This is termed the house of death, wills, legacies, portions, dowry of the wife; and in law-suits it denotes the adversaries means, friends, and success. In duels it is the adversaries second. It denotes the property and means of the querent's partner, and the strength of public enemies. Although, in nativities, the cause of death is not judged from this house of heaven, yet whenever Jupiter is therein, or even Venus, unafflicted, it is impossible the party should die violently.

Manuscript Astrologers "of yore", describe this house, as symbolically representing " labor, sorrow, battle, strife, slaughter, dower and inheritance of the dead, and money of public enemies: it signifies also the brethren of servants, being the third house to the sixth; and fathers of children, being the fourth house to the fifth; and sickness of brethren, being the sixth house to the third; also religion, and journeys of private enemies, being the ninth house to the twelfth; and dignity and magistery of friends, being the tenth house to the eleventh; and kings friends, being the eleventh house to the mid-heaven; also the private enemies of religious persons, being the twelfth house to the ninth". Haly, records the eighth house, as representing " Persons wretched and miserable, and liable to bodily deformities; and whether the asker shall die in indigence or abundance".

It is a feminine house, similar to m in its rule over the parts of the body.