her treasure is buried so deeply below the surface that only a rare mere mortal endures to discover her. She personifies the great mysteries of love, the contract of ‘til death do us part’, sometimes she makes you want to die, but you wonder how you ever lived without her. She is the heirloom that closes generational cycles, specifically referring to relationships, loomed into the maternal and feminine heritage. Her spiritual sensitivity and psychic gifts are part of her ancestral inheritance, the special child guarded by crossed maternal family members.
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