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Healing and the 8th House
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One of the major turning points in my career as an astrologer came through an affiliation with an aspiring author, teacher, and lecturer who made it possible for me to audition to co-host an astrology-based radio show. This ambitious woman became a client of mine. In our consultation, when questioned about what she wanted to do, her response was that she "wanted people to know who they are from the inside out and to use that knowledge as a tool of empowerment and love." She had overcome so very much turmoil in her own life and felt a calling to use her experiences to assist people with their concerns.
I had studied many horoscopes of people whose life work focused on different aspects of healing and I knew the symbols well. In the analysis of this woman's horoscope, the emphasis of her 8th House stood out, which is what you like to see for someone who has aspirations to work to help to build or heal the self-esteem and worth concerns of others But things had been extremely difficult for my client. Life seemed to be sending her a message that she should give up but I did not agree with that message for her. In our consultation, we reached a point where I needed to help her understand the purpose of challenges in life and I did so by making a simple statement:
"Buried in the earth are precious diamonds. In order to get them, however, we must did and dig deep. Once we get to the foundation rock, we must apply pressure to shape and mold the diamond. It is not the digging. It is the pressure that makes diamonds. Softness is what marshmallows are made of. They are soft, sweet, easy to crumble under pressure and no good for anybody. You are being challenged to decide what you want to be - a diamond or a marshmallow.
The idea was to put into perspective the severe challenges that she was going through. I wanted to make the difficulties useful and productive and that is exactly how she took it. Iyanla would go on to use the phrase written above, crediting me for it in the introduction to her first book, "Acts of Faith." Today, Iyanla (E-yon-la) Vanzant is one of the most dynamic, most inspirational speakers in America. She has 8 million books in print (some of them topping the New York Times list), has been asked on multiple occasions to appear on Oprah's show and hosted her own show for one year, a show that was executive-produced by Barbara Walters on the ABC network. Hers is a life that is devoted to helping others find meaning, love, value, and worth in their lives.
Iylana Vanzant
I have veiled the presentation of Iyanla's horoscope here: The basic formation, south and west, is typical for healers, especially those who are working to build esteem in others or are working to help them through various incidents of crisis, including any kind of rehabilitation. This area of the horoscope is where we see a life reflection of the giving of Self to others that couples with the sense of having been pushed around, controlled, and even victimized by life experience (Iyanla has been raped and was physically abused in her first marriage, all well-documented publicly). As you will see, it is quite typical for healers to have an emphasis in the southwestern portion of the horoscope. The wisdom acquired in having been pushed around by life experience is used to teach others who need the wisdom to get through problems and concerns. Neptune and Saturn conjoin the Midheaven, suggesting an idealistic career focus.
Another important factor about the southwest emphasis comes with the idea that the life centers upon events that happen to the person as opposed to the person impacting him or self upon the environment a meaningful event (Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis is a perfect example of this principle-in-action. She is most well known for an event that happened to her, that she was a victim of. It was a crisis of the highest order and her horoscope has the southwest hemisphere accentuation). For many healers, especially those who are psychically talented, they are being "used" by the universe to help others.
Understanding the 8th House
Astrology has grown today in concert with the psychological movement of last Century. The new students of today have a great advantage over the students of 30 years ago because the overall quality of texts are better and the personal computer facilitates astrological learning resources in ways that were unthinkable many years ago (in many ways this is also a disadvantage because the ease of getting information prevents the kind of motivation to study that existed many years ago). In 1967 when I started my studies in astrology, nine out of ten astrology books were just plain awful. One of the things that made the process of learning difficult in those days was the inconsistency of information from book to book that made synthesis (a concept that no one was teaching) impossible to learn. This was particularly so regarding the 8th and 12th Houses. As a new student of those days, a horoscope with an 8th or 12th House emphasis would immediately make the process of analysis a harrowing experience because your mind just couldn't pinpoint anything concrete to blend in within a person's life-expression. And therein is the key! There is much about these Houses that is not concrete and so they demand an approach that is more complex, analytically speaking. They emphasize much that is beneath the surface, unconscious, thus not concrete.
The 2nd House symbolism in astrology has to do with the concept of worth. Yes, I know every book since the beginning of time refers to this House as the House of personal income, money, etc. And in fact, it does symbolize money on an outer level. But since money is not a reality for every human being on earth and self-worth is, we first see the 2nd House symbolism as having to do with self-worth and self-esteem. Where the 1st House is "my identity" and "my self-projection," the 2nd House is "how I value my identity and how I feel about myself in terms of worth and self-esteem."
In the first six Houses of the horoscope, the symbolisms are connected to "me:" my identity (1st House), my worth (2nd House), my mindset (3rd House), my early home life; a parent (4th House), my capacity to give love (5th House), and my capacity to cooperate with others, especially in the work world (6th House).
