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 The houses that follow the angular ones, the 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 11th. They are about holding, building, and stabilizing what the angles begin. house of property and the means of life. The A planet that tends to help and ease, traditionally Venus and Jupiter. Its contacts usually bring support, comfort, or opportunity. 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.