Astrology – 2nd House – Dhana – House of Wealth

This is the 2^nd house of any birth chart. This is where you see how much wealth can you accumulate, how will your family be. How would the thought process of your Mother-in-law be?

This house represents your Family, Family lineage, Family wealth, Early childhood, accumulated wealth, bank balance, inner value system, family upbringing, family values, Character of person, speech, tongue, teeth, cheeks, eyes, goodness, food you like, wisdom.

Benefic planets placed well in the 2^nd house give good results for the above significations. While Malefic planets place not so well in the 2^nd house will create problems is the fructification of the above significations.

This house also plays a very prominent role in detecting liars.

Relatives it signifies are – Immediate Family, mind of mother-in-law.

One of the biggest significations of this house is the accumulated wealth. When we say accumulated wealth in today’s world, we mean, anything which we can earn and keep. So, Fortunes, profits, gains, power, resources, security, material achievements, jewellery, shares, stocks, bonds, precious stones, all come under the significations of this house.

The body parts signified by this house are Eyes, Tongue, Nose, Teeth, Chin.

Interestingly, this house is also called as a MARAKA STHANA, (Death inflicting house). This is interesting because the mere translation of the connotation generally gets people thinking that this house causes death. However, that’s not the case. You have to understand it like this. When these texts were written, they were written by maharishis, who were detached from worldly matters. For them spirituality was the epitome of success. If you look at the significations of the 2^nd house, they are very material, and these significations themselves become burned at a point in one’s life if they are not working properly. This then given the individual the feeling of death infliction and burden, which takes a toll on health and mind and reduces happiness and spiritual upliftment. Too much of these significations also lead people away from the spiritual path. Thus, this is a MARAKA Sthana.

Placements of different planets and lords of different houses in the 2^nd house play a very crucial role to judge the entire well being of the house. Example: If Moon is present in the 2^nd house, there is a huge probability that the person will be well spoken and liked by many. In the same place, if Mars in the 2^nd house, the native would have high probabilities of a difficult childhood, with a harsh or very direct speech.

Again, these are examples only. The chart needs to be looked at holistically to gauge the totality of the individual.

Below are the basic and general permutation and combinations, as given in the texts, if the 2^nd lord is placed in the 12 different houses. This is at a very basic and mundane level. The actual impact can be judged when we combine the Lord placement with the sign and planet placements. But from a basic comprehension aspect, this will be helpful to understand as we go along. So, this is not to be taken literally as full diagnosis is required. You also have to understand, that these texts were written when our society and culture had much different values and norms. You have to be intelligent enough to interpret these according to today’s time place and condition. These are just excerpts. We shall cover this in details a different series on “Lords in the Houses”.

2^nd Lord in the 1^st house: native will be endowed with sons and wealth, be inimical to his family, lustful, hard-hearted and will do others’ jobs.

2^nd Lord in the 2^nd house: native will be wealthy, proud, will have two, or more wives and be bereft of progeny.

2^nd Lord in the 3^rd house: native will be valorous, wise, virtuous, lustful and miserly; all these, when related to a benefic. If related to a malefic, the native will be a heterodox (not conforming with accepted or orthodox standards or beliefs).

2^nd Lord in the 4^th house: the native will acquire all kinds of wealth. If Ascendant Lord is exalted and is conjunct with Guru, one will be equal to a king.

2^nd Lord in the 5^th house: native will be wealthy. Not only the native, but also his sons will be intent on earning wealth.

2^nd Lord in the 6^th house: If along with a benefic, the native will gain wealth through his enemies; if along with a malefic, there will be loss through enemies

2^nd Lord in the 7^th house: Native will be fond of others’ wives and he could be a doctor/healer. If a malefic is related to the said placement by Conjunction with 2^nd Lord, or by Aspect, the native’s wife cab be of questionable character.

2^nd Lord in the 8^th house: native will be endowed with abundant land and wealth. But he will have limited marital felicity and be bereft of happiness from his elder brother.

2^nd Lord in the 9^th house: native will be wealthy, diligent, skilful, sick during childhood and will later on be happy and will visit shrines, observing religious code etc.

2^nd Lord in the 10^th house: native will be lustful, honourable and learned; he will have many partners from the opposite sex and much wealth, but he will be bereft of happiness from children.

2^nd Lord in the 11^th house: native will have all kinds of wealth, be ever diligent, honourable and famous.

2^nd Lord in the 12^th house: native will be adventurous, be devoid of wealth and be interested in other’s wealth, while his eldest child will not keep him happy.

By now you would have started to get an idea of what would your 2^ndhouse means? Hold on, do not reach to conclusions. There is much more to come. In the next article I shall take you through the 3^rd  House.

Stay tuned…