When we move to the 7th House, we are looking at the horoscope from the perspective of the vantage point of others. So where the 1st House is "me," the 7th House is "you." Therefore the 8th House becomes the worth, esteem, and values of others. In a nutshell, this House tells a great deal about how a person feels when they are confronted with the worth and values of others and also how they might be supported or not supported by others. When the 8th House is tense, there is a suggestion of difficulties in this area that may manifest as an inability or unwillingness to acknowledge the worth (or values) of others. Such a person finds it difficult to give compliments to another because in doing so, they find that they somehow feel diminished. In other cases, the person with a challenged 8th House may become too intimidated by the worth of others. They walk into a room full of strangers and imagine that everyone is talking about them in a negative way or they over-compensate by adopting a superiority posture that puts everyone down so that they feel better about what they secretly feel to be lacking within. The possibilities are many but for sure but it should be clear that the 8th House has aplenty to do with the worth, values, and resources of other people. As such, an accentuated 8th House can lead one down the path of working in areas of life that key on the support of others (or on supporting others) in the sense that "the other" is providing a focus for one's vocation or calling. This could be a stock broker, artist agent, consultant, and indeed, a healer.
Traditional astrology books associate the 8th House with "death, sex, and the occult." These disparate titles are what make an understanding of the 8th House difficult in the beginning of astrological study because on the surface they appear to be unrelated. Indeed, they are unrelated until you consider that each one of them represents a deeply felt, emotionally intense experience that delves deep into the one's subconscious, unconscious part of existence. It is because of this that an accentuation of the 8th House in one's horoscope may reflect a life that is crisis-oriented. The intensity of the crisis is what gives the person what they need in order to be who they are. As such, we frequently find that an accentuation of the 8th House is found in the horoscopes of those who support the worth of others through some form of healing because the existence of multiple crisis in life has led them to an understanding of what it takes to heal. The healer can be in the more common form of a nurse or therapist or in the less common form of the parapsychologist, metaphysician, occultist, or psychic. These are people who have come into existence to bring light into the darkness of the lives of people.
The brief examples below demonstrate the accentuated 8th House that frequently occurs in the horoscopes of some prominent people whose lives are dedicated to helping to rebuild and heal people.
Sylvia Browne
Sylvia Browne is world renowned for her psychic talent, her counseling ability, and her research into parapsychology. Her experience as a psychic includes nearly 50 years of presenting psychic readings, lectures, and paranormal research. She also has over 30 years of television appearances and countless hours of pro bono work with medical, psychiatric and law enforcement agencies across America.
A short list of her books include Visits from the Afterlife, Contacting Your Spirit Guide, Adventures of a Psychic God, Creation and Tools for Life, The Other Side and Back, Past Lives, Future Healing, Sylvia Browne's Book of Dreams, Sylvia Browne's Book of Angels, and The Other Side Of Life.
Browne's horoscope shows us the southern hemisphere emphasis. The blending of the Sun-Moon-Ascendant suggests a central life-energy focus on fairness, charm, and popularity that is expressed in an enthusiastic personality that needs be opinionated about that which is just, correct and right. And all of this is expressed through a humanitarian, socially conscious image that is not of the everyday variety.
The Moon is the focal point of a T-Square involving Saturn's opposition to a Neptune-Mars conjunction. As the ruler of the 6th House, we see the emphasis on service to others and privately on cooperation dynamics in her work environment.
With Venus upon the Midheaven and four quintiles (please see my February essay locates in the archives of this web site), creative dimensions are heightened. If you have ever seen Sylvia live, you know that she is quite creatively entertaining within the seriousness of what she does.
Mercury=Jupiter/Pluto is the symbol of her grand success and lastly, the Sun's 8th House position shows her illumination of 8th House affairs in the lives of others. The greater part of Sylvia's work has to do with the afterlife, with discussions of the soul, what it is, what happens to it after death, etc.
James Van Praagh
James Van Praagh is a survival evidence medium, meaning that he is able to provide proof of life after death by providing messages that survivors relate to emotionally. He describes himself as being "clairsentient." He feels the emotions and personalities of the deceased and helps to heal others through his communication with those who have left their bodies. This is a classic manifestation of the 8th House healer. His focus is on the affairs of death and he has complete dependence on his emotions and feelings to do what he does. He is not in charge!
Van Praagh was always fascinated with death, even as a child. At the age of 8, he was praying for God to be revealed to him, when an open hand appeared through the ceiling of James' room emitting radiant beams of light. At the age of 24, the promise of that outstretched hand was fulfilled when he became involved in psychic phenomena and metaphysics (tr. Neptune conj. Moon).
As a conduit to the idea that we are all survivors of death, the focus of James' work is to provide healing for those of us who need healing as a result of a death experience.
The first impression of Van Praagh's horoscope cannot help but lead your eyes to the dominance of the 8th House and, again, the southwest hemisphere emphasis. Not only is the 8th House well-emphasized but his Moon is in the 12th House. The dimensions of the unconscious are well-accentuated in his horoscope, obviously reflected in his life. We see the tendency to develop all of this into a vocation through the 10th House ruler being placed in the 8th, the idealistic Neptune-Jupiter conjunction in the 10th House, and the Moon's placement in the 12th House, which requires a behind-the-scenes orientation in for vocational fulfillment.
