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1. Vita Life These represent the basic outline of the houses as they are still understood today...as in the 8th house: Birth, death, beginnings and endings. Sexual relationships and deeply committed relationships of all kinds. Joint monies, taxes, legacies, and corporate finances. The occult and psychic matters. The astrological chart is divided into 12 sections called Houses, each House governing a specific area of Life. Traditionally, the 4th House rules the End of Life, Gravesite (among other things), but most people focus on the 8th, believing it to forecast actual Death. Longevity was foretold by calculating the Hyleg, a complicated procedure which has been all but lost because it fell into disrepute, modern astrologers believing it was unethical to forecast such a thing. The fact that it was done and accurately so, does lend credence to that technique, and there are efforts underway to translate ancient texts of astrological knowledge. Mythology tells us that Hades is the "Home of the Dead", therefor the 8th House relates to the Goods of the Dead (like possessions, wills, and legacies) and the Occult, which means "hidden". Planets within that House can also give clues to the Manner of Death or how one dies (see examples below). The 8th is still called the House of Death, but it refers more to Transformation, for profound change (transformation) comes about when some part of the personality/psyche "dies". Thus it rules a symbolic Death, although at times it can also pertain to a physical Death (other factors must also be involved for the latter). Mars, the ancient ruler of Scorpio, was given domain of the 8th House. The current ruler of Scorpio/8th House is Pluto, discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh on February 18, 1930. The astronomical Pluto has one satellite named Charon. Now where have we encountered him before? There are even more interesting correlations: Pluto is the Roman version of the Greek Hades and was the ruler of Hades, the Underworld (see Hades). Hades was considered to be in "the far west" and in terms of spatial directions, the 8th House does represent the West (actually West by South, on the western side of the chart). Pluto/Hades is often pictured with a three-headed dog (Cerberus) and there is a three-headed monster above the tail of The Scorpion constellation. Scorpio is not associated with Death per se, but it is with transformation, and it does represent the fact that its natives keep much of their personality beneath the surface, "hidden or unseen" as the original meaning of Hades was. Scorpios keep much hidden and it is hard to get to know them; subjects having to do with Death/Afterlife states-of-being, funerals, legacies, can also be of interest to them.
Manners of Death
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