Okay, so I've thought about this a lot over the past months and I wanted to fully flesh out my thoughts on the 8th House and sex. I didn't make this tweet haphazardly, and so I'll go into some traditional rationales that can provide an access point for my thinking. https://twitter.com/venusian5astro/status/1203050693772414978

First, I'll point out that the 8th House is a succedent house. This means that it serves to reinforce and provide resources to the significations of the angular house which it accompanies. In this case the angular house is the 7th. This means that the 8th represents the

collective resources of relationships, and sex is most assuredly a part of these. If you take the temporal perspective of the angular triads, succedent houses are what FOLLOW from angular houses. What follows a marriage is consummation, and in the case the consummation fails

the marriage itself is subject to annulment. If neither of these are satisfactory for you then I'll expound my personal favorite. Demetra George explains the 8th as the "fears and anguish of the mind". This comes from the 8th being averse to the ascendant, and thus something

hidden and potentially harmful to the native, but since it's something in the upper hemisphere of the chart (the sky) it shows the matters pertain to the spirit or mind. In this regard I would like us to examine kink. In many or most cases the origin of a kink is obscured

from the native, and it requires relational play to engage with on some level. These are attractions/stimulations of the mind and thus are divorced from the sex explored in the 5th House. To safely engage in many types of kink you need a contractual agreement (7th) between two

(or more) people as indicated by things like safe words and discussions about boundaries. When these are strongly in place, along with a solid foundation of trust people can explore these "fears and anguish of the mind" in a way that can help to exorcise them. Issues of trust,

issues of esteem, issues of worthiness... all of these come into play in (certain types of) sex. Interaction with these can be powerfully healing, just as sexual mistreatment can create or exacerbate problems in these realms. Such a precarious and dangerous area is unsuitable

for the so-called house of "Good Fortune". My argument then is that the 8th House is a way for us to engage with topics that are potentially harmful to us through relational means, as indicated by the angular triad.