On my journey around the ‘houses’ i have [so far] found Henry Coley to be pretty accurate in what he suggest as house rulers house positions, and their meanings.
The eighth house is always a ‘tricky’ one though, as it house meanings can seem so distant from what we recognize as our ‘self’.
But a ‘part’ of ourselves it is; even though a lot of it is made manifest through a partner and what they bring to your life, and of course ‘death’ which for most of us is only experienced ‘once’, and is rather ‘final’.
Of course ‘others’ death’s are frequently experienced in our lifetimes, so it has more than a ‘singular’ meaning. Although ‘your’ death, is most definitely shown your eighth house. I always worry about my ‘heart’, as Leo is on my 8th house cusp, and although i was born with what felt like a strong ‘heart’, [because of the Sun in the 'angular' 7th house, with no malefic planets aspecting it], i know that after many years of smoking i have weakened it, but if i gave-up, it would part repair itself.
Unfortunately my father’s mother smoked heavily and even when i saw her weakened body near death and swore not to end-up the same way i never was able to take the ‘lesson’ from her death onboard, more’s the pity.
Strangely at 46 years old i haven’t seen many of my near family die, but as i get older these ‘days’ are sure to come, and with more frequency, so i will have to learn to deal with it ‘when it comes’. This has been a fair ‘constant’ in my life, [up-to-now], and has really helped me live a ‘good life’, with little sorrow.
Now, with no wife, comes little knowledge of what ‘dowry’ they may bring, but i have always thought that with the Sun in the 7th house, any ‘monies’ they ‘may have’ would pretty much stay with themselves, or i’d have to fight hard to get ‘at’ what is their’s, but this ‘angular’ placement should show they have looked-after what they ‘have’, although its quite irrelevant if i never marry or get seriously attached to someone.
Coley says, someone with this position could marry a wealthy person, which always helps, [i suppose], and he says this person may be a ‘foreigner’, and the marriage may be in his or her foreign country, [which is simply saying you will either marry in your or their's country], which seems quite obvious.
And he says it’s also likely that i would outlive them, which in itself is good, but what if you also marry someone who has their lord 8 in the 7th, is it ‘then’ a battle to see who will out-survive who?
He says no more, and neither have i anymore to add, only perhaps with lord 8 Mercury, also ruling in a sizeable part of the eighth house, and also placed in the seventh house, it must surely double-up this ‘meaning’.
And so it is with the next ‘house’, the ninth, which has two rulers placed in the same house.
More of that soon-ish.
