Venus in Scorpio in the Eighth House

The placement of Venus in Scorpio indicates you have a need for intimacy and power in your relationships. Your judgments and value system are also likely to be influenced by your need for power and, also, by a need for truth and authenticity that is associated with Scorpio. You are likely to have a strong emotional attachment to these needs. With Venus in Scorpio, the need for power in relationships often manifests as a controlling attitude, but if you sensitively deal with your need for intimacy, there can be an incredible sharing of energy within a relationship(s). Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Scorpio are a result of your need to feel an intimate and authentic connection with another.

Venus’ placement in Scorpio is complex and possesses some inherent tensions. However, there is also a potential affinity between the functions symbolized by Venus and the Scorpio energy. The inherent tension is symbolized by the natural opposition between Scorpio and Venus-ruled Taurus and the natural semi-sextile between Scorpio and Libra, which is also ruled by Venus. Scorpio is the Fixed Water sign. Venus’s vibration is sympathetic to the water element associated with Scorpio. However, the fixed quality of Scorpio tends to inhibit the relationship function symbolized by Venus in its natural tendency to open outward toward the other. Scorpio is also associated with a strong drive for intimacy and if you can open the door of intimacy within yourself, fulfilling relationship(s) may result.  Venus in Scorpio tends to accentuate the relationship function symbolized by Venus, although the intensity of perception associated with Scorpio tends to strengthen Venus’s evaluative function.

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

Insecurities

Having Venus in Scorpio, as someone who is insecure and who is obsessed with the notions of power and control, you perceive others as threats who need to be manipulated and contained. This attitude, based on fear and survival, extends even to your closest associates and intimates. With Venus in Scorpio, your perception of the cosmos and its energy is that they are to be feared and never trusted. “Do unto others before they do unto you” becomes your motto. Never trusting, you never allow yourself to be intimate. Therefore, you never enter into a real relationship and your judgment is always tainted by suspicion.

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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