Venus in Cancer in the Eighth House

The placement of Venus in Cancer indicates that you have a need for nurturing and for an emotional outlet, both within your relationships and in the way in which you formulate your value system. This sometimes manifests as a protective or defensive attitude, if you feel threatened or if you have too much sensitivity. Venus in Cancer symbolizes an emotional approach to those functions symbolized by Venus. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Venus in Cancer are a result of your need to feel cared for and emotionally safe in your relationships and values.

Venus’ placement in Cancer is somewhat ambivalent, as is symbolized by the natural sextile between Cancer and Venus-ruled Taurus combined with the natural square between Cancer and Libra, which is also ruled by Venus. Cancer is the Cardinal Water sign. Venus is symbolically bathed in the waters of Cancer and emits a soft effulgent glow. This is conducive to harmony and a warm, emotional perception of well-being. However, when Cancer’s protective nature symbolically places a crab shell over the Venusian energies, relationships may be negatively affected.

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

Insecurities

Having Venus in Cancer, when you are insecure about your own emotional strength and your value system is very self-centered, you are likely to be plagued by a fear of getting hurt in relationships. Ever sensitive, this fear is so pervasive that it leads you to avoid commitment and reaching out to others. In essence, with Venus in Cancer, your insecurity surrounds you with an emotional and social wall. Your self-imposed isolation occurs at a great loss to you.

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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