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When individuals first experience this energy, they may doubt themselves or second guess their perceptions. Eventually they must  learn to trust their intuition. I want to discuss a client that has several eighth house planets and one experience that she shared with me. She is a social worker, and as part of her job has to perform home visits. One time in particular, she made a home visit for the first time to a new family. The client was a 15-year-old girl who was adopted when she was five years old. She lived with her mother and her mother’s boyfriend at the time. When she arrived, things seemed normal, until the boyfriend got home. She was doing the first interview with the daughter and the mother at the kitchen table. When the boyfriend walked into the room, she instantly thought and felt, “This man has made sexual advances toward the 15-year-old.” She shoved the thought out of her head because she did not know where it came from, and knew she did not know the family well enough to suspect something like that. She left the home, and after several weeks, received a call from another helping professional. This helping professional called her to voice her concern about the 15-year-old, who had accused the boyfriend of making sexual advances toward her a year prior. The social worker had no idea of this factual information at the time of the first interview, when she “felt” what was truly going on in this family.

Each experience like this one leads to a deeper understanding of self and others. Individuals with planets here can feel very different than other people. They can feel like no one understands them and that no one else in their life thinks or feels as they do. I see and hear this all the time from people with planets in the eighth house. The truth is that they are right. Most people do not feel other's feelings, thoughts, or intentions so accurately. Most people just take things at face value and do not question or look deeper into their fellow man. The ability to see truth is a unique gift, although it can make individuals feel separate from others, eventually leading to depression if not addressed. Many individuals with planets in this house experience depression and are often treated with medication. One way to alleviate this depression is by protecting oneself. The use of protection rituals are extremely important for these individuals. A basic protection ritual can be implemented such as visualizing a white bubble around oneself. When individuals are in contact with others that have a negative affect on them, visualizing a white light around themselves will help. It is important to visualize this protective bubble daily and to have the intent in mind that nothing negative will get into your aura. Several techniques can be used, but this is the most basic and it works.

After researching this issue for myself and others, it dawned on me what the true lesson of the eighth house is. Instead of feeling  separate or different from others, we need to think of it as feeling our “Oneness” with others. These individuals are feeling other's energies, auras, thought forms and emotions. This is being one with others, not separate. If these individuals can begin to look at their experiences in this way, they will start to feel an unexplained happiness come over them. They will realize that they are truly blessed and would never want to loose the natural healing gifts that they possess.

The house of Scorpio is known as the house of death. Many times individuals with planets here, especially the Sun or Moon, experience the death of someone close to them at a young age. They begin to have a deep awareness and concern within themselves that people die, things change, and they themselves will one day die. They always have a sense of their own mortality. This urge or awareness is always in their consciousness pushing them forward in life. They try to live each day to the fullest. The true lesson for them is to realize that death is just an illusion, a transition or a transformation. The truth is that nothing ever truly dies. Energy is merely transformed into another level of existence. Just as physics states, “Energy can not be created or destroyed, but is merely transformed into another substance.” A dear friend of mine has witnessed eighth house energy her entire life. She has the Sun, Mercury and Saturn all in the eighth house.

The Sun represents the father figure, and in her case, encompasses all the facts about the eighth house. Her father died when she was 13 years old. She and her mother were left to raise her five siblings. They lost the family business when he died unexpectedly. She did inherit some money from his death, but the bitter wounds of loosing a father at such a young age still haunt her to this day. She told me once that she often feels that something in her dies and she suddenly feels completely different. One night she was lying in bed and felt this intense energy surrounding her. Her entire body began to shake and she felt this energy run up her chakras. The next thing she felt was total sadness. She told me that the only way to describe it was that it was like something “died inside her.” After that moment, her life has never been the same. This is the eighth house in action.

True healers, body workers, counselors and psychics usually have planets in the eighth house. The most powerful healers often have Pluto there. Several body workers, Reiki masters, and pranic healers also have this placement. The most important thing to remember is that the eighth house does not lie. It calls out of the woodwork all truths, emotions, feelings and thoughts. Those with eyes to see will see. Just remember to experience this as oneness with others, not separateness. In the end, this will only increase your abilities and understanding of your purpose here on earth. The eighth house is nothing to be afraid of, because it is a blessing in disguise. Individuals with planets here are truly our world’s future healers.

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Carmen Turner-Schott received her Master of Social Work degree from Washington University in St. Louis, May 1999. A student of Metaphysics, Astrology, Tarot, Egyptian Mysteries and Kaballah since 1991, she pursued lessons and studied at the School of Metaphysics for 3 years. She is a member of the Sanctuary of Maat-Golden Dawn online spiritual community (www.ritual-magic.com) and has been practicing astrological counseling for the past 11 years. Carmen recently founded the Astrological Self Awareness Center to reach out to others through the Internet and to help others gain greater self-awareness. She offers group parties and is available for workshops and lectures on various spiritual topics. Her comprehensive astrological services include natal charts, compatibility charts, child reports, transits and many others. Visit her website at http://www.astrology-awareness.com or e-mail her at carmenturnerschott@hotmail.com.