- Energy 8 in the Destiny Matrix corresponds to the Justice arcanum, also known as Judgement of the Law.
- Turned 90 degrees, the figure eight forms the infinity sign and points to the person's link with the karma of past incarnations.
- A person with energy 8 has accelerated karma: the consequences of their thoughts, words and deeds return faster and in greater measure.
- In the Destiny Matrix, code 8 opens the group of seven energies called the World of the Soul.
- Money under energy 8 comes through legal activity, paying taxes, clarity and structure.
The eighth energy in the Destiny Matrix corresponds to the Justice arcanum, also known as Judgement of the Law. It is the energy of balance, accumulated experience and the interconnection of events. A person with an eight is deeply bound to the universal law of cause and effect and carries karmic scales through life. Keeping those scales level matters to them more than anything else.
Turn the figure eight ninety degrees and it becomes the infinity sign. The roots of this energy reach far into the past, to the karma of previous incarnations. The symbol has a second side too: until a lesson is understood and accepted, the same situation can repeat itself endlessly.
Nothing happens by chance. Every event grows out of past emotions, thoughts and deeds, and everything you do comes back like a boomerang. For an eight, karma is accelerated: an ill wish or a bad deed returns faster and in greater measure, and kind thoughts and good deeds bring back more in return as well. That is why thoughts, words and actions have to be kept under control.
From the standpoint of karma there is no injustice in the world: everything that happens carries divine justice, even when it looks otherwise. This energy is given for understanding causes and consequences and for drawing the lesson, not for restoring justice. Any "injustice" becomes the first step towards a reward from fate. Losing money foretells its fivefold return, missing out on a bonus foretells a husband's promotion, slander foretells a swift improvement in health.
The eighth code opens the group of seven energies called the World of the Soul. Whether the qualities of that whole group turn out burdened or enlightened depends on how well the person has understood and accepted the universal law of being. All their life they are tested on harmony, balance and justice, and every extreme is followed at once by a lesson from above.
- Honesty, responsibility and reliability: you can be trusted with important work.
- A fine feel for cause and effect, an understanding of karma in your own life and in the lives of others.
- Sound judgement, logic, insight, impartial and well-weighed decisions.
- Readiness to stand up for the weak, fearlessness, quick reactions and decisiveness in difficult and extreme situations.
- Openness, friendliness, directness, willingness to help.
- Calm, confidence and inner balance that draw people to you.
- A coordinator's gift: you bring people together and settle conflicts with ease.
- Clear goals, loyalty to your convictions, devotion to home, faithfulness in love.
- Readiness to serve society without expecting a reward.
- Genuine interest in self-improvement: courses, seminars, methods for improving your destiny.
- A constant fight for justice, a search for culprits, a need to prove you are right.
- Judging others, dividing people into good and bad, contempt for anyone who does not fit your idea of a good person.
- Touchiness, vindictiveness, complaints that life is unfair and hard.
- Hot temper, aggression, cruelty, a tendency towards depression.
- Repeating the same mistakes and situations, unwillingness to learn, develop and grow spiritually.
- Pride, stubbornness, resistance to change, lack of flexibility, inability to see shades of grey.
- You see the causes of your problems in the outside world, blame others and justify yourself.
- Loss of emotional and life balance, extremes, no middle way.
- Attempts to fit the whole world into your own framework, totalitarianism, court cases as plaintiff or defendant, attempts to escape punishment when your guilt is known.
- Self-sacrifice and an inability to say no: you take on more projects than you can deliver and lose. Inconstancy and infidelity in relationships.
In different points of the chart
The same energy is read differently depending on where it stands.
8 · In the day of birth · point A
An eight in your day of birth makes you someone who spends a lifetime looking for ways to change and improve their destiny. You are honest, responsible, fearless and ready to support the weak. You are destined to grasp the laws of karma and to see that everything in the Universe is measured with astonishing precision.
Invisible threads link you to a great many of your previous incarnations. What seems unfair is in fact a link in the chain of cause and effect, and you of all people are given to realise this. Your character shows friendliness and openness, impartial judgement and reliability. Your readiness to protect the weak and to help makes you a valued person in society. You constantly ask why one event or another happens and look for the real cause of a problem. The boomerang comes back to you very quickly, and you sense this intuitively, so you try to act rightly yourself and demand the same of others. Because of this demanding streak you can come across as hot-tempered or easily hurt. Your logic is well developed, and you become a fair judge, if not at work then in life: you will always work out who is right and who is wrong. The world answers you with whatever you send out into it. Your parents take part in your affairs, and your friends give sound advice.
