Second house in astrology
- Theme
- Possessions and values
- Kind of house
- Succedent
- Corresponds with
- Taurus
- Depends on
- Birth time, birth place and house system
The second house is the next division after the first, counted anticlockwise round the chart. It is a succedent house: it follows an angular house, and tradition links the succedent houses with what is built up and kept.
In tradition the second house is the house of possessions, resources and values: what a person has, earns and holds dear, and the skills they can rely on. It corresponds by analogy with Taurus and with Venus, the planet of Taurus. The house is calculated from the birth time and place, and its cusp can fall in any sign.
In a Whole Sign chart the second house is the entire sign after the rising sign. In Placidus and Equal charts the house starts and ends part-way through a sign. Astrely offers all three systems, and each can put a planet in a different house.
Because houses are counted from the Ascendant, the second house is the part of the sky just below the eastern horizon, after the first.
Planets in the second house
- Sun in the second house
- The Sun in the second house is read as identity tied to what one builds and owns: self-worth measured in security, skill and the things kept.
- Moon in the second house
- The Moon in the second house is read as security through things: comfort in possessions and routine, and moods that follow the state of one's resources.
- Mercury in the second house
- Mercury in the second house is read as a practical mind: thinking about resources and value, skills that earn, and a careful way with figures.
- Venus in the second house
- Venus in the second house is read as pleasure in things of quality: a taste for comfort and beauty, and affection shown through gifts and good living.
- Mars in the second house
- Mars in the second house is read as drive for security: energy spent on earning and building, and a fierce hold on what is one's own.
- Jupiter in the second house
- Jupiter in the second house is read as faith in plenty: generosity with resources, a taste for abundance, and confidence in one's ability to provide.
- Saturn in the second house
- Saturn in the second house is read as caution about resources: a careful hand, a fear of want, and security built by discipline.
- Uranus in the second house
- Uranus in the second house is read as an unconventional relationship with resources: sudden changes of fortune or value, and unusual ways of earning.
- Neptune in the second house
- Neptune in the second house is read as an idealised relationship with resources: blurred boundaries around what is owned, and value found in the intangible.
- Pluto in the second house
- Pluto in the second house is read as power through resources: deep attachment to what is owned, and transformation in how value is held.
Astrology is a tradition of interpretation. What is written here is traditional, offered for reflection and entertainment, not advice and not a prediction.