Venus in the Eighth

When Venus is placed in the eighth house, you are focused on keeping your love

nature secret and private. You will benefit through the marriage partner and will tend to

marry someone of a higher financial status than yourself. You are blessed by your

partner’s possessions and financial situation. You have a deep love nature and you can be

possessive and intense. When you fall in love, you can fall very and do not take

relationships lightly. Having Intimacy and trust is crucial for you to feel comfortable with

a partner. Before you can become sexually active with a partner, you will wait until you

know you can trust them. You struggle with trusting others and find it difficult to show

your true feelings to those you care about. You will want to know for sure how they feel

about you before you will share your own intimate feelings. You can feel insecure at

times and you are afraid of being hurt. When you have sex with a partner it is all or

nothing for you. You expect a high level of commitment and loyalty from your partner

and can become jealous, vengeful and aggressive if you feel mistreated.

You are attracted to secretive individuals that work behind the scenes in some way.

The partners you attract are often in law enforcement, detective work, psychiatry,

psychology and fields where they delve deeply into psychological matters. You are

attracted to intense and passionate individuals. When you are in relationships, you are

also passionate and possessive of your partners. You expect a high level of depth in your

relationships and if you do not experience this, then you will feel restless and bored. You

can find it hard to emotionally connect with some people and find most relationships

superficial and lacking in some way. You cannot tolerate superficiality in your intimate

relationships and are not a casual dater. You enjoy a one on one relationship that is stable
and serious. Many times you can marry someone based on financial status and material

security. You are attracted to others that have money, wealth, and influence. You can find

it hard to marry someone who is poor or struggles financially, even if you love them. You

can sometimes marry solely based on a partner’s financial success and wealth, even if

there is not a true chemistry between you. You need to be aware of this trait within

yourself.

You can attract partner’s that are wounded in some way. You feel love for people who

have pain. You can fall in love with others if you feel that they need you, and if you

connect emotionally with them. You need to be cautious and think about the difference

between truly feeling in love or feeling pity for someone. Sometimes you can mistake

feelings of love for your own intuitive ability of feeling other’s pain. Connecting to

others pain often brings you a partner that is unstable, unhealthy or unreliable. You may

learn this the hard way, by constantly feeling victimized throughout your life. Sex and

love go hand and hand for you. You can find it difficult to separate them, which creates a

feeling of loneliness relationships. You can sacrifice your own feelings for others and

sometimes sex can bring heartache into your life. When you have sex with a partner, you

develop a strong attachment that is difficult to break. You need to be careful about who

you share intimacy with, because you can sometimes find yourself feeling that you were

taken advantage of. You need emotional depth in your relationships to feel fulfilled and

to experience happiness.