House 8

Old textbooks assigned death to this house, as they assigned every subject to some place in the wheel. Lilly 1659, Broughton 1898 and Sepharial 1920 all do so, and they attach the paperwork that follows a death: wills, legacies and dowries. It is a succedent house, the position that follows the western angle.

Modern readers often arrive at this page worried. Heindel 1918, a believer, tells astrologers never to predict death at all, and a planet here says nothing about how or when anyone dies. The site treats the old assignments as history.

Alan Leo, writing before 1917, also calls it an occult house for its link to the fourth. Modern popular astrology reads it as shared money, debts, intimacy and deep change, and those headings are modern extensions of the old inheritance theme.