Van Praagh's success symbol is shown by AP=Jup/Plu=Mer/Nep, idealism that is very successfully presented to others.
James' unique paranormal experiences during the past sixteen years have been recorded in his best-selling books Talking To Heaven, Reaching To Heaven, and Healing Grief - Reclaiming Life After Any Loss and Heaven and Earth - Making the Psychic Connection.
Edgar Cayce
Edgar Cayce was called the "sleeping prophet" and is the most documented psychic of our time. His work has impacted my life and the lives of many others in tremendous ways. Cayce, born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, had very little education. He was very interested in photography. At age 19 he had a nervous collapse (a crisis, again!) after which he began to receive visions describing how to heal people. Over a period of 40 years, Cayce diagnosed and helped an estimated 30,000 people!
Cayce operated by suggestion while in a sleeping state. Questions were posed to him that he was able to answer through contact with the Akashic records. He had a dependence upon "other worlds." He was not in charge! Many of these readings were transcribed and can be found at the Association for Research & Enlightenment in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
In Cayce's normal everyday conscious demeanor, he was a quiet, conservative man who was devoted to his wife and to the Bible. He was often alarmed to hear some of the things that he said when he in his unconscious state but these things could not be denied because of the scores of people whose lives were turned around by it all.
Once again, we see the southwest hemisphere emphasis in Cayce's horoscope. His was a life that was devoted to others as he lay still in a passive, unconscious state allowing the universe to operate through him.
As would be expected, Cayce's 8th House is emphasized with the 9th House being illuminated by his Sun. Neptune is prominent conjunct the Midheaven-Moon and square the Ascendant. And Neptune is in mutual reception with Venus, suggesting social idealism.
Although Cayce never had much money to speak of, he was quite prominent (Pluto angular) and had Mercury=Saturn=Jupiter/Pluto. A list of books connected to his work bears out the success of it.
Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra's name is well known as a prominent physician, author, and lecturer. Born in New Delhi, India, he moved from India to the United States in 1970 to get his internship. He finally set up his own practice in endocrinology in Boston. In 1985 he became chief of staff at the Boston Regional Medical Center.
Chopra would soon become involved with an ancient Hindu tradition of holistic healing known as Ayurveda (Sanskrit for "meaning of life"). The involvement with Ayurveda led Chopra to become quite disenchanted with traditional medicine due to its dependence on drugs. Resigning from his job, he co-founded Maharishi Ayur-veda Products International Inc., with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who practiced Ayurveda. Their company produced herbal supplements, teas, oils, etc. Chopra built the company to a point of prominence and made Ayurveda acceptable. Chopra would eventually write books that became quite successful (10 million copies sold to date).
Chopra's horoscope also has the southwest hemisphere emphasis with an accentuated 8th House. Neptune is expressed by Chopra through its spiritual dimensions. It is quintile to the Midheaven, which punctuates this gifted man's profile.
The examples shown here are extreme, specialized cases, for sure. Each one of these individuals has made extraordinary contributions to the world by healing people. And in each case, you have seen the prominence of the 8th House along with other supportive measurements that enhance the 8th House symbolisms. These same kinds of indications are present in the horoscopes of many people who are in various walks of the healing field. The point here is to show, through example, that a prominence of the 8th House very often leads to an interest in, need for, or talent in healing, especially so when the Sun or a strong stellium of planets are there.
There are many, many people whose lives focus on healing who do not have the 8th House emphasized. The point here is not to suggest that the emphasized 8th House is the be-all end-all symbolism of a life focus on healing but rather that you are aware of the dimensions of healing when you see an accentuated 8th House. When an 8th House focus is not present, an emphasis on healing may also appear through a strong focus of idealism in the horoscope, particularly when Neptune is in high focus within the horoscope. Remember the examples in this essay: Iyanla Vanzant has Neptune conjunct her Midheaven. Sylvia Browne has Neptune square her Moon. Edgar Cayce has Neptune conjunct his Midheaven. Deepak Chopra has Neptune quintile his Midheaven and James Van Praagh has Neptune in his Midheaven conjoining Jupiter. Whether it is a nurse, doctor, herbalist, psychic or inspirational speaker, etc., the 8th House and/or a prominence of Neptune are almost assured to be accentuated in the horoscope.
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Basil Fearrington,
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Basil Fearrington is the author of "The New Way To Learn Astrology." He has been a professional astrologer for 22 years.
Basil's articles have appeared in the leading astrological publications around the world. He was the Inaugural Chairman for the MilleyDome project in Johannesburg, South Africa and taught astrology there for one year.
Basil has twice been a faculty member of UAC and spoke at Astro 2000. In addition to his work in astrology, Basil is a professional musician who has toured with and/or recorded for artists such as Stevie Wonder and George Benson.
He was on a team of composers who did the music for a network show called "New York Undercover." The same team won a Grammy award in 1980.
bfearr@aol.com
www.basilfearrington.com
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