8 th House lord in the Lagna: 8th House in Vedic Astrology Meaning of 8 th house: In the Vedic Astrology, the 8 th house is considered as “House of Life Longevity” @ the 8 th house indicates the number of years that the native would be living in this world. As per the Hindu Religion, every soul need to live in this world, as long as the soul is able to delete all the good and the bad karmas that it had been carried from its previous birth. That is, the native would not able to leave this world unless (or) otherwise all its karmas have been deleted. The 5 th house indicates the native’s amount of good karma and the 8 th house indicates the native’s amount of bad karma. Thus, the 8 th house would indicate the amount of sorrows, difficulties and grief a native (soul) need to go through in his/her life. Thus, the more the bad karma means the stronger the 8 th house. This could be best illustrated with the following pictures. That is, the Higher the bad Karma ...