The Second House and Value

I feel like second house placements are easily overlooked and misunderstood because people think they’re just about possession. I remember reading an article on the second house somewhere which said that our body is our greatest possession, and so were our thoughts and our minds. The things we value, the morals and values we hold, the ways we conduct ourselves and utilise our body and minds are all very much linked to the second house. This has to be understood in order to truly unlock the meaning of your second house.

Sister House Axis

Sister houses in astrology have corresponding ideas that work in balance to each other.

• The first house is who I am, the seventh house is who I enjoy.
• The second house is all my things, the eighth house is all my thoughts.
• The third house is my study notes and texts, the ninth house is my essay and my scrapbook.
• The fourth house is what I bring to the family, the tenth house is what I bring to the world.
• The fifth house is what I bring to myself, the eleventh house is what I bring to my communities.
• The sixth house is my health and how I serve society, the twelfth house is my worries and how I withdraw from it.

Cheat Sheet: Easy Placements

When you first learn about a placement, the obvious thing to do is look for descriptions, however these can be extremely unhelpful. Why? No description will ever fully encapsulate a placement. It will focus on one idea of it, or go straight to possible conclusions without explaining why those could be true.

Instead, I prefer to take the ‘anti-description’ route. When I start learning, I look to each part of the placement for its ingredients and build them together myself. In this way, you can see all the possible conclusions a placement may take.

With this in mind, I’ve compiled a cheat sheet of possible ingredients of each aggregate: signs, modalities, elements, planets, houses, and aspects!

A Masterlist: Sun, Moon, Houses I-IV

Now, people may groan when I say this, but astrology is all about learning and researching. With that in mind, we have to broaden our perspectives and knowledge outside of what we see on our social platforms. With that in mind, I’ve compiled this list of resources from elsewhere on the internet! These sites are well known and well respected for their knowledge, and make great reads no matter your level of astrology.

This probably won’t be the first masterlist I make on here. If you follow me on tumblr you know I already have one for informative tumblr posts and also a tag for the best tumblr resources I find. With that in mind, this post more or less covers all you need to know about the Sun, the Moon, and the general houses + specific posts on houses 1 through to 4.

With no further ado, here’s the masterlist.

Was The Romantic Era Perfectly Timed?

In present day, the term ‘romantic’ connotes love, relationships and affections, but dating back to the middle of the 1800s, the term was picked up to describe an age of art and literature just passed which argued for nature and feelings as opposed to the industrialisation of the world and its people.

Broadly, the Romantic Era in Britain is laid out to be 1800 to 1850, works created in this time coming as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution which began circa 1760. However, the term ‘romanticism’ is known to specifically apply to works created between 1790 and 1820.

 

Eros in the Houses: Sexual Passion and Unmatchable Desire (NSFW)

The asteroid Eros relates to the god of sex and desire in Greek mythology, and thus in astrology comes to show us our own sexuality (habits and desires, not orientation). However, Eros isn’t just sexual (though this is one of it’s main representations), it is also desire and passion as a whole: Eros can show us what we’d do when consumed with love!

Whilst there is a lot of information out there about Eros in the signs, little is written about Eros in the houses, which is why this article is going to address exactly that. If you wish to learn about Eros in the signs, use the links above! Here is a calculator for your Eros sign, and to insert it into a natal chart, use Astro.com (guide here), simply type ‘433’ into the asteroid selection bar.

Pluto in the Houses: Transformation

We all know that Pluto is a generational planet and one of destructive, but that isn’t to say it doesn’t or couldn’t have positive personal meanings. It has deeper, growth-related meanings than just generational destruction. It stands for rebirth and renewal, at its utmost core! It’s what is ever-changing, if a little out of touch, for us. What I’m focusing on today is Pluto’s link to a transforming energy within us.

Scorpio is the sign of which it rules, and so naturally it’s a subconscious force, changing up and rebuilding us beneath what we can immediately relate to. Naturally sitting in the eighth house, it also has links to suffering and trauma, as we may already be aware. That can seem scary, but transformation of the deepest kind will almost inevitably be linked to some form of suffering on our own parts.

When Pluto is in retrograde, the effects are internalised, making outward effects less likely. For example, where someone with Pluto in the 5th may create transformative art and express themselves differently from month to month, someone with this same placement in retrograde can feel unable to do this. They may have the thoughts and want to create themselves over and over again, but outwardly expressing this becomes difficult. It’s likely that transformation of their self is not something they feel they can accomplish on the outside, but on the inside they are expanding into a new, revived version of themselves.

However, Pluto’s positive transformation relies on personal growth. What about when it hasn’t grown? Underdeveloped Pluto or planets under Plutonian aspect will be destructive outwardly. This can mean hurting those around them or things around them. A good example would be underdeveloped Pluto to Mars contacts being harsh, aggressive, or violent.

It stays in any sign from about 14 – 30 years, so obviously the sign it is in has less personal effect, but that doesn’t mean Pluto won’t be felt personally. The house and aspects to other placements is entirely based on the individual chart, and this post will be discussing Pluto within each house!

You can also check the house which your Pluto is currently transiting through, as this will show which area of life you’re undergoing transformation in.

Planetless Ponders: What Do Your Empty Houses Mean?

Whilst no house is ever truly empty as all have signs in and possibly lesser known asteroids, the term is coined when planets and major asteroids are absent of a house, leaving it seeming empty.

An astrodienst chart

Here, if you were to look to the 1st house (under AC), for example, you can see there is no planets, asteroids or luminaries. This would be a house commonly referred to as an empty house. A house that isn’t empty is like the 12th house (above AC), as you can see two glyphs (for Saturn and Jupiter) in it.

Are empty houses rare?

They’re actually incredibly common, in fact, I’d argue it’s nearing impossible to not have them.

Are empty houses bad?

Empty houses are, in effect, neutral as they mean there is less pull or importance to this area of life for you. However, this doesn’t mean the area of life doesn’t exist altogether as you still have a sign on the house cusp, and thus you still navigate through it in the ways of the sign.

Being Venus Dominant: Not Just a Lover

People with Venus dominance are known for their love. But Venus isn’t just about falling for someone! The Venus archetype is about everything beautiful: clothes, faces, hobbies, talents, people, music, etc.

The Untold Truth of the Second House

Everyone knows about the possessions and materialism of the second house, but before we can arrive at these, there are the values.

In this article, it really beautifully puts that the second house is not just about our physical possessions, but our mental ones, too. We are our greatest possession! This could be seen in the way we choose to conduct ourselves or use our abilities. The second house in us is seen in our emotions, wants, and values – some of the most unique parts of us!

It is also linked to the meaning of things. Why we own the things we do, or strive to be what we do. There is a reason for the actions of the second house! The key here is that the material action that we all know of has come out because of an inner desire from ourselves: that one true possession of ours.

How does who we are relate to the second house? Who we are relates to every house, planet, aspect we have, right? Whether it be how we are in love, what we want in our career, or our internal search for knowledge, there is a meaning that cannot be taken away from us. There is a meaning in all of our placements that goes beyond the material of what we see. The second house finds its meaning when we look at how we choose to conduct ourselves around the material world and use it to our advantage. We use the values taught to us by the second house – how we should treat things, ourselves; what would make us happy in life – to aim for the end goal. We look at the second house, we see the perfect image of what we want later in life, and we use that to spur us on through our other houses. Following the first house, the house we enter the world into, the second house entails a beginning to our understanding, when we can begin to recognise and strive for things. The values learnt here could teach us what kind of career we need, or how many friends we think we want, or how to treat our family so we can have them there when we are older.