Venus in Leo in the Eighth House

The placement of Venus in Leo indicates that you have a need to be appreciated within your relationships and this need is also reflected in the way in which you formulate your value system. This sometimes manifests as a need to be dominant (or have your authority acknowledged) in a relationship. With Venus in Leo, your need to be appreciated and noticed also may manifest in your adopting values that are in harmony with creativity, thus allowing you the scope to be dramatic and draw attention to yourself. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Leo are a result of your need to value creativity and feel respected and appreciated in your relationships.

Venus’ placement in Leo is especially ambivalent, as is symbolized by the natural square between Leo and Venus-ruled Taurus combined with the natural sextile between Leo and Libra, which is also ruled by Venus. Leo is the Fixed Fire sign. Venus is symbolically energized by Leo’s fire, but this fire energy may also be discomforting for the naturally passive nature associated with Venus. Regarding relationships with Venus in Leo, on the one hand, you are likely to enjoy being “on display” to others, and particularly to your partner. On the other hand, the inherent self-centeredness often associated with Leo sometimes makes sharing a relationship difficult. Venus is generally comfortable with the stable, fixed nature of Leo, since this is supportive of relationship. However, when Leo’s fire energy turns this fixity to active stubbornness, the result is not likely to be positive.

Venus also symbolizes the anima in the psyche. Thus, if you are female with Venus in Leo, you are likely to model your femininity in order to incorporate characteristics typically associated with Leo. If you are male, you are likely to be attracted to someone who projects or embodies Leo-associated traits.

Insecurities

As an individual with Venus in Leo, if you are insecure within yourself, you are likely to have a fear of being unnoticed and unappreciated. This often leads you to try too hard to be liked by others. Domineering relationships may be the result. You may either dominate your partner to bolster your own security – forcing him or her to acknowledge you – or in your insecurity and lack of self-esteem you may attract someone who will dominate you. With Venus in Leo, you may also settle for someone who is “below your level” in your desperation to enter a relationship in which you are appreciated and acknowledged to be superior.

Venus in the 8th House:

With Venus in the 8th House, your relationships tend to be close and exclusive – or if not exclusive, then intense. This intensity and desire for intimacy tends to affect your tastes and judgments, also. There is some danger that you become so intimate in your relationships that it leads to confusion. You can develop a lack of balance between intimacy and your responsibilities to the external world.  Having Venus in the 8th House, your desire for intimacy, emotional security and a very personal relationship affect,  and often improve, the quality of your relationship(s), unless these tendencies are  taken too far.

Having Venus in the 8th House, the tendency for withdrawal and inward intensity that the 8th House  represents should be digested and then reflected externally, (i.e., toward the  “other”), however, if you are to make the most positive use of this energy. As an individual with Venus in the 8th House, your task is to resolve the tension between your inward and outward pulls and between self-contemplation and recognition of the “other.” Whether these tensions are resolved constructively or allowed to manifest destructively will determine the quality of your relationships and your perceptual experience in the world. You can easily become withdrawn and self-absorbed, even within the context of your relationships. Or, your attraction to intimacy and the unseen can result in a richness of perception and relationship that is especially intense and rewarding.

Insecurities

As an individual with Venus in the 8th House, if you are inwardly insecure, you will look for fulfillment and pleasure from others, and particularly from the intimacies associated with close relationships.  Since you do not look for or find this pleasure from within yourself, and you are not in touch with your own values, you are dependent for your pleasure on what others give you. This may involve both sexual pleasure and the sharing of other resources, physical and emotional. Having Venus in the 8th House. in your dependency on others, you become a  slave to your partner’s will. Yet you also scheme to gain what you want from your partner(s), for this is the only thing that is important to you.

Evaluation Focus

With Venus in the 8th House, you tend to evaluate situations and things from the standpoint of how they may enhance your emotional security. If you are committed to a relationship, you may see things in terms of how that relationship is benefited and furthered. As you perceive things through the lens of your relationship, it may be the intimacies of your relationship that provide you with some of your most heightened experiences.

Having Venus in the 8th House, if you are dependent on a relationship, then you may evaluate life from a possessive or jealous point of view. However, if you are wise, you will conclude that your security is ultimately grounded in truth and authenticity. You are then more likely to be concerned with the authenticity of the thing or experience than with how it is likely to be of benefit to you.

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Article referenced from:

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 2: Planets in Signs

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 3: Planets in Houses

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