Placements
Venus in the 2nd House
Modern
You have a gift for drawing in money and the good things it buys, and you genuinely enjoy comfort and beauty. The shadow is over-indulgence or measuring your worth by your possessions. The growth is rooting value deeper than the stuff. At your best you create a life that is both prosperous and genuinely lovely.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
The second is the succedent house of property and the means of life. The benefic here favors the native's resources: an instinct for earning through Venusian things, and pleasure taken in comfort and beautiful possessions. The gift is a knack for attracting money and enjoying it gracefully; the cost is a worth measured in what one owns, and indulgence.
Lean in — Enjoy the comforts, and value yourself beneath them.
Watch for — Confuse what you own with what you are worth.
- comfortable
- abundant
- indulgent
Sources
- Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune (2017), ch. 7Reads the second place as the house of livelihood and resources.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the second house as the arena of resources and values.