Sun in Aquarius in the Eighth House

Having your Sun in Aquarius, intellectual independence is your most marked characteristic. In the sign of Aquarius, the combination of a fixed quality (representing persistence) and an air element (representing intellect and communication) under the influence of the planet of change, Uranus, creates a personality that is liberal, progressive, yet fixed in opinion. Your inflexibility shows up when others least expect it (in keeping with your penchant for unconventionality). It may be in defense of an idea you have, a trip you’ve decided on, a habit of yours that you refuse to give up—whatever the cause, someone will suddenly come in conflict with your Aquarian obstinacy. With your Sun in Aquarius, you refuse to compromise or give an inch. You’re a strange mix of an avant-garde thinker whose opinions are written in stone. You cheerfully ignore what others think and strike off on new paths, unbound by precedent, because there are so many more exciting things for you to discover that way.

With your Sun in Aquarius, your character is a system of paradoxes. You enjoy being with people but are content to be alone. You like to travel but love relaxing at home. You are friendly and outgoing but also detached and reserved. You have both a scientific and an artistic turn of mind. In career you often are involved in two distinct areas of work.

As an individual with your Sun in Aquarius, you can be objective in judgment, for you don’t let emotion get in the way. This appears to give you the ability to stand outside yourself, to rise above ordinary human frailty. Your built-in distrust of emotion compels you to struggle against its chains, and this may become a source of inner conflict.

For the Sun in Aquarius, because independence is your way of life, you will sacrifice even a close personal relationship in order to maintain it. Trying to fence you in or tie you down won’t work. If you feel trapped, you try to break free at any cost. Your sign of Aquarius also represents future hopes and yearnings, and for you, what’s over is done with.

With your Sun in Aquarius, your great weakness is a tendency to inflate your own importance, to pose as an expert on any subject. You are so determined not to be like anyone else that you are sometimes contrary just to be different. You have the least regard for convention of any zodiacal sign, which often gives you a reputation for being eccentric. Just as you are broad-minded about the faults of others, you take for granted that your shortcomings will be overlooked. Sometimes you will be argumentative not because you feel deeply, but simply because you enjoy the intellectual exercise. You are quickly bored and take delight in verbally provoking anyone you consider stodgy and dull.

Nevertheless, individuals with their Sun in Aquarius are among the kindest people in the world. Easygoing, reasonable, slow to take offense, never mean-hearted, you believe in live-and-let-live. Honest, helpful, altruistic, and best of all never boring, you can change anyone’s life for the better just by becoming part of it.

The Inner You with your Sun in Aquarius

With your Sun in Aquarius, the most frequent question you ask is “Why?” You want to understand what makes other people tick. Their lives fascinate you because you hope they will offer you insights into your own. You have plenty of love to give, and you want nothing more than to have lots of interesting friends, a wonderful love relationship, fulfilling work, and for the world to be a better place and everyone to be happy. Not much to ask, is it? One of your best-kept secrets is how shy and insecure you are. You wonder if the people you care about feel the same way about you—this is why you work so hard to make others like you. You want to share yourself, but are afraid of losing who you are or becoming what other people think you should be. Yet somehow your feelings of insecurity manage to coexist with a belief that you are someone special.

The sign position of the Sun indicates how we seek to express ourselves, develop ourselves, fulfill ourselves, and assert our will and power to shape our environment. The house position indicates the area of life in which we choose to focus the energy of our Sun sign and fulfill the purpose which it represents.

Sun in the 8th House

The Sun in the 8th House suggests that you are engaged with issues of intimacy and privacy and that your identity is linked to these issues. Your tendency will be to be introverted. Because you may feel engaged in matters that should not be publicly observed, you may have difficulty or resistance to expressing yourself or revealing your true identity. You may not be as outgoing as you otherwise might be.

With your Sun in the 8th House, you generally must wrestle with the problem of coming out into the open and dealing with a more public world. At the same time, you are often dealing internally with such private matters as emotional intimacy and security, intimacy in relationships, personal insights and mortality. To the extent that you successfully deal with issues of intimacy, you are likely to develop a proficiency in the art of give and take.

As an individual with your Sun in the 8th House, you are also likely to be engaged in a continual balancing act between the needs of your private self and the demands placed on your public self. In dealing with these issues, you may develop greater control and ability to manage your life and these are important skills. These personal skills are often transferable to your public life. In fact, if the depth, intimacy and insight that you experience internally has given you self-confidence, you may naturally want to be in a position of control and managing others externally. Of course, a drive for external power and control may also be an escape from dealing with intimate, personal issues.

The Sun in the 8th House placement may also suggest a certain degree of dependency, particularly on the resources of others with whom you are intimately involved. Thus, you may face issues of self-sufficiency. These may range from asserting your financial or emotional independence to dealing with the generosity of others.

Insecurities

Having your Sun in the 8th House, if you are inwardly insecure, your subconscious awareness of your own mortality leads your subconscious self to protect your ego from this awareness, lest your identity (your ego) be destroyed. One manifestation of this internal suppression of awareness is that you suppress your awareness of your dependency on others, especially for emotional security and feelings of intimacy. Consequently, to reinforce your ego and feeling of existence, you feel you must always be in control. Therefore, you focus on gaining and using power, controlling others and enforcing your dominance over others.  As an individual with your Sun in the 8th House, you may be attracted to sexuality. For you, this is primarily an expression of power and control. You are likely to have difficulty feeling and sharing real intimacy because this requires letting go and sharing your authentic self. You may also become obsessed with death and the occult, but this obsession is a psychological totem designed to protect you against your own mortality.

Focus of You r Self-Identity

With your Sun in the 8th House, your identity is likely to be bound up with your intimate relationships, your capacity for sharing, power and/or sexuality. Your identity may also have a distinction between your persona and who you really are. You may either consciously protect your private identity and life or you may unconsciously possess a dual identity.  As an individual with your Sun in the 8th House, you may feel that you are who you are because of your capacity for intimacy and emotional interaction. You may place a great deal of value on caring and sharing or may see yourself as someone whose role is to manage or coordinate others. You may also derive your sense of identity from the power that you control and wield.  If you identify self-worth with power, then you are subject to pride and arrogance if you have power, and to low self-esteem if you lack power. Identity with sexual prowess is your last resort if you are seeking an identity based on power. If nothing else, you can identify yourself as a sexual being.

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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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