Second House in Horoscope in Indian Astrology
House 2 in the Horoscope
In Vedic astrology, the Second House, also known as Dhana Bhava, plays a crucial role in determining a person’s financial status, family relations, speech, and moral values. Positioned next to the Ascendant (First House), it reflects the immediate outcome of one's self-efforts and personality. This house is considered the House of Wealth and governs not just monetary gains but also accumulated possessions, family inheritance, and material comforts.
Areas Governed by the Second House
The Second House is associated with multiple aspects of life, including:
Wealth & Assets: Represents the ability to earn, save, and accumulate resources.
Family & Lineage: Indicates family background, upbringing, and early education.
Speech & Expression: Shows one’s communication style and power of words.
Food Habits: Reflects dietary preferences and eating patterns.
Moral Values: Indicates ethics, virtues, and respect for traditions.
Planets positioned in this house or its ruling lord can greatly influence an individual's prosperity, family ties, and way of speaking.
Planetary Influence on the Second House
Sun in the Second House: Brings authority and respect but can make speech harsh if afflicted.
Moon in the Second House: Brings emotional connection to family and fluctuating finances.
Mercury in the Second House: Grants eloquence and financial intelligence.
Venus in the Second House: Favors wealth, luxury, and harmonious speech.
Saturn in the Second House: Brings financial discipline but possible speech delays.
Malefic planets like Rahu or Ketu can cause financial instability or family misunderstandings.
Second House and Wealth in Astrology
The strength of the Second House, its lord, and beneficial aspects are key indicators of financial stability. A strong Second House often ensures good earnings, prudent savings, and valuable possessions. Afflictions, however, may lead to debts, disputes over inheritance, or unstable income.
Second house signifies, riches, bank position, accumulated wealth, food, face, right eye, documents, family, early
age or boyhood, speech, music, blindness, sanyas,
death period, ruling power, education, servants and friends, Patience of mind, profit and gain, loss or damage, self earned wealth, wordly
attainments and possessions, jewellery, grandfather and mother, brothers, sisters, children etc. being a family member as it denotes family.
Second marriage (being 8th to 7th), Vision or power of observation eye-sight, memory, nails, tongue, nose, teeth, cheeks and chin. Understanding
with family members, law suits, trade or business, extravagant, economical, speculation, loan, loss to younger brother and his changes, long journey to
maternal uncle, disease to father. Gain of property and conveyance to elder brothers, poverty misfortune.
"Second denotes inheritance, diver's winding; also brethren of the private enemies being 3rd from 12th, Father's and grand sons of friends
as it is 4th from 11th (as per Westerns), also king's sons as 5th from 10th or Midheaven.
Also it delivers judgement upon the death of wives, familiar fellows, partners and open or public enemies as being 8th from 7th, in due order
also upon the religion and long journeys of servants as being 9th from 6th, also upon the trade, credit, profession and honour of children as being 10th
from 5th, also upon the friends and well wishers of father being 11th from 4th and lastly upon private enemies of brother as being the 12th from the 3rd."
It is represented by sign Taurus. It is Feminine, semifruitful, fixed, earthy, negative, direction South,
benefic, of short ascension and is known as succeedent house. The lord is Venus, the duration of Ascendant Taurus is one hour and 36 minutes.
Significance of Nine Planets in Second House of Horoscope
1. Sun
2. Moon
3. Mars
4. Mercury
5. Jupiter
6. Venus
7. Saturn
8. Rahu
9. Ketu
