The eighth house asks us to enlarge or sacrifice our ego boundaries in order to enter into relationship or union with another or others. To do so, some aspect of our personality or ego must die. Usually it is some thing, not some one, that dies, and with the passing away of that limiting aspect of our personality we experience a releasing freedom.

Herein is the second aspect of this house: resurrection and rebirth. The eighth house rules personal evolution, growth, transformation and change, death, rebirth, sex, possessions of a relationship, legacies, inheritance, taxes, rituals, initiations and the occult, the astral body and reincarnation, and the severing of ties to that to which we are attached. A planet in the eighth indicates that a personal facet of your psyche is under pressure to work more cooperatively or jointly with others. Many planets here signify a person whose life can be characterized by change. Such individuals may find continuous states of affairs monotonous, and periodically bring about changes or crises to feel truly alive.

The eighth house is that one-twelfth sector of the local sky midway between the Midheaven and the western horizon (see above picture) occupied by planets in the two to four hours before they set.

The test with Saturn in your eighth house is one of letting go. In sex there's often the need to control or manipulate the partner out of the fear of surrendering, as well as a general lack of balance (too much or too little) in sexual matters. You are quite good at using what you have to its full advantage, but may take advantage of other's resources as well. There are money problems in both business and personal relationships. You are demanding when it comes to getting down to the nitty-gritty. Other things being equal (and it's unusual that they are), Saturn in the eighth house is an indicator of a long life.

Famous people with Saturn in the eighth house are/were Charles Aznavour, Jim Baker, Roseann Barr, Charles Baudelaire, John Belushi, Roberto Benigni, Pat Buchanan, Truman Capote, Frank Capra, George Carlin, Chevy Chase, Eldridge Cleaver, John Cleese, James Coburn, John Coltrane, Jane Curtin, Salvidor Dali, Gerard Depardieu, Bo Derek, Michael Douglas, Jose Ferrer, Jerry Garcia, Dave Garroway, J. Paul Getty, Liz Greene, Daryl Hannah, George Harrison, Richie Havens, Waylon Jennings, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ashley Judd, Frida Kahlo, Diane Keaton, Dr. Martin Luther King, JZ Knight, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Lisa Kudrow, D.H. Lawrence, Rush Limbaugh, Linda Lovelace, David Lynch, Jayne Mansfield, Guglielmo Marconi, Penny Marshall, James Olmos, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, The Rock, Richard Rodgers, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marquis de Sade, Red Skelton, and Harry S. Truman.