posted March 20, 2009 12:15 AM         

I'm looking at my synastry with this guy--we both have Eros in each other's 8th houses. Would this cause sexual attraction?

posted March 20, 2009 04:02 PM         

Eros to Eros contacts are often felt right away. People with these aspects will feel an instant stimulation as if something deep inside them dazzles. This may come as a wonderful and healing experience to someone with a dormant erotic nature or for one who is defensive and protective when it comes to inner passions. Eros gets in through most shields before anyone knows what hit them.

However, this connection does not always result in or resemble a sexual passion. It can occur as a creative desire that ignites between the couple and marks the beginning of an artistic association. It can also be experienced as an unrequited love that sustains an otherwise lonely writer or artist through the indefinite emotions of the creative project. People with this contact do not have to meet. They simply have to know that the other person exists.

When they do meet and the nature of the contact is sexual intimacy, the powerful forces at work tend to focus on a profound level of merging. The couple may not have a durable relationship with each other but they are likely to have one that neither will ever forget. Eros brings people together more for purpose than pleasure and the purpose here is to transform. Few entering this liaison will walk away unchanged.

Eros contacts to Eros in themselves make little comment either way on the duration of the relationship. They indicate more a sense of recognition by one or both people involved and also quite possibly a compulsion. The desire nature of Eros can be more than overwhelming, especially with the conjunctions and oppositions. Those with this contact may find themselves doing and saying things that previously had no place in their repertoire. Risks are taken, bank accounts purged, long-term relationships abandoned and rules utterly broken.

posted March 20, 2009 10:46 PM         

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However, this connection does not always result in or resemble a sexual passion. It can occur as a creative desire that ignites between the couple and marks the beginning of an artistic association. It can also be experienced as an unrequited love that sustains an otherwise lonely writer or artist through the indefinite emotions of the creative project.

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Wow, Peri! Thanks...this seems soo right on. I feel like all three of these things have happened at different times with the guy where we each have Eros in each other's 8th! (Not so much unrequited, but unconsummated...sometimes he is kind of like a muse to me, and vice-versa I think.) We also have his Eros conjunct my Mars and my Eros trine his Mars. His Eros also contacts my Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn; my Eros contacts his Mercury. (Also--his progressed Eros is conjunct my natal Pluto, and his natal Eros is conjunct my progressed Venus; his progressed Eros is conjunct my progressed Mars and Pluto...his draconic Eros is conjunct my draconic Jupiter, my draconic Eros is conjuct his draconic Sun and Mercury...I could go on and on...it feels like a very Eros-y relationship to me. Also Eros loosely trined Eros in the natal-to-natal and Eros tightly trined Eros in the progressed.)