Astrology, Legacy and the 8th House: The Sins Of The Father…

18 Responses to “Astrology, Legacy and the 8th House: The Sins Of The Father…”

1. Rkkggg says on 4/14/07 at 7:17 am:
   

   The sins of the father, sure, but also the blessings of the father. I’ve got a packed 8th house. (I’m gleeful about actually knowing this now. Hee! Learning is so much fun!) Mercury, Mars, Pluto, and Uranus are all in the 8th house, which happens to be Libra. My Sun sign is also Libra, but it’s in the 7th house.

   So, yes, I guess I see it as a balanced thing. Sins of the father are definitely visited upon the off-spring–but so are the blessings! And there are usually more blessings than sins. At least, in my life.

2. Becca says on 4/14/07 at 10:19 am:
   

   No, I think everybody has to pay for their own sins and only those. Mercury, Uranus, and Venus in Libra plus Pluto in Virgo in the 8th house.

3. kathy says on 4/14/07 at 11:01 am:
   

   Only to the degree that a person inherits a weakness or disease. I believe we are untimately responsible for our own lives, actions and responses and that’s why we are endowed with the ability to learn and adapt. To blame your problems on inherited “sins” is copping out and thus refusing to grow in the direction life is pushing you with that particular problem. My first reponse to something going wrong in my life is to figure out what the lesson is and internalize it ASAP so I don’t have to go there again.

   I have known people who came from wonderful healthy families who turned out terribly and people from horrible families that are the salt of the earth. The common denominator I see is people who turn out well accept responsibility for themselves and use the lessons to learn and grow while the ones who turn out badly usually blame other people or circumstances for their “bad luck” and refuse to accept personal responsibility.

   My eighth house is ruled by Sagittarius but is split almost equally between Sag and Capricorn. It contains on planet, Jupiter (retrograde).

4. maheggo says on 4/14/07 at 11:46 am:
   

   Yes I do. and no I don’t. I think that each child pays for their parents mistakes until they realize that it is a cycle in the family and then if they work at it they can change it. I know I am in my family…Ill see if it works for my kids as well.

5. alovlylife says on 4/14/07 at 11:58 am:
   

   I believe they are. Its up to the next generation to change it.

   I dont have any planets in the 8th house, 8th house falls in leo. But my son has planets in sun, venus and mercury in the 8th house.

6. kashmiri says on 4/15/07 at 3:33 am:
   

   Yes, I definitely think so. I also think some beings have the opportunity to transcend the sins of the father, and that it is easier for some beings to do this than others…

   There are multiple generations of four sisters on my mother’s side, and I am part of one. I am the only sister without an 8th house Moon, which I am always wondering what means.

7. October27 says on 4/15/07 at 7:16 am:
   

   I have no natal planets in my Pisces 8th house, but Transiting Mars and Transiting Uranus will be conjunct there at the last of the spring, and I am skeered!

8. Lupa says on 4/15/07 at 7:31 am:
   

   Yes, definitely. And redemption from those sins carries on to heal future generations. For good or bad, legacies are passed from one generation to the next.

   Scorpio moon and ascendant, Cancer Venus in the 8th.

9. Amber says on 4/16/07 at 2:42 am:
   

   No, I don’t think so. I am deeply linked to my parents, but on a deeper level than their and my actions. What they do, they do, what I do, I do. I feel more responsible for (attempting to) right the actions of previous generations, than on a family level. Moon in aquarius in 8th

10. gem says on 4/16/07 at 7:22 am:
    

    We may inherit juju/legacies from our families, but how I deal with it in this lifetime is my doing and my contribution to possible futures as well :).

11. Daeshii says on 4/16/07 at 9:40 am:
    

    I think it’s a matter of choice. Yes, we can be deeply affected by the lives of our parents, but just like any other form of data that enters our lives, it’s what we do with the knowledge that makes our existence unique and ours. You can continue the cycle, tweak it, or break it completely.

12. Simstim says on 4/18/07 at 11:09 am:
    

    I have an 8th House Taurus Sun/Chiron conjunction. I don’t know what that means exactly.

13. Simstim says on 4/18/07 at 11:18 am:
    

    I think the ’sins of the father’ is that which causes affliction in the sons that must be resolved by the new generation in order to live a fulfilled life. The most blatant examples of this IMO is child abuse, addiction or an absentee father. Now a son must resolved those sins of the father in his own life to be liberated from them.

14. Lynn says on 4/25/07 at 8:00 am:
    

    Yes, and it is shown in the child’s chart and synastry with the parent.

    i have an 8th house moon.

15. triggered says on 8/14/08 at 12:59 pm:
    

    i have 8th house sun and venus and yes i think the sins of the father definitely visit in the 8th house. my fathers absence/lack of attention impacted my self esteem. inorder to get his attention i got praise /succeess hungry which only backfired…. now i can see how much they r his baggage… but im too deep in it to not be what he expected me to be.
    but i shouldnt blame my father , ill blame my birth chart

16. ebay says on 8/14/08 at 6:07 pm:
    

    What’s crazy is that today I learned I am not exempt of embarrassing situations, and I can’t blame all of my life on dysfunctional family members who I generated from. I will always be in embarrassing situations got to laugh and live.

17. Elsa says on 8/14/08 at 9:30 pm:
    

    An addendum to this blog, a year after the fact is here:

    http://www.elsaelsa.com/archives/2008/08/14/setting-the-record-straight-re-the-8th-house-and-the-sins-of-the-father/

18. Jilly says on 8/17/08 at 7:53 pm:
    

    Famous grim poem about this

    Philip Larkin - This Be The Verse

    They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
    They may not mean to, but they do.
    They fill you with the faults they had
    And add some extra, just for you.

    But they were fucked up in their turn
    By fools in old-style hats and coats,
    Who half the time were soppy-stern
    And half at one another’s throats.

    Man hands on misery to man.
    It deepens like a coastal shelf.
    Get out as early as you can,
    And don’t have any kids yourself.

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