I have a Libra Ascendant, so my chart ruler is Venus. My Venus is in Taurus in the 8th house. It is unaspected, without any major aspects, but with a multitude of minor aspects and midpoint connections.
It definitely makes a splash! I guess being unaspected it overcompensates, and then through all those minor aspects it inserts itself insidiously everywhere...
I'm an extremely sensual person. Also very decadent, pleasure-seeking and quality conscious. I cook and I love good food. And I want my food decadent, I don't ever think about health aspects when it comes to food. I'm obsessed with perfume and have a large collection of the stuff, mostly vintage, luxury, artisan or natural stuff that is far from mainstream. I'm also very tactile, I touch everything and I need it to feel nice. I wear my vintage fur lined coat with supreme pleasure, preferably with just a slip of a dress underneath, so that I can feel the fur against my skin (and I don't care if anyone disapproves). The value I place on music and art can't even be described!
I'm also an aesthete in everything I do. Life without being surrounded by beautyis nothing but misery. Some people get depressed by the dark of winter... while I get depressed if it rains in winter, because then everything turns ugly. I do tend to have a twisted view of what is beautiful sometimes though. I often find beauty in things that are dark, haunting, macabre or decaying. The 8th house is all over my aesthetic really. I'm drawn to gothic and other dark alternative styles, elegant but macabre jewelry, deep and dark perfume... I also have a life-long, rather spiritual, obsession with the cycle of life, death and rebirth; the juxtaposition of fecundity and decay; liminal states and rites of passage... All very 8th house themes.
And, interestingly enough, considering the association of 8th house and inheritance... at the death of my great uncle, when I was two years old, I enherited everything he owned.
So, yeah... my life is certainly imbued with a lot of Venus, Taurus and 8th house themes! What I don't have though is a love life. I am both asexual and aromantic. I have never felt the slightest hint of sexual or romantic attraction in my whole life. So that's kind of ironic considering my Venus is otherwise very loud and in a house that is often associated with sex.