How the 8th house impacts your faith in religion/God
I came across an interview with a man who escaped the Holocaust. He lost some of his family members there and talked about how difficult it was to survive those years.
When asked about God, after everything he had witnessed, he said he couldn't bring himself to trust in a higher power anymore.
In astrology, the 8th house represents extreme circumstances, life-threatening situations, catastrophic loss, and events that break a person at their core
8th house is the 12th(loss) from the 9th(god, religion)
-> 9th house rules faith, religion, dharma, and belief in a Creator.
-> 12th from any house signifies the loss of what that house stands for.
So a strong negative 8th house literally signifies the loss of belief in god/religion, It cuts the cord between you and the divine.
Most people, when faced with hardship, turn to higher power. They pray harder. They hope. They look up.
But a deeply afflicted 8th house doesn't allow that. It pushes you past the point where faith can hold you.
That's why you see this pattern in extreme cases - survivors of war, genocide, unimaginable tragedy.
Curious if anyone else has observed this in charts they've studied. Would love to hear examples.