In the minus, your sense of justice sharpens into an endless fight for the truth and a wish to punish the "wrong". You criticise and condemn, act on impulse, dig in your heels, refuse to admit mistakes and dodge responsibility for your actions. A conviction sets in that life is hard, and you have no wish to learn from mistakes, change or accept the lessons of fate. The urge to be right all the time breeds conflict and estrangement. Having solved one problem by fighting, you immediately get another, even heavier one.
Behind a minus eight stands an obsessive-compulsive character structure: anxiety and action, order and dutiful discipline, avoidant behaviour. As children, such people were rarely praised and were made to follow strict rules. As adults they defend themselves by demanding perfect order, depend on other people's opinions and subconsciously wait for praise, which is why they do everything to the highest standard. Their main question is what people, their parents or their husband will say. They are proud and haughty, quick to get irritated and offended, and may walk away without explanation. To hide their anxiety they violate other people's boundaries, for instance calling their child a hundred times a day and calming down only once the child is home. In society they are often very successful, but at home "nobody sees them".
- Balance your outlook on life and accept the law of karma: it brings inner harmony.
- In a difficult situation ask yourself "what is this for?", draw the conclusion and move on. The question "why is this happening to me?" makes the situation repeat.
- Learn to draw conclusions from hardships instead of seeing cosmic injustice in them.
8 · In the month · point B
An eight in your month of birth gives a deep connection with the universal law of cause and effect. You are able to recognise the true causes of events in your own life and in the lives of others. In this position the energy shows itself mostly in its minus.
This is a gift for deep work with karma. First you learn to see the law of "you reap what you sow" in the events of your own life, then in the lives of other people. You are occupied with cycles, repetitions and "stepping on the same rake", with meeting "mirrors", that is, people who behave exactly as you once did. You are given the task of improving your own karma, hence your interest in methods for improving destiny, trainings and seminars.
Your task in this position is to understand by which karmic laws events are attracted and take material form in life, including in your own. As you go deeper into this knowledge, you develop intuitive vision and insight. Meditation becomes the key to the channel of clear knowing.
The main block is made up of guilt, resentment, brooding, self-digging and blaming others. You feel you are treated unfairly, and grievances and resentments build up against people and against God. Contact with the Higher Powers is restored through inner balance and an objective attitude towards yourself and others. Your guardian angel may turn out to be a lawyer, a barrister, a judge, a police officer, someone connected with the law or public service, someone whose opinion carries great weight.
- Practise question-and-answer meditation and connection with the Universe. This is how you learn to hear the voice of intuition, the soul and the subconscious, and to find positive lessons even in the hardest situations.
- Study the works of Michael Roach on justice and karmic seeds.
- Find and preserve a sense of inner justice and balance.
- Use your gift responsibly, helping yourself and those around you to find harmony and an understanding of what is happening.
8 · In the year · point C
An eight in your year of birth brings the energy of balance, often called karmic energy. It reminds you to pay attention to events that repeat in your life. A noticeable tilt means the balance has been upset.
When the balance is upset, you start going round in a circle of failures and cannot get out of it. Events repeat until the karmic knot is untangled and the root cause is found. Once you understand that beyond the material world there is a spiritual one, you move to a new level.
The aim of this position is to learn to accept justice, to live consciously and in the present moment, and to study the laws of the soul. You understand and observe the laws of the Universe, and in doing so you help keep the world in balance.
- If a run of bad luck sets in, switch on your awareness and ask yourself why it is happening, what the causes of these events are and how you are reacting to them.
- Give up judging. Help yourself with forgiveness, love and acceptance of the world and people as they are.
- Step away from the fight for justice and from fighting against anything at all.
- Study the laws of karma and hold to the principle of balance.
8 · In the bottom corner · point D
An eight at the karmic point shows up as repeating events. Behind them lie a failure to understand higher justice and a habit of blaming others for your misfortunes. The karmic task: work with the feeling of guilt, learn to follow the rules of society and recognise the truth.
Events in your life have instant consequences and repeat because of a lack of awareness. You tend to judge and to pick things apart, you are convinced there is nothing but lies around you, and you complain about hardships. You look for the causes of your problems in those around you, consider yourself unfairly wronged and do not want to change. So time after time you step on the same rake.
Your character shows hot temper, stubbornness, a tendency to aggression and depression, frequent extremes. The great karmic task of the eight is to discern the truth behind events and not to react too violently to the everyday workings of karma. The stronger the reaction, the stronger the "punishment".
What helps is observing universal human rules and norms, following instructions and standards, and spreading your energy evenly across the areas of life without tilting only towards family or only towards work. Sensitivity to injustice helps too.
