regeneration through enlargement of viewpoint, both spiritual and mental; and the
subjugation of the personal Self -- a difficult process since so few realize the horror of its
impact upon the mind and consciousness. It has to do with effects of an involuntary nature,
such as the healing crisis preceding either recovery or dissolution in death; the manner of
death; fateful losses which lead to regeneration through certain enforced changes; the
transmutation of emotional stress into spiritual power; wills, legacies, trust funds, insurance;
the estate of the marital or business partner; money belonging to other people, especially the
deceased, in so far as it applies to the native; hence in general the financial relationship of the
world to him, and his responsibilities in connection therewith. However, its consideration of
these things is largely as liabilities rather than as assets.
It has been called the Occult House, the house of hidden things, because in most Eighth
House operations the Law of Cause and Effect is difficult to identify, and there is the
common human temptation to blame everything upon an inscrutable Providence. It is also
known as the House of Death, because it represents the refiner's fire wherein through
suffering the selfish desires of the Ego are burned away, setting free the pure gold of
spiritually-enlightened Selflessness. That death so often comes instead, is a vivid indication
of the tenacity with which we mortals cling to our foibles, utterly deaf to the accumulated
exhortations of the philosophers throughout the centuries. In the wake of an Eighth House
storm there is always a rainbow - if we but lift our eyes to perceive it. The Creative Ruler so
devised this planetary system as to administer an automatic and recurrent spur to spiritual
growth and emotional self-control. Successive jabs become increasingly severe, and finally to
those who refuse to listen and heed, a premature death is inevitable; while to the others, the
spiritually adult, every Eighth House operation is a celestial messenger in disguise, and a
challenge to penetrate this disguise and become the recipient of the blessing he bears.
As the Second from the Seventh, it represents accumulated non-material riches - that which
neither moth nor rust doth corrupt - not the result of the labor of your hand and brain, but of
the manner in which you play the game with those to whom you are closely allied.
In a Mundane Figure: The public income; the income from exports; earning power of the
nation, chiefly from the standpoint of the man who pays; frozen assets in properties, stocks
and bonds as distinct from currency; the monetary standard, the National debt, and interest
rates; public sales; financial organizations, such as trust and insurance companies. The birth
and mortality rate in different class groups, as determined by the planet involved, and its
relation to the Fifth House; medical discovery, insofar as it tends to promote longevity.
In a National Figure: The national treasurer as a government official, distinct from the
treasury itself; financial relations with and the financial condition and obligations of other
countries with respect to the nation for the capital of which the Figure is cast.