MC (X): Career, reputation, ambition, authority, honors, the father.
IC (IV): Home, social norm, the last period of life, the mother.
Ascendant (I): The character of the native, personality, appearance, aptitudes of the body, personal matters.
Descendant (VII): Partners, opponents, contracts, litigations.
XI: Friends, protection (support in the career), hopes (expectations).
V: Sex, gambling, chance, passion, children.
XII: Compulsion, hospitalization, prison, scandal, robbery, deceit,
mystery.
VI: Everything that is linked to the job of the native. Effort, diligence, the native’s employees, pets.
II: Money, property, estate.
*VIII: Death of relatives and friends, inheritance, succession.
III: Mail (post), telegraph, telephone, brothers, sisters, neighbors, short journeys, propaganda and elections (politics).
IX: Travel (long distance), foreign countries, foreign languages, philosophy, diplomacy.
*As primary directions revealed, House VIII is not directly connected with the death of the native himself. Transit and prenatal transits, in conjunction or opposition to the radical House VIII often appear in the native’s chart if he is killed by external causes (accidents, murders). In the chart of J.F. Kennedy, the killing and the killer are symbolized by Neptune transiting in opposition to the radical VIII. This may signify the circumstances of the event (ambush); the murderer; and perhaps the fact that the death of J.F. Kennedy has remained a mystery.
**Isaac Starkman found in his rectifications that the VIII cusp DOES appear in the death of the native.
The nature of the planets:
The Sun and the Moon: Neutral.
Mercury and Uranus: Ambivalent.
Venus and Jupiter: Benefic.
Mars, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto: Malefic.