Placements
Ceres in the 2nd House
With Ceres in the second house, nurture concentrates around money, possessions, the body, and self-worth, so you care by providing material security and you feel nourished by stability and by being valued. The gift is a grounding, providing love. The shadow is worth measured by what you give or hold, or comfort sought only in things. The loss-and-return cycle plays out around security and learning that you are worth caring for regardless of what you have. At your best you help others, and yourself, feel materially and personally safe.
Lean in — Let yourself feel worth caring for apart from what you provide.
Watch for — Reduce love to provision and possessions.
- nurture
- worth
- care
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Ceres as the Demeter principle: nurture, attachment, and the loss-and-return cycle.
- Sasportas, The Twelve Houses (1985)Locates the house as the field of life where the planet's theme concentrates.
- Pelletier, Planets in Houses (1978)Reads the house placement as where care and nourishment are sought and given.