The Life of Death – The Animating Forces of the 8th House

Webinar Description

The relationship between life and death as understood in Hellenistic astrology reflects the natures of the 1st House (life) and the 8th House (death). Through this lens, life and death are averse, turned away from each other – even hostile. The natural cycle of the day sees the life-bringing warmth of the rising Sun shift during its after-noon descent as the bright light moves along what Jung called “the sunset way.” Jung said, “We need the coldness of death to see clearly.” Yeats noted, “We begin to live when we have conceived life as tragedy.” With the light of a psychological perspective via the soul, this webinar looks at the original naming of this house as “The Idle Place” and how 8th House death is anything but dead. And, while 8th House experiences can be difficult, they can bring resilience and a revitalization to life itself.

Shawn Nygaard is an archetypal astrologer from Minneapolis, MN, where he does readings and teaches classes and webinars. He spent a year working for an astrology hot-line while also hosting the internet radio show Imagine That! about archetypal astrology. Shawn’s writing has been published in The Mountain Astrologer. He is finishing his B.A. in English, focusing on British Literature and the Romantic poets. He has spoken at the Minnesota Jung Association, and is a graduate of the CMED Institute, where he studied archetypes with Caroline Myss.