Lesson 6: Design Your Dream Relationship
8th House Transits: Erotic Awakening

An 8th House transit will call attention to issues of intimacy, sexuality, and shared financial assets. Transits here can affect your closest ties, especially where you’re “bonded” through a marriage, children, cohabitation/real estate, a joint financial venture or a legal agreement. Births, deaths, and other life cycles are part of the 8th house. Transits through this house can bring the need to organize your finances for the long-term, perhaps through a will, a retirement account, or investing. Pregnancies, marriages, engagements and divorces are all possible during 8th house transits.
To do the exercise below, use a Natal + Transits chart from the Free Charts/Extended Chart Selection section of astro.com. You will have to create a free membership profile to utilize their awesome tools—well worth signing up for! Another option we like is running a Transits Chart at astro-seek.
Exercise:
Are any planets transiting through your 8th House? Do you currently feel their impact in your life? How can you use this transiting planet's energy for your benefit? Use the table below for reference.
Planet | Approx. Time in each Zodiac Sign | How this transiting planet may influence your life |
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Sun Solar Transit | 30 days | Sexy beast? Vivacious vixen? Heartbreaker? You'll definitely bring the heat during an 8th house solar transit. Erotic intensity burns the brightest during this part of each year—however it can be a strong brew! Careful not to intimidate people with your forthright energy, or throw them off your trail with your mysterious allure. Wear clothes that make you feel attractive, in ways that you are comfortable. If desired, all eyes will be on you!
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Moon Lunar Transit | 2.5 days | Emotions will be INTENSE—from passion to possessiveness! But due to the secretive nature of the 8th house, you may hold them in during these 2.5 day lunar transits. The effect is like hot lava heating below the surface of a volcano. To prevent destructive eruptions, you'll need safe spaces to reveal your feelings. Privacy is a must! You will bond deeply with people who are willing to show their vulnerability. Just remember to share what's going on with you too! |
Mercury Transit | 3 weeks (up to 10 if retrograde) | Flirting and sexting could get ultra naughty now! (Make sure you're sending that boudoir photo to the RIGHT recipient.) You may prefer to stay in together or share "just the two of us" social experiences. If your relationship has gone from "bootyliscious" to "buddyliscious," consciously spend more time apart to stoke the embers—and save yourselves from falling into the friend zone. |
Venus Transit | 4-5 weeks (up to 10 if retrograde) | Love gets intense—you want mind, body and soul connections. Jealous or possessive tendencies may need to be worked through. You may crave more quality alone time with partner to feel emotionally safe and loved. Beautify your bedroom, buy pretty lingerie, add intense and sexy ambience to your home. Cook with spices, eat foods that have aphrodisiac properties, take a burlesque or pole-dancing class to find what Sheila Kelly of S-Factor calls your “erotic creature.” |
Mars Transit | 8 weeks (up to 8 months if retrograde) | This is a spicy, sexy transit that really ramps up your mojo, leaves you feeling sexually confident (and conquest-like). You may leap into bed (without looking) due to off-the-charts chemistry. Couples may fight over sex, jealousy, money. Divorces and breakups involving a division of assets can become heated , as can any legal battles. |
Jupiter Transit | 12-13 months | Make a shared budget! Large amounts of money come in (and sometimes go out) during this period, though you could have luck with real estate and joint ventures. Be careful not to gamble too much with your savings! You'll feel adventurous in the bedroom, and also excited about bonding with someone for the long-term. Pregnancies, engagements, cohabitation can ignite—you're ready to leap! You may feel restless in a stagnant relationship, and could leave to find someone who’s more open-minded and adventurous. Want to stick around? Traveling, taking workshops and playing sports together can bring back the sexy sparks. |
Saturn Transit | 2.5-3 years | Time to get serious about intimate and permanent ties and long-term finances. Couples may buy property, put down roots, get married or divorced, have children. You could feel sexually repressed or have a low sex drive due to Saturn’s restrictive energy. Or, the burden of work and responsibilities could steal your mojo. May need to pencil in official date nights— or book nights at a hotel away to whisk yourself away from all your libido-dulling duties. |
Uranus Transit | 7 years | Let freak c'est chic! There’s nothing you won’t try between the sheets—and before this transit, you may never have imagined you’d do THAT. Unconventional desires and fantasies come to the fore. This could be the time to have a “best friend with benefits” or to “take a lover” (if you prefer to be old-fashioned about it, which future-focused Uranus usually doesn’t). Heck, you could even find yourself exploring open relationships and polyamory. Uranus rules technology, making online dating and apps a spicy way to find your soulmate—or some sexual healing. |
Neptune Transit | 15 years | Hello, soulmate...goodbye, soulmate? A strong, fated sexual attraction is brewing, but the lover in question may be elusive during a slippery Neptune transit. You may wonder if you’ve dreamed the whole thing! On the upside, your erotic imagination is ablaze, so take a pen name and write some windswept novels, perhaps. A partner may be dealing with an addiction, illness or financial downturn. Money and karma are linked. You could receive a grant for a do-gooding nonprofit, or raise money for a charitable cause. Manifesting is powerful, so hone the Law of Attraction. Visualizing prosperity brings it in spades. |
Pluto Transit | 12-20 years | 50 Shades of...something...is going on. Intense, power-tripping Pluto in your house of sex and intimacy could conjure up your own personal Christian Grey. Eek! If you’re not ready for the Red Room, don’t worry—plenty of psychological baggage will be dragged up from your mental basement. Never thought you were the jealous type, or one to check your mate’s email and diaries? You might just find yourself snooping it up now. Divorces can get especially bitter during this transit but marriages can also be magical alchemical and magnetic. You and your partner can also amass incredible wealth, perhaps through an inheritance, legal settlement or joint venture. |