Saturn in Sagittarius ♐︎ in the natal chart
Work Style: Saturn in Sagittarius in the natal chart gives you a highly perceptive nature in your work style. You tend to dedicate yourself to a search for meaning in the work you do, desiring purpose in the career you choose. Individuals with this placement like to have faith in the mission believing what you are doing is serving the greater good. This gives you a deep sense of justice. You like to have freedom in your work life being able to autonomously make choices and schedule out your tasks. You may have a tendency to shift careers or areas of study throughout you life.
Life Lesson: Saturn brings us life lessons and represents the road blocks that are put up in our lives in order to help bring us to a greater sense of awareness regarding our true nature. You desire expanded consciousness and find this through various means of travel or spiritual seeking. People with this position often grew up in a family with strict religious practices and may come to a period of disillusionment in your adult life through a crisis of faith. Saturn in Sagittarius is teaching you the life lesson of being your own authority and deciding for yourself what is just and true for you.
8th House
Keywords: The keywords associated with the 8th house include death, transformation, secrets, mystery, macabre, shared finances or resources, legacies, taxes, owed money, uncovered trauma, healing, and psychology.
Succedent House Type: A Succedent house type is ruled by a fixed sign. Scorpio is the fixed water sign ruling the 8th house.
The meaning of the 8th house has evolved significantly over time. Traditionally this house was associated with taxes, legacies, and shared resources. It is believed that due to its associations with legacies and inheritance this has contributed to the modern 8th house associations with death. Beyond the literal definition of death, it can also represent transformation, cycles of life, and major life endings/beginnings.
The perspective of the 8th house is broad and psychologically based in most modern astrological interpretations. It symbolizes how you relate to others on a deeply emotional level. This house is associated with secrets but also shared resources and taxes.
Trying to relate all of these themes together is what gives the 8th house is intense mystery. When you are working in the 8th house you are often working through some kind of emotional trauma. How you relate to the life, death, and sharing your experiences and resources with another are all 8th house endeavors.