- Take up self-analysis and accept responsibility for your actions and your life circumstances.
- Give up picking things apart, stop lamenting about life, and dispel the belief that there is nothing but lies and injustice around you.
- Learn to control your emotions, examine the situations that repeat and look for the lessons in them, be ready to change, and get rid of extremes.
- Look for the causes of problems in yourself and stop blaming those around you.
8 · In the centre · comfort zone
An eight at the centre of the matrix describes your comfort zone. You draw strength from balance, when you devote yourself equally to work and family and accept the law of cause and effect. Those around you see a person of order, system and law, while public recognition and approval matter to you.
You need a balance between the spiritual, mental and intuitive on one side and the material, physical and rational on the other. You value outward charm, solid and expensive things, systematic thinking, coordinated processes and a good education. You like to devise order yourself and cannot bear it when someone brings in chaos and tries to destroy it. Lateness irritates you most of all.
You have a need for order through conformity to the rules of society, for social justice and for observance of the law. It finds an outlet, for instance, in the work of a good lawyer or barrister. You love everything official. An analytical mind, a sense of responsibility and the ability to act precisely allow you to work within a system and a structure.
When the balance is lost, your life and the lives of those close to you fill up with too many norms and rules of behaviour. You feel entitled to blame others for breaking rules you invented yourself and that nobody else understands, and you set yourself up as a law your loved ones must obey. Constant anxiety makes you check that everything is in order, although you cannot say who this order is for. The balance between taking, giving and enjoying breaks down, and the sensible division between work and rest disappears.
- Watch the balance between the areas of your life so that nothing tilts to one side.
- Do not force everyone and everything to fit your rules. Accept life and people as they are.
- Study the law of cause and effect and the laws of karma in depth, with a mentor if you need one. The books of Michael Roach will help: The Diamond Cutter, The Karma of Love, Karmic Management.
- In every situation, answer these questions for yourself: why did it happen, what attracted it, what deeper task needs solving, what lesson is there to learn, and with what awareness do you move on. The right conclusions change a situation at its root, and the energy levels the scales by itself.
- Look for the causes of events in yourself. You attract everything that happens into your life yourself: through thoughts, actions and emotions.
- Step away from arguments about everyday fairness and stop dividing the world into good and evil, black and white. Affirm what you want: stand for peace instead of fighting against war.
- Keep to the golden mean, avoid extremes, maintain emotional balance and balance between the areas of your life.
- Work on acceptance, forgiveness and unconditional love. Lower your demands on people, on the world and on yourself.
- Develop intuitive vision through meditation, including meditation in a question-and-answer form. Share the truths of the karmic law with others and stay open to new knowledge.
- Do not get involved in situations where your participation is not needed, even when you are strongly tempted. Do everything officially, pay your taxes and stay away from anything illegal.
Where this energy stands in your chart
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Questions people ask
What does energy 8 mean in the Destiny Matrix?
It is the Justice arcanum, the energy of balance and the law of cause and effect. A person with an eight is linked to the karma of past incarnations and senses better than others that nothing happens by chance. They are honest and responsible and carry karmic scales through life, which they must keep level.
How does arcanum 8 show itself in its minus?
The person becomes a fighter for justice: they argue, judge, look for culprits, take offence and seek revenge. They are convinced life is unfair, see the causes of their problems in others and draw no conclusions, so the same situations repeat again and again. Add to this hot temper, stubbornness, extremes and depression.
Why do the same situations keep repeating for a person with energy 8?
The eight symbolises the infinity sign: an unlearned lesson keeps coming back until the person finds the root cause and untangles the karmic knot. Events repeat because of a lack of awareness and a habit of blaming others. The circle breaks when the person looks for the cause in themselves and draws conclusions.
How do you bring energy 8 into its plus?
Study the laws of karma and cause and effect, look for the lesson in every event and give up the fight for justice. Keep to the golden mean, maintain emotional balance, forgive and accept people as they are. Keep your promises, do not deceive, do everything officially and pay your taxes.
Which professions suit a person with energy 8?
Anything connected with law, system and order: the courts, the bar, law enforcement, the army, tax and public service, politics. Accounting, finance, coordinating processes, network marketing and your own business go well. Karmology, psychology and healing form a separate direction.
What does energy 8 mean in the Destiny Matrix?
Energy 8 in the Destiny Matrix matches the arcanum Justice. Like each of the 22 energies it shows in a plus and in a minus, and its meaning depends on the point where it stands.
How do I find out whether I have energy 8?
Calculate your Destiny Matrix chart by date of birth. The calculator shows all 30 points; one energy can stand in several points at once.
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